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To: combjelly who wrote (337865)	5/18/2007 8:48:21 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1576793

"the system has gotten a lot more efficient in moving people around." This hit home for me when I moved from central Texas, which had a big population of illegals, to Silicon Valley. Being from Texas, I was shocked by the rental prices for apartments, and rented the cheapest one I could find in Mountain View. Almost EVERY other tenant was an illegal from Mexico or central America, a thousand miles from the border. They lived about ten to a one bedroom apartment. I was the only single occupant in the building.

To: combjelly who wrote (337865)	5/18/2007 1:44:46 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576793

"Legal immigrants lived in slums during the turn of the century but most were paying taxes and not sending most of their income back to their country of origin." True. That is a big difference. The immigrants in those days were here for a new start. So that does skew the dynamics. There is also a negative aspect to this migration that can't be measured in dollars. Whether they end up staying or not, illegals believe they will be here for only a relatively short period of time. So they have no interest in the community in which they work or live. That lack of interest manifests itself in many ways that end up hurting the community. I can understand Z's viewpoint, I held it at one time. Heck, anyone with enough get up and go to travel hundreds or thousands of miles looking for work should be rewarded. But, there can be too much of a good thing. Used to be, you could see a smooth gradient in the wages of the trades like carpentry. The closer you got to Brownsville, the lower the wages. That isn't true any longer, the system has gotten a lot more efficient in moving people around. Funny. I use to feel the same way until I lived in the barrio in LA. Watching the neighborhood deteriorate under the pressure of overpopulation was not fun.