With all the recent talk about Arizona passing sweeping legislation to curb illegal immigrants into their state what of it's neighbors? New Mexico, Calif, etc. When asked those immigrants stated they'd mostly be going to neighboring states. I asked myself why wouldn't they just leave. Most will tell you why.. Free education for their children and free community services.
My question is.. why doesn't our public education that is paid for by State and local tax revenue require US birth certificates or green cards? They require many vaccinations and other information before a child can be registered. Do you have to be a citizen? No..
Being that I live in Texas and my daughter attends a crowded fairly new HS where the Hispanic makeup of that HS is 60+ % I'd really like to see my local tax revenue going to more legal residents than illegal. I would make a fair bet that those who speak out against illegal legislation have never been directly affected by their presence. In my life this is what I've seen, people who like to make broad comments about how this is an immigrant nation but fail to see the downside to illegal immigration.
Yes, our country was founded on LEGAL immigrants. Those are people who went through the legal process to Found, come and live here! They didn't just sneak in, squat somewhere and pick up roots. Worse yet the illegal immigrants today I've often seen people here 20 years no plans to leave an not speak 1 bit of English!! The constitution was written in English.. not French, not Dutch, not Spanish.. English. Most of them have no interest in integrating with our society, the American way of life. No they transform entire areas into their "old world" usually to the detriment of the area
I've personally been affected negatively by illegal immigrants both through the inability to get community services and by my children's education being affected. I feel strongly that all immigrants who want to be here should do so through LEGAL means! There's a reason that they don't just have open borders and let everyone in, we'd have even bigger problems on our hands. With our country facing such a HUGE economic challenge we cannot afford to have our local services overrun by those who don't pay into the system. Sorry, I don't consider the lawn guys, pool buys, house maids and nannies who get paid CASH each week paying into the system.
Do they buy and purchase things sometimes.. at yard sales (our 200$ garage sale in a Hispanic community proved that). Do they pay for a lot of things that require sales tax, sure but undoubtedly less than they take from the system those revenues supply.
Our Country's census is a joke... without properly documenting those who are here illegal we'll never get the proper numbers on who's using the community services and who's paying in etc. I still think most people need to take a few steps back, breathe and look at this from all sides instead of just looking through their rose colored glasses.
Things aren't getting better here, they're getting worse.. When we have effective unemployment of 20+% .. that's people who aren't pulling unemployment and have just given up I say SEND the illegals back! Give those without hope of a job a chance to even make a crap wage. At least it'll feed them and MAYBE they can get some community resources to help them out!
.. ok I'm off my soapbox..
Zel
Monday, July 26, 2010
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