Immigration Contributing to Economic Crisis, Experts Say

With American financial markets facing severe crises meriting possible intervention from the federal government, several experts have recently argued that granting subprime mortgages to immigrants — both legal and illegal — have played a role in bringing about the current economic decline. During "the boom years," many immigrants took out high-interest fixed-rate loans or subprime mortgages with a low entry rate that later rose sharply in order to buy homes in the United States that they could barely afford. (Reuters, January 30, 2008)

Immigration and National Security
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, this report finds that while some progress has been achieved in closing the vulnerabilities exploited by the 9/11 attackers, several loopholes still remain. The report details many of the important tasks that have been neglected, or, because of pressure from special interest groups, have been brushed aside.
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Who Represents Illegal Aliens?
The distribution of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives counts illegal aliens and other nonimmigrants. This results in unequal representation of U.S. citizens as well as influencing the composition of the Electoral College that selects the President. A more appropriate distribution would be on the basis of the number of native-born and naturalized U.S. citizens.
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