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___ SKFTA won’t pass now
WSJ 2/13 (Elizabeth Williamson, 2/13/11, " Trade Deals, Job Help Linked in Congress ", [])

The expiration of a program that supports those AND the Colombia and Panama free-trade deals.

___ Labor opposes SKFTA – they fear political alienation and are moving to up the ante versus Obama
Washington Post 2-19 [Peter Wallsten, For Obama and unions, partnershipa prickly one, lexis]

Two years into a presidency that carried immense AND to push Trumka to be tougher on Obama.

___ Turn – Labor backs the plan
AFL-CIO Executive Council Statements, 2K [“Immigration,” Feb 16, http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/ecouncil/ec0216200b.cfm] There is a long tradition in the United AND investigations of employment, labor and discrimination violations.

___ Concessions to the unions are key to Obama’s capital – immigration is key
Kansas City Star 2/19 (Sam Hananel, Jim Kuhnhenn, 2/19/11, " State budget fights fire up union; Obama involved ", [])

Such visible support for public sector workers signals AND , immigration activists, environmentalists and religious leaders.

___ Law enforcement backs the plan
Saucedo, UC Davis Law Professor, ‘  10 [Leticia M., Fordham Urban Law Journal, Nov, lexis]

A major constituency supporting the creation of U AND victim cooperation is necessary for investigation or prosecution.

___ Law enforcement lobby strong
Drug War Chronicle, 08 (Phillip Smith, [])

" The law enforcement lobby is enormously powerful //AND  // //them or vote against them ," said Sterling//.

___ Turn – Conservatives Back the Plan
Grimm, JD Candidate at Iowa , ‘9 [Tyler, 12 J. Gender Race & Just. 415, Winter, lexis, note: not GMU Tyler Grimm]

Even the most outspoken advocates of border control AND , you go after employers who hire illegals ."

___ The only way Obama gets passage of SKFTA is with concessions to the Dems. He’ll use anti-China action to appease ‘em.
Berkman, analyst in Eurasia Group's Latin America practice,  and West  , U.S. political risk analyst with the firm,  2-11  -11 [Heather and Sean, Obama's bets on free trade: Inside the deals behind the deals, http://eurasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/11/obamas_bets_on_free_trade_what_are_the_deals_behind_the_deals]

By pushing these trade  deals forward, the  AND the World Trade Organization and through domestic remedy.

___ Trade war with China goes nuclear
Liu, Chairman of New York private investment group,  ‘5 (Henry C K, “The Coming Trade War part 6: Trade Wars Can Lead to Shooting Wars”, // Asia Times Online //, Aug 20 2005, http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GH20Dj01.html)

AND killing consumers in a world plagued with overcapacity//<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">. //
 * __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">US __ ** geopolitical ** __<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hostility toward China __ ** will manifest itself

___ Employers engage in mass hiring of undocumented workers to massively reduce wages. This impacts employees across the board
Hipolito, Associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, ‘  10 [Joey, 20 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 67, lexis]

Rather than being passive, employers intentionally assemble <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">-status occupations with little room for advancement.

___ Wage deflation kills the economy – consumer demand and investment.
Belser, principal editor of the ILO Global Wage Report , ‘10 [Patrick, “Why we should care about wages,” 1/18/2010, http://column.global-labour-university.org/2010/01/why-we-should-care-about-wages_3262.html]

The second reason why we should care is AND achieve more sustainable patterns of consumption and investment.

___ And, high liquidity and low interest rates will pop the farmland price bubble
Business Week, 2/17 (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-17/fed-s-hoenig-says-farmland-boom-may-be-unsustainable-bubble-.html) Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Federal AND from fundamental changes in demand and supply conditions.”

McGinnis 08 (Mike, markets editor for Agriculture Online and Successful Farming, //Lands of America//, “Bankers worry about high farmland values,” []) Iowa Superintendent of Banking Thomas Gronstal told the AND and collateral valuation of asset-backed securities.

___ And, wage deflation exacerbates the debt crisis crushing financial institutions.
Roubini, professor of economics at NYU , ‘8  (Nouriel, How to avoid the horrors of stag-deflation, Financial times, 12-2, http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto120220081502315684)

Deflation is dangerous as it leads to a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">that will <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">exacerbate credit <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">losses of financial institutions.

___ And, Wages are the key internal link to poverty and income disparity
Briggs, Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, ‘  10 [Vernon, Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (the Native Born and Foreign Born) who are Eligible to be Employed, 3-26, []]

The factual economic <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">consequences of the presence of  AND ; they are issues to be dealt with.

___ Wage inequality is key to the economy
Seattle Times 9-29 -10 [Tom Abate, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2013020842&zsection_id=2003905675&slug=income29&date=20100928]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Soaring unemployment has poured salt into a long <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">power to pull the country out of recession.

___ And, the income gap is expanding risking class warfare
CNN.com, 2/16 (http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/16/news/economy/middle_class/) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Incomes for 90% of Americans have been AND is some kind of //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">class warfare ,// " Johnson said

___ And, don’t get it twisted we control the uniqueness question on the economy
Roche, investment analyst and founder of Pragmatic Capitalism  , 2-3-  11 (Cullen Roche, When will the balance sheet recession end? http://pragcap.com/when-will-the-balance-sheet-recession-end)

Despite the seemingly strong activity in the economy AND to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">increase instability and turn recovery into bubble.

___ Economic Collapse Causes Extinction
Bearden 2k (Thomas, “The Unnecessary Energy Crisis”, Free Republic, June 24, lexis)

History bears out that desperate nations take desperate <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the biosphere, at least for many decades.

(Go Back).

___ Declining wages trigger protectionism.
Bloomberg, 09 [Patrick Rial, U.S. Debt Crisis May Cause ‘Fall of Rome’ Scenario, Duncan Says, Richard Duncan, <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">author of “ <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0033cc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0in;">The Dollar Crisis <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">.” [])

U.S. workers are now likely <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">will diminish and will overall <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">reduce global prosperity .”

Global nuclear war
Copley News Service,  99 [December 1, ‘99, “Commentary”]

For decades, many children in America and AND world trade. They should be celebrating it.

___ Undocumented workers are extremely vulnerable to rights abuses
Grimm, JD Candidate at Iowa , 09 [Tyler, 12 J. Gender Race & Just. 415, Winter, lexis, note: not GMU Tyler Grimm]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Our economy relies heavily on immigrant labor. AND pool comprised of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citizens and legally documented immigrants <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">.

___ There’s no incentive for employees to challenge the status quo
Ball et al, MPA Candidates at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, ‘  10 [Laurie, Employment-Based Immigration: Creating A Flexible And Simple System, Feb, [], notes: MPA = Master’s in Public Affairs, research done under the guidance of Dr. Marta Tienda (faculty member at Princeton)]

Unauthorized workers face a precarious situation because <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">employers <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">with employers who hire them without proper documentation.

___ Fear overwhelms the prospects of anti-employer action in the status quo.
Lyon, Villanova Law Professor, ‘  04 [Beth, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Spring, 6 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 571, lexis]

Fear is a constant in the employee rights AND formal <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">processes that might expose them to deportation.

___ The refusal to enforce the law dehumanizes immigrants as they are left the whims of private violence.
Natapoff, Professor at Loyola (Los Angeles), ‘  6 [Alexandra, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1715, Dec, lexis]

Illegal immigration is a complex phenomenon that goes <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">laws <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> results in a violent, lawless atmosphere.

___ The failure to stop this exploitation reduces undocumented workers to a disposable population
Gross, Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations,  98 [James A., THE BROKEN PROMISES OF THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT AND THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT: CONFLICTING VALUES AND CONCEPTIONS OF RIGHTS AND JUSTICE, 73 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 351, lexis]

The promises made in the NLRA and the AND not merely the consequences of management mistakes. n143

And, acceptance of populations as disposable is what makes mass violence possible.
Scheper -  Hughes , Cal-Berkeley Anthro Professor, ‘  4 [Nancy, Violence in War and Peace, p225]

//<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">forms of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">violence <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">are <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sustained by the // AND subordinate or marginal groups in their proper place.

___ Voting affirmative is a critical stand with the other than is a precondition for solving violence
Scheper -  Hughes , Cal-Berkeley Anthro Professor, ‘  4 [Nancy, Violence in War and Peace, p225-6]

Once recognized, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">how can the violence continuum history as a chronic “state of emergency.”

