Pinging President Bush to this thread. Read and heed, please! Pinging President Bush to this thread. Read and heed, please!State ties steep costs to illegal immigration ^
Using their figures let's use a low approximation of $100 million for 50,000 illegal aliens. That works out to $2000 per each illegal immigrant or a BILLION DOLLARS per 1 MILLION ILLEGALS.
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We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.
Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.
For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.
George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.
Bush's "new America" precludes caring about what is in this thread.