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Why are you advocating illegal immigration?

Why are you advocating that the government confiscate money earned working construction depending on an accident of where your parents were when you were born? This thread started with a complaint about a $126B (~1% of an $11 trillion economy) being sent back to family which has nothing to do with "illegal immigration." Some of the other posters inferred that all this money (and all immigrants) are criminals.

Starting myself, my parents, my aunt and uncle and an endless list -- we are all legal immigrants (and now U.S. citizens). I've lived in the U.S. since age 5 (arriving in 1963 -- you do the math). My father, uncle and I are well respected engineers in our fields who have max'd out the FICA withholding for years and years.

I deeply resent the anti-immigrant tone of many of the posts here that are fed by ignorant MSM coverage of only the worst aspects of American society.