Get honest. Over half the total alien population is in one state alone - Kalifornia.
Why should people in 49 other states run a continuous subsidy for "cheap labor" for the grandees of Kalifornia wanting inexpensive gardeners to blow the leaves off their lawns, do low-skill jobs in their restaurants, and generally be a serf class throughout Southern Kalifornia's economy?
Indeed, the vast majority of all aliens in the U.S. live in just six states - Kalifornia, New York, Illinois, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey. Why should people of 44 other states - all in Red Nation - be taxed to run a continuous subsidy program so that the grandees of six states, all but one or two in Blue Nation, can have "cheap labor?"
Any "federal" (meaning Red Nation tax money) bailout for those fistful of states where this is a huge problem would remove any incentive for officials in those states to get serious about illegal immigration.
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What's really sad about this whole cheap labor issue is there are enough illegal immigrants hanging out on corners and lots in Southern California to handle much of the low-skilled, low-paid jobs in the entire country. Don't believe me? Come for a visit and I'll show you the thousands of day laborers just standing around.
So all you open borders types, just how many do we need to mow our lawns, pick our crops, watch our kids, serve our food, etc.? Yes, I know, they're just looking for a better life. So is most of the planet's population. Where do we draw the line for admittance to the American Dream? 4,000,000 a year? 10,000,000 a year? 63,000,000 a year? 172,000,000 a year? 835,000,000? A billion?
At what point does that "better" standard of living begin to deteriorate? What's the number, folks? There's some 6,000,000,000 people on this planet and many, if not most of them, live below our alleged poverty line...which includes a moderate house, a car, television, phone, and other conveniences. So how many? I'm sick of all the stupid racist arguements...I want to know how many our society can absorb before we become what they are fleeing. I'd also like to see a legitimate agruement as to why a society doesn't have the right to maintain its designated standards.
If you would check the statistics in any of the border counties ---which are getting to be many because they keep adding to them, you'll see these people aren't all working, the local taxpayers and insurance payers cannot possibly continue to provide free health care ---along with free education, jails and all the rest. It's a failure of the federal INS, the burden should be on all Americans not just a few.
We see girls from Mexico who never had prenatal care come over when they're ready to go into labor ---they sit out in the parking lot until their labor is advanced so they can't be taken back, they aren't anyone's cheap employee, once the baby is born, they'll get WIC, food stamps and the rest ---but who has to pay for the free delivery ---often with complications.
Because if something doesn't shake the folks in the other 44 out of their tupor re: illegal immigration it will become a nationwide problem, and soon.
Maybe coughing up a few bucks will give you folks some pause for thought.