[sarcasm]

Pre-amnesty rush?

[lindaloo]

The people found in the truck in Dallas, for example, had each paid $1,500 to $2,000, a huge sum for someone who might be lucky to find a $6-an-hour job in this country.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. These people get into this country, have babies who are US citizens at birth and then milk the system. They get medicaid, food stamps, welfare assistance, free education and job training. They prosper on a system designed to help legal residents and United States citizens. It is time our government woke up and realized that these "people" do not add to our economy...they suck it dry.

[glc1173@aol.com]

Don't see it here in central North Carolina. The pre-9/11 steady four big intercity buses daily of them on I-85 through my county is still down to near-zero.

Every sign here in Alamance County is that the illegal alien population is steady - or even slightly down. Why come when the industries they gravitate to - textiles, furnituremaking, construction - are in a deep slump due to the current minidepression? Lots of textile mills and furniture factories around here have shut down in past year.

IMMIGRATION resource library: public-health facts, court decisions, local INS numbers!

[Tacis]

Presidente Fox's drug business has become so profitable that there are not enough Mexicans to haul inventory across the border. Fox has had to recruit non-Spanish speaking Arabs, most Afghans, Yemenis, Saudis, and Palestinians who were vacationing in Cuba, to haul material north. Fox likes them much better because they'll work for almost nothing and don't clog up the wetback support system in the US but just seem to disappear into the crowd.

[sneakypete]

As a result, the journey has become harder as immigration routes have moved from city crossings to the desert. They "put more risk on the immigrants trying to cross the border," Mr. Garcia said.

Mr.Garcia should be dragged out of his office and severely beaten! Not only does this bozo blame the US Border Patrol for the illegal aliens,he tells the lie that they are immigrants! If he wants to blame this problem on the guilty parties,let him blame the elites who run his "mother country" like there were some kind of feudal barons.

THIS is the root of the problem with the illegal alien Mexicans. They ain't coming here because they love the idea of Americans or our freedoms. They ain't even coming here because they don't like the socialism in their home country. They are coming here purely for economic reasons,and they remain Mexicans at heart.

[RippleFire]

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