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To: PRND21
California has the problem because of the state's largesse towards everyone, legal or otherwise. Want your state to be less of a magnet for illegals? Cut welfare benefits. Funny how the unappeaseables never mention that.
5 posted on 01/09/2004 4:07:40 PM PST by Poohbah ("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
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To: Poohbah
Want your state to be less of a magnet for illegals? Cut welfare benefits.

Bingo! Truer words were never spoken.

8 posted on 01/09/2004 4:11:02 PM PST by PRND21
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To: Poohbah
"Want your state to be less of a magnet for illegals? Cut welfare benefits"

BINGO, the only way we will ever secure our borders and control the flow of illegal immigration is to remove the attraction. If we would punish the employers, who hire known illegals, so harshly that it would not be worth the risk to hire illegals in the first place.

As far as the ones already here, I don't see how it's possible to deport them, the cost of such an operation would be staggering, not to mention how the media would cover this massive deportation. Elien Gonzalez -x- 8 Million. If the illegals who are already here working are forced to face some sort of justice before entering whatever worker program they might come up with, as well as not getting on the path to citizenship, than I don't see how it could be called amnesty. Almost all minor infractions of the law in this country result in a fine or community service. From what I have read, this proposal calls for the illegals to pay a $1,500.00 fine before being accepted in the worker program. I would call that the typical way justice is served in this country.

21 posted on 01/09/2004 4:32:26 PM PST by MJY1288 (WITHOUT DOUBLE STANDARDS, LIBERALS WOULDN'T HAVE ANY !)
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To: Poohbah
Want your state to be less of a magnet for illegals? Cut welfare benefits.

Very true. In Texas the able-bodied have the opportunity to make what they can of themselves. They also have the right to starve to death if they are too lazy to work.

We do provide for the disabled and children and for some folks who probably don't really need help. But the able-bodied need not apply for welfare.

31 posted on 01/09/2004 4:54:56 PM PST by LibKill ("Two crossed, dead, Frenchmen emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen.")
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