Posted on 03/30/2006 6:43:14 AM PST by rellimpank
Given that Democratic Leader Harry Reid has threatened to filibuster any immigration bill that does not include amnesty for illegal aliens, someone should ask him a basic question: What happens to state budgets when twelve million illegal aliens become eligible for Medicaid and food stamps?
Right now, illegal aliens are largely ineligible for a whole panoply of federal programs simply because of their immigration status.
As the Pew Hispanic Center reported last year: "[A]bout a quarter of all drywall and ceiling tile installers in the United States are unauthorized migrants, as are about a quarter of all meat and poultry workers and a quarter of all dishwashers." Whatever the nobility of honest labor, hanging drywall and washing dishes has not exactly been the road to riches.
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True, but the immigration issue is proving the accusation that the Republican party is in the back pocket of business.
Their promise to give America Bibles and guns won't get us far because they require the Koran to get equal support, and actually gave the BATF more teeth than ever.
We should never forget the gun confiscations after Katrina under a Republican president.
I agree the Democrats would be worse, and have been - clearly. But the RNC ran these people on the promise that they would be much better, if not exemplary.
Don't forget the failure to roll east and west after Iraq fell. They had support for it then. We all knew it had to be done. It will eventually be done, but at a much higher price -- later, by someone with more courage of his convictions.
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