Hey! I’m completely on your side. I think that GW is destroying the Republican Party with this issue. The point I was trying to make to the person who I was responding to was that if you take his example of 30Million illegals (which is already a disaster) and figure just one child per parent (much lower than the reality of the situation) and multiply those 30M kids times the $100,000 per student average to fund public school K-12, you’re way, way over his amount “contributed” to the treasury.
Illegals are a huge net loss to the economy, and will drive down the pay scale for the lower middle class to the point where they will eventually make it all but impossible for an American worker with less than a college degree to live above the poverty level.
Even if there was no net cost to the taxpayers for illegal immigration (assuming for the sake of the argument), the massive corruption involved at the Fed/State/Local levels required to tolerate it is a cancer which I believe can end this country.
When elected officials can pick and choose which laws to enforce, and make public declarations that they will completely ignore certain laws, then why as a citizen can’t I do likewise?
That’s the natural progression of things. That’s where we are headed. When enough people realize that they are foolish to comply with laws because enforcement is subjective, then the American Goose is cooked. This is the real danger with Illegal Immigration, IMHO.
I agree with all that you say. We have schools closing because they can't afford to stay open. It just gets so frustrating.