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Originally posted by Kadath
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.
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I don't know how much time you've spent in other areas of the country, nor what the specific situation is in Philly (having only been there once), but they do all those things here, frequently with forged identity papers. One of the things our HR director had to do was run the social security numbers she got to try to weed out the illegal immigrents and we still didn't get them all.
There are also hospitals in Arizona that are facing bankruptcy because of the strain servicing all the illegal immigrants is putting on them not to mention the strain on the public school system for teaching children in two languages.
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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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No, you don't know how many live in Denver, but it is quite a few. Hang out at 38th and Federal any Friday or Saturday night, or better yet, during Cinco de Mayo when the streets are impassible for the residents to get an idea.
And they do indeed take the jobs no one wants. They could make decent wages for working very hard cutting meat. I learned just how hard they had to work and then some of them still got ripped off...by their own people. Still, most just want to earn a decent living and to be left alone.
So I don't know if Bush's idea of an amensty is good or not. I do know that something has to be done.