To foreign lands and compares migration trends in the past decade. This is about 90 minutes. Welcome, everybody, to the Cato Institute. Since the beginning of this year immigration has become of burning Public Policy issue in washington. For the first time in decades the United States considering that major reform in the way that it deals with immigrants, the ensuing debate and the possibility of reform is welcome, but the fact is politicians are arriving very late to this issue. That is because in this country there has long been a wide gap between restrictive laws and the reality of immigration. The gap that reflects the economic and social fact that there are millions of americans and millions of immigrants from mexico and Central America. We wish to engage in peaceful voluntary exchange but are not legally allowed to do so. That inconsistency has produced a lot of the problems associated with Legal Immigration. Many Serious Problems and some imagined. The prospect of reform has sti
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Recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of friends who were also in recovery, where we could talk about what we were going through, and we could just have fun in recovery, was very vitally important for me to maintain my recovery. So, there would be an alternative way without drugs or alcohol . Yes. To really enjoy oneself . Absolutely. Very good. Vanna, in terms of your program, you know, we have to be realistic. What are some of the challenges in providing these types of support groups for people, for example, that may receive services from a Youth Service provider . Some of the challenges for young adults compared to adults is young people kind of step to dance
However you define that peer. And so again, what active minds does is not clinical, but we just recognize the connection that young adults make with each other surpasses the connection they can have really with anybody. And as much as parents want to have that hand with their student, with their kid, students and young adults are creating their own identity, and oftentimes they want to shed that a little bit from their family, and they create that in their network of friends, as we heard from ben earlier. Well, i do want to come back to ben now because, you know, you did say how important it is for young people that are in recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of
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