___ Current employer sanction policy fails. The focus on employees over employers, and undocumented workers fear speaking up against exploitation.
Saucedo, UC Davis Law Professor, ‘  10 [Leticia M., Fordham Urban Law Journal, Nov, lexis]

In the employment arena, most notably after AND fraud offenses for presenting false documents for work.

___ Squo fails despite massive resource investment on raids
Heydari, JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10 [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Despite the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">significant resources spent conducting  high profile <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to implement their new <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">employer-centered strategies.

___ Lack of resources forces the ICE to farm out work to the states and local law enforcement. This undermines the focus on community policing and results in bad enforcement of the law.
McKenzie, ‘4 [April, A Nation of Immigrants or a Nation of Suspects? State and Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws Since 9/11, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 1149, lexis]

America's philosophy on immigration changed drastically just a AND of the INA to prevent Fourth Amendment violations.

___ This kills the ability to solve crime at the local level – there are multiple warrants
McKenzie, ‘4 [April, A Nation of Immigrants or a Nation of Suspects? State and Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws Since 9/11, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 1149, lexis]

Since the DOJ expressed interest in enforcing federal <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">limited funds and resources. n106 [*1161]

___ Local police are critical to stopping terrorism
Flynn, chief of the Arlington County Police Department, ‘  1 [Edward, Nation's Cities Weekly, 11-19, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Homeland+security+begins+with+local+authorities%3A+cities+respond+to...-a080747963]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the case of terrorism, local police AND law enforcement <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">agencies are trying to gather now.

___ Nuclear terrorism causes extinction__
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, political analyst , August 26 – September 1,  2004  , Al-Ahram Weekly On-Line, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm We have reached a point in human history <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 12pt;">AND whole planet, we will all be losers. __

===Therefore the plan: The United States Congress should establish eligibility for U visas for persons who cooperate in investigations of employers by providing information regarding pattern or practice hiring of unauthorized employees. Congress should not cap the number of visas for such persons.===

___ Plan solves
Heydari, JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10 [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis]

The most surgical alteration - leaving intact existing AND that <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">only those with particularly <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">useful information benefit  <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 8pt;">.

___ Cooperation solves
Heydari, JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10 [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis]

The remainder of this Note suggests that <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">cooperation AND therefore help <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">decrease the competitive disadvantage of authorized workers

by making unauthorized labor more expensive. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">labor market is somewhat <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">equalized  for authorized workers.

___ Employer focus is key to solving the reliance on undocumented workers
Nguyen, JD Candidate from Chapman University, ‘  10 [Phi Mai, 13 Chap. L. Rev. 615, Spring, lexis]

Despite the existence of the IRCA, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">focal point of the battle against illegal immigration.

___ The U visa is the appropriate visa mechanism for solvency
Saucedo, UC Davis Law Professor, ‘  10 [Leticia M., Fordham Urban Law Journal, Nov, lexis]

In many ways, immigration regulation today emphasizes <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and also exploiting noncitizen workers who fear deportation ).

___ U visas solve the fear of the status quo
Saucedo, UC Davis Law Professor, ‘  10 [Leticia M., Fordham Urban Law Journal, Nov, lexis]

A recent case from the Eastern District of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AND <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">be triggered by the issuance of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U visas. = Filipino Veterans - Kentucky = toc *video intro*

We begin the words of Marcelo Arellano as he describes a particular history – A history where the United States identified that Filipino’s could fight for us, die for us, and at the end of the day couldn’t become one of us. The first advantage of the 1ac is called Broken Promises – And you are about to learn why.

The United States, under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, made a promise to conscripted Filipinos to provide citizenship and benefits in exchange for military service. Unfortunately, as repayment for bearing the brunt of the Bataan Death March, Congress broke the promise to these brave soldiers.

Malkin, Times editorial columnist , 97 [Michelle, Seattle Times, 4-22, [] ]

The clamor over welfare benefits for sick and AND in lo st limbs, innocence, and life. The commitment displayed cannot be overstated. After American troops were forced to retreat from the Philippines, the veterans continued to fight and upon MacArthur’s return they remained both active and crucial to the outcome of the war in the Pacific.

Rivera, 2010 J.D. Candidate, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, ‘  10 [Paul Daniel, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 447, lexis]

// What these //Filipino veterans, known more popularly AND "a stain in the nation's honor." n11

And, it was the Filipinos, not the Americans who suffered most during Bataan.

LA Times ‘95 [LESLIE BERESTEIN, Unhealed Wounds: Filipino Soldiers From W W II Are Still Fighting to Win Full Veterans Benefits, 7-7, google cache: [] ]

Peping Baclig will never forget the Bataan Death AND , then what kind of service was it?"

In 1990 the US finally passed legislation providing citizenship to the remaining veteranos. This act, however, fails to overcome 60 years of discrimination as it functionally retained second-class standing for Filipinos. The bill did not extend immigration benefits to sons and daughters, or the spouses of the deceased.

Pimentel, Judicial Law Clerk, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Department of Justice Attorney Genela's Honors Program, ‘  99 [Kevin, NOTE: TO YICK WO, THANKS FOR NOTHING!: CITIZENSHIP FOR FILIPINO VETERANS, 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 459, Spring, lexis]

Subsequent to the Pangilinan decision, Congress decided AND have if they were naturalized fifty years ago.

Acting on our commitments made through our promises is imperative. It is critical for enabling the recognition of plurality and makes politics possible thru organized remembrance.

Schaap, Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Melbourne, ‘  7 [Andrew, Law and the politics of reconciliation, ed Scott Veitch, p20-1]

Thus, beginning depends on the invocation of AND (Holmes. 1988. p. 226).

Failure to commit people to uphold promises results in a violent state of nature where the worst of all worlds manifest themselves.

Arthur, Binghamton Philosophy Professor, ‘  2 [John, Ethics in Practice, ed by LaFollette, p587]

// This idea // — that the code serves the // AND // //, poor , nasty, brutish and short .” //

The failure to uphold our obligations promotes a model of citizenship that undermines public participation and emboldens anti-immigrant sentiment leaving the image of the immigrant as parasite as dominant.

Pimentel, Judicial Law Clerk, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Department of Justice Attorney Genela's Honors Program, ‘  99 [Kevin, NOTE: TO YICK WO, THANKS FOR NOTHING!: CITIZENSHIP FOR FILIPINO VETERANS, 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 459, Spring, lexis]

Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers  is a science fiction AND themselves of the entitlements given to other veterans.

This is what makes extinction possible

Boggs, Professor of Political Science, ‘  97 (Carl, National University,//Theory & Society//26, December, p. 773-4)

The decline of the public sphere in late AND interests that had vanished from civil society.75

Now what is the justification for this political ideology? The Second advantage – Exclusionary politics. Observation II: Exclusionary Politics _ __Anti-Filipino racism is rooted in the Manong.__ __ Tiongson , Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence (CSMP) Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Mount Holyoke Collge, ‘  6  [Antonio, Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed, [] ] For many Filipinos  today  , the phrase “ AND the  cultural and racial boundaries  of the nation. __

_ The veterans are the contemporary//manong// Nakano, Professor of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University, ‘  6 [Satoshi,“The Filipino World War II Veterans Equity Movement and the Filipino American Community,” Pacific and American Studies, [], p143-4]

Another interesting aspect found in the way the AND whole Filipino American community as “second manongs.”

Race functions as a critical explanation for the denial of citizenship benefits.

Ancheta, Professor of Law at Santa Clara, ‘  6 [Angelo, “Filipino Americans, Foreigner Discrimination, and the Lines of Racial Sovereignty,” Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed, Antonio Tiongson (Editor), Ricardo Gutierrez (Editor), Edgardo Gutierrez (Editor), p99]

The longtime denial of citizenship to Filipino veterans AND naturalization laws, was part of the equation.

Immigration focus on racialization is key

Chang and Aoki (Associate Professor, California Western School of Law; Associate Professor, University of Oregon School of Law)  97 [Robert S. and Keith, Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination, 85 Calif. L. Rev. 1395, October, lexis]

Examining the immigrant's entry into and presence in  AND in the city of Monterey Park, California.

And, acceptance of populations as disposable is what makes mass violence possible.

Scheper -  Hughes , Cal-Berkeley Anthro Professor, ‘  4 [Nancy, Violence in War and Peace, p225]

// All forms of violence are sustained by the // AND subordinate or marginal groups in their proper place.

Therefore, the plan The United States Congress should exempt from the numerical caps on first and third preferences for family-based immigrant visas all sons and daughters of Filipino veterans who were eligible for naturalization pursuant to Section 405 of the 1990 Immigration and Nationality Act. Spouses and children of deceased Filipino veterans who were eligible for posthumous naturalization should be eligible to self-petition for immediate adjustment of status.

