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I don't get this "one issue" debate. ILLEGAL immigration is all encompassing. It hits our hospitals, our traffic, our prisons, our welfare state, our schools, our culture, our taxes, our stolen identities and on and on and on. Not to mention that it's against the law! How this could ever be labeled as "one issue" is just beyond me. It affects all of our lives in numerous and varied ways and none of them are good.

Is your issue healthcare? Illegal aliens are causing the bankruptcy and closing of clinics and hospitals across the country, and putting a strain on healthcare plans because you have to make up in taxes and premiums what they don't have to pay for in healthcare.

Is your issue jobs? You don't even need to be told then that illegals are taking jobs that could be done by Americans, and which were done by Americans, before our business and political elites decided this nation and its laws weren't as important as cheap labor.

Is your issue education? The children of illegals are crowding our public schools, creating tensions and costing extra money through their special needs, such as bilingual instruction.

Is your issue government spending? Illegal aliens cost billions of dollars more in state government spending through federal mandates, busting budgets all across the land.

Is your issue balance of payments? Illegal aliens may come here to work, but they remit billions of dollars of what they earn back to their countries of origin, worsening our balance of payments and putting pressure on the dollar.

Is your issue crime? Illegal aliens are responsible for a horrific level of violent personal and property crime in America, as has been repeatedly documented by patriots like Heather MacDonald and Michelle Malkin.

Is your issue the national sovereignty of the United States? Massive illegal immigration, especially from Mexico, has allowed the Mexican government to make demands on American governmental representatives that so-called "rights" of illegal aliens be "respected," and to orchestrate massive "demonstrations" of illegals within our own borders.

Finally, is your issue...just maybe...in this time of war....something like....

NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM????

Open borders and a massive, uninspected inflow of aliens creates problems for national security and opportunities for terrorists that even a four year old child should be able to understand!!!!

So no: immigration is not a "single issue"---it's the issue that encompasses just about every other issue you can think of....and the very future of our sovereign nation to boot.

What I truly don't understand are the people here who profess not to care about it.

Great post. Absolutely correct.

Save and paste this post every time they start the one issue cr**. You have defined the problem well.

First class analysis of a seriously widespread problem in America. Of course, the FR ne'er-do-wells would disagree with you.

Thanks for a good post.

Interesting statistics, but you know what they say about statistics.