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[i]. In the meantime, our schools are filled with illegal immigrants who contribute nothing to the tax roles that help pay for the schooling. Emergency rooms are closing all over the place because that is the only source of (free) health care for these immigrants.
-Wayne [/B]
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Extremely good points that are often overlooked in the immgration issue nad labor issues.
"Ah, heck - they just want a better life" which I concede is true and honest and good but in their search for their better life more and more average natural born citizens are suffering. Isn't that bad too? Or is that we just have to wait for the world to become and equal place and everyone gets the third world wages and the middle class is made up of those working at walmart making minimum wage, collecting welfare and using medcare to cover their medical needs.
So who wins? The citizens here fighting for the life that they already own or the immigrants who want to send the money they make back to their home country where they have left their families? I have no problems with legal immgration but I think illegal immgration is just that illegal and should be punished as such. At the same time - the bad attitude of the American worker is a problem in and of itself. Are we entitled to higher wages and better benefits if we work like crap? Heck no; a lot of these rules that are put in place to keep workers in their jobs go too far in making it too hard for an employer to rid themselves of bad employees.