Observation III: Solvency

The plan solves.

Pimentel, Judicial Law Clerk, Executive Office of Immigration Review, Department of Justice Attorney Genela's Honors Program, ‘  99 [Kevin, NOTE: TO YICK WO, THANKS FOR NOTHING!: CITIZENSHIP FOR FILIPINO VETERANS, 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 459, Spring, lexis]

The U nited S tates has traditionally been reluctant to AND veterans should also be able to naturalize immediately.

The plan is critical for solvency. We must go beyond rhetorical endorsements of the contributions of the Filipino vets and pass the reunification bill.

Garcia, reporter for Mabuhay Radio, ‘  9 [Arturo P., Filipino Americans and their Veterans Continue to Fight Racial Discrimination, Jan 16, google cache - [] ]

The fact is that// racism still is the // AND ! Recognition,// Justice and Equity, NOW! //

The ability of the USFG to fulfill promises is contingent on our acknowledgement of the promise and commitment to it.

Dauenhauer, UGA Philosophy Professor, ‘  96 [Bernard P., Citizenship in a Fragile World, p58]

And yet each promise  or commitment and each AND anew. I thus take responsibility for myself.

There’s immense academic value to our project as Filipino studies remain on the margins of the academy.

Tiongson, Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence (CSMP) Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Mount Holyoke Collge, ‘  6 [Antonio, Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed, [] ]

At the same time, Positively No Filipinos AND the disciplinary focus and scope of these fields .

This silence plays a crucial role in supporting the history of US imperialism. The plan solves: we need to study the structures and institutions that have enabled this silence.

Tiongson, Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence (CSMP) Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Mount Holyoke Collge, ‘  6 [Antonio, Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed, [] ]

Oscar V. Campomanes has also written about AND a certain epistemic violence that elides their particularities.

_ __Voting affirmative is critical in overcoming the historical amnesia displayed in American history towards Filipinos.__ __ Tiongson , Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence (CSMP) Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Mount Holyoke Collge, ‘  6  [Antonio, Absolutely No Filipinos Allowed, [] ] But in titling the anthology Positively No Filipinos AND that have shaped Filipino subject and community formation. __

