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To: IrishMike
Americans are very vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans, and other nationalities want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the Unit ed States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government subsidized housing and free education for their offspring.

Of all the talk about felonies and fences, cutting gub bennies would basically solve the problem. Congress can/should/must pass a law prohibiting lefty state governments from letting tax dollars go to illegals. And then, as noted, the problem ends.

18 posted on 05/03/2006 4:04:00 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
Of all the talk about felonies and fences, cutting gub bennies would basically solve the problem.

Yes, but which benefits do you cut that illegals are being a drain on? The reason that they're a drain on health care - if they really are - is not because it's government run, it's because of the Hippocratic Oath the health professionals adhere to. And education is largely paid for by property taxes which are even passed on to those who rent; so immigrants do pay for some of it indirectly. However, the birth rates among immigrants tend to be higher than our current non-immigrant population, so they're probably, in most cases, taking in more education resources than the put into it. What are some of the other government monies that illegals have access to? I'm not quite sure where else they're being a drain on except in infrastructure costs such as law enforcement.

20 posted on 05/03/2006 4:18:45 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
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