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How Much Do Illegal Immigrants REALLY Cost the United States?

February 11, 2009 by  

How Much Do Illegal Immigrants REALLY Cost the United States?

A report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) cited several interesting statistics based on census data. Some of these facts may be familiar to long-time readers… but I wanted each of you to know the enormous costs placed on the United States…

Our government continues to claim that the war on terror is bankrupting us. But what about these numbers? You do the math…

  • $11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
  • Illegal households only pay about one-third the amount of federal taxes that non-illegal households pay.
  • Illegal households create a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion a year. If given amnesty, this number could grow to more than $29 billion.
  • $1.9 billion dollars a year is spent on food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
  • $1.6 billion is spent on the federal prison and court system for illegal aliens.
  • $2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
  • About 21 percent of the population of U.S. prisons is classified as “noncitizens” from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. About 5 percent is listed as “unknown.”

Immigration costs like all “costs" come out of the "TAXPAYOR" hide. These costs represent additional money creation that dilutes all the savings and assets in America.

References:

“The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget.” Steven A. Camarota. Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

Quick Facts about the Bureau of Prisons. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Updated December 2008.

Bob Livingston

is an ultra-conservative American who has been writing a newsletter since 1969. Bob has devoted much of his life to research and the quest for truth on a variety of subjects. Bob specializes in health issues such as nutritional supplements and alternatives to drugs, as well as issues of privacy (both personal and financial), asset protection and the preservation of freedom.

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  • http://none monicamarietta

    I hope that every person who posted here against illegal immigration makes a point of writing/calling his/her Congressional reps on a consistent basis. Reid and Pelosi think they are all-knowing,. They believe they have their fingers on the pulse of the electorate. If they did, they would realize that the majority of Americans are strongly opposed to illegal immigration and want it to stop. Amnesty is not the answer. Nor is giving anchor baby status (U.S. citizenship to any child born in the U.S.) viable anymore. Here on Long Island, our property taxes are through the roof. Much of our money goes to educate those anchor babies and the illegal immigrants foreign born kids who have landed here. ESL courses are necessary at all schools. God forbid the illegals who are earning American dollars learn English. That would be asking way too much. Our local hospital, like thousands of others across America, lose tons of money each year treating illegals who use the ER like a doctor’s office. You try entering an emergency room without an insurance card, or a proper ID that will help the billing office track you down once you are discharged. Illegals give false addresses and breeze away — treated for colds, drunken binges, and everything in between It’s time for our elected officials to get an earfull each and every day. Call, write, call again. Tell them in this era of economic hardship, jobs created by the stimulus package must go to American citizens. Let them know you vote and you will remember their votes come next election. You want the borders secured and total reform of our immigration system. And, if you don’ t believe in amnesty, let them know that, too. With Obama, Reid and Pelosi in charge, my biggest concern is this will become the United States of Latino America. Mi casa, is not their casa.

  • TK

    I came up with an idea that would eventually end illegal immagrants from coming to the country.
    First off I believe everyone has the right to come to this country legally!
    We all agree it is illegal to come here without following the rules.
    However there is no real punishment for breaking the law, except deportation and short time in jail. ( 1 month in most cases )
    My plan is complex and not all the details have been worked out.
    Starting with the laws..They need to be tougher.
    My idea is to change the law to a Five year sentence ( No Release ) in hard labor prison. Then Immediate deportation. (If US citizenship is not obtained )
    The concept is to have the illegals build the wall from Florida to California.
    Also build the prisons that will house future illegal who after 5 yrs are deported, and
    again return to this country illegally. The Law’s should be change at the same time to
    give a 10 year life sentence.
    By making these changes to the law’s, We will solve the problem of not enough
    prisons in the US , And deter people from other countries coming here illegally.
    Prisoners have the option while serving thier five year sentence to apply for and pass
    there US citizenship. This is a fair plan it strongly punishes the offenders, but also makes it possible to become a contributing member of society.
    I have done some research and again the details need tweaking but..
    Approx. 5 – 7 prisons to be build along the border from Cal to Florida.
    These prisons will be tent city’s until built saving taxpayer millions, it cost alot to house
    a prisoner per day, but much less if housed in tents.
    These prisoners with do all the work building the prisons and wall.
    I also believe we should hold other countries responsible for supporting the illegals.
    We should send a bill to responsible country when upon deportation.
    The average cost of a prisoner is $97 a day ( In tents I think it is much much cheaper )
    For five years in jail that would be $17,725.00 per prisoner.
    The offender once deported would most likely have to spend time in prison in thier country in order to pay thier 17k debt back. Also detering return offenders.
    The fact is we need to stop the impact of illegal immagration and the ease in which drugs and possibly terorists can make it into this country.
    For the future of the US and our children.
    Thanks, Tracy.
    Look forward to other’s view of my idea!

  • Craig

    Type in your search bar—–operation wetback I think you all will be amazed, it is possible to send back the illegals. Go to web-site and be enlightened, then send it to your congressmen/representative who is opposed to amnesty.

  • Craig

    Same old story, Republicans tell the truth about the dummycrats, point out the flaws of the dummycratic party. The dummylicans got on their high horse during the Bush Admin, then get to high and mighty, screw up the works and presto get creamed in the elections The dummycrats managed to get John McCain nominated because not enough dummylicans would come out and vote in the primaries. So what do we have, the dummycrats are excited because they nominated their wolf in sheeps clothing while the dummylicans got some-one they really didn’t want, so a large group of them broke off and voted the stupidependant party thereby insuring that Obama would win and now the dummylicans, who didn’t vote for McCain but WASTED their vote are wondering what in the world has happen. YOU HAPPEN YOU SNOBBISH, STUCK-UP, NOSE-IN-AIR CONSERVATIVES AND ULTRA CONSERVATIVES, WHEN YOU VOTED FOR BARR YOU INSURED DEFEAT FOR McCAIN AND NOW HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT YOU TOOK YOUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AND FLUSHED YOUR VOTE RIGHT DOWN THE TOILET. I READ YOUR COMMENTS ON ONE NEWS NOW AND OTHER WEB-SITES AND YOU HAVE NO ONE, NO ONE TO BLAME BUT YOURSELVES FOR THE WAY THIS COUNTRY IS GOING. I am not addressing this to all conservatives and ultra-conservatives, just those who wasted their votes and now who’s leading this country? An incrediblely sinful man who has no desire to serve God but satan himself . As Christians you SCREWED UP. Just think all you CHRISTIANS–we had a chance to elect Mike Huckabee, wouldn’t it be awesome to have Mike in White house right about now instead of baby-slayer Obama, instead of pro-amnesty Obama, instead of shut-down conservative radio Obama (don’t believe him when he says he won’t, he will, go to DNC.org and see the ad for the anti-Rush billboard to go up in Florida. I’ve submitted 6 in-favor of Rush), instead of “tax-increase” Obama, instead of “increased spending” Obama, instead of “give the unions more power” Obama, I would, I would gladly see Mickey Mouse there- oh wait he’s already in the White house. America–you got what you wanted and asked for and you deserve it. You asked for “Change”, you voted for that “change” and now you got that “change” Deal with it or start a new country, that is your constitutional right, start a grass-roots campaign to get on a ballot that you want your state to secede from the union. Good luck and may God yet Bless this country and find favor with her.

  • Jackie

    Carter’s community reinvestment act was one of the factors that began the road to hell that is the crisis. Forcing banks to make risky loans to people that had no business buying the place they were wanting to buy. Clinton put it on steroids and Acorn pickets and destroys those who sensibly deny risky loans and screams racism. Sorry people, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is every American’s right, not the right to own a spiffy new home. I have an apartment, and will have one until I have the ability to buy a home. Not a moment before. To make us pay for your mistakes is reprehensible. Take your bleeding heart whines somewhere else, we aren’t buying it.

    This bs by the way about illegals doing the jobs Americans won’t do is pathetic. Those who employ illegals are not doing it out of the “kindness” of their hearts-they are exploiting illegals and everyone by paying them next to nothing and not paying the taxes and breaking all the other rules and laws associated with hiring workers, while those who follow the rules and respect our laws get screwed and have to pay for everyone else who is destroying our country. Believe me, if every illegal was deported out, we’d still be able to pick our own fruit or do whatever job “Americans won’t do”.

    To reward those who refuse to protect our border, fund illegals education, medical, etc. and give the millions amnesty that are already here is rewarding criminals and breaking the law. If you don’t respect this law regardless immigration, what makes us think you can respect any other law in the U.S. We are not a nation of immigrants, as the liberals always scream, we are a nation of laws.

    Hey DAVID, RETURN TO YOUR COLLECTIVE, WE DON’T NEED ANY DRONES HERE. AS OF YET, WE STILL HAVE FREE SPEECH.

    BY THE WAY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRATS MOTTO OF ‘DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM?

    Ah, yes, it’s only patriotic when it’s a republican in power. Now it’s patriotic to pay more taxes for exporting abortion, paying off your union and planned parenthood cronies, etc.

    Guess what jackass, Congress is in control of spending, and they have been in control for the past 2 years, headed by Miss Ardent Catholic Abortion Loving Nancy Pelosi.

    Barney Frank. Soros. Dodd.

    Did we already forget that Obama was the 2nd highest recipient from fannie and freddie? Republicans and Bush continued to call for regulation and addressed the fannie and freddie situation, but not loud and not enough. Barney Frank and the other degenerates continued to say there was no problem with may and mac and that they were doing fine. Republicans have become wimps. We lost our way, but to say that it was Bush and the administration is an outright lie, Wayne-who by the way dishonors the great John Wayne’s name, who loved his country…I digress…- and anyone who pulls this bs either has had their head stuck in the sand for the past 2 or 3 years or is a member of the Obama loving communist hippy cult who wants to destroy anyone that dissents and actually gives facts and speaks the truth.

    Wayne, we all have our problems, but it is clear that your communist loving wasteland of a party by far holds the most blame and corrupt politicians.

    So go try to silence and hurl your bs on someone else, we have no interest in your lies and “tolerant” crap.

    Awesome job Bob. Keep writing about the facts and truths that sends liberals like Mr. “Wayne” off their rocking horses.

    Bring back Reagan for 2012 America!

    • C Allen

      we used to be the wealthiest country in the world, and, have always paid the lowest taxes. So when the GOP boys are driving down wages for the common man, breaking up unions, sending their money offshore to avoid taxes, what’s left? POOR PEOPLE without jobs. Not because they won’t pick berries in the fields. Because the big boys have moved their manufacturing overseas to avoid higher wages and taxes.