** Past Affs - Desert of the Real, Snitches, Provisionals, and Cap ** = Desert of the Real =

Was read at Navy

The utilitarian capitalist society in which we live de-materializes life itself. Our communities have isolated themselves from the rest of the “decadence” experienced by the rest of society - traumatic events are proof of a wakeup call in the world which we live is false – our utopia is a source of alienation for others Zizek, Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] So  it is not only that Hollywood stages  a semblance of real  life deprived of  the weight and inertia of  materiality  - in the late capitalist consumerist society, "  real social life"  itself somehow  acquires the features  of a staged fake,  with our neighbors  behaving in "real" life  as  stage actors and  extras  ... Again,  the ultimate truth of the capitalist  utilitarian de-spiritualized  universe is the de-materialization of  the "real  life" itself, its reversal into a spectral show. Among others, Christopher Isherwood gave expression to this unreality of the American daily life, exemplified in the motel room: "American motels are unreal! /.../ they are deliberately designed to be unreal. /.../ The Europeans hate us because we've retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate." Peter Sloterdijk's notion of the "sphere" is  here literally  realized , as the gigantic metal sphere that envelopes and isolates the entire city. Years ago, a series of science-fiction films like Zardoz or Logan's Run forecasted today's postmodern predicament by extending this fantasy to the community itself: the isolated group living  an aseptic life in a  secluded  area longs  for the  experience of the  real world of material decay. Is the endlessly repeated shot of the plane approaching and hitting the second WTC tower not the real-life version of the famous scene from Hitchcock's Birds, superbly analyzed by Raymond Bellour, in which Melanie approaches the Bodega Bay pier after crossing the bay on the small boat? When, while approaching the wharf, she waves to her (future) lover, a single bird (first perceived as an undistinguished dark blot) unexpectedly enters the frame from above right and hits herFrom The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] ) head.[3] Was the plane which hit the WTC tower not literally the ultimate Hitchcockian blot, the anamorphic stain which denaturalized the idyllic well-known New York landscape? The Wachowski brothers' hit Matrix (1999) brought this logic to its climax: the  material  reality we  all  experience  and see around us  is a virtual  one, generated and coordinated by a gigantic mega-computer to which we are all attached;  when the hero  (played by Keanu Reeves)  awakens into the "real reality," he sees a desolate landscape littered with burned ruins  - what remained of Chicago after a global war. The resistance leader Morpheus utters the ironic greeting: "Welcome to the desert of the real." Was it not something of the similar order that took place in New York on September 11 ? Its citizens were introduced to the "desert of the real" - to us, corrupted by Hollywood, the landscape and the shots we saw of the collapsing towers could not but remind us of the most breathtaking scenes in the catastrophe big productions. ___We are the last men – passively leading our utilitarian hedonistic survival unwilling to risk our own lives for a truth event – this is a difference between us and the third world proper__ __ Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] There is a partial truth in the notion of  the "clash of civilizations"  attested here -  witness the surprise  of the average American: "  How is it possible  that  these people display  and practice  such  a  disregard for their own lives  ?" Is the obverse of this surprise not the rather sad fact that we, in the First World countries,  find it more and more difficult even to imagine a  public or universal  Cause  for which  one would be ready to sacrifice one's life ? When, after the bombings, even the Taliban foreign minister said that he can "feel the pain" of the American children, did he not thereby confirm the hegemonic ideological role of this Bill Clinton's trademark phrase? It effectively appears as if the split between First  World  and Third World runs  more and more  along  the lines of the opposition between  leading a  long satisfying  life full of material and cultural wealth, and dedicating  one's  life to some  transcendent  Cause. Two philosophical references immediately impose themselves apropos this ideological antagonism between the Western consummerist way of life and the Muslim radicalism: Hegel and Nietzsche. Is this antagonism not the one between what Nietzsche called "passive" and "active" nihilism? We in the West  are the Nietzschean Last Men, immersed in stupid daily pleasures, while the  Muslim  radicals are ready to risk everything , engaged in the struggle up to their self-destruction. (One cannot but note the significant role of the stock exchange in the bombings: the ultimate proof of their traumatic impact was that the New York Stock Exchange was closed for four days, and its opening the following Monday was presented as the key sign of things returning to normal.) Furthermore,  if one perceives this  opposition  through the  lenses of the Hegelian  struggle between Master and Servant,  one cannot avoid noting the paradox: although we in the West are perceived as exploiting masters, it is us who  occupy the position of the Servant who,  since he  clings to life and its pleasures , is unable to risk his life (recall Colin Powell's notion of a high-tech war with no human casualties),  while  the  poor  Muslim  radicals are  Masters  ready to risk their life.. ___The status quo world is one of a virtual reality, in this world we have beer without alcohol, coffee without caffeine, all attempts to exclude the real from it’s symbolic order the only problem is mental liberation is found through the Real. Zizek, Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] So,  if the passion of the Real ends up with the pure semblance of the political theater  , then, in an exact inversion,  the "postmodern" passion of the semblance of the Last Men ends up in a kind of Real. Recall the phenomenon of " cutters " (mostly women who experience an irresistible urge to cut themselves with razors or otherwise hurt themselves), strictly correlative to the virtualization of our environs: it stands for a desperate strategy to return to the real of the body. As such, cutting is to be contrasted with the standard tattoo inscriptions on the body, which guarantee the subject's inclusion in the ( virtual ) symbolic order -  with  the  cutters, the problem is the opposite one, namely the assertion of reality itself. Far from being suicidal, far from signalling a desire for self-annihilation  ,  cutting is a radical attempt to (re)gain a stronghold in reality  , or (another aspect of the same phenomenon ) to firmly ground our ego in our bodily reality  ,  against the unbearable anxiety of perceiving oneself as non-existing. The standard report of cutters  is that, after seeing the red warm blood flowing out of the self-inflicted wound, the feel alive again, firmly rooted in reality. So, although, of course, cutting is a pathological phenomenon, it is nonetheless a pathological attempt at regaining some kind of normalcy , at avoiding a total psychotic breakdown. On today's market, we find a whole series of  products deprived of their malignant property  : coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol... Virtual Reality simply generalizes this procedure of offering a product deprived of its substance: it provides reality itself deprived of its  From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )  substance, of the resisting hard kernel of the Real - in the same way decaffeinated coffee smells and tastes like the real coffee without being the real one, Virtual Reality is experienced as reality without being one. However, at the end of this process of virtualization, the inevitable Benthamian conclusion awaits us: reality is its own best semblance. ___The virtual reality we live in justifies a society where endless torture becomes a possibility__ __ Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] And was the bombing of the WTC with regard to the Hollywood catastrophe movies not like the snuff pornography versus ordinary sado-maso porno movies? This is the element of truth in Karl-Heinz Stockhausen's provocative statement that the planes hitting the WTC towers was the ultimate work of art: one can effectively perceive the collapse of the WTC towers as the climactic conclusion of the XXth century art's "passion of the real" - the "terrorists" themselves did it not do it primarily to provoke real material damage, but FOR THE SPECTACULAR EFFECT OF IT. The authentic XXth century passion to penetrate the Real Thing (ultimately, the destructive Void) through the cobweb of semblances which constitute our reality thus culminates in the thrill of the Real as the ultimate "effect," sought after from digitalized special effects through reality TV and amateur pornography up to snuff movies. Snuff movies which deliver the "real thing" are perhaps the ultimate truth of virtual reality. There is an intimate connection between virtualization of reality and the emergence of an infinite and infinitized bodily pain, much stronger that the usual one: do  biogenetics and Virtual Reality  combined not  open up new "enhanced" possibilities of TORTURE, new and unheard-of horizons of extending our ability to endure pain  (through widening our sensory capacity to sustain pain, through inventing new forms of inflicting it)? Perhaps, the ultimate Sadean  image on an "undead" victim of  the  torture who can sustain endless pain without having  at his/her disposal  the escape into death  , also  waits to become reality. ___Our immigration policy is an instance of keeping the “other” outside while we remain safe here on the inside – what we need now is a Hegelian lesson – that within the outsider we can see our own essence. Tragic events our ones that the rest of the world experiences on a daily basis Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )]  Whenever we encounter such a purely evil Outside, we should  gather the courage to endorse the Hegelian lesson: in this pure Outside, we should  recognize the distilled version of our own essence. For the last five centuries, the (relative) prosperity and  peace  of the "civilized" West  was bought by  the  export of ruthless violence and destruction into the "barbarian" Outside  : the long story from the conquest of America to the slaughter in Congo. Cruel and indifferent as it may sound, we should also, now more than ever, bear in mind  that  the  actual  effect of these  bombings is much more symbolic than real: in Africa, EVERY SINGLE DAY more people die of AIDS than all the victims of the WTC  collapse, and their death could have been easily cut back with relatively small financial means. The US just got the taste of what goes on around the world on a daily basis, from Sarajevo to Grozny, from Ruanda and Congo to Sierra Leone. If one adds to the situation in New York  rapist gangs and a dozen or so snipers blindly targeting people  who walk along the streets, one gets an idea about what Sarajevo was a decade ago. ___This constructed threatening other eventually turns his anger back at us making violence inevitable.__ __ Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] Is, consequently, Osama Bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the bombings, not the real-life counterpart of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the master- criminal in most of the James Bond films, involved in the acts of global destruction. What one should recall here is that the only place in Hollywood films where we see the production process in all its intensity is when James Bond penetrates the mastercriminal's secret domain and locates there the site of intense labor (distilling and packaging the drugs, constructing a rocket that will destroy New York...). When the master -criminal, after capturing Bond, usually takes him on a tour of his illegal factory, is this not the closest Hollywood comes to the socialist-realist proud presentation of the production in a factory ? And the function of Bond's intervention, of course, is to explode in firecraks this site of production, allowing us to return to the daily semblance of our existence in a world with the "disappearing working class." Is it not that, in the exploding WTC towers, this violence directed at the threatening Outside turned back at us? ___ The distance between us and them can be seen in the attacks on the 11th of September, there were never horrific images shown to us during the tragic images of that day but when we identify disasters in the Third World nothing is hold back with a warning of “graphic images” and “hide your children”, this is proof that even within our own tragedy the real horror happens there and not here. Zizek, Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] The ultimate American paranoiac fantasy is that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he lives in is a fake , a spectacle staged to convince him that he lives in a real world, while all people around him are effectively actors and extras in a gigantic show. The most recent example of this is Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998), with Jim Carrey playing the small town clerk who gradually discovers the truth that he is the hero of a 24-hours permanent TV show: his hometown is constructed on a gigantic studio set, with cameras following him permanently. Among its predecessors, it is worth mentioning Philip Dick's Time Out of Joint (1959), in which a hero living a modest daily life in a small idyllic CalifornianFrom The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] ) city of the late 50s, gradually discovers that the whole town is a fake staged to keep him satisfied... The underlying experience of Time Out of Joint and of The Truman Show is that the late capitalist consumerist Californian paradise is, in its very hyper-reality, in a way IRREAL, substanceless, deprived of the material inertia. And the same "derealization" of the horror went on after the WTC bombings: while the number of 6000 victims is repeated all the time, it is surprising how little of the actual carnage we see - no dismembered bodies, no blood, no desperate faces of the dying people... in clear contrast to the reporting from the Third World catastrophies where the whole point was to produce a scoop of some gruesome detail: Somalis dying of hunger, raped Bosnian women, men with throats cut. These shots were always accompanied with the advance-warning that "some of the images you will see are extremely graphic and may hurt children " - a warning which we NEVER heard in the reports on the WTC collapse. Is this not yet another proof of how, even in this tragic moments, the distance which separates Us from Them, from their reality, is maintained: the real horror happens THERE, not HERE? ___The realist logic post-violence takes the conservative voice of more surveillance - the only problem is that the more “advanced” western nations resemble most the police state.__ __ Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] When, days after September 11 2001, our gaze was transfixed by the images of the plane hitting one of the WTC towers, all of us were forced to experience what the "compulsion to repeat" ans jouissance beyond the pleasure principle are: we wanted to see it again and again, the same shots were repeated ad nauseam, and the uncanny satisfaction we got from it was jouissance at its purest. It is when we watched on TV screen the two WTC towers collapsing, that it became possible to experience the falsity of the "reality TV shows": even if these shows are "for real," people still act in them - they simply play themselves. The standard disclaimer in a novel ("characters in this text are a fiction, every resemblance with the real life characters is purely contingent") holds also for the participants of the reality soaps: what we see there are fictional characters, even if they play themselves for the real. Of course, the "return to the Real" can be given different twists : one already hears some conservatives claim that what made us so vulnerable is our very openness - with the inevitable conclusion lurking in the background that, if we are to protect our "way of life," we will have to sacrifice some of our freedoms which were "misused" by the enemies of freedom. This logic should be rejected tout court: is it not a fact that our First World "open" countries are the most controlled countries in the entire history of humanity ? In the U nited K ingdom, all public spaces, from buses to shopping malls, are constantly videotaped, not to mention the almost total control of all forms of digital communication ___This rightest realism leads to a sort of impotence – never truly satisfied but will justify bombing a nation where peasants struggle to live daily – The aff is a critical sight of transformation Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] Along the same lines, Rightist commentators like George Will also immediately proclaimed the end of the American "holiday from history" - the impact of reality shattering the isolated tower of the liberal tolerant attitude and the Cultural Studies focus on textuality. Now, we are forced to strike back, to deal with real enemies in the real world... However, WHOM to strike? Whatever the response, it will never hit the RIGHT target, bringing us full satisfaction. The ridicule of America attacking Afghanistan cannot but strike the eye: if the greatest power in the world will destroy one of the poorest countries in which peasant barely survive on barren hills, will this not be the ultimate case of the impotent acting out? Afghanistan is otherwise an ideal target : a country ALREADY reduced to rubble, with no infrastructure, repeatedly destroyed by war for the last two decades... one cannot avoid the surmise that the choice of Afghanistan will be also determined by economic considerations: is it not the best procedure to act out one's anger at a country for which no one cares and where there is nothing to destroy? Unfortunately, the possible choice of Afghanistan recalls the anecdote about the madman who searches for the lost key beneath a street light ; when asked why there when he lost the key in a dark corner backwards, he answers : "But it is easier to search under strong light!" Is not the ultimate irony that the whole of Kabul already looks like downtown Manhattan ___The impacts of realism are already inside America – If anything traumatic events create space for solidarity__ __ Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] Every feature attributed to the Other is already present in the very heart of the US: murderous fanaticism? There are today in the US itself more than two millions of the Rightist populist "fundamentalists" who also practice the terror of their own, legitimized by (their understanding of) Christianity. Since America is in a way "harboring " them, should the US Army have punished the US themselves after the Oklahoma bombing? And what about the way Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson reacted to the bombings, perceiving them as a sign that God lifted up its protection of the US because of the sinful lives of the Americans, putting the blame on hedonist materialism, liberalism, and rampant sexuality, and claiming that America got what it deserved? The fact that very same condemnation of the "liberal" America as the one from the Muslim Other came from the very heart of the Amerique profonde should give as to think. America as a safe haven? When a New Yorker commented on how, after the bombings, one can no longer walk safely on the city's streets, the irony of it was that, well before the bombings, the streets of New York were well-known for the dangers of being attacked or, at least, mugged - if anything, the bombings gave rise to a new sense of solidarity, with the scenes of young African-Americans helping an old Jewish gentlemen to cross the street, scenes unimaginable a couple of days ago. Therefore we support that: The United States federal government should uncap all employment-based visas and expand beneficiary eligibility to everyone.