[FITZ]

It's not possible for the few taxpaying border residents to pay the costs involved. Besides the high costs of prisons, there are the costs of providing free health care and free education.

There's no benefit to the economy because there isn't that much lettuce or apples to pick in the desert. Not too many of the illegals are coming to work in this region, some are ---but the majority come for the hand-outs.

[norton]

The basic equation here is simple: where the federal government requires that illegals be treated as a special interest group - the federal government should carry the costs.
Not that it works in any other matters concerning special inerest groups.
But,
What would DC do if the border states simply started to round up illegals on their own and kick their butts back into Mexico...?
What would they do if the States called up the Guard and started rounding them up and dumping them over the border into the next most northern states...?
[I'm sure that the cross-national chicano movement could come up with some claim on Nebraska or Minnesota if they tried.]

[FryingPan101]

"Full story in tomorrow's El Paso Times"

Yea! Can't wait! LOL I can't wait to get up every day to find out how El Paso is going to continue taking our money.

[janetgreen]

Pssstt, Rep. Reyes, federal money is also provided by taxpayers, you need to know that.