      We are in a big hurt without manufacturing, which always got us through tough times. Heavy manufacturing was mostly unionized. That insured people had decent wages, healthcare, pensions, and enough money to buy goods that we make. Look at the 3 most depleted aspects we now have. Manufacturing, healthcare, wages. This aint rocket surgery folks.

      The GOP principles and policies leave many poor people in it’s wake. Then, the DEMs come along and have to institute programs to provide social services, and get blamed for raising taxes to cover for what the GOP helped create. GOP cannot be the elite class as they so aspire. There won’t be anyone to buy homes and products that fuel our economy. Our import/export deficits are astounding. We used to sell our goods to the waiting world. Now, we buy their crap.

      In the last 25yrs, big business has been concerned only with developing technology, and then selling it, instead of product, to the world. You tell a guy who’s been building brick walls all his life that he needs to now get into Oracle software, and he’s lost. Bio sciences and high tech industry doesn’t do much for the average man as far as employment. The self entitled “elite” thinks any man that uses his hands and gets dirty is a loser, and should be subservient. Well folks, that’s the middle class now, and the most taxed sector of the population.

      There should be a flat tax, and nothing else. Bush allowed oil companies to stop paying royalties, and gave them 5 billion in tax relief when he finally figured out that Iraq was not going to pan out as he hoped. The result? Record profits for oil companies. No secret there.

      And steel tarriffs, anyone remember them? Bush shot himself, and us, in the foot on those.

      As far as our borders, not one president has been held accountable to enforce the constitution and provide us with secure borders. The one and only positive I hear about Bush is that we didn’t get attacked again. Come on folks, no country is going to show up with an armada to conquer us, they’ll get us from within. If a small fraction of illegals in this country now, formed an army, they would outnumber our troops tenfold and take us over in a week. Presently, there are more than 10million people in this country illegally. Dems and GOP are both at fault for their pandering to them to get votes. Every GOP boy has learned the ACORN mantra, but they forget, conveniently, that Bush was the first one to make overtures of amnesty in an attempt to get their votes. It didn’t work. Even the uneducated illegals w/out TVs and radio knew better than to trust Bush.

      You should all read the Art Of War. Every mideast and Asian commander has, and uses the tactics proven throughout history. Taliban uses it, Viet Cong did, Bush didn’t. He thought he would ride in like a John Wayne hero movie and secure his legacy. He did, but only for being an idiot. Obama is running and gunning, because no one really knows what to do. He has to sound confident and try to get his admins programs into play, as time is of the essence. If he sat around safely waiting to see what will happen without the injection of fiat money into our economy, we’d all yell that he’s not doing anything.

      Without manufacturing, we’re done folks. Are we going to give our economy over to the banks and mortgage/insurance houses to run for us, again?

  • http://BobLivingston David Wayne

    We don’t need another NEOCON flatulance mill spinning lies against the present administration. You brainwashed idiots seem to have forgotten the democrats have only been in office a month. You OMBIES should have your right to vote taken away because you are all mentally defective. I wouldn’t give the jackass that owns this site a dime. Who pays to be lied to? The republican deadbeat trash politicians have drained this country dry. The REPUBLICANS gave their banking buddies a trillion dollars before leaving office then had the audacity to whine about programs to help the middle class get back on their feet. YEP we will have to pay for it through taxes…just like we will have to pay for the trillion bucks that went to the bankers. Make this dummy Bob Livingston get a real job and work for a living like the rest of us. Don’t give him a dime. I get tired of seeing reformed cocaine addicts like the loser on tv that is (Glenn Beck) rakeing in millions just to sit at the mike and spin lies. We don’t need any mre.

  • joe the plumber

    you are all wrong

  • Bob

    Face it people, we are all part of the manipulated masses. All we know and react to is what we are told by the Media. We don’t take the time to really find out what is going on. Many of us get our news from comedians like like Leno, Letternan, Maher, SNL and those idiots on the View etc, how lame is that? We are more interested in American Idol or who is screwing who in Hollywood then what our Representatives are doing in Washington. It does not matter what our Representatives do in Washington, we keep reelecting them. Then when it is to late and the crap hits the fan we start yelling our heads off. Electing a man like Obama because he is Black (for some and not only Blacks that was the only reason they voted for him) is like buying a car without checking to see if it works because you like the color.

  • Nicole

    if the government really wanted to close out income earning illegal immigrants then they would. the fact is they take on hard jobs that require hard labor cheaper than anyone would even think about. Look it’s either you enforce the laws you regulate or just stop complaining about the $$ it is costing us due to the lack of enforcement on border control. AND, does anyone realize how illegal laborers save us on daily costs of living. Taxes are going to be a pain no matter what, if the govenment uses illegal immigration as the scapegoat for high taxes and expensive healthcare i can only imagine what they would say next.

    • elainekramer

      Nicole,
      I really don’t think you’re thinking straight. If the government would make these folks go home, probably all American unemployed people could have a job. It’s not our choice to give illegals jobs. If you know your city is full on illegals, it’s absolutely because the authorites in law enforcement have folks that don’t want them too. I think you think that our citizens can send the home. What in the world can American citizens do to get them back in their own country. You just try to tell your US Congressmen that we want you to get the illegals out of country. Have you tried Nicole? If we could, the American public would shag the folks in any direction that will take them home. And I don’t care how much money they save us here on our daily cost of living. Try talking to your local or US Chamber of Commerce about keeping illegals out. Tell them to stop hiring illegals and further more get them out of the country. Too bad your local paper didn’t have a half page map of all states on your front page a few weeks ago of just how much money that tax payers pay for bills of illegals. So don’t think if we could get them out ourselves, we would be there the next morning.

      • Joyce

        If I.C.E would fill up a bus of illegals I would pay, for the bus and the gas to send them back. After they fix the problem at the border.
        If they wanted the border closed It would be.

  • Harry

    It`s laugable that census data provides illegal alien stats, when it`s the census bureau that contributes to the problem, by counting illegal aliens in the decennial census, that inflates population numbers, that sends more politicians to Washington, than are needed to represent legal residents.
    Based on phony census counts, politicians & illegal immigration coalitions love this gerrymandering, that sends tons of tax dollars to congressional districts for politicians & bureaucrats to squander on their pork projects. Sadly, illegal aliens have more representation in congress, than do taxpayers, who won`t vote the corrupt politicians out of office.
    For what it`s worth…a mail-in campaign to narrow the USPS deficit, by sending tea bags to the White House & congress members, to oppose NObama`s massive porkulus bill.
    Let the revolution begin, again…no more taxation, without representation. Taxpayers deserve restoration of their 10th Amendment rights.

    • http://na suddencall

      When republicans are spending the money and running up debts it is ok, but when the democrats want to give the poor a chance it is taxation without representation.Well I got news , running up debts is raising taxes and not a smart way to run a government.Republicans are the guilty ones who have run your taxes out of poportions and made no effort to pay for anything.
      This mess did not just happen it was planned by the republicans so they could return the government to their corporate sponsers.A reminder ,in the near future watch your SSi, Veterans benefits and Medicare shink and disapear just as planned when bush got on tv and told you they would spend all the money and then congress would have no choice but cut..

      • The Captain

        Obama has spent more in the first few months of his presidency than all the previous presidents COMBINED, and mostly it has gone to enrich his already rich campaign contributors. Are you really this uniformed or just being dishonest?

      • suddencall

        You could not be more wrong.You are the one making up dreams.

  • Harry

    It`s laugable that census data provides illegal alien stats, when the census bureau contributes to the probelem, by counting illegal aliens in the decennial census, that inflates population numbers, that sends more politicians to Washington than are needed to represent legal residents.
    Based on phony census counts, politicians & illegal immigration coalitions love this gerrymandering, that sends tons of tax dollars to congressional districts for politicians & bureaucrats to squander on their pork projects. Illegal aliens have more representation in congress, than do taxpayers, who won`t vote the corrupt politicians out of office.
    For what it`s worth…a mail-in campaign to narrow the USPS deficit, by sending tea bags to the White House & congress members, to oppose NObama`s massive porkulus bill.
    Let the revolution begin, again…no more taxation, without representation. Taxpayers deserve restoration of their 10th Amendment rights.

  • s c mailen, jr.

    If the libs REALLY want to know what happened, they need to force their prostitute media pals to get the REAL story of Fannie Mae and how ‘certain’ politicians were responsible for the housing/real estate/ banking bubbles. Those who favor open borders and 1984-style government should invite as many illegal aliens as possible into their homes. Pay their bills. Watch your income evaporate. Ignore reality while your freedom is stolen by Washington criminals. Read and understand history (assuming libs can read). Your Washington pals can’t. Grow up, libs. You’ve been manipulated and dumbed-down, just like conservatives have.

    • C Allen

      Plenty of GOP backed businesses that escaped regulation got wealthy in the loan scam. I never heard any griping from them. Where did all the money go that the mortgage houses reaped during the 15yrs of loan fraud? Overseas in offshore accounts. That money, billions and billions, will never come back to the USA and be circulated in our economy.

  • Paul Callahan

    I hate to tell you this but you are about 30 years too late. California made laws over 30 years ago that you could not ask if they were illegal. Their was a news article about the school buses driving down a road and children crossing the border waiting to be picked up and taken to the local schools to be taught and nothing was ever done about it. They were also bused back to where they were picked up at the end of the day. California has always been a very liberal state. On a different note NAFTA I believe I spelled it right has also done nothing for the USA but it has helped everyone else in the world. I worked for a company with 6500 employees and is now down to about 800 employees. In the 80′s it was determined that their was not enough profit in some of the products we made so we moved the production out of the USA.

    • suddencall

      You got that right. why do we still have NAFTA today.why has it not been repealed? It has been many years sense it came and nothing has been done to change it.Why not?

