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RJa #6C

Ideas for field research

1. Interview with The Colorado Department of Labor
2. Interview Department of Homeland Security.... although I think this one might be a little tough
3. Interview AILA- American Immigration Lawyers Association
4. Census Pole Results

RJa #6B

For my social media search I used blogscope.com and icerocket.com as my two searches. These two search engines are different in their own right. I searched both of the sites on 3/12/2010. I used different key words in both search engines and got two different results. Some of the key words that i used were, immigration, economics, economic impact of immigration, US immigration, United States Immigration and economics, US economics, illegal aliens in the US, and economics of US immigration. Both of these sites gave me different things but I did get a couple of relevant blogs relating to my current topic. Blogscope.com monitors over 43 million blogs on their site and I would rate them a three out of five on their blog searches. Icerocket.com, is associated with twitter and myspace but I could not find a relevant number of hits. I think that blogscope is going to be better because it is run by The university of Toronto, but I would still rate Icerocket a three out of five!

RJa #6A

I used ExactSeek.com as my search engine. I used several different keywords such as economics, immigration, economic impact, economic impact of immigration, aliens, illegal aliens, and money. All these different key words brought up something different. I figured since the name of the search engine was exactseek.com, I would get some exact answers, but that was not the case! I searched this on 3/12/2010 and I did find some good sites that have been bookmarked in my delicious account. I do not see where there is a place to find number of hits but this search engine was a huge help and I think I have some very good information that it going to come from it. I would rate this search engine a three out of five!

RJa #5-Books

1. Altshuler, Alan A. Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1999. Print.

This book has been bookmarked in my delicious account. I found this book in a search of google books on 3.3.2010. The title of the book is Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America. I used suck key words as immigration, economics, impact, I combined all the keywords at times. There were no reviews of this book.

I found a couple of copies at Jefferson County Library, and Auraia Library and plan on getting the book as

soon as possible.

2. Smith, James P., and Barry Edmonston. The New Americans Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, D.C.: National Academy, 1997. Print.

I did not have a chance to bookmark this book into my delicious account, but plan on getting it as soon as possible. This is a great book because is discusses the economic side of immigration. I found this book while searching for the other book on 3.3.2010. This book has been reviewed 5 times and has 3 gold stars to it. This should be an excellent resource for my paper.

Research Journal #3c

Research Question:

Do illegal immigrants contribute to the economic growth of The United States?

Do illegal immigrants contribute or hinder the economic status of The United States?

Do immigrants contribute or hinder the economic growth of The United States?

What impacts does immigration have on the US economy?