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Looking Beyond Borders Can Strengthen Economy

How Do We Engage the Rest of the World in the Topic of Illegal Immigration?

By Rep. Jim Kolbe
Special to Roll Call
July 14, 2006, 3:39 p.m.

In my next life, I would like to be a demographer. To the untrained eye, demography is just a jumble of incomprehensible numbers. But I think it is the tea leaves that foretell the future. Nothing is more important than understanding demographics to understand the world we live in. It forms the basis of nearly every societal trend we see — economics, geopolitics, even religion. And there may be no realm in which demographics can make a greater impact than immigration.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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