[SwinneySwitch]

Why would undocumented workers be committing crimes?/sarcasm

[Dante3]

Our tax money will be spent for health care for illegal aliens? That's outrageous. The solution is easy -- protect our boders and ship back all these criminals.

Next thing we know, we have to pay for their "sex or species change" operations and plastic sugery for that Michael Jackson look.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Missouri]

Illegal immigration ping.

[Missouri]

Why would undocumented workers be committing crimes?/sarcasm

I'll give you the standard answer. They're just committing crimes Americans won't do.

[janetgreen]

Whether the states pay for it, or the fed gov pays for it, IT'S STILL OUR MONEY! We shouldn't have to pay for it at all. Mr. Big Hat and Big Boots Vicente Fox should be paying the bills, not us. The pandering continues....

[azcap]

If the federal governemnt wants help border states with immigration wouldn't it be better to treat the disease than the symptons.

This might help -

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"In California alone, the estimated cost to incarcerate undocumented immigrants is more than $1.6 billion a year, a congressional aide said."

Plus the cost of education, welfare, hospitals, emergency rooms, homeless shelters, policing, public transportation, etc. Not to mention fraudulent voting & traffic accidents without car insurance. The cost of bilingual signs, books, voter guides, DMV driving manuals, etc. must be enormous.
The loss of quality of life is serious also; overcrowded public parks, streets, freeways, classrooms, emergency rooms, etc.
The entry-level jobs they take are needed by many unskilled, unemployed Americans. And, because illegals will work for less, Americans competing for the same jobs must also work for less.
Besides all of this, most illegals don't really like America or Americans. Nor do they understand or appreciate what America is or stands for. They simply see America as a place to make more money than they can at home.

[Amerigomag]

While the cost of enforcing our immigration laws is high there is a simple matter that is almost without any upfront cost....return the 14th Amendment to it's original intent.

Before the liberal judicial altered the 14th Amendment it's provisions did not apply to the children of illegal aliens. Without anchor babies the illegal alien would remain just that, an illegal alien who is subject to deportation upon detection.

[John Jorsett]

I'd rather spend the money on keeping them out in the first place. This reimbursement approach is just like gaving the patient pain medication instead of treatment for the underlying disease.

[Joe Hadenuf]

What are they doing filling up our jails? I thought they were all hard working family types?