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To: Ramius
Consider the present cost: The Congress has quietly approved the most open-door policy in history, allowing up to l0,000 immigrants per day.
The number of illegal immigrants now in the United States is 8.7 million, and the INS is unable to deport them. U.S. services and benefits given to legal and illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers $68 billion per year - and that number is growing. Then basically the entire population would be mobilized..
Bilingual education doubles the cost of schooling aliens. In the Southwest, a new school per day would have to be built to keep up.
English as our language is under assault - with driver's licenses, voting ballots and citizenship ceremonies offered in dozens of languages.
American history and achievements are being replaced in schoolbooks with political correctness, self-criticism and America as "oppressor."
400,000 foreigners now collect Social Security benefits without ever working a single day in America. Immigrants get Medicaid twice as often as native citizens.
Immigration costs U.S.-born workers $133 billion per year in job losses.
On Sept. 11, legal and illegal Muslim immigrant terrorists killed 3,000 innocent Americans and destroyed tens of billions of dollars in property.
Over 25 percent of federal prisoners are immigrants. Illegals commit 12 percent of felonies, 25 percent of burglaries and 34 percent of car thefts.
Non-citizens collect $7 billion per year in welfare, including medical assistance, food stamps and housing - courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, whose representatives in the Congress allow this to happen.
Two-thirds of U.S. population growth is due to our immigration policy. American cities, parks, roads, schools, beaches, hospitals and water supplies are straining under increasing pressure for more and more freebies.

A bounty of even $100 paid to report illegals that would "result in the deportation" which would amount to a billion dollars which would be a bargain compared to what we are now paying in tax dollars and maybe American firms would have to begin to offer reasonable wages so Americans would be employed in those jobs that "Americans won't take"..

24 posted on 01/07/2004 7:08:22 PM PST by Zipporah (Write inTancredo in 2004 Primary)
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To: All
Why doesn't EVERYONE just step back and take a breath.
Why does it make sense to just "write off" our president after only a few hours of this "suggestion", which is all it is.
In the days to come, there will be much intelligent and not-so-intelligent discussions of this issue, I'm sure we will all learn a lot.
We should be open to listen and learn before making a decision in 3 or 4 hours after.
Even the politicians most likely discuss and learn about an issue before making decisions, we can be at least as good as they or even more intelligent in our decisions.
There are so many things that will adapt or change this embryo.
29 posted on 01/07/2004 7:21:14 PM PST by oreolady (Wanted: new tag line)
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To: Zipporah
I wish you were right. Really, I do.

I only wish we had the workforce here in the U.S. lining up for those jobs picking lettuce, at any wage. That would solve any unemployment problem now and forever.

But it seems that people just don't wanna pay five bucks a head for lettuce or whatever it would cost once the unions got their fingers in it. Is... a puzzlement.
35 posted on 01/07/2004 7:33:20 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Zipporah
"Over 25 percent of federal prisoners are immigrants. Illegals commit 12 percent of felonies, 25 percent of burglaries and 34 percent of car thefts."

Where did you get that data?

As Spock would say, 'fascinating'.
61 posted on 01/07/2004 8:22:12 PM PST by WOSG
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To: Zipporah
A FReeper's Guide To Immigration Reform

"What remains to be seen is if this country has the capacity to accommodate, and assimilate, an unending wave of mass immigration ¯ because failure to do so will result in a balkanized, fragmented, strife-torn and dysfunctional America."

Federation for American Immigration Reform - FAIR

~ Take the FReeper Immigration Reform Poll ~

138 posted on 01/15/2004 10:39:49 PM PST by Happy2BMe (Liberty does not tolerate lawlessness and a borderless nation will not prevail.)
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