BTW I do believe we need immigrants. A lot of the intellectual grunt work - in the IT field is done by chinese, Indians, europeans, japanese, etc etc, and the country is better off for it ... as is a lot of other fields ... medicine everything in the country ... you name it ...
However we have a "se habla espanol" cukture only cos 90% of the immigrant population is mexican. Instead of learning english, they can twist our world around ...
I dont insist you speak my language ... there is less than a million who do ... however mexicans do because they out number all other immigrants by nearly 10 to 1.
Cool.
Srinath.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 11/05/12 at 17:00:11:


Children of immigrants aren't really immigrants, they are spoiled brats ... including my 9yr old.

Cool.
Srinath.

I am actually rather shocked that i agree with your posts to the extent that I do.
A few notes ( from where I am)

In MS we do tax food @ 7%, but we do not tax EBT card use.
In residential ( R1) homes, utilities are metered.

My ideas on reducing illegals impact:
Fine employers of Illegals for hiring such. The fine should be an order of magnitude over the cost of hiring legals. For example if a roofer hires an single illegal for 1 day ( 12 hours labor) the fine would be 2 times the cost of having hired one legal worked.  This makes hiring illegals very risky and will dry up the jobs.  No jobs ... no one stays.

Reverse the idea that an anchor baby must be kept with parents. An illegal is a "CRIMINAL". If they are caught they get sent back. The baby can stay of course.

Do not allow illegals to recieve state benfits (in-state tutition, medicare, medicaid, free schools, free lunches). I am humane - hospitals will still need to provide services. However, services are for residents and visitors, and hospitals should be allowed to verfiy what someones status is. Once an illegals status is known, they should be reported as a criminal.

The state should be allowed to be compensated for housing (jail) illegals by the feds.  

The feds should be able to be sued for failing to meet applicable laws.

An illegal, should always be at a disadvantage for getting citizenship versus those followed the legal process.  An illegal that goes on to commit a further crime (import of drugs, thievery, ect) should never be allowed to be a citizen.

Other thoughts: when one is here illegally they are a criminal, and they have no rights as provided at various levels by government. If an illegal drives a car.. they have committed a crime. If they get a job, they have committed a crime. If they falsefy documents, they have committed a crime. Do not think of crime as "doing something bad". Crime is doing something that one is not legally allowed to do. One does not need to shoot someone or sell drugs to be doing a crime.

srinath wrote on 11/06/12 at 06:39:53:

That's why they fit in so well with the other kids... ...

In MS we do tax food @ 7%, but we do not tax EBT card use.


Now, take a step back & ask yourself,, Where did the $$$ come from that the EBT card is spending? That is $$$ that was taken from citizens in the form of taxes.

The abusers of that safety net, are the ones who are the hardest to get out of the system.


Ayyyyupp,, &, for some reason, they seem to easily get IN the system.

Some days I look at how things are done & I start wondering if there isnt
a plan for that,,

Notice that those who hire the lion's share of illgeal's are corporations, business's, big agriculture, the uber-rich etc.

It boils down to cheap labor, they work for less than minimum wage, and they do not have to pay them benefits etc.

So for all of you righties pissing and moaning about criminals, it's the entities on the right who are mainly responsible for this problem.

I say crack down on those business's who circumvent the law to obtained cheap labor. Fine the hell out of them. Make them pay all legal fees, and make them pay for the cost of deportations.

Once the dust settles and those who hire illegales begin to toe the line, the lure of sneaking into the US and finding jobs will diminishes. As the number of illeagal's diminishes,  the Border Patrol, and ICE can concentrate more time on each case.

But you can bet the Republicans (despite their lip service to the issue) will never sign-on to this idea because they are the ones who benefit from the illegal's.