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Originally Posted by theking
The amount spent on illegal immigrants would cut California's budget deficit by more than half...if they did not have to spend the money on illegals.
But Robbie apparently does not think that services provided to illegals far exceeds the cost of the "war on drugs" along the border.
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But that "study" was done by an anti-immigration group called "FAIR"
That's not a "study" that takes into account what people put IN the economy.
It started with a biased opinion, and then it's "study" miraculously reached the same conclusion.
That is not a govt. study based on real statistics. For instance...how much do those illegals put BACK into the economy in money they spend, sales tax they pay, money they save countless businesses (which is COMPLETELY undocumented by any study because of it's "illegal" nature).
The fact is, for every argument on one side, there is an equal argument on the other side.
And my point was that right now in 2010 the uproar has begun because of VIOLENCE on the border. And that violence for the most part is happening because of drug cartels whose only existence is due to the U.S. war on drugs.
I'll ask this one more time, since nobody seems to want to address it:
IF adults in the United States were able to have a little bit of freedom and make their own decisions on whether or not they like to get high (and judging from all the statistics and the aforementioned violence on the border...I think we already know that people DO like to get high), and the "war on drugs" was stopped. Just dead fucking stopped. Drugs were no longer illegal. Then don't you think that drugs would then become cheap and easy to get? Which would mean the very existence of a Drug Cartel would become meaningless (just like bootleggers were out of business once alcohol prohibition ended). And that would mean NO MORE drug cartels fighting each other (because they wouldn't exist).
Now if all that happened...and the violence was gone. Then wouldn't things be exactly like they have been all along? Mexicans crossing the border to do cheap labor that nobody else will do?
And please don't personally attack me. Just think about what I'm saying and address the reasons you think it would or wouldn't make any difference.
In other words explain to me...in simple terms...do you think that the violence and danger along the border that suddenly exploded in the last few years is due to drug cartel wars over turf. And if that stopped, and the national parks were safe again (because drugs would be legal) and nobody was being shot or kidnapped (because the drug cartels don't exist)...would it then be okay to have some wetbacks pick some damn oranges, do some yard work here in Vegas in the afternoon heat of 110 degrees, hand out advertisements for escort services on the strip, be a nanny to people's brats, and cook the food at the damn buffet?
Or is that just too much, and we need more troops and build a wall?