What an assine statement. Increased demand for housing causes prices to rise.
Dane, VAA, my family witnessed the value of our six flats fall 60%, when the illegal aliens invaded our neighborhood. Crime of all kinds were perpetrated against the non-Mexican residents of the neighborhood to drive them out. All non-Mexicans were forced to cut their losses and move to the suburbs.
Individual neighborhoods and the entire country, as a whole, cannot absorb unlimited, uncontrolled illegal immigration, from anywhere. No nation on earth can.
Our borders need to be militarized and all immigration brought to a screeching halt until the INS has had sufficient time to remove everyone that doesn't have a legal right to be here.
The jobs being stolen by illegal aliens are not all low paying service industry jobs. We read, here, everyday about the illegal alien pilots, airport workers, military base workers, computer industry employees, restaurant owners, doctors, dentists and other professional and semi-professional laborers that are caught everyday.
The un-skilled or semi-skilled jobs stolen by other illegal aliens were once great jobs for high school and college students, that were willing to work their way through school. The wages paid, for these jobs, have been kept artificially low by illegal immigration. I worked many of these jobs, before I graduated.
Illegal immigration is not the victimless crime you two portray it to be. The average American Family loses $6,000 to $8,000 per year in lost income due to their wages being depressed by the availability of cheaper, illegal alien laborers. Add to that, the additional tax burden placed on us all to pay for the additional education, social and law enforcement services required by these illegals and you have crime being perpetrated against the American Family that's unprecedented in our Nation's history.
What gives with you two?