__ _Our politics are crucial when it is a question of do we accept that we are part of the world, our continual isolation of this island we construct for ourselves in hyper reality. Embracing the other solves the question of war or it will be inevitable Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] We don't yet know what consequences in economy, ideology, politics, war, this event will have, but one thing is sure: the US , which, till now, perceived itself as an island exempted from this kind of violence, witnessing this kind of things only from the safe distance of the TV screen, is now directly involved. So the alternative is: will Americans decide to fortify further their "sphere," or to risk stepping out of it? Either America will persist in, strengthen even, the deeply immoral attitude of "Why should this happen to us? Things like this don't happen HERE!", leading to more aggressivity towards the threatening Outside, in short: to a paranoiac acting out. Or America will finally risk stepping through the fantasmatic screen separating it from the Outside World, accepting its arrival into the Real world, making the long-overdued move from " A thing lik e this should not happen HERE!" to " A thing like this should not happen ANYWHERE!". Therein resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it will not happen HERE again is to prevent it going on ANYWHERE ELSE. In short, America should learn to humbly accept its own vulnerability as part of this world, enacting the punishment of those responsible as a sad duty, not as an exhilarating retaliation. ___Before you say democratic accountability we will preempt it by identifying that we sit here powerless while others decide to go to a war which affects us all. Our terrified existence means we can never truly approach the world at hand, this discourse of the cold war term of “free world” is an omen that we must resist causing further alienation__ __ Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] Now, in the days immediately following the bombings, it is as if we dwell in the unique time between a traumatic event and its symbolic impact, like in those brief moment after we are deeply cut, and before the full extent of the pain strikes us - it is open how the events will be symbolized, what their symbolic efficiency will be, what acts they will be evoked to justify. If nothing else, one can clearly experience yet again the limitation of our democracy: decisions are being made which will affect the fate of all of us, and all of us just wait, aware that //we are utterly powerless//. Even here, in these moments of utmost tension, this link is not automatic but contingent. There are already the first bad omens, like the sudden resurrection, in the public discourse, of the old Cold war term "free world": the struggle is now the one between the "free world" and the forces of darkness and terror. The question to be asked here is, of course: who then belongs to the UNFREE world? Are, say, China or Egypt part of this free world? The actual message is, of course, that the old division between the Western liberal-democratic countries and all the others is again enforced. ___Normal politics fails and is a way of not allowing space to confront with the Real at hand means there can never be solvency Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )]  To  succumb to the urge to  act now and retaliate means  precisely  to avoid confronting  the true dimensions of  what occurred  on September 11 - it means an act whose true aim is  to lull us into the  secure  conviction  that  nothing has REALLY changed. The true long-term threat are further acts of mass terror in comparison to which the memory of the WTC collapse will pale - acts less spectacular, but much more horrifying. What about bacteriological warfare, what about the use of lethal gas, what about the prospect of the DNA terrorism (developing poisons which will affect only people who share a determinate genome)? In contrast to Marx who relied on the notion of fetish as a solid object whose stable presence obfuscates its social mediation, one should assert that fetishism reaches its acme  precisely  when the fetish  itself  is "dematerialized,"  turned into a fluid "immaterial" virtual entity;  money fetishism will culminate with  the passage to  its electronic form, when  the last traces of  its materiality will disappear  - it is  only at this stage  that it  will assume  the form of  an indestructible spectral presence  : I owe you 1000 $, and no matter how many material notes I burn, I still owe you 1000 $, the debt is inscribed somewhere in the virtual digital space... Does the same not hold also for warfare? Far from pointing towards the XXIth century warfare, the WTC twin towers explosion and collapse in September 2001 were rather the last spectacular cry of the XXth century warfare. What awaits us is something much more uncanny: the specter of an "immaterial" war where the attack is invisible - viruses, poisons which can be anywhere and nowhere. At the level of visible material reality, nothing happens, no big explosions, and yet the known universe starts to collapse, life disintegrates... We are entering a  new  era of paranoiac warfare in which the biggest task will be to identify the enemy  and his weapons. Instead of a quick acting out,  one should confront  these difficult questions:  what will "war" mean  in the XXIst century? Who will be "them ," if they are, clearly, neither states nor criminal gangs? One cannot resist the temptation to recall here the Freudian opposition of the public Law and its obscene superego double: are , along the same line,  the "international terrorist organizations" not the  obscene  double of  the big  multinational corporations - the ultimate rhizomatic machine, all-present , although  with no clear territorial base  ? Are they not the form in which  nationalist and/or religious " fundamentalism" accommodated  itself  to global capitalism  ? Do they not embody the ultimate contrafiction, with their particular/exclusive content and  their  global  dynamic  functioning  ___Timeframe arguments are stupid and sets a stage of pandering to the elites killing all revolutionary potential__ __  Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] The day after the bombing, I got a message from a journal which was just about to publish a longer text of mine on Lenin, telling me that they decided to postpone its publication - they considered inopportune to publish a text on Lenin immediately after the bombing. Does this not points towards the ominous ideological rearticulations which will follow, with a new Berufsverbot (prohibition to employ radicals) much stronger and more widespread than the one in the Germany of the 70s? These days, one often hears the phrase that the struggle is now the one for democracy - true, but not quite in the way this phrase is usually meant. Already, some Leftist  friends of mine  wrote  me that, in these difficult moments,  it is better to keep one's head down  and not push forward with our agenda. Against this temptation to duck out the crisis, one should insist  that NOW  the Left should provide a better analysis otherwise, it concedes  in advance  its political AND ethical defeat in the face of  the acts of quite  genuine ordinary  people  heroism  (like the passengers who, in a model of rational ethical act, overtook the kidnappers and provokes the early crush of the plane: if one is condemned to die soon, one should gather the strength and die in such a way as to prevent other people dying). ___The disads serve as a fake spectacle to find a kernel of the real. A spectacle in which no one truly believes – This allows for a space for a reconstructed man to emerge freed from past corruption. Zizek,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] As Badiou demonstrated apropos of the Stalinist show trials, this violent effort to distill the pure Real from the elusive reality necessarily ends up in its opposite, in the obsession with pure appearance: in the Stalinist universe, the passion of the Real (ruthless enforcement of the Socialist development) thus culminates in ritualistic stagings of a theatrical spectacle in the truth of which no one believes. The key to this reversal resides in the ultimate impossibility to draw a clear distinction between deceptive reality and some firm positive kernel of the Real: every positive bit of reality is a priori suspicious, since (as we know from Lacan) the Real Thing is ultimately another name for the Void. The pursuit of the Real thus equals total annihilation, a ( self ) destructive fury within which the only way to trace the distinction between the semblance and the Real is , precisely, to STAGE it in a fake spectacle. The fundamental illusion is here that, once the violent work of purification is done, the New Man will emerge ex nihilo, freed from the filth of the past corruption. Within this horizon, "really-existing men" are reduced to the stock of raw material which can be ruthlessly exploited for the construction of the new - the Stalinist revolutionary definition of man is a circular one: "man is what is to be crushed, stamped on, mercilessly worked over, in order to produce a new man." We have here the tension between the series of "ordinary" elements ("ordinary" men as the "material" of history) and the exceptional "empty" element (the socialist "New Man," which is at first nothing but an empty place to be filled up with positive content through the revolutionary turmoil). In a revolution, there is no a priori positive determination of this New Man: a revolution is not legitimized by the positive notion of what Man's essence, "alienated" in present conditions and to be realized through the revolutionary process, is - theFrom The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] ) only legitimization of a revolution is negative, a will to break with the Past. One should formulate here things in a very precise way: the reason why the Stalinist fury of purification is so destructive resides in the very fact that it is sustained by the belief that, after the destructive work of purification will be accomplished, SOMETHING WILL REMAIN, the sublime "indivisible remainder," the paragon of the New. It is in order to conceal the fact that there is nothing beyond that, in a strictly perverse way, the revolutionary has to cling to violence as the only index of his authenticity, and it is as this level that the critics of Stalinism as a rule misperceive the cause of the Communist's attachment to the Party. Say, when, in 1939-1941 pro-Soviet Communists twice had to change their Party line overnight (after the Soviet-German pact, it was imperialism, not, Fascism, which was elevated to the role of the main enemy; from June 22 1941, when Germany attacked Soviet Union, it was again the popular front against the Fascist beast), the brutality of the imposed changes of position was what attracted them. Along the same lines, the purges themselves exerted an uncanny fascination, especially on intellectuals: their "irrational" cruelty served as a kind of ontological proof, bearing witness to the fact that we are dealing with the Real, not just with empty plans - the Party is ruthlessly brutal, so it means business ... ___ The Negative’s constructed virtual reality is a fantasy which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – the 1nc control our percptions of the situations at hand. This semi-realization of a real out there generates an ideology that there must be another to eventually destroy us.__ __ Zizek , Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] When we hear how the bombings were a totally unexpected shock, how the unimaginable Impossible happened, one should recall the other defining catastrophe from the beginning of the XXth century, that of Titanic : it was also a shock, but the space for it was already prepared in ideological fantasizing , since Titanic was the symbol of the might of the XIXth century industrial civilization. Does the same not hold also for these bombings? Not only were the media bombarding us all the time with the talk about the terrorist threat; this threat was also obviously libidinally invested - just recall the series of movies from Escape From New York to Independence Day. Therein resides the rationale of the oftenmentioned association of the attacks with the Hollywood disaster movies : the unthinkable which happened was the object of fantasy, so that, in a way, America got what it fantasized about, and this was the greatest surprise. One should therefore turn around the standard reading according to which, the WTC explosions were the intrusion of the Real which shattered our illusory Sphere : quite on the contrary, it is prior to the WTC collapse than we lived in our reality, perceiving the Third World horrors as something which is not effectively part of our social reality, as something which exists (for us) as a spectral apparition on the (TV) screen - and what happened on September 11 is that this screen fantasmatic apparition entered our reality. It is not that reality entered our image: the image entered and shattered our reality (i.e., the symbolic coordinates which determine what we experience as reality). The fact that, after From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] ) September 11, the opening of many "of the blockbuster" movies with scenes which bear a resemblance to the WTC collapse (large buildings on fire or under attack, terrorist actions...) was postponed (or the films were even shelved), is thus to be read as the "repression" of the fantasmatic background responsible for the impact of the WTC collapse. Of course, the point is not to play a pseudopostmodern game of reducing the WTC collapse to just another media spectacle, reading it as a catastrophy version of the snuff porno movies; the question we should have asked ourselves when we stared at the TV screens on September 11 is simply: WHERE DID WE ALREADY SEE THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN? It is precisely now, when we are dealing with the raw Real of a catastrophe, that we should bear in mind the ideological and fantasmatic coordinates which determine its perception. If there is any symbolism in the collapse of the WTC towers, it is not so much the old-fashioned notion of the "center of financial capitalism," but, rather, the notion that the two WTC towers stood for the center of the VIRTUAL capitalism, of financial speculations disconnected from the sphere of material production. The shattering impact of the bombings can only be accounted for only against the background of the borderline which today separates the digitalized First World from the Third World "desert of the Real ." It is the awareness that we live in an insulated artificial universe which generates the notion that some ominous agent is threatening us all the time with total destruction. ___The Clash of Civilization is rooted in global capitalism it’s not clashes of its clashes within Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] However, this notion of the "clash of civilizations" has to be thoroughly rejected : what we are witnessing today are rather clashes WITHIN each civilization. Furthermore, a brief look at the comparative history of Islam and Christianity tells us that the "human rights record" of Islam (to use this anachronistic term) is much better than that of Christianity: in the past centuries, Islam was significantly more tolerant towards other religions than Christianity. NOW it is also the time to remember that it was through the Arabs that, in the Middle Ages, we in the Western Europe regained access to our Ancient Greek legacy. While in no way excusing today's horror acts, these facts nonetheless clearly demonstrate that we are not dealing with a feature inscribed into Islam " as such," but with the outcome of modern socio-political conditions clearly related to global capitalism? The Muslim "fundamentalist" target is not only global capitalism's corroding impact on social life, but ALSO the corrupted " traditionalist" regimes in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. The most horrifying slaughters (those in Ruanda, Kongo, and Sierra Leone) not only took place - and are taking place - within the SAME "civilization," but are also clearly related to the interplay of global economic interests. Even in the few cases which would vaguely fit the definition of the "clash of civilisations" (Bosnia and Kosovo, south of Sudan, etc.), the shadow of other interests is easily discernible. ___The idea of “No War” and leftist politics is flawed in the notion that real revolutionary thought can occur outside of the normal confines – Bush reflected more than post modernists in the events leading up to the WOT__ __ Zizek ,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] Another way in which the Left miserably failed is that, in the weeks after the bombing, it reverted to the old mantra "Give peace a chance! War does not stop violence!" - a true case of hysterical precipitation, reacting to something which will not even happen in the expected form. Instead of the concrete analysis of the new complex situation after the bombings, of the chances it gives to the Left to propose its own interpretation of the events, we got the blind ritualistic chant "No war!", which fails to address even the elementary fact, de facto acknowledged by the US government itself (through its postponing of the retaliatory action), that this is not a war like others, that the bombing of Afghanistan is not a solution. A sad situation, in which George Bush showed more power of reflection than most of the Left! ___We must embrace in totality with the acceptance that most of our views while being simultaneously true are both false. Zizek, Tell me you know who he is,  02  [Slavoj, “Welcome to the Desert of the Real”, From The Symptom issue 2 Spring 2002 ( [] )] The WTC bombings again confront us with the necessity to resist the temptation of a double blackmail. If one simply, only and unconditionally condemns it, one cannot but appear to endorse the blatantly ideological position of the American innocence under attack by the Third World Evil; if one draws attention to the deeper socio-political causes of the Arab extremism, one cannot but appear to blame the victim which ultimately got what it deserved... The only consequent solution is here to reject this very opposition and to adopt both positions simultaneously, which can only be done if one resorts to the dialectical category of totality: there is no choice between these two positions, each one is one-sided and false. Far from offering a case apropos of which one can adopt a clear ethical stance, we encounter here the limit of moral reasoning: from the moral standpoint, the victims are innocent, the act was an abominable crime; however , this very innocence is not innocent - to adopt such an "innocent" position in today's global capitalist universe is in itself a false abstraction. The same goes for the more ideological clash of interpretations: one can claim that the attack on the WTC was an attack on what is worth fighting for in democratic freedoms - the decadent Western way of life condemned by Muslim and other fundamentalists is the universe of women's rights and multiculturalist tolerance; however, one can also claim that it was an attack on the very center and symbol of global financial capitalism. This, of course, in no way entails the compromise notion of shared guilt (terrorists are to blame, but, partially, also Americans are also to blame...) - the point is, rather, that the two sides are not really opposed, that they belong to the same field. The fact that global capitalism is a totality means that it Is the dialectical unity of itself and of its other, of the forces which resist it on " fundamentalist" ideological grounds.

