[ArneFufkin]

You haven't seen the county hospitals and housing projects or the welfare offices in the SW if you really believe they are all here to work hard.

Well FITZ, that's YOUR political problem that YOUR State and local politicians provide these services to non-citizens against YOUR will. What are you doing about it? How are you working within the system to change these entitlements? How are you making an impact, how are you addressing this affront to fairness?

You don't have to live in Arizona, California or Texas. If the politicians there don't respect or value your needs, your efforts .... your money ... you shouldn't choose to live there.

[koba]

Right now the problem is mainly confined to the Southwest. What about 20 years from now? Where will the situation spread to? As far as illegal immigration goes, you can run, but you can't hide.

[FITZ]

What Fox is demanding and Bush seems to be obeying is that a Mexican leader can send us ANY amount of his citizens he does not want in his own country. Mexico needs to get to work and end the terrible corruption, change it's economic system and political system ----- or do you believe the only solution to every Mexican's situation is to move to the US?

[FITZ]

The local taxpayers are crushed here ---now we are getting massive amounts of federal money to attempt to salvage the economic mess here along the border that's been created. We have county hospitals that were about to go bankrupt in spite of very high property taxes to support it. Schools are in huge trouble because local taxes cannot be raised more. Bush is sending in large amounts of money though --so we'll go on providing free health care and education, food stamps and the rest to non-citizens.

[FITZ]

Many Americans (Anglo and Hispanic) are leaving these areas. It's not helping either because that's the taxbase leaving.