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What if we threw out all the illegal immigrants?
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| July 2, 2008
| Shirley Skeel
Posted on 07/09/2008 4:05:30 AM PDT by RU88
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I have never in my life seen an article as one sided and biased as this. No mention whatsoever about any negative consequences to having 12-20? MILLION illegal aliens within our borders. Don't you people realize, it's all good and we'd only be cutting our own throats by getting rid of them (sarc).
What about the cost of anchor babies, welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, education, crime, and prisons? Who pays for this and who wouldn't have to pay any where near as much when they're gone?
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:05:30 AM PDT
by
RU88
To: RU88
What if we threw them all out? Lettuce and strawberries would rot in the fields. Dirty dishes would pile up in restaurants. Thousands of farmers and builders would go bust. Predator aircraft drones would prowl the Mexican border. And chunks of Los Angeles and Houston would look like ghost towns.
Another one for the trash pile.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:07:45 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
To: RU88
Besides, the work would be done because other people would do the work. Wages might go up, which might increase costs, but compared to the hit on our wallets from fuel, it would be relatively light.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:08:15 AM PDT
by
GAB-1955
(Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
To: RU88
Our country would be far worse off if immigrants were thrown out. Our economy would falter.
One example that would hit him quickly is that Mom would have nobody at home to watch the kids while she goes to work. Big problem there.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:09:05 AM PDT
by
cowtowney
To: cowtowney
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:10:18 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
To: RU88
It’s an Election year. Expect a similar article from the WSJ any day now.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:10:51 AM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the girly-man population. Have the McCainiacs spayed or neutered.)
To: RU88
I want them out and as the saying goes: I will “pay any price, bear any burden”.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:11:42 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Et si omnes ego non)
To: cowtowney
Very clinton-like of you to leave out the word “ILLEGAL”.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:13:57 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(More have died in Ted Kennedy's cars than have died at Club Gitmo.)
To: RU88
I’ve seen this article before, I believe it was last year when we were putting the pressure on to stop the amnesty crap. What a pile of excrement.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:14:03 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: cowtowney
You forgot the sarcasm tag on that.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:19:00 AM PDT
by
bill1952
(Obama-the only one who can make me vote McCain McCain-the only one who can make me stay at home)
To: RU88
How about throw all those off welfare who can work? HOw about quit the cradle to grave govt. handouts? How about ya get rid of those who came here illegally?
How about getting those who didn’t apply themselves in school so they could get a good job to do the picking or starve?
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:22:28 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: cowtowney
My point to this post is that you can't have an honest discussion about anything unless you're going to discuss the pros and cons of any issue. This article is nothing more than a pro illegal immigration hit piece. I was always under the impression that journalism was supposed to take an objective observation of an issue and let the reader make their own judgments. How can a reader do this when the author only gives you one side of the story?
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:22:41 AM PDT
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: RU88
"What if we threw them all out?"
Throw them out. And send their employers to prison. NOW.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:23:53 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: RU88
They would pay more for food, housing, entertainment and child care
That would eventually balance out when the states (taxpayers) no longer have to subsidize education, welfare, health, etc., for those millions of illegals.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:25:33 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: RU88
She doesnt say anything about California cities being ghosts towns over night.
To: RU88
What if we got rid of law breaking illegal immigrants and allow in large numbers of law abiding applicants to take their place? AND, how about we give more than lip service to “diversity” and allow them to come from a broad spectrum of nations and not just a small handful?
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:36:38 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
(illegal alien is to an undocumented worker as a drug dealer is to an unlicensed pharmacist)
To: DainBramage
I always thought Los Angeles was in California.
Have I been wrong all this time?
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:37:11 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(America's Commies Love Their Obami !!!!)
To: RU88
What if we made some of the deadbeats that collect welfare etc...work in these menial jobs? There would be a DOUBLE benefit.
By the way, both my dad and my bro washed dishes in their youth. By bro eventually went into electronics working on "boards" (1960). My father became the Maitre D at a major hotel in NY.
My 3 kids picked fruit at a local farm. Two became Vice Pres of companies. One is a computer geek with a major corporation.
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:37:45 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
To: highlander_UW
That... that’s.... That’s CRAZY talk!!!!
;^)
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:38:07 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(America's Commies Love Their Obami !!!!)
To: RU88
Jobs that Americans refuse to do: Mow their own lawns, clean their own toilets, watch over their own kids... etc, etc. etc.
Snotty, well-to-do American liberals will have to pay a bit more to keep their landscapes perfectly manicured.
What a catastrophe!
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posted on
07/09/2008 4:38:31 AM PDT
by
joeystoy
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