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Last read at Navy **Observation I: Wages** **___ Undocumented workers constitute a substantial portion of the workforce__** __  Briggs , Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, ‘  10   __ __ [Vernon, Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (the Native Born and Foreign Born) who are Eligible to be Employed, 3-26, [] ] __

__  In  20  09  the Bureau of  Labor Statistics  of  __ __ AND __ __ being no doubt higher  due to statistical undercount. __

Briggs, Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, ‘  10 [Vernon, Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (the Native Born and Foreign Born) who are Eligible to be Employed, 3-26, [] ]
 * _ Undocumented workers lower wages, are vulnerable to exploitation, and Cause Resentment**

Illegal immigration disproportionately and  adversely affects  the  economic AND illegal immigrants themselves. in the labor market.

**___ Wage deflation kills the economy – consumer demand and investment.__** __  Belser,  principal editor of the ILO Global Wage Report , ‘10   __ __ [Patrick, “Why we should care about wages,” 1/18/2010, http://column.global-labour-university.org/2010/01/why-we-should-care-about-wages_3262.html] __

__ The second reason why we should care is __ __ AND __ __ achieve more sustainable patterns of consumption and investment. __  Briggs , Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, ‘  10 [Vernon, Illegal Immigration and Immigration Reform: Protecting the Employment Rights of the American Labor Force (the Native Born and Foreign Born) who are Eligible to be Employed, 3-26, [] ]
 * _ Wages are the key internal link to poverty and income disparity**

The factual economic consequences of  the presence of   AND ; they are issues to be dealt with.