  • PIM

    CDA, I don’t want California getting any federal funds to pay for their illegals. It is California’s fault they are broke.If they enforced the law that has been on the books for 16 years they wouldn’t be broke,but ya’ll had to be sanctuary cities and state, why should my tax dollars go to a state that will enforce the law selectively ???? BTW I have a cousin that worked as a migrant worker and you are paid based on what you pick,so if you do a decent days work you get paid good money,but if you are only bringing in minimum wage then you are not putting in a decent days work……….she and her husband would clear over $2000. a week and during the summer when her kids were out of school they worked in the fields as well, each bringing in over $500. a week for a kid under 16 is good money, beats the heck outta working for Mc D’s.. But now she is discriminated against by the farmers, she refuses to learn mexicanish.
    If you multiply the cost of illegals by 25 years, you would see why this country is in the condition it is.another point I would like to make
    our seniors that areretired factory workers who are in their 70′s and 80′s mostly receive less than $500. a month, but an illegal can come over here have a kid and claim it is disabled and receive almost $800. a month. also ADD and ADHD is considered a disability in California, yet not in all other states?? Give me a break. also if you think illegals cost, look at the refugees we have here they receive more than $2000, a month and there are refugees here who have been here since the days of Vietnam they never became citizens because they would lose the monthly payments, now our President wants to bring 150,000 people here as refugees from Gaza, a people who support Hamas and we are suppose to open our arms and welcome them and pay them more than our senior citizens??? I think the next election we may need to turn off the T.V. and do some research on the candidates …Ron Paul was our best chance to get back to normal, but he refused to leave the dying Republican party.. Next in line was Keyes, but media wanted Obama ,and they elected Obama………

    • Aida

      Greetings! You forgot to mention that the Media make Mcshamnesty the Republican candidate, who at every chance he had voted to help the Demoncraps legislation.
      On top he is in favor of the law breakers IDs thieves to get free amnesty as a reward for breaking our laws and bankrupting our social programs , supposed to be service for American citizens. Meantime illegal aliens are bringing all relatives and friend to enrolled in Medicare and the rest of government programs, costing billions of dollars to taxpayers to take care of the leeches.

    • C Allen

      I don’t thinks it’s Californias problem to close the borders. That’s mandated in our US constitution. It’s a federal problem. Remember, we don’t even know, right now, where millions of illegals are.

      Pickers in the central valley make almost $10 per hour.

      • suddencall

        We may not know where the illegals are at ,but we sure know where the employers of illegals are at and that is the important thing or should be.What we need to know is where the law enforcement people are at and why they refuse to do their sworn duty.

  • CDA

    elainekramer, you’re right, and can I add; we in San Diego have been hit especially hard by illegal immigration and border crime spilling into our county. a bunch of the drug cartel lives in San Diego county now. we send bills to the feds every year for reimbursement of our costs to deport, prosecute, feed and provide med care to them as well. we get almost nothing back from the feds, who, are obligated by law, to potect us and the borders. In a city near me, the city and developer/owner want to tear down an old blighted apartment complex, to build nicer housing. 70% of the people living there now are illegals. the PC people have sued and the city/developer are ordered to pay each family 3K for relocation!!!! for less than $300, we should deport them instead. but no, we pay for them to go to our schools, give them special ed, subsidize their bussing, food for their kids at school, and also, TEACH THEM SPANISH, as well as english too. Our local full service hospital is barely existing and we’ve been ordered to close it, or fix it. 70% of the emergency costs are for illegals, and they don’t pay. The smugglers continue to bring them in, and kill Americans in car chases. They drive with no insurance and kill people every week. Their neighborhoods have the highest crime rates, but, when we put traffic stops to check for unlicensed drivers, insurance, drunks, they scream “profiling”. Last I checked, if you want to catch criminals, you have the cops go to the places they are. They turn their neighborhoods into places that look like Tijuana, then want the white class to improve their “hoods” after they ruin them. and we do it!!! In what country, may I ask, can we go to and get rent assistance, med care, schooling, and jobs, without paying taxes, or being legal citizens ? NONE. I understand the USA WAS a land of hard working immigrants in the early days of our development, but, they were all recieved at Ellis Island and registered, then went to work at whatever they could do to help build America. They paid their dues and were accountable.

    the indirect costs of illegals goes much higher when you take into account all the little things that go on, outside of the major issues we see all the time in the media.

    and to be frank about it, the legal immigrant laborers get over $9 per hour in the fields. I’m sure we have some people who would rather work the fields for more than the US minimum wage, than starve.

    we need to get down and dirty with out feds and get a handle on it, NOW.

  • elainekramer

    The idea that our own government will not stop illegals coming into our country, might be a case for the Supreme Court. Both groups Dems and Reps have plenty in their parties that think there’s absolutely no immigration laws left I guess. If we shipped out the illegals that are working in the US tomorrow, we would have jobs for every person now on unemployment in a job by Monday.

    In Texax our local paper had the amount of monies that each state was paying for the illegals and nobody in our government can see that. We need to get everyone that’s in a Congress booted out and get people who might hear us. Maybe they might see what’s going on in thier districts.

    • http://na suddencall

      I can tell you that voting and talking is not going to get your congress and senate to turn down the corporate well fare that is bribing the oficials to back illegals.You need to come out in force and bring the hemp with you.Every CEO in this country is breaking the law by bribing your rep to help his business.A hemp necktie can change things for the better.Owe I forgot ,we only have cowards who live in America today.No chance of getting a fight out of them..

  • RHem-TX

    To CDA:

    The biggest fault of the Bush administration was that they spent too much money. We were doing pretty good after 9/11 and our economy was on its way towards recovery when the liberals won Congress. So, the last 2 years of Bush (Democratic control) led us to the disaster we face now. Nancy Pelosi is a joke. Harry Reid is a joke. Barney Frank is a joke and a crook. Most of the liberals in our government are rich and corrupt, yet they try and portray a different picture. They act like they care about the citizens of the US yet refuse to protect us at our borders. I am all for “LEGAL” immigration based on our country’s needs but “ILLEGAL” immigration has to stop.

    It is easy to blame Bush (mostly because he would not stand up for himself) and not the Democratic controlled Congress for our financial problems. Just a note: I believe I just read that President Obama has now spent more money in his first MONTH as President than Bush spent the entire 8 years. How does spending more money on pork and earmarks get us out of debt? Do you do that at your house? I sure don’t. If I spend too much, I cut back, not spend more. It’s stupid, and the American people are fed up with seeing the people that we HIRED do such a bad job.

    Also, it is very important to continue to boost our businesses and make sure that business owners make a good profit. Why? I have never been hired by a “poor” person, have you? The poor do not contribute financially to our society, they only receive. And I don’t have a problem with helping the truly poor who cannot help themselves. However, we should not be taking money from those who are working hard to contribute and grow our economy and give it to those who are always needing a handout. Somehow, our liberals in Washington think that is only “fair”. Fair to whom?

    Illegals have to go back, period. If we need some reform in our immigration laws, then that’s what we need. But, first we need to secure our borders. Then we need to get the criminals and those on the government dole out of here. From who is left, we can try and establish a work need for them in our country. How hard is that to see? Apparently, too hard for our elected officials.

    • http://na suddencall

      There is something wrong with the water down there it is effecting the minds of the citizens.They can not tell a terrorist when it is right in their face.Republicans have never done any thing good for America,their sole purpose is to destroy all the institutions of our government and deliver the entire control to a imoral, superstitious,crooked captilist regime of imorel, facist sadists.

      • YUCONJON

        YOU ARE A NUT, GOD HELP US

  • LARRY

    I BELIEVE its time for the AMERICAN PEOPLE to take a stand all our LEADERS
    have become a corrupted bunch who only care how much money there going to steel
    while in office we need to in mass go to our leadership and demand not ask demand
    1 that first of all that the way we elect our leaders be more open everyone’s record
    should be published for an election not by the corrupt media but by voting records opened to the people at each and every library .
    and any public official who takes office does not get to vote on his own raise if he’s a
    congressman or woman he must have it approved by the voters in his district
    president must get his raise from the people of the united states
    no state has the right to violate a person’s constitutional rights
    so gun permits since its in the constitution should be federal not a right given to the states

  • Dan

    Mr Livingston, by the way, the above article is so up my ally that i cut-paste it in emails and sent it to all my reps. Cong, Local gov etc.

    thanks again!!

  • Dan

    AW, i didnt see this one, i was preaching the same thing on one of your other issues. oh well its nice to see im no crazy. Thanks Mr Livingston!!!

  • PIM

    Well if the illegal aliens had been deported all along then we wouldn’t see a economics problem right now…Acorn is the main reason we had the housing melt down, look at it this way the plan was for poor blacks to be able to buy a home, but in fact it led to illegal aliens getting the loans ,even though they had no right to work in this country, and had no social security number..So when the immigration laws started to be enforced the illegals started to run….leaving behind the homes and loans…………
    multiply these figures by 10 years and that is a chunk of money, also think about the money they send home , in my opinion the western union company should be arrested for money laundering……………..

    • elainekramer

      Right on, PIM.

    • Aida

      PIM, the housing problem is the work of ACORN, since they bully the banks to give loans to illegal aliens , who do not qualify for it in more than one way, they are illegal. There is a case the illegal alien got a huge amount to buy a house, so he asked for liquid dollars, he was using a retired senior’s ID, so he got the loan and fled the country and the Senior got stucked with the mess. Meantime the authority did bother to find the ID thief. It’s shameful and outrageous what is happening in our country. These IDs thieves law breakers are laughing at the idiots in our government who keep pandering to them giving rights don’t belong to them.

      • Meredith

        Ha! Ha! Ha! That terrible, vast, all powerful entity named ACORN created the housing crisis! By bullying banks into giving loans to illegal immigrants! Those poor, helpless, multinational banks had no choice but to back down! Ha! I can’t even type a coherent reply, I’m laughing way too hard. You people…seriously, ACORN is such small, small potatoes, and from what I have seen, chronically understaffed and mismanaged by some not-very-bright people. I would like to see some of the numbers on these ID thieves y’all are so obsessed with, it seems to me that stealing your social security number and gain access to your bank account and credit cards, or open up new cards in your name, would be difficult for most illegals, and out of character – they mostly just want to work hard, lay low, send money back to Mexico (or wherever), and not get arrested. You people are living in a fringe alternate universe, and one that happily most Americans don’t share.

      • Gary

        Although I have no use for Acorn as I feel their purpose at present is to help steal elections. That said they didn’t cause the housing crisis. It was Barney Franks and some of his cohorts who forced the Banks to make loans that were very shaky. Of course Barney denies all of this now, remember him on Bill O’Reily? I don’t like O’Reily either he’s a big buffoon on many things but he put Barney in his place. It’s also the big Banks that allow illegals to have Bank accounts without social security numbers. Also Bank of America giving them Credit Cards, hasn’t hurt Bank of America. They know Federal Government will bail them out if they get in a bind. The financial report in this article is very conservative the Heritage Foundation estimates that illegals cost us 100 Billion a year. I know if you’re George Soros that’s not a lot of money, but to me it’s a bunch!!

      • JD

        It was not all big banks giving credit cards. It was Bank of America ONLY IN CA that did a trial run. I used to be a BOA customer. I went and tried to get a CC in AZ. I was told that BOA in CA is not with the rest of BOA and they were the only ones doing it and it has now been ceased. Didn’t work out1 Gee wonder why?? Apply for CC with fake name, fake address, get all the money you can and send it back “home” and then don’t pay. Any idea why CA is so dang broke???? Aww gee! Must be run by idiots.

