And "free
>medical attention" amounts to minimal emergency services, just
>like visitors, tourists, felons, and any other humans within
>our borders get.

Really, 'free' minimal emergency services. Well, I have no health insurance and no free medical services, I have the thousands of dollars of unpaid medical bills to prove it.

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>Wake the #### up. The people in these situations are
>desperate.

We have plenty of desperate people in America already, legal citizens, people who are supposed to be here, have social security cards, lets try helping them first. We continue to ignore our homeless, hungry citizens while sending money and food overseas. It's time to start taking care of ourselves for once.

They aren't cruising around on a free meal ticket.
> The current system amounts to "look the other way" which
>benefits you at their expense (cost of living,
>primarily), not the other way around.

Hm, the illegal alien I saw on CNN a few months ago, when the hispanic community was going to organize a 1 day strike, didn't seem too bad off. He was self employed, did roofing jobs, owned 2 cars and his wife looked well dressed. Yep, must suck being that bad off. Now tell me how looking the other way "benifits" me? How does it benefit other small time roofing contractors that are losing business to this person who doesn't exist in America?

Keep pretending that these aliens are a benefit to our country and that they only do jobs that we don't want to. The truth is, we have plenty of people who would do the same job if the employers paid better, but since the employers can pay cash under the table at $2/hr, the Americans lose out.


>The system needs reform, but the likely direction it will go
>is towards allowing large numbers of people in legally,
>pending minimal checks for criminal backgrounds and such. It
>worked wonders for us a century ago, even over the protests of
>people who thought "inferior" Irish, Polish, Jewish, Italian,
>etc. immigrants would ruin their country.

If we are to reform the system to allow more immigrants in legally, we first have to block the leak in the dam that's about to burst. Stop the constant flow of mexicans illegally crossing the border, kick the illegal aliens out, assign a committee to look at the population of the US and determine how many immigrants can enter our country per year without becoming a burden to taxpayers and set up a program to watch these immigrants for a year or two to ensure that they have the same quality of pay and benefits expected of any other US citizen.

My Grandfather came to America as a child over 90 years ago. His father went through the immigration system during the time you are talking about, the difference is, he didn't sneak over. He wasn't here on a work permit and never left, he did things legally.

I find it hard to believe there are so many Liberals out there that honestly believe that there is nothing wrong with breaking the law, or that when one is caught breaking the law, it should go unpunished. I am lower middle class, a million dollars would greatly improve my quality of life, if I commit a crime such as robbing a bank to improve my life, should it go unpunished?

I firmly believe that we need to do something about the growing number of illegals in this country. I have reported one place of business to the INS already. A place in Chicago that employed 90% hispanics, none of them spoke english. I don't know if anything ever came of it though, I haven't been back since.


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