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Zachary Hilbun
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"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1157nv8lqm2d941@news.supernews.com...
> Jim wrote:
>> johnny@. wrote:
>> "If
>>> anyone would ask Texans if they want to subsidize more than a million
>>
>>> illegal aliens to the tune of $4.65 billion a year, or see their
>>> public schools, hospitals and prisons overcrowded with illegal
>>> immigrants, the answer would be a resounding 'no.' Yet federal and
>>> state policies have failed to protect Texans from that burden and
>>> have forced them and other Americans to subsidize mass illegal
>>> immigration."
>>>
>>> http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=19987
>>
>> Bush does nothing to stem the bleeding of resources.
>>
>
> Hmm. Isn't complaining about the cost of illegal immigration similar to 
> the complaint about guns and crime? That is, get rid of the illegal aliens 
> and you simultaneously get rid of the costs? While this is true, the act 
> may be more damaging than the result.

Guns are protected by the 2nd Ammendment, in the same way that free speech 
and freedom of the press are.  Even if these freedoms do have negative side 
effects, they are still protected.  Illegal aliens on the other hand are 
just criminals.  Clinton and then Bush drastically lowered the number of 
workplace inspections that are done looking for illegal aliens.  This, and 
requiring proof of a right to work, is the best way to prevent illegal 
aliens from getting a job and therefore from coming to the U.S..  Bush has 
also refused to hire the number of Border Patrol officers that Congress has 
approved.  He recently referred to the Minuteman volunteers on the Arizona 
border as vigilanties.

> Couldn't we just as easily decline to educate or treat aliens? (We'd still 
> have to incarcerate some.)

All the states are required by law to educate illegal aliens.  In Texas, 
illegal aliens get in-state tuition when attending state colleges.   States 
are also required to treat them for emergency health conditions.  Note that 
having a baby counts as an emergency so you get to pay that too.  These 
babies are called "anchor babies" because they will be offered U.S. 
citizenship when they turn 18.  They also will be eligable for welfare 
payments and health care.  Parkland Hospital in Dallas delivers more babies 
per year (16,000) than any hospital in the world except for one in India. 
85% of the mothers there do not speak English. Counties in Texas are given 
an option of wheter to treat illegal aliens for non-emergency health 
conditions.  Some do, some don't.    Dallas is a "sanctuary city", meaning 
that the city council has forbidden city employes from cooperating with ICE 
(Immigration Customs Enforcement).

> Some say that thanks to illegal aliens they can now hire someone to mow 
> their grass every week rather than do it themselves! And don't even start 
> computing the cost of a new roof...

I pay around $5,000 per year in county and school taxes.  Any money I saved 
by hiring illegal aliens would be more than offset by the costs associated 
with them.  My experience has been that they do shoddy work so they aren't 
worth it if even if they work for free.  I don't think the consumer sees all 
of the savings that come from illegal aliens working so cheaply.  Employers 
such as roofing contractors are going to stuff as much of that savings into 
their own pockets as possible.