My experiences dealing with the illegal immigrant are virtally all positive...unlike the unfortunate folks in So. California or the border towns/states.
As a small business I can appreciate how 'cause-effect' affects local economies.
Yes, the municipalities that absorb the majority of illegal immigrants become blue-collar...at least that's what happened in Montgomery County, Maryland. But, I am not aware of the disasterous consequences happening here.
Therefore, my position is that if it works in the Peoples Republic of Maryland, it could work everywhere else.
As a self-employed person who doesn't have any safety net like unemployment compensation...medical insurance benefitsm etc., I tip my hat to the man or woman who takes the risks to enter our country to better their life.
Everytime I go to Cancun, Mexico, I wish I could stay. There are a dozen or so Freepers that wished I would too. ;^)
You're right....we should have learned our lesson on the errors of the 1986 amnesty law.
Seems the RATS have us by the shorthairs on this..because the MSM is quick to point out how 'radical' conservatives feel about the illegal...soon to be DEM voters. ;^(
Funny I live in Montgomery Co. as well. I'm guessing you haven't been anywhere near a hospital emergency room in the last ten years to see the huge changes as 'sanctuary illegal aliens' are clogging the hospitals using them cost free.
How about the increase in hit and run by undocumented uninsured 'sanctuary illegal aliens'?
Probably aren't any where near the government financed 'day laborer' pick-up buildings either. Funny I don't see any county, state or federal tax collectors there to ascertain that the appropriate with-holding taxes and FICA are paid into the system.
And I have been told by County mounties that they've been instructed not to look too closely at documents presented by hispanic looking people less they open a can of worms. No sir, we don't want to go there.