Tournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: everyone | Judge: the world
Inherency
Maquiladora workers are especially vulnerable to rising femicide on the border.
Olivia Kirkpatrick 3/27/13 From the Central American Women’s Network for the Latin American Bureau http://lab.org.uk/femicide-in-mexico-the-cotton-field-case-and-its-sequels
“We are here today because the search for our daughters in unstoppable, femicide and disappearances ...
Not only has the State continued to neglect its duty to protect women and tackle the causes of extreme VAW, but femicide rates have increased in the past few years with little being done to prevent these crimes or bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Thus the plan: The United States federal government should substantially åincrease economic engagement toward Mexico by making available visas without employer control for acquirement to persons in Juarez, Mexico.
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Advantage 1: Human Rights
Justice is not served to the perpetrator of the Ciudad Juarez murders because of the machismo culture and bribery.
Newton 3- author of The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes
Damien, “Wave of Violence Swallows More Women in Juárez” http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/ciudad_juarez/10.html//CJC
Those who stay behind often work in maquiladoras
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Any crime can be overlooked for a price.
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Human Rights Policy
is a critical part of economic engagement
Aguirre ‘121/20/12, Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights at Regent's College, http://jurist.org/forum/2013/01/human-rights-the-asean-way.php, “Human Rights the ASEAN Way “
ASEAN's policy with its recalcitrant members has always been one of economic engagement.
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Cambodia and Myanmar ranking respectively numbers 154, 164 and 180 out of 182 countries in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index — can reinforce human rights-violating authoritarian regimes.
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Advantage 2: Work Visas
Mexican guest workers are key the agricultural sector---other replacements fail
Wainer 11 – Andrew Wainer is immigration policy analyst for Bread for the World Institute. (“Farm Workers and Immigration Policy”, December 2011, http://www.bread.org/institute/papers/farm-workers-and-immigration.pdf, Callahan)
John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath described the harsh working conditions of migrant farm workers from the Midwest.
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If immigrant farm workers were no longer available, growers would likely try to mechanize their crops or abandon labor-intensive agriculture, leaving the United States to fill the food gap with additional agricultural imports.
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Labor is vital to small farms
Gual 10 (Frank, Farm job, anyone?, Associated Content, p. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5877166/farm_job_anyone.html 10/17/10)
Those calling for tougher immigration laws and the UFW claim that farmers have become accustomed to hiring undocumented workers who are willing to work for little, and now make up half the farm labor force.
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Another effect of the farm labor shortage will be the continued disappearance of small family farms, which will either be abandoned or bought by large conglomerates whose management is far removed from the local community.
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Small farms prevent extinction
Altieri 8 Professor of agroecology @ University of California, Berkeley. Miguel Altieri (President, Sociedad Cientifica LatinoAmericana de Agroecologia (SOCLA), “Small farms as a planetary ecological asset: Five key reasons why we should support the revitalization of small farms in the Global South,” Food First, Posted May 9th, 2008, pg. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2115
The Via Campesina has long argued that farmers need land to produce food for their own communities and for their country and for this reason has advocated for genuine
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produced, accessible food for all, but will allow indigenous peoples and small farmers to continue their millennial work of building and conserving the agricultural and natural biodiversity on which we all depend now and even more so in the future.
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Violence against women goes unnoticed by society and is the largest systemic impact—it’s an ethical and political obligation to prevent
French et al 98 (Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Wanda Teays, professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, Ph.D. in Humanities from Concordia University in Montreal, and an M.T.S. (Applied Ethics) from Harvard University, "Violence Against Women. Philosophical Perspectives", Cornell University, http://books.google.com/books?id=5_deWNO1GEUCandprintsec=frontcoverandsource=gbs_ge_summary_randcad=0#v=onepageandqandf=false. Noparstak)
Women are the victims of widespread personal and systemic violence, the true scope and gender-specific nature of which emergy clearly when all types of violence are set in context in a collection such as this one.
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Such attitudes become especially apparent in war, when rape is used as a weapon against the enemy.
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Solvency
Here is an independent advocate with fantastic warrant – the plan solves illegal immigration, it’s actually BETTER than the actual bill in congress for solving immigration
Nowrasteh (Alex Nowrasteh is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. Previously he was the immigration policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle,Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury, Richmond Times-Dispatch,Huffington Post, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and elsewhere. He has appeared on Fox News and numerous television and radio stations across the United States. He received his B.A. in Economics from George Mason University and MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics. ) Alex, 6/24 "The Border Security Obsession." Cato@Liberty. (June 24, 2013 Monday 8:45 PM EST ): 637 words. LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2013/07/19.
Securing the border is largely a rhetorical excuse to oppose reforming the immigration system. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said1 of the Hoeven-Corker amendment that,
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The good portions of this immigration reform bill still outweigh the bad but we cannot afford too many more Hoeven-Corker amendments.
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The plan is the best realistic option for improving migrant worker conditions
Elmore 7 ELMORE (Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Office of Attorney General. The following analysis is offered purely in the author's private capacity and not as a representative of the New York State Office of Attorney General), ANDREW J. EGALITARIANISM AND EXCLUSION: U.S. GUEST WORKER PROGRAMS AND A NON-SUBORDINATION APPROACH TO THE LABOR-BASED ADMISSION OF NONPROFESSIONAL FOREIGN NATIONALS. 2007 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. 21 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 521
There is an inherent tension in how to balance liberty, sovereignty, and equality interests in regulating the migration of nonprofessional foreign nationals.
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more practical and tailored to controlling the migrant flow than increasing labor-based admissions through permanent migration.