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A friend of mine is in law school. This summer he is working for a firm, as is typical. One of his cases is that of a Columbian woman. She is seeking asylum here because she doesn't want to get killed in the drug wars of her native country. Since fleeing to the US, she has already returned to Columbia once(my friend was unsure of the reason why) which is bad enough. Now her mother in Columbia is dying. The woman's options are threefold. She can stay here and never see her mother again, or she can go down, see her mother die, and then return here, or she can go down, stay there, and probably get killed. If she comes back after going to Columbia, she will be arrested upon entering the country, charged with something or other(I wasn't paying attention at that part of the story) and deported. It seems clear that she will never see her mother again.
As for the illegal immigrants from Mexico:
What services can they use? They can't go to the hospital if they get ill, they can't call the police if they're victims of crime, their kids can't go to school.
So I don't know how they can bleed the economy dry, and I wonder how many Mexicans live in Denver. They do take all our good jobs, like dishwashing and migrant fruit picking(nod to Stephen Lynch), so I can see why we should kick them out on that score. I think Bush's plan to offer a one-time amnesty to all the aliens in the country was an excellent one. If they don't want to come forward and pay taxes, that's fine. If we find them after that, they're deported, no questions asked. Problem alleviated to some degree, and precedent set for the future.
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