[ClintonBeGone]

You know, I would rather see the US implement a policy whereby they expel their dregs and welcome with open arms those from other countries that are willing to put in an honest day's work. Sometimes it seems to me that folks like Jack would rather have in his country a crack smoking welfare queen than a hard working Mexican bus boy. It makes no sense to me.

[Dane]

Sometimes it seems to me that folks like Jack would rather have in his country a crack smoking welfare queen than a hard working Mexican bus boy. It makes no sense to me

You are correct about that, CBG. People like jack are always talking about the welfare fraud committed by illegal immigrants, but are silent about native born Americans committing the same fraud.

Ronald Reagan, IMO, is rolling in his grave by those who are taking his name in the cause of hispanic animus. Ronald Reagan was against the welfare queen/king, no matter her/his color or creed.

[jackbenimble]

I would be happy to end welfare and put poor people who are sponging off it to work. As things are now, and as they will be, it is impossible to deport lazy Americans no matter how much you or I might want too.

Once a poor person is a citizen we are stuck with them. I want them to stop being a burden on me and other taxpayers so I think it is in my enlightened self-interest to help them stop being poor. I want them to earn a good wage and that is not going to happen as long as we keep flooding the labor market with an infinite supply of additional poor people willing to work for low poverty wages. And all those poor immigrants bus boys end up sponging off the public largess in one way or another, whether it is free health care, food stamps for their anchor babies or the earned income tax credit.

Poverty is already a big problem in America. I see no reason to import more of it. It makes no sense to me.

[judgeandjury]

You know, I would rather see the US implement a policy whereby they expel their dregs and welcome with open arms those from other countries that are willing to put in an honest day's work. Sometimes it seems to me that folks like Jack would rather have in his country a crack smoking welfare queen than a hard working Mexican bus boy. It makes no sense to me.

Just as there are a fair share of Americans who are lazy, or are drug users, or are welfare recipients, or are criminals, the same can be said of people from Latino majority countries.