      • suddencall

        Acorn had nothing to do with the morgage bubble. GOP had everything to do with the morgage bubble and that is not even the half of the law breaking schemes of the republican regimes.You people need to look around and see the republican enemy that is all around you.They are stabbing you in the back day after day and you do not even know they are doing it to you. God , this situation is dumb.Republican = terror organization.

    • Jose

      Do you even know the defeniton of money loundering??? because thats not what it is they send money because they care about their family and try give them a better life. what u should do instead of wrighting nonsence is opening a dictionary or a book and get educated. but snece your probably to lazy to do that, ill give u a quick lesson. money londering has to do with illegal work like drugs, guns or any other job thats against the law. and it has to go threw transfers to get washed/”money loundering” so that the money can be used. not just by sending it to your family. and before u jump to the dumb statment that i know this because im probably a mexican. which i am and so what? u wont do crap about it. i know this because i opend a book to educate my self on facts and definitions, unlike most americans that all they do is complain, and listen to what the tv tells them…..

  • Robin from Indiana

    No wonder California is broke! Why when they are caught for whatever reason, are they not deported? Why are their rights the same as ours? What is happening to our country? I say all illegals between the ages of 18 and 30 when caught, need to be inducted into our military, or sent home. Let them serve 4 years. When their term is completed and they ‘pass’ tests to qualify for citizenship, by all means, let them become US citizens!

    • elainekramer

      I say nobody who comes to this country should never become a citizen. The idea of giving illegals citizenship when the first thing they ever did was come into the country illegally.

      • Krysta

        You keep forgetting that this country is based on immigration. If the topic is on citizenship, then I believe that the true “citizen” are Native Indians, other than that, everyone else, technically speaking, is an illegal immigrant. Historically speaking, everyone was an “illegal immigrant” to begin with. Why do you think that the United States is so diverse? We weren’t all born here. Who is to say what people deserve the rights that we have? Our Founding Fathers left Great Britain looking for a better opportunity and life, the Natives could have easily kicked our ancestors out and prevented all of this. I believe that anyone who is looking for an opportunity to better themselves, their families, and their rights as HUMAN BEINGS, deserves it. [If you're Native, then I take back what I said].

      • suddencall

        Krista ?
        The Indians were not native Usa. Citizens ,the republicans just told you that so you would give uup your christian right to not pay taxes as a native citizen. As for illegals your other subject ,that dog don’t hunt either.Illegal means breaking the law and no one should be rewarded for breaking the law.Where do you get your reasoning?

      • Jose

        Natives dont have to be U.S citizens. because they have every right to be here, they were here before they started with their stupid “manifest destiny” no where does it says that people have the right to kill and invade a country, because of “manifest destiny,” thats just an excuse to do things that yall dont have a right to do. and you should get your political partyes right before wrighting. and if you have been to another country does that mean that your an illegal too, because you cross a border wen you do that. yall just want to see things in a white and black point of view. leave that to a child, but your an adult u should have a different mentality so act like an adult. and educate your self on facts before posting things, and get your political parties right…..

    • Jose

      Dear Robin

      I want to see u join the millitary. just because whe werent born here dosent mean whe have to fight or the rights of ignorent people like u. yall dont deserve an innocent human that wants a better life for his family, to fight for yall in a war that makes no cense to begin with. so dont bring up this serving for yall bs!!! what yall need to do is get educated and learn that mexicans make the U.S. more money than they what yall ignorent people say they spend on yalls “securing the border.” The reason why the U.S. is in debt is because of their past mistakes with not knowing how to spend money. and yall are just using hard working immigrants as a skape goet for yalls mistakes. stop blaming things on other people and and step up for the crapy decisions yall make. yall are just gready people and all yal think about is money and no one else.

  • Karen

    I am sick of it ! I am sick of all the bailouts for the corrupted banks as Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac as the democrats were in congress and did this and not they are bailing them out giving more money then needed to what ?To stock pile money for the 2012 election as in banking their money into an account and they are getting this money for their funded corruption from the tax payers. Fannie Mae Freddy Mac or Acorn should have not a dime. !!!! I am sick of all the corruption of the democrats as I am independent and have sense to not watch the main stream Media in the lies they tolds Americans they control the minds of people,but hey could you not go and look at all campaigns and see where the media has lied to you all ! I will never watch the media ! tHEY ARE THE WEATHY PEPLE MEDIA.oBAMA IS A LIAR ND NOT MY PRESIDENT JUST A FRAUD !AND not they are taken tax dollars in funding and giving to banks and more as Acorn to help hide and save for 2012 election.

    WAKE UP PEOPLE AND SEE WHAT’S GOING ON..AND THE DEMOCRATS KNOW THAT OBAMA RATING ARE FAR WORST THEN BUSH AND WILL NEED HELP TO CONTINUE THE CROUPTION BY TAKEN MORE MONEY FROM THE PEOPLE TO STOCK PILE ALL OF IT.

    And now Bill linton stands and tells Obama he needs to tell the people it will be harder and worst..for what..to hide the fact that people ofmany race and color have now waken up and that’s why Bill Clinton said hey change your tone cvause all you are doing is wrong..Obama can’t un do what the mess he has now put our country in as he started this many years to take down america.People you have your children and grand children to think about.We will now be to the point of nomreturn in what the democrtas want us to be.! Control.. and why want your medical records ..so no longer you and your doctor is the two who talk and control what is best for you..Obama wants to control your treatmeny as he tewlls the older people to get over it and the pain they have oh to bad.As our younger children willl also be turned away from treatment that now our government wil make if he/she should have..no well hey lets wait another 3 years and then come back..That’s what they are saying..in three yers that problem could have been something and now grew to a death trap because the goverment said no treatment.thery are controling your children in scholls and all over. WAKE THE FUCK UP ! .

    • http://bellouth.net marcy

      KAREN,

      I’M WITH YOU.

      • http://factcheck C D A

        whoa there. Remember, (you right wingers with your selective memories) the bailouts began with the GOP. The big banks, brokers and mortgage houses appealed and pleaded with the GOP fist, for bailouts, before Obama was elected.

        the most absurd fact is, that in the recent pole vote on this site, 72% blame the Obama admin. for the economy crisis. Right wingers are so good at forgetting that the Bush admin has helped greatly to run us into the ground. Yes, Pelosi is a fool. But so are the GOP right winger hypocriits for sticking their heads so deep into the sand that they can brainwash themselves into believing they didn’t play a part in ourdownfall.

        Obama didn’t BS us into an invasion, draining capital and doubling the deficit.

        Obama didn’t excuse the oil boys from paying royalties and taxes on historical profits.

        Obama didn’t fail to close our borders.

        Obama is not a savior, but in fact, none of the GOP clowns are either. He was handed a very sick dog, and doesn’t really know for sure how to save it. I’m not an Obama supporter, but a realist. Check the facts people ,and look in the mirror. your hypocricy reeks.

        So if the GOP side knows how to fix it, let’s hear it……………silence…………
        Oh, now I hear it, but it sounds a lot like someone imitating Pelosi. gripe, bitch, gripe and whine.

        if hypocricy were a crime, you’d all be in jail.

      • Rick Simard

        Good point! And the bottom line is, even what the Republican party is sending us is still for the most part LEFT WING! Face it folks, there is no real two party system, unless you count Liberal and REALLY Liberal, as two parties!

      • The Captain

        You seem to have selective memory as well. The denocrats purposely tanked the economy when they took over Congress in 2006 so they could blame it on Bush and control all three houes and take over scotus as well. Barney Frank, et al, wouldn’t allow reforms to be made on the CRA to prevent this crisis.

      • Crush

        Captain -
        The Republicans had control of this country for nearly eight years. The Dems had a slim(non-veto proof) majority for a year and a half…do you seriously think these problems cropped up overnight? You are very delusional..these problems have been brewing since the late ’90′s when Phil Gramm and two of his cohorts pushed through a bill which dismantled part of the regulation that was put in place after the great depression. Clinton signed the bill and we were off to disaster. That’s what allowed these lenders to make up all these crazy loans giving money to people who had no jobs and a terrible credit score. It was all about the banks making money hand over fist…it was all about greed…and it happened while the Republicans were in office. As long as home prices kept going up and people could keep refinancing the problem stayed below the surface…once the housing market started to go down, that was it. I worked in the mortgage industry, I saw what was going on.

      • FrancoPhx

        Great reply. I think that each party has a huge amount of blame. The fact is, we continue to re-elect them. What’s the answer, who knows. Accountability is one way. There should be a Huge House Cleaning.

    • Aida

      Karen, it’s getting worst! Have you heard about the new driver’s licenses with a tracking chip? It’s really scary, we can even move we will be watch whated 24/7.
      If refused the person can’t travel, since that will be their ID for everything and will not be able to get back in the country. The excuse is to track who is not a citizen and
      control who are in the country illegally???? Does this sound familiar? God help us and keep us safe from the monster!

    • suddencall

      Karen?
      Like Barny Franks said ” on which planet have you been spending most of your time? ” you are completely wrong on your summary of who your enemy might be.As every general has learned ,You must know who the enemy is before you can begin to fight.
      You are blaming the wrong people.Obama did not bail out the banks,the republicans did that, along with wrecking the economy and spending all the money( big debts).

  • David Welker

    These are just outright lies.

    • Rick Simard

      Now this is what I call a factual reply! NOT!

      • elainekramer

        You’re out of you mind Sir.

    • Bill Thomas

      Exactly what is not factual? Look at what is happening along the border as we speak! The mayor of Juarez as moved his family to Texas for their safety. Is this what you want for our country? Mexico is corrupt to the core and the drug cartels are taking it over and spilling their violence into this country. If anything, this doesn’t tell even a minute portion of what their REAL cost to this country is.

      • Rick Simard

        Umm, I think you misunderstood my comment. I was referring to the BOOB with one line…”These are just outright lies”. I love when people make a comment like that and don’t add what facts they have to back up such an ignorant comment. Sorry you misunderstood…I Stand with you on the cost of illegals to our nation! I have written my representatives many times on this issue and all I get from them is how much it would cost to round them up try them in a court and send them back. I don’t understand why there has to be a trial. They don’t have proof of citizenship, they simply get shipped back to the country they are citizens of! Simple, isn’t it?

        My solution would be a simple one. Since Obama is abandoning Iraq, put those Abrahms tanks on the border with there big guns facing Mexico…Have some target practice for the next moron that wants to screw with the US, and end of illegal problem, no more overcrowding in our schools, no more bankrupt hospitals due to having to treat these criminals for a runny nose in the ER…NO MORE!

      • KB

        RICK,
        RUN FOR CONGRESS!!! My white daughter is a minority at her middle school (60%illegal hispanic/20% white/10%Black and Asian). They do not have the same values regarding education and morality that we do. It is like a 3rd world country at her school. It will not continue for us-we are moving. But please help!

