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Tracey Levin (tracey12@swbell.net) wrote:


: Douglas K Long wrote:

: > Erik (dr.feinstein@DELETETHIS.mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
: > : On 25 Mar 1998 07:18:02 GMT, DKL8321@utarlg.uta.edu (Douglas K Long) wrote:
: >
: > : >     And in the case of illegal immigration, especially from Mexico,
: > : >     tolerence could be this country's fatal flaw.  Thus far,
: > : >     tolerence has been a financial burden, and increasingly, a
: > : >     social burden.
: >
: > : They generally haven't. Get your facts in order. Most illegals are employed [pay
: > : payroll taxes], buy things [pay sales taxes], and rent housing somewhere or
: > : another [their landlords pay property taxes]. Sounds a lot like your average
: > : citizen's tax burden, doesn't it? They do all that, and they take the "lowest
: > : rung" jobs that most citizens sneer at - like roofing, yardwork, and street
: > : work.
: >
: >         Many illegals are paid under the table.  Many live communally;
: >         that is, five to ten to an apartment - thus undercutting property
: >         taxes.  And the jobs they take used to be done by Americans, many
: >         of them young people earning a few bucks in high school or college
: >         and learning about work.  Illegals are no bargain, except to those
: >         who employ them.

: Douglas, I just want to thank you for posting such informative messages.They really
: are interesting to read.
: Thanks again.

	I appreciate your interest.  Lots of people ignore the issue or
	view Mexican immigrants as underdogs worthy of sympathy, and 
	some might be just that.  Yet what they flee by leaving Mexico
	are conditions created by Mexican culture and they are carriers
	of that culture.  If only a few thousand per year arrived in the
	USA and dispersed themselves around the country, then they would
	have little effect.  But as they arrive by the hundreds of
	thousands per year, and have done so for decades, their influence
	is unavoidable and unconstructive.  And given the population
	explosion in Mexico, the influx will continue, unless the
	US government fulfills its Constitutional duty to enforce
	the law at the border.  If the government continues to neglect
	its duty, then Texas, California and other states will more and
	more become approximations of Mexico.  If Mexico were Switzerland
	or Japan or some other progressive, workable place, then we might
	enjoy an improvement.  Unfortunately, we're dealing with Mexico ...