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To: LindyBill who wrote (130034)	8/5/2005 4:10:44 PM
From: arno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

The fact that little or no effort is being made to stop illegal employment once people (especially in california) catch on to what is going on...maybe this will change...or....not ------------------------------------------- Consider the story of one illustrative family to show how reality is the sum of the seen and the unseen. The Silverios from Stockton, California, are illegal aliens seen as hard-laboring fruit-pickers with family values. Cristobal Silverio came illegally from Oxtotilan, Mexico, in 1997 and brought his wife Felipa, plus three children aged 19, 12, and 8. Felipa, mother of the bride Lourdes (age 19), gave birth to a new daughter, her anchor baby, named Flor. Flor was premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator, and cost San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, Lourdes plus her illegal alien husband produced their own anchor baby, Esmeralda. Grandma Felipa created a second anchor baby,Cristian. Anchor babies are valuable. A disabled anchor baby is more valuable than a healthy one. The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding. Flor gets $600 per month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. Cristobal and Felipa last year earned $18,000 picking fruit. Flor and Cristian were paid $12,000 for being anchor babies. This illegal alien family?s annual income tops $30,000. Message 21573768

To: LindyBill who wrote (130034)	8/5/2005 11:43:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

DC is not serious about the problem. DC is not serious about the problem for a couple of reasons. First, we benefit enormously from immigrant labor. Second, the cost of throwing these people out would be horrendous, and what do we get in return? I quoted earlier that throwing out illegal aliens would exceed total budget of Homeland Security every year, $41 billion. That's just direct costs. What about indirect costs? I think this is one of those issues like gay marriage that punches the hot buttons but the bottom line is zilch. So what if 80% of the public wants to ban gay marriage? How many gays wanted to get married to begin with? Lots of sound and fury but in the end, there's no there there.