**___ Wage inequality is key to the economy__** __  Seattle Times 9-29  -10 __ __ [Tom Abate, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2013020842&zsection_id=2003905675&slug=income29&date=20100928] __

__  Soaring unemployment has poured salt into  a long  __ __  AND   __ __  power to pull the country out of recession. __

Bearden 2k (Thomas, “The Unnecessary Energy Crisis”, Free Republic, June 24, lexis)
 * _ Economic Collapse Causes Extinction**

History bears out that desperate nations take desperate AND the biosphere, at least for many decades.

**___ Declining wages trigger protectionism.__** __  Bloomberg, 09   __ __ [Patrick Rial, U.S. Debt Crisis May Cause ‘Fall of Rome’ Scenario, Duncan Says, Richard Duncan, <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">author of “ <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0033cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0in 10px 0in 0in;">The Dollar Crisis <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 8pt;">.”  [] )  __ __ U.S. workers are now likely __ __   AND   __ __   will diminish and  will overall  reduce global prosperity .”  __

__ **Global nuclear war** __ __  Copley News Service ,  99   __ __ [December 1, ‘99, “Commentary”] __ __ For decades, many children in America and __ __ AND __ __ world trade. They should be celebrating it. __

Halle, JD from Drake,  07 [Sara, 12 Drake J. Agric. L. 359, lexis]
 * _ Specifically, Undocumented Workers Crush Wages in Agriculture**

Distortion in the  agricultural  sector  results when there AND willing to work for very little compensation. n67

**___ This blocks mechanization__** __  Halle , JD from Drake,  07   __ __ [Sara, 12 Drake J. Agric. L. 359, lexis] __

__  Because  this  demand  for foreign workers  can easily   __ __  AND   __ __  mechanization  and technological advancement of their production. n76 __

Reuters 10-14 -10 [“Agriculture Groups Say Food Productivity Lagging,” http://www.flex-news-food.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=32758]
 * _ Mechanization is key to meeting 21st Century food demands**

Farmers around the world  must ramp up food AND less water and reduced inputs," said Lesher.

**___ Food shortages cause World War III__** __  Calvin , theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington, ‘  98   __ __ [William H., January 1998, The Atlantic Monthly, v281 i1 pcover,47-50,52+, “Great climate flip-flop,” infotrac] __

__ The population-crash scenario is surely the __ __ AND __ __ the extra warming from the North Atlantic. __ __ **Observation II: Exploitation** __ Grimm, JD Candidate at Iowa , 09 [Tyler, 12 J. Gender Race & Just. 415, Winter, lexis, note: not GMU Tyler Grimm]
 * _ Undocumented workers are extremely vulnerable to rights abuses**

Our economy relies heavily on immigrant labor. AND pool comprised of citizens and legally documented immigrants.

**___ There’s no incentive for employees to challenge the status quo__** __  Ball  et al, MPA Candidates at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, ‘  10   __ __ [Laurie, Employment-Based Immigration: Creating A Flexible And Simple System, Feb, [], notes: MPA = Master’s in Public Affairs, research done under the guidance of Dr. Marta Tienda (faculty member at Princeton)] __

__ Unauthorized workers face a precarious situation because  employers   __ __  AND   __ __  with employers  who hire them without proper documentation. __

Lyon, Villanova Law Professor, ‘  04 [Beth, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Spring, 6 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 571, lexis]
 * _ Fear overwhelms the prospects of anti-employer action in the status quo.**

Fear is a constant in the employee rights AND formal processes that might expose them to deportation.

**___ The refusal to enforce the law dehumanizes immigrants as they are left the whims of private violence.__** __  Natapoff , Professor at Loyola (Los Angeles), ‘  6   __ __ [Alexandra, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1715, Dec, lexis] __

__ Illegal immigration is a complex phenomenon that goes  __ __  AND   __ __  laws   results in a violent, lawless atmosphere. __

Natapoff, Professor at Loyola (Los Angeles),  06 [Alexandra, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1715, Dec, lexis]
 * _ Under-enforcement tanks democratic credibility**

Our criminal system is rife with inegalitarian  enforcement AND remain entitled to the protections of the law. **___ Democracy Solves Extinction__** __ Larry Diamond , professor at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, October 19  95  “Promoting Democracy in the 1990’s,” http://www.carnegie.org//sub/pubs/deadly/dia95_01.html// __ __// <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">OTHER THREATS This hardly exhausts the lists of   //__ __// <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">AND   //__ __// <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">of  <span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">international security and prosperity can be built  <span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">. //__ __// **Observation III: Solvency** //__ __// **Sub-Point A: The status quo** //__ //**_ No enforcement in the squo**// //  Johnson , Dean of the UC-Davis School of Law, ‘  9   // // [Kevin, 55 Wayne L. Rev. 1599, Winter, lexis] //

// As Part I illustrates, some critical provisions  // //  AND   // //  employment of undocumented workers  in the home. n86 //

// **___ Squo fails despite massive resource investment__** // //__  Heydari , JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10   __// //__ [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis] __//

//__  Despite  the  significant resources spent conducting  high profile  __// //__  AND   __// //__  to implement  their new  employer-centered strategies. __//

//**_ Current tools are insufficient to garner cooperation from employees in investigations**// //  Heydari , JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10   // // [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis] //

// [*1546] One such option is // //  AND   // //  for a reward that may never manifest. n116 //

// **___ Lack of enforcement is key__** // //__  Briggs , Cornell Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations,  08   __// //__ [Vernon, Illegal Immigration: The Impact on Wages and Employment of Black Workers, Testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission, http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1405&context=vernon_briggs] __//

//__ It is not that  employers  are evil in  __// //__  AND   __// //__  breakers are rewarded while  law  abiders are punished. __//

//__ **Sub-Point B: The alternative** __//

//**_ Plan solves**// //  Heydari , JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10   // // [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis] //

// The most surgical alteration - leaving intact existing // // AND // // that  only those with  particularly  useful information benefit. //

// **___ Cooperation solves__** // //__  Heydari , JD Candidate at Columbia, October ‘  10   __// //__ [Farhang, 110 Colum. L. Rev. 1526, lexis] __//

//__ The remainder of this Note suggests that  cooperation   __// //__  AND   __// //__  labor market is  somewhat  equalized  for authorized workers. __//

//**_ Employer focus is key to stopping illegal immigration**// //  Nguyen , JD Candidate from Chapman University, ‘  10   // // [Phi Mai, 13 Chap. L. Rev. 615, Spring, lexis] //

// Despite the existence of the IRCA,  the   // //  AND   // //  focal point  of the battle against illegal immigration. //

// **___ Congressional action solves best. Giving an employment authorization visa to workers who cooperate in prosecutions solves.__** // //__  Nessel , Professor and Director of the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall, ‘  1   __// //__ [Lori, 36 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 345, lexis] __//

//__  Because of the uncertainties  associated  with  relying upon  __// //__  AND   __// //__  tool to redress violations  of their statutory rights. __//

=Capitalism AFF=

Last read at GSU

_ Current immigration policy is morally bankrupt. Invisible walls have been erected to deny access to those persons around the world who seek to come to America for an opportunity at self-fulfillment. These policies must be rejected.

Biddle, editor and publisher of [|The Objective Standard] and the author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It.,  08  [Craig, march, “Immigration and Individual Rights “, [] ]

Every year, millions of people seek to AND , how they fail to make their case.

_ These violations of freedom are manified by the burden of the Welfare State. This forces management of the population that makes a police state the only solution in the squo.

Reisman, Pepperdine Economics Professor,  ‘6 [George, “Immigration Plus Welfare State Equals Police State “,<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: windowtext; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[] ]

Illegal immigrants are overwhelming the resources of the AND a major burden because of the Welfare State.

___ Each invasion of freedom must be rejected__ __ Petro , professor of law at Wake Forest, ‘  74  [Sylvester, TOLEDO LAW REVIEW, Spring, p. 480.] However, one may still insist, echoing AND be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit .__

_ And, don’t be fooled by the negative. The internal link to the economy is not wealth but the division of labor. This prevents economic collapse and extinction.

Reisman, Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘  98 [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, [] ]

The importance of economics derives from the specific AND the absence of Western food and medical supplies.

