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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
In Hawaii, the King's birthday is bigger than Christmas.
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I remember, I lived there for 3 years while in the Navy
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I'm confused. I thought you wanted them to be legal citizens. What difference does it make how they become legal, as long as they become legal? As I have understood our many debates on this, I was under the impression that legality was the final goal. Is it not? Must they bring $$$$ or go through some tortuous process to prove their love for America? What more do you ask other than legality?
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Two wrongs don't make a right, they are doing that just to stay here, that's the wrong approach
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Many jobs have linguistic requirements. Teachers aren't special. Free lunches? Well, I'll tell you what.... one illegal Mexican kid is entitled to a full school system lunch every day that he's there because I never once ate the "free" lunch that the schools provided for us. So there, I've done my part and made my sacrifice toward the greater good already.
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But they are far out numbering the lunches you didn't eat, they are a burden on the school system, this is why the president wants charter schools, the public system isn't working welll
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Yeah, I've seen the shows too. But every illegal alien does not become a drug gangster. That's absurd. That's like saying every black is a thug gangbanger.
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Never said they did, but getting rid of just the ones that are breaking the law, like the Arizona law will do, will solve a lot of the criminal problem created by illegals
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Don't forget, we are benefiting from that money. Also don't forget everything that they buy, and the sales tax they pay, and in many cases even IRS taxes.... that we all benefit from. Many of them are paying into the system, whether it's their real name or not. So how can you deny those people medical care or school for their kids? Are you that heartless over what amounts to a paper legality issue?
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I'll bet for every $100 dollars they spend on taxes, they cost $1000.
I don't think we can get rid of the ones already here, we need to stop the flow, then deal with the ones here
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I'm still on the fence, no pun intended. I'm really neither for or against putting up a wall. On the one hand, it would work. On the other, there's something very disturbing to me about living behind a wall. I was serving in Germany from 88-90 when the wall came down. So the idea of putting one up here really bothers me.
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That wall was in the middle of the city, they still have a gate you have to show papers at don't they?
Think of the people that they would put to work building it, better yet, after heavily patrolling the border, have illegal aliens work on it at good wages towards earning citizenship