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The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, at our best when welcoming to our shores those who "yearn to breathe free." Indeed, immigration has had many positive effects on our economy and society. We have successfully, if not perfectly, lived out our motto of "out of many, one." We have had a culture and limited government that encouraged individual initiative, patriotic assimilation, upward mobility and hard work, all while allowing the economy to flourish through the free enterprise system. Today, unfortunately, things are different.

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It’s been 50 years now since the federal government launched its “War on Poverty.” But the numbers just released by the Census Bureau suggest we’re in a losing battle. The poverty rate now stands at 14.5 percent. That’s a drop from the previous rate of 15 percent. But don’t celebrate too quickly. The new rate is almost exactly the poverty rate we had in 1967, only three years after President Lyndon Johnson announced his war.

I've never been more proud to work at The Heritage Foundation than I was this past Monday.I was seated at a conference table with 31 of the brightest, most analytical and highly principled people I've ever known as we dissected and analyzed various ripple effects of the Senate’s devastating immigration-reform proposal.

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