To: PROLIFE who wrote (524 ) 4/8/2006 5:58:44 PM From: paret Respond to of 3197 More propaganda from those who think they are smarter than the rest of us and should therefore be able to tell us how to think. The person who wrote this piece of work (Ms. Mendoza) dug up an old ”study” from July of last year. The “non-partisan Washington-based Center for American Progress research group" is actually a noted leftist think tank, as per this link: discoverthenetwork.org The study author, Rajeev Goyle, is actually an ACLU lawyer, whose other goal in life appears to be dismantling the Patriot Act. The sad thing is that this AP propaganda release is distributed to and printed in hundreds of local papers without any fact-checking. So much for a fair and unbiased media. _______________________________________________________________ Costs high to deport immigrants (blatant lie alert) Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Apr. 08, 2006 | Martha Mendoza Costs high to deport immigrants - Toughest steps would be ruinously pricy, some said. - A lawmaker called that idea a nonstarter. By Martha Mendoza - Associated Press As Congress debates immigration, some experts say the most extreme proposal - deporting millions of illegal immigrants - would be a huge legal and logistical morass, and ruinously expensive, too. -----cut----- The nonpartisan Washington-based Center for American Progress research group puts the cost at $215 billion over five years. -----cut----- "I think a lot of people are making emotional calls on this issue without thinking through the cost to taxpayers," said study author Rajeev Goyle, a lecturer at Wichita State University. "It would be an unbearable cost that would bankrupt the Treasury. It would cost more annually than the entire budget of the Department of Homeland Security, twice that of the annual cost of the war in Iraq." -----cut----- Peter Schey, president and executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation, said it would be "absolutely absurd, impossible" to protect the legal rights of millions of people facing deportation. -----cut----- (Excerpt) Read more at duluthsuperior.com ...