Immigration
Earlier this week a bipartisan group of Senators and President Obama each unveiled immigration reform plans. Each plan contains a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers living in the U.S. Both plans are attached to this post. The Senate plan, whose supporters include Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin and Florida Republican Marco Rubio, states that reform should include tougher border security, while also providing an opportunity for citizenship to those already living in the U.S. The plan states that undocumented workers would be "required to go to the back of the line of prospective immigrants, pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United …
Even a senior U.S. senator had not comprehended the extent of the recession's domino effect on youths, who have brought problems of hunger and homelessness into the classroom.
The slumping economy has had an under-publicized effect on children, who bring the pain of their parents’ troubles to school in the form of stress, hunger, lack of money for basic activities or even homelessness. Dealing with economically-deprived students has been a regular duty of some suburban districts that have had lower-income demographics for decades. But now even more affluent school systems have to cope with a myriad of negative effects on youths from the economy. Earlier: Junior high students taught health in award-winning program. The mushrooming numbers of low-income students in the three high schools comprising District 207 bear out the seriousness of the problem. In 2009-10, after nearly two years of recession, the district …
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Algonquin resident
7:16 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Attitudes about immigration policy priorities: Among U.S. adults, 28% say the priority for dealing with illegal immigration should be given to tighter restrictions on illegal immigration while 27% say creating a path to citizenship should be the priority. A plurality (42%) says both tactics should be given equal priority. “Latinos” are more likely than the general public (42% versus 27%) to say … more ›