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It's not just illegals. I think they are getting far too much of the blame ---I'd take a hard-working illegal any day over the worthless welfare and SSI bums coming over legally from Mexico. Family reunification is allowing types to come over who have no intention of ever working in this country ---how many elderly parents and grandparents are being brought in by sponsors who have no intention of every providing a dime of their own money to support their immigrant? And those welfare anchor babies which entitle their illegal parents to stay on forever and never work. Welfare rates in many Texas counties along the border are over 50% and much of it is technically by legal immigrants. The formerly amnestied are legal now and qualify for all the welfare programs. Illegals are only a portion of the problem.

"Illegals are only a portion of the problem..."

Illegals ARE the problem:
Them and the US government policies toward them;
...Amnesty for ILLEGALS creates a new set of anchors every few years,
...A constantly growing ILLEGAL populace drags down legal hispanic society AND creates a situation wherein the legal hispanics are afraid or unwilling to speak out against (or rat out on)the ILLEGALS who exist within their community,
...The state and federal governments' fear of antagonizing ANY hispanic leads them to ignore the rights of all others
...ILLEGAL aliens have no reason to even consider assimilation because they have been promised more from remaining isolate. Legal hispanics on the other hand should assimilate over at least a couple of generations.