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Robert D West (aphrael@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

: In article <39l2pl$51i@mark.ucdavis.edu> ez018047@dale.ucdavis.edu (Paul Lung) writes:
: >Peter Dubuque (dubuque@fas.harvard.edu) wrote:
: >
: >: They already do, idiot.  Illegal immigrants do all the shit work in the 
: >: agriculture and high-tech industries that Anglos won't touch.  Who do 
: >: you think handled the toxic chemicals used to manufacture the circuitry 
: >: inside the computer you posted this from?  Think they had the benefit of 
: >: even minimal safety precautions?  Guess again, bub.  Take the illegal 
: >: immigrants out of the California economy and it would collapse 
: >: overnight. <snip>
: >
: >THOUSANDS of illegal immigrants flow across the California border
: >EVERY DAY! Why don't you factor that into your evaluation of the 
: >California economy, Mr Peter Dubuque from HARVARD! How long do you
: >think our economy can last with this rate of flow? By the way, border
: >guards and employment restrictions DON'T WORK. These two
: >"safe guards" have been in place for as long as I can remember.

: Neither will 187 for that matter. What immigrant isn't going to
: say:
: So my children can't get an education, so I can't get free health 
: care. I can make more than *six times* as much money as I can make
: at home.

: Immigrants are going to keep coming here as long as their is a
: demand for their labor and as long as they can get more money here
: than they can at home. This is a fact of economic life. We can
: either recognize it as a fact and come up with ways to work these
: immigrants into our society and make them aprt of the fabric of our
: la nd, or we can struffle vbaliently to prevent them and waste lots
: of time, energy, and money in a futile effort to keep out people
: who will just keep coming.

: I like the former solution. It seems more in keeping with the
: values of freedom somehow.

Take an illegal alien to lunch, after flying him to MEXICO CITY. Letting
Mexicans flood the country because the want to be richer is keeping with
the values of freedom? It's in keeping with the values of saving a penny
by rich companies and rich individuals like Huffington, Zoe Baird etc., 
at the expense of unemployed Americans. 

: >					Paul Lung 


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: the ankles of anyone who jaywalks, I think it would pass."
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: Robert D. West		|		aphrael@cats.ucsc.edu