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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/26/2009 4:08:01 PM

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Reality check...It's too late baby, now it's too late. Need to make them all citizens, they have a certain time to register or else, and then take a real stand on all illegals in the future.

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/26/2009 8:28:51 PM

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Appaerantly people do not research what it takes to get public assistance in this country.

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Then explain to me how people who I gather are illegal because they have no medical insurance (in the state I'm in, all employees working 20 or more hours are provided with medical insurance by their employers) and they only speak Spanish or very little English are still getting benefits from, for example, WIC.

The illegals here, and there are a lot of them, are not necessarily taking the jobs no one else wants. They are working in construction and in the hospitality industry. In fact, there is even a t.v. ad by one of the unions here, admonishing companies for hiring illegals (cheaper to pay than unionized citizens) when their own union members are out of work.

http://www.khon2.com/news/local/12648991.html
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/503437.html
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/06/29/editorial/commentary.html

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/26/2009 11:03:25 PM

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Reality check...It's too late baby, now it's too late. Need to make them all citizens, they have a certain time to register or else, and then take a real stand on all illegals in the future.

Reality check? And how are they supposed to do criminal background checks on people who have false i.d.s?
The record keeping of their native countries is at best primitive.
And, that's what they said back in 1986.

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 7:09:17 AM

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I would prefer other nationals not come here to improve the quality of their lives. I imagine those that do are motivated and capable people. It is my belief they would be better served in the long run, as would their fellow countrymen, by using their energies to change the system and circumstances in their own lands.

And I'm reminded of a line I came across a few years back: "Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a crack dealer an unlicensed pharmacist."

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 10:03:00 AM

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I would prefer...

That was really a heck of a post.
This website is a good one on this topic Mark Krikorian is an author there and his book came out last year worth reading. http://cis.org/

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 10:37:52 AM

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MSNBC just said that the State Dept has issued a warning to Americans thinking of traveling to Mexico because of the increasing violence along the border and they said that college students shouldn't go there on spring break.
Also they reported that the governor of Texas has requested 1,000 Federal Troops to be dispatched along the border of Texas. This was just on MSNBC.

Whether you are conservative or liberal, the fighting in Mexico should be frightening. I recently watched some interviews of Mexicans and some felt the government may fall with the fighting spilling over into the US. I guess the fighting started between the drug cartels over market share with the US being the market. Some conservatives, especially Pat Buchanan, have been pointing at the fighting as being the biggest threat to the US for five months. Obama brings the troops back from Iraq to man our southern borders? I have not heard as much arguing about getting out of Iraq as there was in the past. Are our so-called leaders in agreement about this threat and getting troops back?
Of course, they would not tell us.

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 11:57:40 AM

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But what about all of the social services illegals take away?

Social servants have more work too thanks to illegals: schools hire more teachers, hospitals more nurses etc....

Those same social services also have increased costs. After all they have to pay the teachers and nurses. How much of that cost is covered by taxes? How many illegals pay taxes?

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 12:02:05 PM

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I don't know of any native born Americans who are anxious to spend every day, weather notwithstanding, shoveling horse shit. Every barn I know of depends on Mexican immigrants to take care of the animals. They ride in the trailers with the horses, sleep in the barns at shows to watch over them. Find me an out of work native willing to do this.

No problem, where do I apply?

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 1:16:27 PM

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Those same social services also have increased costs. After all they have to pay the teachers and nurses. How much of that cost is covered by taxes? How many illegals pay taxes?

Everybody pays one way or another. Forget "illegal" for a moment. Bottom 20% (probably more) in US do not pay income or property taxes because their income is small and they do not have properties. What happens if we send them away, execute them, keep them ot of reach for education and healthcare? Would it be a good idea to get rid of about 60 million people? Would it be then everybody is reasonably well off, happy, there will be very little crime and misery?

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/27/2009 8:45:01 PM

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Those same social services also have increased costs. After all they have to pay the teachers and nurses. How much of that cost is covered by taxes? How many illegals pay taxes?

Everybody pays one way or another. Forget "illegal" for a moment. Bottom 20% (probably more) in US do not pay income or property taxes because their income is small and they do not have properties. What happens if we send them away, execute them, keep them ot of reach for education and healthcare? Would it be a good idea to get rid of about 60 million people? Would it be then everybody is reasonably well off, happy, there will be very little crime and misery?

What's your point? If anything it supports what some of us have posted already - that the overburdened social systems in this country are being overextended by the addition of illegals using the system. If 20% of the nation is indeed living at this degree of poverty (and that would make it 1 in 5, a number I find a little difficult to believe), illegals adding to it certainly in no way benefits this country and it actually implies that a worthy citizen (or even unworthy, but a citizen nevertheless) may not get access to services he or she might otherwise have been able to benefit from.

UncleNasty: Your post is spot on. I completely agree.

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/28/2009 5:48:23 PM

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What's your point? If anything it supports what some of us have posted already - that the overburdened social systems in this country are being overextended by the addition of illegals using the system. If 20% of the nation is indeed living at this degree of poverty (and that would make it 1 in 5, a number I find a little difficult to believe), illegals adding to it certainly in no way benefits this country and it actually implies that a worthy citizen (or even unworthy, but a citizen nevertheless) may not get access to services he or she might otherwise have been able to benefit from.

20% referred to people who do not pay taxes, not necessary under poverty (working poor).
My point is just an opposite: illegals are one of the most exploited group of the society. Removing illegals would not change anything economically for better. Slaves during old times got also medical care. Problem with illegals as I see it is rather cultural than economical (meaning fast influx of people with different language and cultural traditions).

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RE: Have The Courage To Enforce Immigration Law, Mr. Ho... - 2/28/2009 6:31:24 PM

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My mother is an immigration lawyer, and in fact, most illegal aliens pay excess taxes because the IRS is better at tracking people down than the INS, and in addition will not receive benefits such as social security, Medicaid, welfare, because they are afraid of being deported. the last number i heard (around 2000) was that the average was $80,000 more are paid in taxes than received in benefits by illegal aliens.

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