US risks creating uneducated 'underclass': study

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will create a new Hispanic underclass unless it improves immigrant children's access to education, a report released Wednesday warned.

The Future of Children report, a collaborative effort between Princeton University and the Brookings Institution, calls for the United States to improve immigrants' education from preschool to university, including by passing the controversial Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act.

"If we don't do something about Hispanic education, we're going to have a permanent underclass in the United States. We already have one; it won't help us to have two," said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and lead author of the report, along with Princeton professor Marta Tienda.

Private prison industry helped draft AZ immigration law

A private corrections company helped write and lobbied hard for a draconian bill that'll help fill their cells

Alex Pareene
Salon

When it comes to creating demand for a previously unnecessary service and making a profit by any means necessary, you can't beat the private sector. So no one should be surprised that the private prison industry is in part responsible for the Arizona immigration law that requires state law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law (read: lock up anyone suspected of being Hispanic until and unless they can prove their citizenship). NPR investigated the prison industry's role in drafting and passing SB 1070. It's pretty depressing.

Corporations and interest groups like R.J. Reynolds, ExxonMobil, the NRA, and the Corrections Corporation of America host a regular conference for state legislators in DC. At last December's conference, the Corrections Corporation of America and Arizona state Senator Russell Pearce drafted the bill that eventually became the Arizona law.

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