The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, has softened his stance on the immigration issue. Romney being the Governor for Massachusetts suggested during the Republican primaries that the millions of undocumented immigrants living and working in America should pack up their belongings and return to their home countries (Youngman par 9).
His remarks had a negative effect on his campaign as it did not go down well with most of American citizens, particularly the minority communities. In an apparent move to woo independent voters, particularly Hispanic voters in the State of Colorado (Youngman par 12), Mitt Romney softened his stance on this issue. The minority vote, particularly the Latino, has been on the increase and could have an effect on the election by providing a margin of victory on some of the states such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida. I believe it is due to the magnitude of votes that he had to ease his stance on immigration.
He now claims that he will not overturn the presidential order to allow those illegal immigrants who were brought into America as children and have now grown up, to continue living in the country as legal citizens. This is seen as an apparent move to woo independent Hispanic voters in the State of Colorado.
Romney’s claim to deport immigrants back to their home countries is simply uncalled for. Personally, I believe that immigration has its advantages and disadvantages. Immigration has an important and often unrecognized impact on demographics in economies. Immigration is beneficial to immigrants (House of Lords- select committee on economic affairs 22) However, immigration may put pressure on the infrastructure of the country. This negatively affects the performance of the economy of the nation.
It is good that Romney has softened his stance over this issue. This, I believe, will present him as an empathetic individual to the independent voters, particularly those from minority communities who were affected by his absurd remarks.
Advice from the Labour Party: Spend 4G money for growth
Plans are underway to oversee the sale of spectrum licenses for 4G phones. The bidding phase is scheduled to start in the early 2013 (Kerr par 2). 4G platform facilitates a faster and more superior mobile data transfer rates. This will enable even the most rural areas which experience poor performance with broadband connection (Kerr par 6).
The coalition government led by the Prime Minister David Cameron, has been advised by the Labour Party to effectively utilize the funds to be accrued from the sale of 4G spectrum licenses. The Labour Party believes that the money accrued from this trade off amounting to a staggering $6.5 billion, could be used to purchase new homes (Faulconbridge and Falloon par 1).
Ed Balls, who is the Labour’s Finance minister-in-waiting, suggests that the government should spend as much as $6.5 billion that are expected from the sale of these licenses to purchase over 100, 000 cheap houses. This is set to benefit the young people who find it quite a challenge to purchase decent homes.
I believe that this is the right move because the country is facing hard financial times and it would be appropriate to invest back into the economy. Currently, Britain’s finances are not stable (Faulconbridge and Falloon par 15). The sale of these 4G spectrum licenses will provide Britain with the much needed finances to boost growth. Buying cheap homes is an appropriate avenue of spending the money.
Works Cited
Faulconbridge, G. and Falloon, M. 2012. Labour tells government: spend 4G money for growth. Web.
House of Lords- Select committee on economic affairs. Economic impact of immigration: volume 1: report: House of Lords paper 82-1 session 2007-08. The Stationery Office, 2008. Print.
Kerr, R. 2012. The 4G license sell-off plans have been firmed up, but when will you get it and what does it mean to you? Web.
Youngman, Sam. n.d. Romney softens immigration stance, seizes upon Biden comment. Web. 2012.