Posted on 06/21/2002 9:24:18 AM PDT by One_American
I keep saying this as often as I can, but nobody will listen to/believe me. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates the number to be $55,200, but even $50K is bad enough.
Despite all the false rhetoric of lower wages, and doing jobs that nobody else will do, every illegal costs us $50K more than they will contribute every time they step across the border.
I am tired of paying for it!
Nah, they'll repair to spacious mansions behind locked gates & live out their lives in the splendor that their crazy immigration policies have made possible. Meanwhile while the rest of us, and our children, will be forced to live in the sewer they leave behind.
We have made it easier for them to do it?? We? Who's we? Oh the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS MADE IT EASIER FOR THEM!
The people of the great state of California held a free election and voted 3 to 1 in favor of proposition 187 which would have put a stop to tax paid support of illegal aliens. We won the election!! And then federal government stepped in and burned our ballots and declared our election unconstitutional.
Wake up people. Let this serve as a warning to all.
Our borders and immigration policies have become a national disgrace, and now a complete national security nightmare.
I doubt Putnam actually knows any illegal Mexicans. No, they do not romanticize Mexico, they know very well what they left behind. They know very well the legal abuses that working class or poverty-class Mexicans are subjected to back home.
The hostile rhetoric you hear directed toward the United States does not come from field workers. It comes from leftist Mexican academics, leftist American academics, and people of their ilk. Leftists are leftists. They live to create enmity where there isn't any.
All you have to do to stop it, is prosecute the companies and large farms that employ them. The way it works now, is that only the labor contractor is fined. He goes bankrupt, and re-opens the next day under another name. The farmer, who is the real employer of the illegals, is immune from prosecution.
Of course, the big farmers were Pete Wilson's biggest supporters, so he was never going to prosecute them.
But, if you're serious, thats what it will take. That, and some National Guardsmen patrolling the rural areas along the border, to keep people from dying in the desert. But people will not cross if there are no jobs waiting for them.
And don't tell me that Americans will not do the work that illegals do. They will do it; just not at the price and conditions offered. But farm labor costs are only a tiny percentage of the cost of produce at the supermarket. You could double the wages offered, and the price of produce would only go up by a few cents.
Farmers like illegals because, if injured, they can't sue. If you have a dispute about wages, they can't go get a lawyer. That is why nothing will be done to stop it.
And, in the present climate, where both parties are jockeying for hispanic support, they will both pander to this issue. The ironic thing is, that hispanics supported Prop 187, too; 60% to 40%, roughly the same percentage as Anglos. Oh, did the news media forget to mention that?
Putnam is definitely not describing Illinois, where there are many immigrants, Mexican and otherwise. Two-thirds of new HOMEONWERS in my suburb have Hispanic surnames. If they have such bad values, why did 100% vote for Bush in my area? Why did they vote for conservative O'Malley in the primary in my area?
The problem is not with the Mexican immigrants, it is with the welfare programs pushed by the white liberals.
Thank you. I am all for sealing the border, and I am all for tightening up immigration. The rate of immigration could be cut to near zero, and that would be fine with me.
But, as I have said elsewhere, I would gladly trade a million Democrats for the next million Mexicans to wade the river, chosen at random. Their values are much more in line with our own. I say that, even knowing full well that most of them will eventually vote Democrat.
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