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Immigration Politix

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===A. Uniqueness===

====Obama is using his political capital to push Immigration reform now. The reform will be a big step in eliminating the US v. Them mentality====

Globe and Mail, January 30th  2013 ("Two parties and paperless millions" The Globe and Mail, Editorial pg. A12)
For the first time in years, there is bipartisan support in the U.
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of us used to be them." This sensible reform is long overdue. 

B. LINK

Obama can’t win on Energy – Kills PC
Eisler 12 (Matthew is a Researcher @ the Chemical Heritage Foundation. "Science, Silver Buckshot, and ’All of The Above’" April 2, http://scienceprogress.org/2012/04/science-silver-buckshot-and-%E2%80%9Call-of-the-above%E2%80%9D/)

Conservatives take President Obama’s rhetoric at face value. Progressives see the president as disingenuous
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will probably mean four more years of inaction and increased resort to cant.

C. Internal Link

Without immigration reform, noncitizens will avoid much needed healthcare services.   
Park, 4 – J.D. Candidate, Florida State University College of Law (Seam, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, "Substantial Barriers in Illegal Immigrant Access to Publicly-Funded Health Care: Reasons and Recommendations for Change," Spring 2004, 18 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 567)

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, out of the 33.1 million
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health care and other essential social services should be removed, not created.
Illegal aliens require undeterred access to publicly funded medical care for a variety of reasons
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compelling reasons why illegal immigrants require undeterred access to publicly funded health care.
The purpose of this Comment is to examine how current federal legislation has left illegal
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federal, state and local governments can act together to accomplish this goal.
Federal legislation, particularly the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 and sections of the Immigration Reform Law, have placed illegal immigrants in a helpless situation. 

Specifically, giving healthcare access to current noncitizens is key to controlling tuberculosis.

 Calvo, 2008 (Janet, Professor, City University School of Law. "The  Consequences of Restricted Health Care Access for Immigrants: Lessons  from Medicaid and SCHIP." 17 Ann. Health L. 175ZE)

Control of TB necessitates screening. Screening is especially important for at-risk groups
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when it is easiest to treat and contagion can be best controlled. n171

D. Impacts

Leaving TB untreated leads to a plague that will devastate the world

Johns %26 Varkoutas, 98 (Journal of Contemporary Health Law %26 Policy, "The Tuberculosis Crisis: The Deadly Consequence of Immigration Policies and Welfare Reform," Fall 1998, 15 J. Contemp. Health L. %26 Pol’y 101, JMP)

Under the current direction of government policy, once TB becomes a problem large enough
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tomorrow we may just find ourselves faced with the grim scenes of yesteryear.

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The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should _

State action gets modelled due to local innovation

Lash ’07 (Jonathan, "Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy," World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory-http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)

America has a long and inspiring tradition of policy innovation and activism that is incubated
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wellspring from which we build the low-carbon economy of the future.

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The affirmative relies on a Western, dualist mindset that creates binaries between woman and man, humanity and nature… these dualisms are hierarchally ordered to continually devalue that which is feminine.

Kamrar 8 ~[Jenn: writing professor at Portland Community College "Toward An Ecofeminist
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same, to make¶ these constructions more whole (Sandilands, 1994).

Human-centered rationality treats humanity as separate from nature, which paves the way for humans to use nature at their disposal as a mass of undifferentiated beings

Plumwood 02 ~[Val: Australian Research Council Fellow at University of Sydney –002 Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason ~[Routledge nb~] p. 111-113~]
The centric parallel as a practical model Liberation movements have not provided a significant source
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ones that are respon¬sive to the other on their own terms.
Ecological thinkers and activists can try to counter radical exclusion (the first feature of
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, which we contest by promoting an understanding of nature’s amazing diversity. 2’
To counter the features of backgrounding and denial, ecological thinkers and green activists try
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such systematic changes is what political action for ecological sustainability is all about.

Constant usage and consumption of nature depletes nature – culminating in extinction.

Nhanenge 07 ~[Jytte: Master of Arts at the development studies at the University of South Africa "Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the concerns of women _{poor people and nature into development" http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1-http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1~].
Nature is by the economic individual perceived as being a heap of dead parts laying
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with one logical blunder: when nature dies, also humanity will perish.} 

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Obama pushing for sequestration deal now – key to avert economic collapse

Crabtree February 6, (Susan, writer for the Washington Times, 2013 "Obama ramps up pressure to resolve sequester;¶ Sets up another partisan battle" )
Warning of serious repercussions for the economy and the military if Congress fails to halt
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annual retreat. Mr. Obama is scheduled to address the group Wednesday.

Costs pc and Obama will push

Restuccia 3/21/12 (Andrew Restuccia Reporter at Politico, "Obama: ’We will not walk away’ from clean-energy agenda," http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/217393-obama-we-will-not-walk-away-from-clean-energy-http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/217393-obama-we-will-not-walk-away-from-clean-energy)
 "You’d think that everybody would be supportive of solar power," Obama said
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problems and that the administration approved the loan to please Obama’s campaign donors. 

Economy is at the top of the agenda – all of Obama’s PC is key

Blitzer and Borger, February 1st (Wolf, Gloria CNN political analysts) 2013 "Wall Street Soars; Senate Scandal; Super Bowl Advertising; Al Gore Defends Selling to Al Jazeera; The Most Expensive Election; Hillary Clinton Resigns; Kerry Arrives at Swearing in Ceremony; Geraldo Rivera for Senator?; New Jersey Senate Showdown; Once Powerful Cardinal Disciplined; %248M a Minute; Controversy Over Some Super Bowl Ads; New York Mourns Ed Koch" Lexis
BLITZER: So, there’s more jobs created, another 150,000 last month
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through.¶ BORGER: He will need every bit of it. Yes.

Economic collapse causes global nuclear war

Friedberg and Schoenfeld, 2008  ~Aaron, Prof. Politics. And IR @ Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Visiting Scholar @ Witherspoon Institute, and Gabriel, Senior Editor of Commentary and Wall Street Journal, "The Dangers of a Diminished America" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html-http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html~~
Then there are the dolorous consequences of a potential collapse of the world’s financial architecture
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of these countries seek to divert attention from internal travails with external adventures.