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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (40304)	8/6/2007 3:42:22 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 543214

Soooo, the dems need to get smart and not get caught on this issue. Actually, I think the immigration issue is as complex as the Iraq issue. Maybe even more painful for Democrats than Iraq in some ways. They have the Hispanic vote for now, but can lose it if they truly clamp down on the illegals. But plenty of blacks and even a fair number of legal Hispanics (not really sure how many, very murky) as well as other working class don't want them here, as they help to lower the wages of working people in this country. The unions are also stuck, because they want to unionize these people, but they also have their current constituents to think of. Yes, plenty of people benefit from the lower costs that the lower wages allow, but plenty of people don't benefit from it either. I can tell everyone for sure that in Chicago there are plenty of schools that are severely overcrowded due in good part to illegals. I'm sure it is the same in other cities. Trying to do a cost-benefit analysis on them would be extremely tricky--they cost a lot, but they also save something, and of course at least some of them have taxes withheld. But if they were suddenly "raptured" out, other people would likely take their jobs, albeit at higher wages, but they would spend that money, they would also pay taxes, some sort of equilibrium would eventually be restored. Personally, I don't know how to sort it all out.