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Originally posted by Spanky
You have friends that live on the border? What do they do for a living?
I don't understand this fear of illegal immigration. Is this really a problem that should be at the top of our agenda? Almost everyone I know benefits almost daily from illegal immigration (cheaper food prices etc). And why are the illegal immigrants so harmful or dangerous? What is the crisis? All prior "dangerous immigrations" turned out to be beneficial. Do you think the US is better off today because we limited Irish, Southern European or Asian immigration at one time? It just seems to me that the people that are so concerned about illegal immigration just don't like having Mexicans around.
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1. Blue-collar labor perceives a problem. That's a political constituency.
2. Immigrants consume government services (although I recognize that the taxes they pay generally are greater than the cost of the services consumed).
3. Any child born in the United States is an american citizen.
Not saying these reasons are good or bad, just the source of some of the concern.