___ Free immigration is key to the division of labor__ __ Reisman , Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘  98  [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, [] ] It is necessary to address the issue of AND interest of the citizens of a capitalist country. The words capitalist country must be stressed. AND businesses, buying land, and so on. Under such conditions, the freedom of immigration AND increasing the gains from the pyramid of ability. As a simple example, one should consider AND by actual repeated demonstration in the United States? Indeed, we should consider the effects if AND been stifled or at least significantly held back. The historical advantage noted in the previous section AND run problems may accompany an increase in immigration.__

_ Economic nationalism is the root of war

von Mises ‘49 [Ludwig, Dean of the Austrian School, XXXIV. THE ECONOMICS OF WAR, [] ]

The emergence of the international division of labor AND is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Plan

The United States Federal Government should uncap all employment visas for all beneficiaries who come without expectations for social spending benefits and accompanying taxation.

__ Solvency __

__ _ The plan solves. __

__  Reisman , Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘  98   __ __ [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, [] ] __

__ We need to make a beginning toward the  __ __ AND  __ __ group opposed to the welfare state for anyone. __

_ We cannot compromise our ethical responsibilities. This forum is uniquely situated as place to make a stand. Reisman, Pepperdine Economics Professor, ‘  98  [George, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, [] ] The first thing that those in favor of AND them from their ignorance.

__ _ The plan is critical to changing political ideology and understandings of economics. Even if it isn’t the perfect solution, we must use its real world basis to shape political sensibilities about economics __

__  COYNE , Hampden-Sydney College Econ Professor  , and BOETTKE  , GMU Econ Professor,  ‘4   __ __ [Christopher Assistant Professor of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College, and a Social Change Scholar, Mercatus Center and Peter Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and Director of Research for the Global Prosperity Initiative, Mercatus Center December “The Role of the Economist in Economic Development” [] accessed 12-15-08] __

__ Given the nature of the science of economics __ __  AND   __ __  achieving long-lasting institutional and social change. __

_ Negative claims that capitalism is bad do no assume our advocacy but instead address the current mixed-market economy. Reisman , Pepperdine Economics Professor, 10-23  -  8  [George, “ The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisis,” [] , access 12-16] The news media are in the process of AND all the prosperity that comes from total paralysis. __

= = = Provisionals =

Last Read at Liberty **Observation I: Competitiveness** **Competitiveness is collapsing – high skilled workers are key** Plastics News 7-5 -10 [Mike Verespej, lexis]

" The global competitive landscape for manufacturing is  AND , financial and tax systems, they said.

**Indicators prove the U.S. is lagging** Frank, Fellow at the New America Foundation, ‘  9 [TA, Washington Monthly, May-June, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0905.frank.html]

This would all be very comforting, were AND can’t break even, it’s a dubious leader.

**Claims of strength ignore that our “best” scientists are in their 70s and other nations are actively working to win the talent war** Zakaria, editor of Newsweek,  09 [Fareed, Newsweek, 11-23, lexis]

That might be true today. But could AND and the rest of the world is closing.

**And, the tech talent base is shrinking on a daily basis.** Cetron, founder of Forecasting International, ‘  10 [Marvin J., NewsMax, Feb, http://w3.newsmax.com/a/feb10/scientific/, ellipses original]

The numbers don't lie. . . and AND about 70,000 according to most reports.

**Additionally, we’re failing to land the immigrants that can offset domestic weaknesses.** Cetron, founder of Forecasting International, ‘  10 [Marvin J., NewsMax, Feb, http://w3.newsmax.com/a/feb10/scientific/]

A decade ago, the U nited S tates was AND at opportunities beyond U.S. shores. **Healthy immigration programs provide multiple layers of economic benefits to the US.** Meissner et al, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute,  ‘7 [Doris, The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Summer, 2007, 5 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 473, lexis]

Despite popular misgivings, immigration continues to be   AND .S. [*478] workers. n27 **Extinction** Bearden 2k (Thomas, “The Unnecessary Energy Crisis”, Free Republic, June 24, lexis)

History bears out that desperate nations take desperate AND the biosphere, at least for many decades.

**Collapse of competitiveness kills Tech Dominance** Cetron, founder of Forecasting International, ‘  10 [Marvin J., NewsMax, Feb, http://w3.newsmax.com/a/feb10/scientific/]

“CrazybOy” — the “handle” AND if indeed it can be regained at all. ”

**Portable Streamlined Immigration is key to Tech** Frank, Fellow at the New America Foundation,  09 [TA, Washington Monthly, May-June, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2009/0905.frank.html]

One way to regain our dominance in the AND after completing their education in the United States.

**Failure risks economic leadership and leaves us open to cyber attacks** Cetron, founder of Forecasting International, ‘  10 [Marvin J., NewsMax, Feb, http://w3.newsmax.com/a/feb10/scientific/]

As the global scramble for the technological high AND position as the economic leader of the world.”

**Cyber terrorism results in an inadvertent nuclear war** Rosenbaum, ‘8 (Ross, Slate Staff Writer, “A Real Nuclear Option for the Nominees”, Slate, May 9, http://www.slate.com/id/2191104/pagenum/all/#page_start)

So it's insanely short-fused as it  AND of deliberate-but-unauthorized nuclear launches.

**Tech is key to developments that solve terrorism including bio-terror** Carafano et al, Deputy Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, ‘  8 [James Jay, Front Page Magazine, 3-4, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30095]

Still another significant difference from Cold War competition AND but also how we conduct our daily lives.

Bioweapons cause extinction Steinbrenner, Brookings Senior Fellow,  97 [John D., Foreign Policy, "Biological weapons: a plague upon all houses," Winter, InfoTrac] Although human pathogens are often lumped with nuclear AND that might ultimately threaten the entire world population.

**Observation II is Rights**

___ The squo fails to protect US workers__ __  Papademetriou  et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009   __ __ [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf] __

__ In theory, US immigration law permits employment __ __ AND  __ __ do little in practice to protect US workers. __

Griffith, Cornell Professor of Employment and Labor Law  , ‘9 [Kati, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Fall, 2009, 31 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 125, lexis]
 * _ Low-skilled immigrants are subject to a litany of labor abuses**

[*126] Migrant workers, both documented AND harassment, and wage and hour violations. n11

**Each invasion of freedom must be rejected** Petro, professor of law at Wake Forest, ‘  74 [Sylvester, TOLEDO LAW REVIEW, Spring, p. 480.]

However, one may still insist, echoing AND be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.

**Must err on the side of upholding rights – rights violations cause dehumanization** Dworkin 77 – This evidence is gender paraphrased (Ronald, Taking Rights Seriously, “Hard Cases”, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 199) So if rights make sense at all, AND a great deal of that coin to avoid.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13pt;">Dehumanization is at the heart of all violence itself. Means we access your util ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13pt;">Berube **, professor of communications at South Carolina,**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 13pt;">97 ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(David June/July, NanoTechnology Magazine, Vol. 3, Iss. 5, “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side,” http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 8pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This means-ends dispute is at the AND evil and dehumanization is evil’s most powerful weapon.

**Plan** **The United States Federal Government should uncap employment immigration visas for beneficiaries who fulfill two three-year provisional terms where visa portability is earned after the first year.**

**Observation III: Solvency** **Subpoint A: The status quo**

Current visa Approval system is too rigid resulting in delays killing the need Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

The current visa system, which owes its AND or hours of the new fiscal year .4

**And, the US has Increased reliance on temporary visas** Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

Under the current system, immigrants with green AND a decreasing share of employment-based flows.

**That tanks competitiveness while encouraging worker exploitation.** Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

The current system has two primary failings. AND value, harming both immigrants and native workers.

**This breeds uncertainty that jeopardizes competitiveness.** Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

The US employment-based immigration system is  AND it risks losing its previously undisputed global advantage.

**Subpoint B: The future**

**Provisional visas solve competitiveness** Papademetriou et al, Migration Policy Institute President,  2009 [Demetrios G., Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas, July, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Provisional_visas.pdf]

Provisional visas offer several clear advantages over the AND visa could bring disqualification from future legal admission.

**Provisional visa program solves competitiveness and puts hundreds of billions into the economy** Immigration Works New York ‘  10 [Letter to Senator Schumer, http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/uploaded/file/Schumer_letter.pdf]

The American workforce is aging. Within a   AND jobs so eagerly sought by millions of Americans. **Observation IV: Pre-Empts** **___ Deportation policy Proves** Goodwin 9-10 -10 [Liz, Yahoo News, http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100910/us_yblog_upshot/obama-administration-pushes-small-immigration-reforms]

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