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Benjamin McKeown

The most important thing about the new NAFTA deal is that it exists - 0 views

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NAFTA HL Globalization free trade

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  • da has agreed to give United States farmers more access to its heavily regulated dairy market—thus assuaging Trump’s single most frequent complaint about Canada’s trade policies. Canada also signed on to stronger intellectual property protections sought by U.S. industries, and increased the dollar limit on the amount of merchandise Canadians can buy across the border before duties kick in (alas, we won’t be hearing about shoe smuggling any longer). However, the Trump administration gave Canada a win by dropping its demand to scrap a dispute-resolution system in which countries can challenge each others’ anti-dumping tariffs outside of each others’ courts. Overall, the changes are more than cosmetic, but perhaps a bit less than Trump promised when he vowed to renegotiate what he’s often called “the worst trade deal in history.” The deal is designed to benefit U.S. auto-workers by requiring that more of each vehicle be produced within North America to qualify for tariff-free treatment, and that a certain percentage of each car be built by employees making $16 an hour. It curtails the use of controversial investor-state dispute settlement panels. The IP protections are a boost—perhaps unfortunately—to copyright-holders and prescription drug companies. But progressive groups are already complaining that the agreement still lacks mechanisms to enforce labor standards in Mexico, among other issues. But more than the details, the most important thing about this deal is that it exists at all. One of the major questions about Trump’s approach to economic policy and globalization was whether he would simply light trade deals on fire, or use his sometimes unhinged rhetoric as a means to obtain some reforms. In the case of NAFTA, we have a solid answer. Whether you like it or not, it’s spelled USMCA. One more thing If you think Slate’s work matters, become a Slate Plus member. You’ll get exclusive members-only content and a suite of great benefits—and you’ll help secure Slate’s future. Join Slate Plus Join Slate Plus Tweet Share Comment Canada Donald Trump Mexico Trade
Benjamin McKeown

Republicans Fill A Homeland Security Bill With Anti-Immigrant Proposals | ThinkProgress - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization

shared by Benjamin McKeown on 18 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • House Republicans voted through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations funding bill Wednesday with several anti-immigrant proposals tacked onto it.
  • The amendments would subject all undocumented immigrants to further enforcement scrutiny, potentially causing them to live in fear of deportation.
  • would prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from prioritizing the deportation of criminals over that of undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes.
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  • allows immigration agents to pursue deportations regardless of priority and without consideration of an individual’s ties to the United States.
  • not grant deferred action or work permits to undocumented immigrants because their exclusion from the Affordable Care Act could encourage employers to hire undocumented immigrants rather than Americans or others who are entitled to health insurance.
Benjamin McKeown

House Republicans Pass Anti-Immigration Bill To Make Deportations Easier | ThinkProgress - 0 views

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HL migration response anti-globalization

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  • House Republicans voted through an anti-immigration bill Thursday that would prevent the president from giving deportation reprieve to some undocumented immigrants. Known as the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act, the largely symbolic bill — which has little chance of passage in the Senate — would make the executive action “null and void and without legal effect.”
  • Congressional Republicans have made clear that they will fight tooth and nail to prevent the president from taking what they perceive to be a unilateral action on immigration law.
Benjamin McKeown

Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivor... - 0 views

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  • Yet last November Nestlé, the world’s largest foodmaker and one of the most recognisable household brands, went public with the news it had found forced labour in its supply chains in Thailand and that its customers were buying products tainted with the blood and sweat of poor, unpaid and abused migrant workers.
  • NGO the Freedom Fund, which has invested heavily in anti-trafficking initiatives in Thailand, believes Nestlé’s admission could be a considerable force in shifting the parameters of what can be expected of businesses when it comes to supply chain accountability.
  • Patagonia, which announced that it had discovered several points in its supply chain in Taiwan where forced labour and unethical recruitment practices were flourishing.
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  • US corporate accountability business Verité,
  • which works closely with organisations trying to help improve their supply chain transparency.
  • In the last six months Verité has been involved in two high-profile disclosures from major brands and one of the most important lessons for us to recognise is that in neither case did the companies suffer greatly in terms of being associated with these labour conditions. Instead, they received some credit [for] being bold enough to be associated with this.”
  • onsumers or workers using the legislation to launch legal actions against companies they accuse of making misleading public statements on their anti-slavery efforts.
  • Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, failed in its bid to get the US Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for the alleged use of child slaves in cocoa farming in the Ivory Coast.
  • By the time Nestlé owned up to slavery in the Thai seafood industry it was accepted knowledge. It’ll be a brave new world when companies are actually doing the real investigation to probe into part of their supply chains that have remained outside the public domain.
Benjamin McKeown

The Brussels attack is giving way to a terrible isolationist sentiment. - 0 views

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anti-globalization HL nationalism

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  • nstead of calling for solidarity against a common threat, a spokesman for the anti-European U.K. Independence Party declared that the open borders of Europe “are a threat to our security,” even though the U.K. is not part of Europe’s Schengen border treaty.  A columnist for the Daily Telegraph declared Brussels the “jihadist capital of Europe,” and mocked those who call for staying in the EU on the grounds of safety. Meanwhile, American news organizations fell over themselves to get instant reactions from Donald Trump, who had just told the Washington Post that he didn’t see the point of NATO, which “is costing us a fortune.” He didn’t disappoint: “[W]e have to be very careful and very vigilant as to who we allow in this country.”
  • “my country will be safer” if it pulls out of its international alliances is growing.
  • the illogical idea
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  • Every terrorist attack on U.K. soil in recent memory was carried out by British (or Irish) citizens and not foreigners; nuclear deterrence requires allies and coordinated responses; barbed wire cannot stop a cyberattack. The small-minded, short-sighted isolationists ignore reason and logic, instead substituting panic and fear.
  • Of course there are reasons for this change: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s disastrous decision to apparently “invite” Syrian immigrants into Europe last summer has left many Europeans feeling queasy and out of control.
  • The only way to fight jihadism is through our existing military, economic, and political alliances
  • And the only way to ensure that we have international support in the future, when a tragedy takes place on our soil—and it will—is to offer our support for a tragedy unfolding on allied soil right now. 
Benjamin McKeown

