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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (36910)	8/4/2005 2:31:51 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Illegal immigrants and their rights in this country are a tough subject to understand in many different ways. The Wash Post has been running numerous articles on the subject in the past week. The system is really a mess. As one fellow said: "The fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people who aren't really illegal aliens--but they're not really legal aliens either--is ridiculous." There isn't one type of illegal immigrant--there are many. Some are "quasi-legal"--they've applied for permanent residency and work permits, or they're sponsored by relatives or businesses for permanent residency, or they have temporary protected status and temporary work permits. The only pure "illegal" by definition is the person who has not applied for permanent U.S. residency and does not have a work permit. The bottom line from the government's housing standpoint, I guess, is that our public school systems have to enroll and educate the children of immigrants, regardless of illegal status. If the kid is living in the school's district, the kid gets to go to school, end of story. Therefore, decent housing for the sake of the kids would seem to be a necessity regardless of illegal status. So perhaps the theory is that we might as well encourage immigrants who have jobs and can meet minimum lending requirements to buy their own homes, instead of supporting them with public housing.