      • R Martinez

        KB & Rick,
        Too bad so sad for you all & your children who over populated by other races in a public school system, anywhere in this Country or others your going to be surrounded by other colors. How about home school for your precious children, then this way they are entirely surrounded by white people as parents like you. Anyway leave the congress out of your hissy tantrums, because maybe they have had their eye opener already & realize there is no such thing as white Americans living in this Country alone. Let me tell you all why. I’m white & I have 4 beautiful Mexican girls because their father is Mexican & legal, so therefore your out voted all the way because my children are U.S. citizens born here & guess what the tree roots will continue to keep growing, meaning whether you like it or not, all WHITE don’t exist anymore, so you either deal with other races that attend public schools or you all can find a place in the desert somewhere all alone with no neighbors, or any friends for your children. Why are you making these types of decisions for your children anyway, let them decide if they want other races for friends,if you want to run the system then I guess you better find a large group of all white AMERICANS that will join you. Otherwise deal with facts of life now & in the future. Home school maybe your best solution. And for the record, my 4 Mexican girls they have many friends that wish they were them. Beauty comes from within, not from the outer of one. Good Luck, move to the end of the earth, MARS maybe, but you wont like those Aliens either.

      • Rick Simard

        KB,

        I feel your pain, and share your grief! No different here!

        Keep in mind, We are congress. Those people in congress work for us. Somewhere along the line they got a differing perspective on their position. “We the people” need to take back what our forefathers fought and gave up their lives for. The only way to do it is to constantly be on our elected officials case. They sneeze, we tell them they blew it! They fart, we tell them it stinks! We have to hold they accountable for EVERY thing they do. The idea of term limits comes to mind. The longer they are in office the more power they achieve. Power that simply doesn’t belong to them. But we the sheeple of this country are too meek to fight. Too complacent to argue. We need to rise up and let them know we are here, and we are mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore!

      • suddencall

        Do you really believe that you can change these politicos by threatening them?I think not.
        Do you really believe that you can change these politicos by voteing?I think not.These politicos won’t even return a reply to your inquirey,much less read your mail.
        The people are going to have to get and show much more agreason if they want to change this crapo system.If you think these con – men are afraid of your talk and your vote ,you need to think agin .The use of vigilanty pressure is the most likely cure for this type of conformtation and is the most likely cure .

      • JD

        VOTE IN NOVEMBER 2010 AND 2012 AND HELP CLEAN UP THOSE CUTTHROATS IN WA THAT HAVE STABBED US IN THE BACK WHILE CUTTING OUR THROATS. AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, TAKE AWAY THEIR $1000′S OF RETIREMENT DOLLARS THEY WILL GET TO KEEP. MOST OF THEM MAKE MORE IN ONE MONTH THAN I DO IN A YR. MAKE THEM PAY SOCIAL SECURITY AND DRAW ONLY SOCIAL SECURITY. I GUARANTEE IT WOULD GET FIXED. THEY DON’T CARE IF THERE IS ILLEGALS HERE COSTING US MONEY. IT IS NOT THEIR MONEY. IF WE GET SOMEONE IN THAT CARES ONE IOTA, WE MIGHT GET SOMETHING DONE AND GET OUR COUNTRY BACK.

      • Diane

        And we keep voting for them… but don’t have much to choose from…

      • Aida

        Rick I agree with you but, the problem is the government we have don’t want to hurt the illegal aliens feelings, most of our so called “leaders” just care about their re-election to power. Our voices don’t count to these group of morons, whose greed and selfishness had blinded them. As you have seen the minority is taking the lead, the majority don’t count and have no say lately. They want to silence all of us, who act responsible and love our country. If the suppose “leadership” wanted to get rid of these leeches & Ids thieves, just don’t allowed the to work here, no freebies from the government or benefits, they deport themselves and we don’t pay a penny.
        I can’t remember the name of the president, who got all illegals aliens in buses and sent them back to their homes, but todays “leaders” just want their votes and their cheap labor, which is hurting the American people to the limits. They don’t care about the country or us citizens. Need to know who pay their salaries!

      • http://www.yahoo.com Manuel S Rivera

        How much? the undocument help the nation,? and how much the Evil Politic Party waste in Iraq, Also in the two wars. So this (WORD REMOVED FOR OFFENSIVE CONTENT) Evil Politic Party ( Republican Party). Are acontaminate the nation over and over by using anti-Democratic and Anti- constitutional politices. These paracites are more evil then Al-caeda, yes both are evil.

        Thank you and Sincerely
        Activist Chicano/Latino Manuel S Rivera

      • JD

        Three presidents Hoover Truman and Eisenhower have cleaned out the illegals to provide jobs for returning military people. We just don’t have a president that has the balls to do it. And now it more than just the returning military. It is now becoming just regular citizens who need jobs because the Gov has closed companies down and upset the ecomony and our unemployment is way high. There are people that would do a $7 an hour job, IF it wasn’t taken by a illegal.

      • Ana

        Haha wow if you think that this will make you feel any better, you should probably try to get it done. did you not understand the corrupt part of this?(Mexico is corrupt to the core and the drug cartels are taking it over and spilling their violence into this country)This would be the worst thing AMERICA could do. Without illegals there would be no “AMERICA”!!!!!

      • JD

        BS Ana! Without the illegals, we would have a better and safer America. But Mexico doesn’t want their people back because they are broke too and they are depending on those working in the US to send millions back to Mexico each yr to keep their ecomony up. So our money is supporting 2 countries. And more.

      • Diane

        Huh???

      • Ralph DeMattia

        Rick, that sounds like a great idea! Many countries in Europe and Asia have the border guards SHOOT illegal aliens. Maybe we should too. How about a bounty of, say $500.00 on every dead mexican someone brings in? Harsh, YES, but so is making US citizens pay for these creatures to make a mockery of our laws, then come here and tell us how lousy the country they just illegaslly entered is. I’m tired of it!

      • Zach

        Here are some Facts:
        “In 2006, then IRS Commission Mark Everson told Congress that “many illegal aliens, utilizing ITINs, have been reporting tax liability to the tune of almost $50 billion from 1996 to 2003.”

        The Social Security Administration estimates that about three-quarters of illegal workers pay taxes that contribute to the overall solvency of Social Security and Medicare.

        “The agency estimates that for 2005, the last year for which figures are available, about $9 billion in taxes was paid on about $75 billion in wages from people who filed W2 forms with incorrect or mismatched data, which would include illegal immigrants who drew paychecks under fake names and Social Security numbers.”

        “Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson calculates that illegal immigrants contributed $428 billion dollars to the nation’s $13.6 trillion gross domestic product in 2006. That number assumes illegal immigrants are 30% less productive than other workers.

      • Jose Velazquez

        Ralph I do not aprecciate you making fun of my people. i dont intend to get shot by you whiteties and your crazy wife. insted of guns why not use a minefield? im joking. ur an ass

        ADIOS!
        JOSE YOUR MEXICAN FRIEND

      • Diane

        Hope you’re talking about impenetrable bullets, and just the ones that hurt. Anyway, I am tired of it too. I am half way to what Obama considers the “rich”. HA! HA! I own a home, but it is attached. I drive a 2002 Pathfinder. I travel a few times per year; only places I can drive to. I DO pay for private school and my daughter is now entering HS (with double the tuition I am used to), so I DO work 6 days per week; sometimes 7. And these Illegals sail through with there kids getting food, healthcare and education for free, and I am still struggling to survive. Something wrong with this picture??

    • CDA

      hey Welker, what planet have you been living on ? Come to San Diego and see what’s going on.

      • BT

        hey yall whats crackalackin my homie G?

      • BT

        if yall talk bou this stuff u guys sure do lead a borin life

      • keeping it real

        Bt,
        You are reading as well. This is a huge issue everybody’s dicussing. But your probably an illigal immigrant, at least you can write.

    • private

      people that condone illegal immigration are just down right idiots
      im 18 years old and concern for my future, everything is being taken away by the illegal aliens…

      how can you honestly be for this? the are taking your health care, taking spots in colleges that your children have earned.

      what you(words removed for offensive content) dont realize is your paying for them to take your job, your health insurance, helping more drugs and violence being brought in to this country..
      im just in shocked in what liberals and obama lovers have really let this country seep down to..

      • Manny 11

        Lol. u make me laugh with ur downright ignorance, i can tell u r an 18 yr old… ur just making rash statements with no proof, if the spots in college u speak of are that of janitorial work, and gardening then i agree we r taking that from ur children… Illegal immigrants cant go to college because they have no papers…. And If ur “children” cant get into college, well then maybe its because they did not earn that right and should have done better in high school. And dont be an idiot, drugs are being brought in like import, because they are in high demand by americans, if u guys werent such coke heads, and pot heads there would be no drug business here… get ur things straight.

      • Virginia

        Manny, could you do us a favor and write out the words “you” and “your” as it is really annoying to read your posts with all the u and ur. Texting on blogs is unnecessary.

      • Ralph DeMattia

        Maybe he’s stupid?

      • Jerry49

        Manny – Maybe you should re-check your facts. Illegals have very little trouble getting into our colleges. They’re just required to pay out-of-state tuition. Google “Colotl” at Kennesaw State University, if you won’t take my word for it. She has broken God-only-knows-how-many state and federal laws, and she is studying to be a lawyer!!

      • Lee

        Many states are offering illegals in-state tuition rates. They can better afford to go to college!!

      • http://www.cobratubes.com J. GRIGGS

        MANNY 11, IF “ILLEGALS” CAN’T GO TO COLLEGE HERE, WHY IS THE “ILLEGAL” YOUNG LADY ALL OVER THE NEWS SUING BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO FINISH HER LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE HERE AND WE ARE FIGHTING IT BECAUSE SHE IS “ILLEGAL”? THEN SHE WANTS TO SAY WE ARE INVADING HER CIVIL RIGHTS? WHAT GIVES HER CIVIL RIGHTS WHEN SHE IS “ILLEGAL”?

  • s c mailen, jr.

    This issue concerns waste of money, time and resources. It is a constant drain on our economy, and our leaders have refused to do their job. As long as elected leaders willingly choose to live in denial and violate their oaths of office, then individual states have the constitutional right to correct the situation.
    We must view the leaders of Mexico and America in the same light. That is, Mexican and American officials have chosen to abandon the people.
    It is time for responsibility and character and the love of freedom to relegate useful idiots, social engineers and anarchists to the ash heap of history.

