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Originally Posted by Guest
If your premise is correct that the herd of illegals (I was not aware that a collection of humans was a herd as I had thought that term was reserved for animals) is costing the nation what the article claims, in the interest of balance, could you supply us with the benefit to our economy of having these "herd" people here?
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Easy!
If they were not here we would be money ahead...expenditures to process, track, register, school impact, et al = zero.
I see no benefit to our economy by trying to put those here illegally to take jobs those who are legal citizens or residents could have.
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herd (hûrd)
n.
1.
a. A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
b. A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants.
2.
a. A large number of people; a crowd: a herd of stranded passengers.
b. The multitude of common people regarded as a mass: "It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow" (Henry David Thoreau).
v. herd·ed, herd·ing, herds
v.intr.
To come together in a herd: The sheep herded for warmth.
v.tr.
1. To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.
2. To tend (sheep or cattle).
3. To gather and place into a group or mass: herded the children into the auditorium.