Posted on 02/21/2008 6:33:22 AM PST by DogWings
Illegal immigration is more than getting enough people in America to pick lettuce or roof houses. While the people who crash the border to do those jobs take jobs from legal citizens, it is far from the most damaging of issues. Not everyone who comes to America is here to do jobs Americans won’t do.
Some are here doing things we already have too many Americans doing.
Virginia’s Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced yesterday that the state police, along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), identified one hundred seventy-one members of the state’s sex offender registry that are in the country illegally. These were criminals who were already convicted on sexual assault charges and were on the state’s registry.
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