Posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:20 PM PST by F16Fighter
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They will want voting rights, welfare, and then they will demand citizenship, and open borders.
America will then slowly morph into a third world, banana republic.
Look back at the article and you will notice the growth in Arkansas. Overall, those numbers don't look to large, but in actuality, most of the illegal growth is along the state's western edge where they are processing chickens and building the boom in the NW corridor. So that growth is confined to a narrow area.
Illegals are a terrible negative on our culture, language, and respect for the rule of law.
Read "The Discourses" by Machiavelli. In that book he shows how a republic is quick to ruination when it fails to uphold and execute the established laws.
Our refusal to enforce the law in this area is having a terrible impact.
What's new is that they aren't paying. That's why they are closing down. No business closes down because it has too many paying customers.
What also is new, is that a lot of paying customers are leaving. The customers who remain are going to have to pay more to take up the slack -- except the ones who don't pay.
We have had a guest worker program since 1952.
We have ag worker visas, non-ag worker visas, tech worker visas, nurse visas, and crew worker visas.
What impact? Things have never been better.
I've posted the links, just look!
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Still a bad idea. Even worse in this day and age.
This is one way empires decline. People get greedy. They bring foreigners in to work because they are lazy and then pretty soon they've lost their country.
If you think that it is bad because there are too many mexicans, just wait until there are not enough mexicans.
I thought about this very thing this morning as I was listening to talk radio discussing Hilary's advocating for felons having voting rights.
She's a couple steps ahead here.
Sorry, I don't consider a boom in population of illegals to be a good thing. California is rife with corruption and is running a huge deficit and they may never dig out of it.
One way to measure the relative success of two places is the "gate test". If you open a gate, which way do people move?
U-Haul rates are a good way to measure how attractive immigration has made California to the rest of the country:
"...while it costs $1,080 to rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck for a one-way trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the rental going in the opposite direction is just $133.
"To economist Brian Wesbury, the difference implies that people are moving out of California as opportunity diminishes and the economic slump persists. Here are a few more telling comparisons, as reported in the Financial Post: A one-way U-Haul move from Los Angeles to Phoenix costs $837 while the return costs $116. San Francisco to Boise: $2,024. Return trip: $310. But look at the Midwest and the rate differentials practically disappear. A U-Haul rental from Chicago and Detroit costs $419, while the return is $449.
"Obviously, California is having a hard time keeping U-Haul trucks in the state," wrote Mr. Wesbury in a note to clients. "
Question for you: California's population is about 1/4 foreign born immigrants. If immigration is so good for the economy, why are people leaving for other states and why aren't people from other states moving to California?
HOAG
Wow, that one really takes the prize. Is anybody writing this stuff down?
Blame the people who are fleeing from this madness. You know what? That's exactly what the Soviet Union did. Before they collapsed, the Soviets blamed the people who were leaving and so they built the Iron Curtain, a wall around the country to keep the productive people enslaved.
I wouldn't be surprised if that happens to "Azlatan".
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=9415
No sh*t! Then you really ARE a sign twirler!
Are you serious? Do you actually believe that Mexicans are a net benefit to the US? Tell me this: Mexico has a lot more Mexicans than the US does; if Mexicans are so good for the economy why isn't Mexico rich?
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