    • Aida

      Yes Mailen you are 100%. Time to get rid of the bozos in government that are just self centered and don’t keep the oath of office and keep pandering to the illegal aliens law breakers Ids thieves. We the people are the ones that have to pay their bills, while they enjoy all benefits supposed to be for American citizens. These bunch of irresponsible seating in government, who the only thing they know what to do is getting rich on all the benefits they get direct and indirect from being in power. We had been squeezed to the limits by these selfish and greedy bozos in our government. Time to send back to their states to earn a living for themselves and making sure not to come back again! Time everyone wake up and see the danger
      we are facing at this time and more to come if we don’t stand up for our rights
      and the Constitution. We are loosing the country and the freedom we have.
      God bless and have a great week!

      • Maria

        Really? So we dont consider how they get paid 20% less in wages then those that are legal? Illegals stimulate enormous economic activity. The majority of them still pay taxes while using phony security numbers. Others work fill job positions that many of us would not do, therefore producing lower costs in goods and services. Really? How much would you want to get paid for picking strawberries and cleaning houses all day?

      • Ralph DeMattia

        If they are here illegally, I DON’T CARE who takes advantage of them! They’re criminals and should be tossed out. We spend billions each year on them, taking away money from Americans, then we have to watch these pieces of filth prding down our streets, waving MEXICAN flags and complaining about our immigration laws. THEY AREN’T TOUGH ENOUGH!
        Illegal immigrants, usually mexican, must be harshly dealt with or legal immigration will vanish and all we’ll have left is THEM

      • John Doe

        RIGHT ON, RALPH!!!

      • Rory

        Why are Mexicans coming here? Because Americans pay them to. If illegal jobs dry up then so will illegal immigration. This is the most inefficient argument I have ever seen. Every one of these speeches need to be redirected at the Americans who enable desperate people to run across a desert for 4 days, without adequate food or water, for labor that most Americans snub their noses at, for wages few would take seriously. If we spent half as much time shutting down or severely fining corporations responsible for illegal hiring as we do demonizing poor people this problem would be solved already. I’m ready to pay the extra money at the grocery store (which will probable be more than double the current price for fruits, vegetables and meat) to ensure a legal wage. Lets make sure our elected representatives know we are all willing sacrifice to make this happen.

      • Timmothy Jones

        Dear Ralph,
        there are so many ignorant people such as yourself who make me laugh! So I guess I should have to thank you! Why is it that people such as yourself talk about immigration and don’t even considerer factors such as NAFTA. But I bet you don’t even know what that means?!Thanks to American policies not only in Mexico but throughout all Central America, people are force to leave their land because the US screws them over. READ ALITTLE BIT MORE AND EDUCATE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE! P.S THANKS FOR YOUR SENSELESS COMMENTS CAUSE THEY ARE FUNNY!

      • http://Yahoo.com Elaine in Texas

        Ralph, you are absolutely correct. Obama is NOT doing anything about it. Only Arizona is doing something about it. The situation is getting
        worse everyday. Mexico incarcerates their illigal immigrants and has
        no compassion what so ever with people from Central America.

        WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARDS?

        Obama apologizing for Arizona, makes me SICK!

        We are losing our America.

      • Augustine

        Hey Ralph, you represent the millions of “Americans” (and I say that tongue-in-cheek because I don’t know of what ethnic background you belong to, Polish, Italian, German, etc,)that do not bother to read or fact-check things out before comenting, only to make a fool of yourself and worse, showing your racism, which you are entitled to since a lot of Mexicans have fought and died and continue to do so to defend our nation in order for you to excercise your constitutional rights.
        You see, I do not think much of your ignorant comment since you did not mention criminal employers and the complicity that our government has with these criminals. They exploit people, cheat the government out of taxes, and indirectly make it easy for you to make excuses as to why you or your “white” brothers cannot find a job because illegals are taking them and/or driving wages down.
        When America needed cheap labor and our economy was humming, no problem. Now that China owns our credit card and we are toughing it and of course, election time, it is time again to beat on the illegal alien.
        Politicians are worse than maggots in that they promise you the world only to always let you down. They sucker ignorant people like you to spew their rethoric. The one they always play. “It is time to beat on the illegal alien again” as it happens every time.
        As of right now I cannot find a name for a country that under the guise of “Manifest Destiny” invades a weeker and steals half of its territory. If it was “justified for the US government then it should be equally ok for a “Mexican Manifest Destiny” to invade the old country in search of opportunity. After all, the US is still a land of immigrants, right? Oh, wait a minute, I got the name….WHINERS! Wahh! Wahh!. We can do it but they cannot, wahh! wahh!
        Get some backbone and accept that our government has gotten us into this because only our government knows its agenda. Maybe it is because you do not realize that in the short future the US will be competing with other countries to attract cheap labor in order to stayglobally competitive.
        So, I can go on forever but what is the point. “Americans” will remain ignorant to a lot of things because they are lazy and still have that sense of “entitlement”. I am better than a Mexican because I am white.
        I always laugh because it is inevitable that the more Mexicans are attacked the more unified they get. They are young, vibrant, family oriented, goal oriented, and yes, as a baby boomer, the ones that are going to pay for my social security check and yours when you and I retire.
        So go ahead, continue to be one-sided. Illegals 0, employers 1.
        As for myself, I hope to be alive to see the “Reconquista” of the Sowthwest. We deserve it.

      • Tone

        Maybe all the lazy/cheap white people should stop hiring illegals. If there are no jobs they will not come. Check your own people before you start to discriminate.

      • Ryan

        I have to say, I agree with you Ralph. These illegal criminal immigrants should not be here, bottom line! More people with our views need to speak out on this issue, & stop being so complacent. The majority of Americans feel the same as me. We Americans should enact immigration laws identical to the laws that the countries they come from have. Lets see how they like it when the shoe is on the other foot! These people come to our country, take our jobs, wave Foreign flags in our streets, mooch off our social service programs, then demand we learn Spanish because they fail to learn English as ALL the immigrants before then did. They demand,& in some cases border line riot for us to give them amnesty. I say never! This is America, a country designed to be for the people, by the people. Being that the MAJORITY of our country wants these people deported & absolutely “NO AMNESTY” given it’s high time our “For The People, By The People” government do what we ask of it. Since the government cant seem to do their job, let us do the job. Let us vote on the illegal immigration issue during the next major national election.

      • Andrew Brown

        @Ralph
        Ralph, if you say you don’t care about the above statement, that means your being ignorants
        Ignorance is hiding one side = corruption
        Ralph, you sound ignorant
        @Gh0tz
        Very true.
        However, those are the anchor babies, which, are considered now legal.

      • R Martinez

        Sick Sick Sick I sure in the heck can’t wait for our friendly Hispanic friends to come & attack such discriminating people in this COUNTRY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA give me a break. The people in this stupid country are happy killing people, how sick have you all become. I am 100% AMERICAN & I don’t believe in harming a soul. I think every color every race every single person that was given life by God himself deserves the right for freedom all the way. Regards to such people blogging on this site out of hatred toward the MEXICAN community. Then all you lazy — Americans get off the couches, stop using your own Country for a luxury right now & accept the low paying jobs & work from dawn, clear up to the next morning with no sleep as the Mexicans do for this Country. OMG people get a grip if the MEXICANS wanted to right now they have every power in this world to start a war in this Country, & our Citizens have caused so much disruption in their Country known as Mexico that used to be a very joyful place for vacationing for thousands of people, now you go there be prepared to be a target of death. THANKS AMERICA! WAY TO GO ARIZONA!
        I will no be a part of this racial U.S.A anymore I will be strong & stand up for the rights of our MEXICAN hard workers who will work for this Countries obesity because none of you AMERICANS will work in the fields that feed you & your children, but California needs illegal children as young as 10 to come here to please this Country. BACK OFF ALL YOU IGNORANT PEOPLE TOWARDS OUR MEXICANS & FOR THE RECORD GET YOUR DUMB FACTS STRAIGHT ABOUT TAXES & THEM RECEIVING BENEFITS. EVEN ILLEGAL MEXICANS LEGALLY WITH PIN NUMBERS FROM THE I.R.S FILE TAXES. THOSE WHO DON’T STILL HAVE EVERYTHING WITH HELD FROM THEIR CHECKS, HUH DOES THIS MONEY GO TO MEXICO OR RIGHT BACK INTO THE GOVERNMENT FUNDS!
        Yea, I can give breaks to the casino playing Tribal Indians who eat, live, receive free medical care, gosh they don’t file taxes either imagine that, nope the Indians sitting on street corners drunk day & night & sniffing the paint they buy from winnings at casinos, that they don’t pay taxes on. Stupid American & Mexican people who are attacking the Hispanics give it up its too late folks. I’m all they way supporting them to be here & I’ll fight for their rights legal or not. Americans your people of God, so are They. UNDER GOD, LIBERTY for all. GET RID OF THE FLAG SALUTE it don’t make sense.
        AMERICANS please do all of us a favor go rent the black and white movie the Grapes of wrath, or my family, American me. WE TOOK THEIR LAND come on read between the lines all they want is freedom! Y NOT

      • ROY

        Really smart ass try and do it.If the US has so much money and power how come they don’t deport all illegal aliens,99% of them dont have benefits like you. I dare you to go and work a day in construction or picking strawberries in the fields of california. I don’t think the americans would wanna work in the sun.

      • American*67

        I think its ridiculous that some americans think that they are more american than others. It doesnt matter if you are a 2nd generation or 100nth generation immigrant, the point is; we are all immigrants. That is how america was founded, a bunch of destitute people came over from their oppresive land and began a new start, that was 200 years ago but the situation was no different than it is now. The problem of citizenship will resolve itself in a couple generations cause guess what? IF YOU ARE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES THEN YOU ARE A CITIZEN and 8% of babies born in the U.S. have at least one illegal immegrant parent. In an estimated 20 years, being caucasin in the U.S. will be a minority. So cling to your ignorance and racism now, and your opion is respected and valid, but in 20 years, all that will be left in you argument will be ignorance and racism.
        THE LATINOS ARE COMING BABAY AND THEY AINT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON.

      • victor

        Not sure what form of NAFTA you people are reading. NAFTA is ABOUT TRADING AND BUISNESS. In fact it promised to reduce illegal immigration “NY Times.” Please tell the coal miners, oil drillers, police officer and firefighters that gardening and house keeping are jobs Americans won’t do. We Americans don’t do them because we cant on account of illegal immigrants. (Because of the bosses aswell) and to the individual who said I can’t wait for Mexico to retake the Southwest, please they can’t even control Mexico City, last thing they need is even more land.

      • JodyJo

        Ralph I like the way you think!!!!!

      • John Doe

        Really Maria?

        So what if Illegals are paid LESS than AMERICAN Citizens for picking produce and housecleaning?

