give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...
exploit them, punish them, and force them out of the country with flaming pitchforks.
i grew up on the border of texas and mexico and have been privy to the illegal immigration issue for as long as i have been cognizant of what my parents spoke of at the dinner table. that the issue has become more national and that white people's reactions are getting so much scarier shouldn't surprise me. but it does.
apparently the texass state government put in several scary bills as an attempt to so kindly cock their gun barrels and ask illegal immigrants to "git off their prop'rtee".
what's REALLY scary is that farmers branch, tx, which is a dallas suburb (78% identified white, 37% identified hispanic) has declared english the town's official language and is making it difficult for illegal immigrants to live in apartments. now as i mentioned, is this shocking? shouldn't be given the increasing hostility of middle class white people towards hispanics (maybe it's in stasis, my mom just bitches about it more and more these days). the housing ordinance is particularly cruel in that landlords are supposed to crack down on illegal immigrants renting apartments and fine those they find out are not card carrying members of the u-s-ofa by fining them $500 a day for each tennent. right. i could barely afford 500% a month when i was renting an apartment in texas and i come from middle class white mommy and daddy money whenever i need it. don't just kick the people who do your shit jobs for you out...but kick 'em while they're down too. what totally cheeses me off though is that the people of good ol' farmers branch are claiming that this is a measure they are taking as defense against terrorism. huh? you mean you are afraid someone is going to mow your lawn for dirt cheap prices? i hardly think that the terr'ists they are claiming to worry about would ever even think about setting foot into bumfuck, tx. sorry kids. that's a part of the world that doesn't need screwing up. ya'll are doin it yerselves.
also in the news, there is a movement to change gene names because people take themselves too seriously. or maybe i am just insensitive? i think i would be comforted if i had some genetic disorder tied to a gene that has the name of a video game character.
posted by Wild Eyed Rose @ 11:48 AM
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Dear Wild Eyed Rose,
You apparently don’t get it, you are preaching 1 side of the story and apparently are not capable of reasoning or weighing out the pros and cons.
Calling an illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing - Albert Einstein
If the federal government wont do their job then let the local level do it for them as it is draining our economy and social services.
First of all they are illegal, they entered the country illegally and many of them stole identities to work in this country once they got here. Stolen identities is a huge problem and the victims spend hundreds of hours trying to clear their names and often are negatively affected with their credit for several years which is an additional cost to them in the form of higher interest when they seek loans.
Below are some additional interesting fact points that you apparently don’t know or failed to post.
Posted in numerous news paper articles - Illegal Aliens receiving better health care than American Citizens, A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.
WASHINGTON – The worst forms of a drug-resistant killer tuberculosis bug, rapidly spreading throughout the world, have been gaining ground in the United States along with record legal and illegal immigration levels, alarming public-health officials over a disease once thought vanquished.
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com- Hispanic Baby Boom Follows New Orleans Hurricane
December 12, 2006
Eduardo Porter -- The New York Times Media Group
The New Orleans hosiptals are financialy struggling due to high illegal birth rate.
First came the storm. Then came the workers. Now comes the baby boom. In the latest twist to the demographic transformation of New Orleans since it was swamped by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, hundreds of babies are being born to Hispanic immigrant workers, both legal and illegal, who flocked to the city to work on the reconstruction.
For those that argue they pay their taxes:
Center for Immigration Studies
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
The High Cost of Cheap Labor
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
Executive Summary
Among the findings:
Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.
Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services.
On average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households.
Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them.
If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion.
Costs increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments.
Although legalization would increase average tax payments by 77 percent, average costs would rise by 118 percent.
The fact that legal immigrants with few years of schooling are a large fiscal drain does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a net drain -- many legal immigrants are highly skilled.
The vast majority of illegals hold jobs. Thus the fiscal deficit they create for the federal government is not the result of an unwillingness to work.
The results of this study are consistent with a 1997 study by the National Research Council, which also found that immigrants' education level is a key determinant of their fiscal impact.
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