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Carney: Bernie Sanders’ Plan Will Make the College Debt Problem Worse

June 24, 2019 MICHAELANTONIOBernie Sanders, Economy, Politics, student debt, student debt relief0 comment

Senator Bernie Sanders released a bill Monday that would cancel all outstanding student debt. But it does little to stop the student debt problem from arising once again–and may even make it worse. The Sanders bill would cancel all of the roughly $1.5 trillion in student debt for 44 million Americans, including debt owed by wealthy individuals, debt owed to private lenders, and debt owed to the federal government’s loan programs. It would also attempt to make college education at state schools free to students, paid for by a combination…

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Lindsey Graham’s Amnesty-for-Migration-Fix Swap Gets Boost from Donald Trump’s Deportation Delay

June 24, 2019 MICHAELANTONIODonald Trump, Economy, Immigration, Lindsey Graham, Migrant, migration, Politics0 comment

President Donald Trump’s decision to delay a small-scale deportation operation has created an opening for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s push to swap an amnesty for border reforms, say pro-immigration reformers. Graham already “is negotiating with [Democratic Sen. Richard] Durbin — [and] he’s not pulling the Republicans together” to present a united front, said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. On June 19, for example, Graham told Democratic Senators at a committee meeting that he is willing to trade an amnesty to get a border fixes. “I am willing…

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Joe Biden: ‘Streamline and Strengthen’ Asylum Laws Used by Economic Migrants

June 24, 2019 MICHAELANTONIODonald Trump, Economy, Immigration, Joe Biden, Mass Migration, Migrant, Nation of Immigrants, Politics0 comment

Joe Biden wants to “streamline and strengthen” the nation’s asylum system which is pumping 100,000 migrants per month into the nation’s workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods, and suggests that people from Venezuela be allowed to move into the United States’ claimed “nation of immigrants.” “Our asylum system needs to be improved, but the answer is to streamline and strengthen it so that it benefits legitimate claims of those fleeing persecution, while reducing potential for abuse,” Biden says in a June 24 op-ed in the Miami Herald. Migrants “have the right to…