        You FAILED to mention the BILLIONS and BILLIONS of US $$$ which AMERICAN Taxpayers PAY YEARLY,

        to EDUCATE, PROVIDE SCHOOL BREAKFASTS/LUNCHES and EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE to ILLEGAL

        IMMIGRANTS CHILDREN!!

        NOT TO MENTION THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS SPEND TO KEEP OVER 600,00

        DANGEROUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS OFF AMERICAN STREETS!!!

        TOTAL YEARLY COST TO AMERICANS TO PROVIDE FOR 12,500,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS IS $125,000,000,000(Billion)!!

        THAT”S SOME PRETTY EXPENSIVE PRODUCE AND HOUSEKEEPING!

      • Timmothy Jones

        Where are you getting your sources? Why is it that you have to make it so obvious that you are just copying and pasting some crappy/ phony statistics from a random website? At least do some readying I really recommend you Inevitable Revolutions! So you can educate yourself about Freedom Riders, NAFTA and those good stuff! Just for your information you have to be able to know how to read and not just copy and paste! Good luck!!And by the way, what Indian tribe are you from?

      • Scott

        Timmothy really???
        First off they have been busting farmers for the illegal hiring of immigrants; this has caused 90% of all farmed merchandise to be done legally. I have my house cleaned for years and my uncle owns his own service, they would never hire illegal immigrants because there clients want them to be accountable. Also their insurance would be voided if they did so. YES they would still be here with no jobs as most of them are now. My father is an officer and they constantly bust homes for selling drugs where there are 5-10 families of illegal immigrants living there. This sickens all of our citizens that came here legally because they see how there ex countrymen have caused a huge burden on there new country. Morons like you just quote a simple organization that stretches truths and lies for there own profits and fool eat it up! Illegal immigration is a blithe on our civilization and we need to take action in preventing it. I believe strongly we need to analyze and maybe increase the number of folks that wish to because citizens. Before we do this we must nip the illegal immigration issues in the butt so others can get here and join the best country in the world.

      • Mark

        When illegals or anyone representing them cry the blues, remember this.

        Cheap Tomatoes

        THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE.

        This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet.
        Tomatoes and Cheap Labor
        CHEAP TOMATOES?
        This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.
        >From a California school teacher

        As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
        I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
        Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
        Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and a roll but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
        I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
        I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing
        funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America
        I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less than 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them Putas (whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
        Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
        To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
        Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.

        Americans, We need to wake up.

        It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “political correctness that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.
        If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.
        CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?
        Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.
        Consumers don’t want expensive produce.
        Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.
        But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase cheap labor is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as cheap labor.

        Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an earned income creditof up to $3,200 free.

        He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
        He qualifies for food stamps.

        He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

        His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

        He requires bilingual teachers and books.

        He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

        If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense.
        He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
        Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
        He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
        Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
        Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
        THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY (or what we ask?), WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM .
        Please pass this on to as many as possible. Immigration legislation is to be considered in 2010. This is important to working Americans, our economy and our American culture and heritage..

        Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. Theodore Roosevelt

      • http://Yahoo.com Elaine in Texas

        Mark, post this on Facebook. Send it to O’Reilly @ FOX.
        People need to wake up! California is broke and this gravy
        train continues to grow. High school sports programs stopped
        due to lack of money. 1/2 day on Wednesday, soon one full day
        off for school children like in Hawaii. Hawaii is also broke.

        We need to protest, orgazine and be heard. IT MUST STOP!
        IT IS TIME FOR A REVOLUTION, AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION!!!

      • http://www.cobratubes.com J. GRIGGS

        I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY ENGLISH IS CONSIDERED A SECOND LANGUAGE IN ANY STATE IN THE U.S. IF YOU COME HERE WANTING TO BE A U.S. CITIZEN, LEARN OUR LANGUAGE!! WHY DO WE HAVE TO PRESS A BUTTON ON OUR PHONE FOR ENGLISH?? WHY ARE ILLEGALS IN OUR PRISONS INSTEAD OF BEING DEPORTED? I KNOW ONE THAT HAS BEEN IN JAIL “THREE” TIMES FOR THEFT, WHY IS HE STILL HERE? IT WOULD BE CHEAPER FOR THE U.S. TO DEPORT THEM AS OPPOSED TO SUPPORTING THEM! PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CHEAP LABOR, SOME OF THEM MAKE AN AWFUL LOT MORE THAN I DO, AND THEY GET PAID CASH! I DON’T HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE BECAUSE I CAN’T AFFORD IT. OUR GOVERNMENT SPENDS OUR MONEY ON ILLEGALS INSURANCE. I CAN’T PAY FOR MINE, WITH NO CHOICE I HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIRS! I WORK IN A MANUFACTURING COMPANY. I’M NOT ABOVE ANY JOB AS LONG AS I AM KEEPING A ROOF OVER OUR HEADS AND FEEDING MY FAMILY. I PAY FOR EVERY BITE OF THAT FOOD WITHOUT GOVERNMENT ASSISTANTS, I PAY TAXES OUT OF EVERY PAY CHECK! ILLEGALS WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS, I THINK THEY LOST THEM WHEN THEY “BROKE THE LAW” BY CROSSING THE BORDER “ILLEGALLY”!! WHY SHOULD THEY HAVE CIVIL RIGHTS? I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN LEGALLY ENROLL THEIR CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS, OPEN BANK ACCOUNTS, GET DRIVERS LICENSE AND USE OUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS CREATING PROBLEMS FOR US WITH IRS!!! I SAY GO HOME AND DO THINGS LEGALLY AND I WILL WELCOME YOU IN THE U.S. WITH OPEN ARMS! I’M NOT A RACIST, I HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE LAW, WHY DON’T THEY? CAN ANYONE OUT THERE SENSIBLY EXPLAIN THIS TO ME? I AM CONFUSED ABOUT ALL OF THIS GARBAGE!!

      • Diane

        Great post! REALLY LOVE YOU FOR THAT ONE, but I am sure the ignoramous’ couldn’t stomach the whole thing and face the music. Really great, Mark! That was needed in this arena. I work in the healthcare arena. A Registered Nurse who deals with insurance companies, medicare and medicaid EVERY SINGLE DAY OF WORK. The amount of $$ we lose on the undocumented is UNBELIEVABLE. I laugh when some say Illegals don’t have health benefits. Somehow, they are treated in our Clinic and pay a nominal fee, if any… and they arrive and go home by taxi!!! If they get really sick, they come to the hospital, get admitted, sometimes for days; then they are billed. HA! Just billed; not a dime is returned. And they multiply like rabbitts. And it is certainly not all Mexicans here in NY. I work my ass off. Always 6 days; sometimes 7, to pay my mortgage and send my kid to private school. HS starting soon, so tuition doubled. These Illegals have it made in the shade, and these idiots who defend them like they are “picked on” or the like are really ignorant and/or have no clue. Where the hell is my American dream?

      • Vicki

        Marie – Most do NOT pay tax because they are working the CASH only jobs – but they are on the government dole. You need to get the facts. and face reality.

        If our country would control illegal immigration, we could get the economy back onit’s feet and the our welfare systems would not be bank rubpting our country! There would be jobs – and Yes the Americans that need a job would work at them – they did it before and they can do it again.

      • Ed

        Okay, lets take this and look at it. IF we sent back the illegals (crimmials all – they broke the law comming here) where would we get the people to the jobs no body wants? How about if we cut out welfare? Then the other freeloaders (those on welfare) would have to find jobs (work the illegals were doing). Problem solved – AND the freeloaders would become productive tax paying members of our nation instead of being lazy bums and a drain living off those of us that work and pay taxes.

      • tmaiers

        Maria, not sure where you live, however growing up on a farm in Mn. and without a job,I would be glad to pick strawberries and what else needs picking and many would as well in this economy for minimum wage. I believe your responses are excuses and the costs outweigh the income produced by non citizens. I suggest you wake up and know your liberties and your way of life most likely will be in jeopardy in the near future as we head down the road of Socialism.

      • MARGARET

        MARIA,
        then you pay the billions of dollars these illegals take from legal taxpayers.
        you are a sickening human and apparently ANTI/AMERICAN

      • Emily

        No, You are anti-American.

      • Diane

        Yes! Maria should take a hike or long walk off a short pier if she is so unhappy here. Bet she would crap a brick if she had to go to the country her family originated from. But she should go since she is so unhappy. Immigrants I know of years ago came here and stood on a bread line. That was ALL they got, and they made it. Somehow, this is now the land of entitlement with little or no input. Couples coming here, stayin illegally and multiplying like rabbits. Citizen Mom’s can’t afford to be a full-time Mom; somehow, non-citizens do. Go figure.

      • Emily

        Immigrants have as much right as anyone to be here in the land of opportunity and freedom. I think we should open the borders up and let anyone in who has good intentions and proper back ground checks. Imagine if you had grown up in a land of poverty adn try to escape and make a better life for you and your family and were rejected and denied. What is the USA? The popular kids A.K.A. the bratty snobs. If we really wanted to look into improper spending we need to go Republican. The Democrats are costing us more than immigrants ever have. There are bigger things we need to focus on. Maria made a GREAT point.

      • http://personallibertydigest glenn

        Th is no more opportunity

      • Deborah

        Emily, good intentions pave the road to Hell. You really think we should open the borders to anyone seeking opportunity? If they want opportunity in America, they can go through the process of AT LEAST getting a Visa. I may disagree with many things the U.S. has done, but, whether I like it or not, I am an American. I was born and raised here. I’m all for universal acceptance and all that crap, but I’m rather sick of not being able to get a job because I can’t speak Spanish.

      • http://personallibertydigest glenn

        do you actually think there just picking strawberries you need to do some homework look in the private sector thats all there is sure it’s the companies fault for hiring them but they create less wages so the companies will go for them so they can get more of a profit and in return that screws us all you people that keep saying there picking strawberries or in fields are full of it and you know it

      • Dam BA

        Maria, I have lived amongst illegal immigrants the last three neighborhoods, near Riverside, CA. I rent from them, even though I have a masters degree from private colleges, not the other way around. They are not living in the shadows, have big middle-class homes and drive three, four or five cars to each of their households. However, most of their income is off of the books, except, in sharing mailboxes with them, they get a lot of letters from Medical (medicaid),Gain, free lunches at school, one of them gets 800/mo for a special needs kid, who really is not special needs. Two of the men in the households have a wife and family here and another one in Mexico. They have cottages out back they rent to illegals but they are not registered with the district, so they don’t pay taxes on them. Their names are spelled slightly differently on the mail they receive, and they also get mail to relatives of theirs from medicaid. (who don’t live here). Most don’t pay income taxes. Don’t have auto insurance, which means everybody has to pay for that, and they don’t seem bothered if a citizen neighbor would like them to abide by the ordinances. Somehow, they come into possession of new autos quite regularly, for a while, and then drive them down to Mexico to sell. Now, this is three out of the three illegal immigrants I have rented from. Before that I had never lived in a neighborhood that was 90% illegal. One of these three also sold Meth, and another sold weed. Don’t tell me to contact the authorities; I’m surrounded by them–so that would be a death sentence.

