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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Do you have any reference materials that I could check out to back up your claims? (i.e. healthcare stats, crime stats, etc.).
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Oh, for starters, do a search of Cost - Illegal Immigrants and see what you come up with...I found an article about hospitals closing due to being unable to take on the burden of uninsured immigrants (
http://www.usvisanews.com/memo886.html) and the cost of educating these people (
http://sophorist.com/archives/000201.html). I'm sure there is more, and you can find both sides of the argument if you look hard enough. But the first five pages where pretty negative for the illegals... maybe someone else can find the pros and how illegals help reduce the costs.
I say send them home. I am currently interning at a middle school, and we have new illegal students arrive almost daily. We sign them in, assign dummy social security numbers, give them books etc. The school is overcrowded. So instead of having 20 students per class, a teacher has 30 - 35. The children whose parents are paying the taxes deserve to be there, and deserve the attention of the teacher. Unfortunately, the teacher is unable to give any extra attention or do anything beyond the norm because she has too many students in her classes.
My car insurance is high because lots of immigrants come from a country where there are no driving laws. So I pay the higher premiums for those people who don't follow our laws on the highways. Recently a child was killed when here when the driver of a car did not follow the laws and did not stop for a stopped school bus. Of course they had no license and no insurance.
Everyone complains because there are no jobs here and that we are sending everything overseas. There are jobs here, but Americans are too good for them. It makes me sick that people would rather get the handouts then get out there and work as a janitor or farm laborer. I'm with Rudey, let's build a dairy farm outside the US and send all these illegals to work there. We'll get our milk for less, and the illegals will be gone from the country. Instead of spending 7.4 billion a year on education for illegals, we can spend that money on our own kids and our own healthcare needs.