The Senate GOP is naming its two most anti-immigrant members to run its immigration sub... - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization

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  • Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has just been named the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration. Sessions is the most outspoken opponent of immigration in the Senate — not just unauthorized immigration, but legal immigration as well.
  • Congressional Republicans in both chambers are relatively united in wanting to shut down President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration, which would allow millions of unauthorized immigrants to apply for temporary protection from deportation.
  • what they're for: border security and expanded legal immigration for skilled workers.
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  • That's because he doesn't want to increase any immigration, skilled or not, legal or unauthorized
  • put strict limits on the number of immigrants let into the country.
  • harder for them to claim that they have a plan for reform of their own.
Benjamin McKeown

U.S. Farmers Urge Changes to Immigration Law Amid Labor Shortage | TIME.com - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization

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  • The Broetjes and an increasing number of farmers across the country say that a complex web of local and state anti-immigration laws account for acute labor shortages. With the harvest season in full bloom, stringent immigration laws have forced waves of undocumented immigrants to flee certain states for more-hospitable areas. In their wake, thousands of acres of crops have been left to rot in the fields, as farmers have struggled to compensate for labor shortages with domestic help.
  • “The enforcement of immigration policy has devastated the skilled-labor source that we’ve depended on for 20 or 30 years,”
Benjamin McKeown

american immigration debate - Google Search - 0 views

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The U.S. Immigration Debate - Council on Foreign Relations - 0 views

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  • President Barack Obama's immigration policies have drawn ire from immigration advocates and opponents alike. Though he pledged to tackle comprehensive immigration reform in his first year in office, Obama did not make the issue a priority until his second term. His administration has deported more than two million undocumented immigrants, more than former President George W. Bush did in his two terms, though some of this reflects the rise in border arrests of migrants from countries other than Mexico,
  • Obama has tried to grant a reprieve to as many as five million undocumented immigrants in the United States
  • the majority of Americans support various elements that would comprise comprehensive immigration reform, including creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (88 percent), requiring employers to check immigration status of workers (84 percent), tightening border security (83 percent), and expanding short-term visas for skilled workers (76 percent).
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  • Many tech-industry leaders have become prominent supporters of immigration reform,
  • They argue that if skilled workers—many of whom are educated in U.S. universities—are not permitted to work in the United States, some tech companies may be forced to move their operations offshore.
  • early one third of undocumented immigrants in the United States are the parents of U.S.-born children, according to the Pew Research Center.
  • "[The United States' undocumented immigrant] population is not growing—it's more settled,"
  • Increasingly, people who are coming are Central Americans fleeing violence and seeking asylum—not Mexicans seeking work—and that's a very different policy problem. But I don’t think Congress has caught up with that. The debate and the approaches still reflect the world of a decade ago."
  • Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote in the 2012 presidential elections and many Republican strategists said that their party would need to strike a more conciliatory tone on migration following the party's loss that year.
  • Comprehensive immigration reform refers to proposed legislation that would change U.S. immigration laws to address demand for high-skilled and low-skilled labor, legalize most undocumented immigrants already in the country, and toughen border and interior enforcement.
  • Immigration Innovation Act: A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate in January 2015 that would nearly double the number of visas for temporary high-skilled workers, from 65,000 to 115,000, and eliminate annual per-country limits for employment-based green cards. Start-Up Act: A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate in January 2015 (three prior versions had been introduced) that proposed creating an entrepreneurs’ visa for immigrants and a STEM visa for U.S.-educated workers with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, and eliminating per-country caps on employment-based immigration visas. Secure Our Borders First Act: A Republican bill that threatens penalties against senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials whose departments fail to intercept a targeted number of crossings. The proposal would allow the Border Patrol to operate on all federal lands, provide funding for the National Guard to participate in securing the border, and authorize expanded use of surveillance drones along the border.
  • Obama's immigration announcement emphasized his administration's efforts to secure the U.S. border, and in FY 2014, nearly twenty thousand U.S. Border Patrol agents (PDF) operated along the southwestern border—the largest deployment in U.S. history.
Benjamin McKeown

Should the United States Build a Fence on Its Southern Border? - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization

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  • The U.S. border with Mexico spans almost 2,000 miles from California to Texas, and illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and other security breaches along the border have been issues of growing concern for decades. After 9/11, the call to secure America’s borders increased, and the idea of expanding physical layers of security along the Mexican border began to gain serious traction in the minds of lawmakers.
  • Signed into law by George W. Bush, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 mandated the construction of almost 700 miles of barrier fences along the Mexican border
  • The act also appropriated the expansion of checkpoints, vehicle barriers, and technological systems designed to monitor the expanse of boundary.
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  • detractors cite prohibitive construction costs, unmanageable terrain, and harmful environmental concerns as arguments against the fence.
Benjamin McKeown

Immigration Should Be About Culture and Assimilation (and the Joy of Becoming American)... - 0 views

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migration HL response anti-globalization culture

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  • Were we to allow America’s ideals to be radically changed over time by outsiders coming in, the case could then be made that America as founded no longer exists. At that point we may as well change the name to not denigrate what American once was.
  • History compels us not to let America die by the noose of multiculturalism.
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