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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com Columnist
More amnesty fraud
by Thomas Sowell
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Moreover, when a Toyota needs repair, it doesn't go to an emergency room and expect the taxpayers to pay for parts and labor.

Whoever buys a Toyota is expected to pay the full price of the car and its upkeep.

But employers of illegal immigrants get the benefit of cheap labor and leave it to the taxpayers to cover the costs of their health care, imprisonment and everything else.

Our schools pay the price not only in money but also in lower educational quality when children with a limited knowledge of English and a limited commitment to learning impede the education of other children.

People who argue about immigration in the abstract ignore the fact that there is no such thing as an immigrant in the abstract. Immigrants from some countries have twice the education of immigrants from other countries and the differences between how many commit crimes can be some multiple between one group and another.

The most fundamental question is: What is to decide how many immigrants from what countries are to be admitted to the United States? The laws of this country or the fait accomplis of illegal aliens?

Are the citizens of this country to be people committed to this country or people who go back and forth, who expect American culture to adjust to them instead of vice versa, and who are kept separate and disaffected by their leaders and by the multicultural cult? We already have too many Americans with no real commitment to this country and no willingness to defend it.

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Worst immigrants to ever set foot in USA
I also live in the Phoenix area. They come across the border in droves, thousands each week, check out the Minuteman's website that patrol our border. I have lived here since 83' and now feel unsafe in my own community. The feeling is almost sureal here, like the country is being silently invaded but nothing is being done about it. I am afraid to travel in many parts of town that I was never fearful in the past. My husband's business has been negatively affected by illegal immigrants and the "day labor" center that the local church has set up for them along with our American flag on there signage. They also provide breakfast and started to issue ID cards for them sanctioned by the town, until local's starting protesting, because this was at the taxpayers expense. We have the worst governor in the history of Arizona, she is literally handing over our state to them on a silver platter. They have no regard for our way of life, medicaid, break all our laws, overcrowd our local school's, sit at the local circle k making drug deals, it's a free ride for them. We in AZ saw this coming over a decade ago, and just now the rest of the nation is seeing the damage they are doing to our country. Sadly, I think it may be to late.

Armed Illegals
I lived in Phoenix, AZ a couple years ago. During one month I had a friend killed by illegals, another shot by illegals, the club I worked at was hit during a drive-by from illegals, and I personally witnessed 2 DUI accidents by illegals. I was living in the Slopes, which is pretty much must the land of illegals. For the time I lived there I didn't leave the house without a firearm. In short, illegals have killed more of my friends the war in Iraq.

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