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In 1910, the U.S. population was 15% foreign-born. In 1990, the foreign-born percentage of the population was 8%.

I think you got your freedom and everyone else can go screw themselves. Sorry Dagnabbit, that is not what America is about. America is the land of the Free. America is not about a huge 15 foot reinforced fence around our borders... that is what Berlin was about. Those communists sure knew a thing about immigration and closing the borders.

I see nothing wrong with opening the borders completely as long as the freebies some AMERICANS take for granted are eliminated.

I'm very sad to say it but, most people sucking at the teat of government are AMERICANS who get SS, unemployment, welfare, Medicare/Medicaid, grants, government home and business loans at ridiculous rates, etcetera etcetera ad nuseum. I don’t want to argue the relative advantages or disadvantages of these programs. I’m just making a point. Illegals get very little of this. Your arguments about illegals are not new to me. I just find them wrong. One mexican hating Freeper shockingly told me Illegals cost Medicare $2 billion. I am shocked that Americans will pay $159 billion to the federal government and $71 billion dollars to the States this year for Medicaid alone. I’m really less worried about the $2 billion and more worried about the other $278 billion. Add in SS, unemployment, government grants, childcare tax credits, farm subsidies, etcetera…we are all getting a slice of everybody else’s tax dollars. Americans are a huge drain on our economy, and as history shows, illegals make for a great scapegoat in hard economic times. We have a $2.2 trillion federal budget, and a $10 trillion economy. $2 billion looks like a booger in comparison.

I know you believe that Dubya, Jorge, and myself are somehow making a buck off the illegal immigrants, but in fact, we just have hearts and souls. I will admit the Dubya may be thinking about the political consequences of gunning down Mexican families as they cross the border. I know if the TV stations air footage of that you will vote for Dubya but most humans will not.

Those impoverished Mexicans do the jobs Americans refuse to do like clean cars and toilets, all while smiling and happy for the chance to live in a country where their wife won't be raped and killed by a crooked cop. Pedro can’t speak English he isn’t asking for a government bailout of Chrysler. They aren’t taking my job and I don’t employ illegals. If you are a disaffected janitor you have my sympathies.

There were no INS agents at Plymouth Rock.