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Immigrant Money Transfers Expected To Reach $150 Billion This Year
Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 12/26/2004 | Rhina Guidos

Posted on 12/26/2004 4:24:56 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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To: TheDon

Illegal immigrants in California alone cost taxpayers nearly 9 billion every year in education, medical care and incarceration expenses.


21 posted on 12/26/2004 6:23:16 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

My office building is currently being rennovated and most of the workers appear to be recently arrived Mexicans. In the past, this work would have been done by unionized contractors. I often wonder why the unions don't make a bigger stink about this. The "too few workers" hypothesis would explain it, but methinks there is something more sinister going on. Specifically, I wonder if the unions have been told to pipe down about this by the Democratic masters.


22 posted on 12/26/2004 6:41:31 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Yep, and the voters have spoken on that issue. They don't want to pay that money! But they still want to have the Mexicans working for them, illegal or not.


23 posted on 12/26/2004 6:55:33 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
I'd rather have an American do the job of building my roads and buildings, not an illegal.

"I'd rather have union labor repair my highways" = "I'd rather pay higher taxes".

24 posted on 12/26/2004 6:55:37 PM PST by SedVictaCatoni (<><)
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To: SedVictaCatoni
"I'd rather have union labor repair my highways" = "I'd rather pay higher taxes".

Wrong. The cost to taxpayers for illegals AND their families is way more than the cost of an American worker. And American workers spend their money HERE.

25 posted on 12/26/2004 7:17:56 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I hope the Mormon "church" is making sure all contracters are legal to work in this country. As a non-profit you have a huge burden to make sure you are hiring legal workers.
26 posted on 12/26/2004 7:20:28 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: rbg81
I often wonder about this too. I have no problem with legal immigrants wanting to come and make a better live for themselves and their families. Quite frankly many industries take advantage of these workers, seriously would anyone else work for $7.00 an hour as hard as they work?? Why aren't the unions all over these immigrants to forge a new Latino union?? Something has to be up with the union bosses.
27 posted on 12/26/2004 7:25:50 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: ccmay
The bigger problem by far is in health care, where illegal aliens are an intolerable burden on the public purse.

They are the reason why hundreds of emergency rooms and hospitals have closed. They are the reason your insurance premiums are so high. They are the reason your drugs cost $50 rather than $10.

It's not that the ones who work here are so sick, although that is a contributing factor. If there is someone back home who is very sick they frequently arrange a 'vacation' for that person to visit a relative in the US. That person shows up at the hospital and is not turned away. You and I are all paying for it. Multiple organ transplants, dialysis, you name it. We're all paying for it.

28 posted on 12/26/2004 7:34:28 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

"Immigrant Money Transfers Expected To Reach $150 Billion This Year"


That's $150,000,000,000 that used to circulate in the US economy via American worker's pockets. It created jobs for Americans and didn't cost the taxpayer one red cent.


29 posted on 12/26/2004 7:42:40 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING
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30 posted on 12/26/2004 7:43:48 PM PST by gubamyster
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"They are the reason why hundreds of emergency rooms and hospitals have closed. They are the reason your insurance premiums are so high. They are the reason your drugs cost $50 rather than $10."

They are the reason we have to build 12 new schools in Las Vegas. They are the reason my property taxes rose by $1000 in one year. They are the reason my monthly expenses have risen $240 per month in hidden taxes and subsidies thanks to an $833,000,000 tax increase levied on the AMERICAN CITIZENS of Nevada.


31 posted on 12/26/2004 7:48:15 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING
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To: Nick Danger
Sounds to me like they're passionate. Exactly the kind of people I'd like to hire.
32 posted on 12/26/2004 9:35:06 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Nick Danger
Here are guys who will walk 1200 miles to get to a place where they can make some money, and when they do they send it home

Hey Nick, weren't you the one that suggested we need 60 *million* more illegal aliens to keep our economy going?

33 posted on 12/26/2004 11:38:34 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: ETERNAL WARMING
They are the reason we have to build 12 new schools in Las Vegas. They are the reason my property taxes rose by $1000 in one year. They are the reason my monthly expenses have risen $240 per month in hidden taxes and subsidies thanks to an $833,000,000 tax increase levied on the AMERICAN CITIZENS of Nevada.

It's going the same way everywhere, not just Nevada but Cal, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, Idaho, North and south Carolina, North Dakota, NY, Texas, Florida etc etc.

34 posted on 12/26/2004 11:44:37 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Joe Hadenuf

No, I'm the guy who said we need 60 million more people to avoid a crushing workers-per-retiree ratio. We can't have every 2 people supporting a retiree. But that's where we're headed unless we get some more people in here.


35 posted on 12/26/2004 11:59:47 PM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: Nick Danger
Here are guys who will walk 1200 miles to get to a place where they can make some money, and when they do they send it home to their mothers, wives, and children.

God forbid anybody like that should enter our country.

God forbid anymore of them entering our country:

ALIPAC Exclusive: More illegal aliens charged with kidnapping & gang rape

More gang members showing up in border seizures

36 posted on 12/27/2004 12:06:41 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster

Yeah, we don't have any criminals in our population, and they have nothing but criminals in theirs. Everybody knows that, right?


37 posted on 12/27/2004 12:14:50 AM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: Nick Danger

Su visión y futuro para América es dispicable. La clase inferior que es presente pudo hacer le la sensación mejor, hace una cierta investigación como parada el coolaid.


38 posted on 12/27/2004 7:58:16 AM PST by Afronaut (Press two for English.)
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To: Afronaut

No comprende.


39 posted on 12/27/2004 4:48:47 PM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: Nick Danger
Big BUMP.
40 posted on 12/29/2004 10:14:41 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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