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To: LindyBill who wrote (119552)6/12/2005 12:52:35 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 793883
 
Victor Davis Hanson brings up several good points re Illegal Immigration and the hardship it is causing for all of us and our communities....

1)By the workers sending their money earned here back to Mexico......>>>>>Workers without high school diplomas who send back much of their wages often cannot pay for their heath care, education or housing here.
Entire towns in the American Southwest are deprived of critical revenues that could be invested in infrastructure to alleviate the need for state and federal intervention to ensure some parity with American citizens.<<<<<<<

3) What do we tell the millions of equally poor immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa who wait years to come here legally? It is not especially liberal to require an indigent Filipino or Ethiopian to learn English, find a sponsor, hire a lawyer and queue up for years, while others simply break the law and enter illegally.

More often it is an uncaring elite -- among both Democrats and Republicans -- that advocates not enforcing immigration laws. It is past time for them to explain why it is moral or liberal, rather than only convenient, to import millions outside the law to do jobs we supposedly cannot
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