      • Lou

        Maria, Here are the numbers- there’s a path to legal immigration there is no excuse. They can simulate the economy like every other legal person here.

        -$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
        Illegal households only pay about one-third the amount of federal taxes that non-illegal households pay.
        Illegal households create a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion a year. If given amnesty, this number could grow to more than $29 billion.
        -$1.9 billion dollars a year is spent on food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
        -$1.6 billion is spent on the federal prison and court system for illegal aliens.
        -$2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
        -About 21 percent of the population of U.S. prisons is classified as “noncitizens” from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. About 5 percent is listed as “unknown.”

      • ivette

        you are stupid illegal ppl come for better lives

      • Sophie

        Thats all fine and dandy if they want to get better lives. Personally i honestly dont care, they can suffer and i’ll sleep like a baby at night. if they cant read and write and pass the citzenship test the shouldnt be in the United States in the first place. also theyre could be criminals coming in to the U.S. and we wouldnt even know. They do easy jobs that any bum on the side of the street could do in fact i would actually prefer it if the bum got the job so they dont have to be on the street homeless. As a country we have to pay more for them because they use are schools are welfare progarms etc etc and they dont pay the taxes for them. Pardon my french but its a bunch of Bull Shit

      • Gemma

        Sophie If those bums wanted those jobs they would get them but seeming that they are lazy, drunks, who prefer to beg for its much easier to ask for money or live under a bridge. Both my husband and I are of Mexican descent and have done tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our parents were legal immigrants who worked hard and never asked for any kind of assistance. I see many I mean plenty of Americans white black you name it at the foodstamp office where i work. Fact is we like to always have scape goats and the mexicans and other central american people are being targeted for where our country is failing. And i have earned my right to speake my mind as has many of my cousins and inlaws who serve and have served

      • R Martinez

        First of all go back to school,learn about the history of this Country, then blog about our Mexicans. Personally the Mexicans know more facts about our Country than what you think. LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE!! Some of you AMERICANS can’t even speak ENGLISH properly. I’m all 100% white, & till the day I die I will support both legal, & illegal MEXICANS. Those who appose to our Hispanic Community are not of human nature. Give me a break, sleep like a baby, well I hope you can sleep like a baby if it was one of your babies thats body parts show up in a box with a ransom letter demanding money or the head will get sent to you next. I have personally witnessed enough from all the racist people in this Country, & I can’t wait till the borders are took down, & we all become one, wow even having the MEXICANS bringing their jobs to our Country so Americans can stop with the ignorant excuses THE MEXICANS ARE TAKING ALL THE JOBS, please look in the mirror Americans are the lamest excuse makers I have ever came across. AND FOR THE RECORD AMERICANS ILLEGAL MEXICANS DON’T RECEIVE BENEFITS as you think they do. AMERICANS good job for falling for what you hear you believe, what gets broad casted all over news, sometimes is not even based on true facts. I would love to see those who say ENGLISH PLEASE, ITS AMERICA SPEAK ENGLISH, get your butts to a different Country for vacation, for work, or any other reason, & learn their language too, ha ha impossible because Americans can’t do what MEXICANS do & thats work, make money, raise loving families. I seriously doubt any AMERICANS are sleeping like babies right now because your neighbor may be Black, Indian, White, or any other race thats not Mexican, & I guarantee they are just as much as dope dealers than what you think. If you seriously think drugs are in this Country simply because Mexicans, your a fool to even believe in such retarded facts. Drugs are drugs, made on your same street from any race not just MEXICANS. Now Sleep like a baby because it will only get worse from here, Thanks to people like you, & all of the other un-intelligent AMERICANS that can’t see between the cracks. Slavery is back, Blacks better watch out, you may be targeted next to be deported, Indians better prepare for your Tribal casinos that make your beer money & drug money to be deported too, because Americans in this Country think their —- don’t stink. Well it does I can personally feel the devil has taken over & this world is doomed, because judgmental, corrupted, racist, cry babies over anything that has singled out the MEXICANS have created disasters all of the entire world. GOD has it all in his hands people we don’t & if you think that God will keep allowing his Children to be harmed, no one will survive the next Apocalypse. WAY TO GO Thanks America & all the Stupidest people that cry & discriminate, didn’t this Country do this before thy Black race, Obama are you in for the long run to allow this to keep going on, so the U.S.A can turn into another Iraq, or are you in to keep peace amongst skin color, & languages. FREEDOM, LENDING A HELPING HAND FOR A COUNTRY DESPERATE IN NEED (MEXICO), OR ARE WE JUST GONNA SIT HERE & LISTEN TO THIS CRAP ALL OVER MONEY, DAMN MONEY GREEDY COUNTRY LET NATURAL HUMAN KIND OF GOD, BE HERE FREELY SO AMERICANS CAN GET BACK TO WORK, COUNTRY WITH COUNTRY HAND IN HAND THOUSANDS OF MORE JOBS CAN BE BROUGHT HERE FROM MEXICO & YET COUCH POTATO AMERICANS, AND ALL ENGLISH AMERICANS, WHO SLEEP LIKE BABIES IS BECAUSE YOU YOURSELF USE THE LEGAL SYSTEM AS A LUXURY. BE KIND LOVE & RESPECT GIVE & THIS COUNTRY WILL RECEIVE ITS BLESSING WITH OUR MEXICAN FRIENDS HELP.

      • Mary Anne

        Yes, the ILLEGALS come here for a better life. So did my ancestors when they escaped the potato famine and oppression from the Irish landowners, but they had to pass approval from the government first. Then because there was no welfare they started working. They did the jobe no one else wanted, like police and fire duties, and they made them into something honorable. The women worked as maids and very often had only 1 evening a week off. So, yes, you are welcome here as long as I don’t have to support you and I don’t have to speak Spanish because you are too lazy to learn English. If I emigrated to Sweden they sure are not going to have a translator available so I don’t have to learn Swedish. So if you want to live here, give up the Mexican flag and FIT IN.

      • kathleen

        Wow I’m sad to read your self centered story.
        Guess what when the early immigrants came they didn’t all have papers. Yes they did work and they worked in factories not skilled jobs. Also, just a bit of advise learn another language besides English because that is not going to get you very far, challenge yourself. I hope you know that we are all here illegally we stole this land from the Native American it was not given to us it was occupied when we arrived. Perhaps this is our “Karma” we are now paying for what we did to the Native American.

      • Manny 11

        Mary anne u believe because ur family suffered at one point that u can relate to the suffering illegal immigrants are going through u are wrong…. Im glad ur family made it through… But think about this, how can u compare coming over back when america started to now… Back then you had to wait maybe a few months at most to be allowed in to the country legally… Ur family was suffering the potato famine, do u think they would have waited in their country for years we are talking up to 10, until the united states decided to allow them in, no they would not, so dont use ur ancestors to make an argue ment that about the present when things are much more difficult.. and Immigrants are not being lazy to learn english, actually they end up learning enough english to get by after being in this country for a few years, they work sun up to after sun down seven days a week, where can they find time to take english classes? so unless u can actually put urself in their shoes u have no room to talk, u among so many other ignorant americans that dont understand the meaning of hardship and expect everything to be handed to them… educate urself… with ur nine to five job im sure u can take time to learn spanish, and maybe help u get a better job because u will become bilingual…

      • Diane

        It’s NOT just the Mexicans (here in NY), but YOU GO GIRL!

      • http://Yahoo.com Elaine in Texas

        YOU ARE THE IGNORANT, IVETTE. DO SOME READING, LEARN SOMETHING.

      • http://personallibertydigest glenn

        Yea and in return we pay more in welfare we don’t need this right know in these times.Why don’t you go protest your own govt and tell them that you want a better life

      • shonnique

        thats soooo gay… why would we spend so much money on first of all hunting all these people down, then ripping them away from america. where there families who care about them enough to sneek them into america… why dont we look at all the money that we have spent in the past what like 5-15 years on these illegal immigrants and use it to legalize them all so that they can pay taxes without having to worry about being deported… they are here for a reason… they wouldn’t risk their life to get here because they want to go on a vacation, they’re here because there previous living conditions were unbearable. they wanted better for themselves and their families… and since america wants to be the country of the rich and famous, were the promis land and were the ones who are supposed to be the best of the best. but when we do see people who are in need they automaticaly become unworthy of america. like really people i am 16 and i can tell you that all this hate is going no where… we should legalize these people so they can help us… they do things that most americans will not do… so next time you see that the floors in your place of employment are clean then you can thank the illegal immigrants that you want deported for that…. MAN AMERICANS NEED TO GET OVER THEMSELVS…

      • Ralph DeMattia

        That’s a GREAT idea! Then we can let all the killers, rapists, and pedophiles out of jail so that THEY can be citizens too! Are you SERIOUS????

      • JD

        “I am 16″ is the main point here. First, you need to go to school and learn how to spell. Second, you need to find out facts and figures before you start spouting off. You must not have lived in any border state or town. You do not know what is happening. You do not know that we are not talking about only Mexicans coming across the borders, but more of the illegals coming across are from terrorist countries. If they want to come to the US for a better life, then they can do it legal, learn english, and apply for citizenship like our forefathers did. Do some research before you start putting down people. Grow up!!

      • Beverly

        AGREED!!!

      • Diane

        16 going on 30. Kudos to you. Well said. You make me proud. :)

      • Tonkatoy02

        Hey Aida, Very well said and I thank you for your courage and or anger to say it like it is. One of the problems with this country is that we have not developed a better way of running our government, and our people. There needs to be a better insentof other than buying off All Politicians, because your not a politician if your not a crook and we all know this to be true. Were always to pre occupied worrying about what everyone else is doing that we don’t pay attention to our own lifes. “We need to feed our own family first before we start feeding the neighbors” and my fellow Americans that is a huge part of this countrys problem. So sllep well all.

      • http://livefree.com AMRO

        ok here i go

      • cindi

        aida: you need to stop hating on us Mexicans just because we are hard workers we aint lazy like you guys. i mean at least we are not in the streets, outside the restaurant or on the exists of the freeway asking for money. people like that need to get a real job. so i suggest you to shush up and stop talking about Mexicans.

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