You know, Mexico is not working with us one little bit. Why should we work with them??? We should just empty our prisons into Mexico.
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How do illegal aliens qualify for welfare?
I live about two hours from the border on the direct route to larger cities. Truckloads of illegals are chased down frequently by the police and when stopped they jump out and run into the fields and brush.
Our city has more robberies because of Mexican gangs, our schools suffer the consequences of having many dropouts and our emergency rooms are full of possible illegals who go there for the slightest reason.
These external costs represent a massive transfer of wealth from consumers to corporations, via the federal and state governments. Only after all costs (information) are properly stated can folks make rational decisions (via pricing). I for one would rather pay an extra $0.10 per nectarine at the grocery store than suffer the cost of treating lifetime health care costs and other costs (enter your favorite third world disease). We are in a mess, because BOTH parties, Democrat AND Republican, have sole us out for profits. I hate to sound like a drooling lefties, but there it is.
Termites are slowly and steadily destroying this house, America.
As Investors Business Daily reported in March 2005:
"The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California. Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state budgets and creates a nightmare for local police forces."
They're counting all the Hispanics serving jail time in 2003 as illegal aliens. here Plus, Hispanics are only 38% of California's prision population, even if we assume that all of them are illegal aliens, there is no way they can make up half of California's prison population.