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would you rather they work here for peanuts, helping destroy our economy and even worse sending a lot of their $ back to their own country? how are they going to repay us for using our services illegally??? I think that's a great idea, we don't have to treat them like concentration slave labor.
I know that many out here seem to believe that illegal immigrants are the greatest cause of our financial problems.
There'd have to be a whole lot more than 15 million (a number I doubt, by the way, though I'm open to reliable links proving it), with EACH of them collecting unemployment AND food stamps AND huge healthcare expenses AND education (though that certainly doesn't take much government money) for it to end up costing what ONE year of the war in Iraq costs us.
I agree certainly not the biggest cause, but still, for those that do not even belong here to place an even bigger burden on an already suffering economy, well yeah I resent that, especially when we cannot offer as much help as needed for our OWN citizens in need. Still we shouldn't treat them like animals. If I were in their position with children I might try and do the same thing, I don't know.
Punish the employers; they'll be gone.
I'd agree with that.
Amen Candida you hit the nail on the head with that statement right there.
I think there are more employers who hire illegal aliens than people realize, more authorities who look the other way when they rent homes or sell homes to the coyotes, to many in positions of authority (law makers, politicians, attorneys, etc) who hire them as nannies, housekeepers, groundskeepers, etc. Or how about that company they hired to fix their roof, landscape their yard, clean the pool?