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Illegals are not here to get "amnesty". They're here to earn a living and support families, and perhaps send some money home where there isn't as much opportunity and freedom. Can we fault them? Americans work abroad quite often, and send their earnings home, as well.
What we must avoid is the entitlement illegal, the welfare-seeking moochers. We must not offer free education or automatic citizenship to their children, or free emergency room visits, or housing, food stamps, WIC, or any other welfare programs.
"Those who do not work, do not eat."
In 2006 and 2007, Republicans promoting amnesty favored the cliche, “Immigrants do the jobs American’s won’t do.” It was a bad argument then, and with unemployment still hovering around or over 9%, for the last five years, no one even bothers with that anymore. Instead, Republicans are selling amnesty based solely on political expediency. The new cliche is that Republicans will never win the Hispanic vote unless they support amnesty. John McCain, who led the last great push for amnesty says. "The Republican Party is losing the support of our Hispanic citizens. And we realize this is an issue in which...
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lchapman Wrote:
I live in one of most illegal-alien plagued areas of S. Calif. (Mexifornia)...a poll among ILLEGALS showed that over 70% of them came across the border, not for the freedoms we have, but because they like the big government we have ("free stuff"). Hmmm