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Originally Posted by rubicon
VK In all due respect the Republicans had been pushing for the same thing (ie allowing professionals, etc in under such visas). The liberals do not agree because it frustrates their efforts for the Dream Act, a frustration born only in loss of Hispanic votes.
Europe learned its lesson the hard way and now many Europeans countries are clamping down on who enters their country.
Everyone talks about the fact that we can't send these people back while I ask myself why not? They came here illegally placing a heavy burden on those states which are absorbing the greater share of them. Liberals like to pretend it is not a problem but this issue of illegal immigration is like having. a silent heart attack and without even noticing you've join your ancestors
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I am still trying to get more facts and validation but I have run into an interesting fact. Did you know that the 3rd largest revenue stream for the country of Mexico is money sent back to the country from illegals immigrants in this country sending back their earnings ?
The revenue streams for Mexico are....exports, oil sales and then money sent back from illegal immigrants in the USA. Now, that means the earn it here, do not spend it here, or at least not as much as we have been lead to believe and send it back to their economy. I wonder if this includes the BILLIONS bilked from the IRS on tax frauds that it seems we do not want to stop.
I am not quite sure of the date of the report that I will link....a few years ago I would imagine since...but the report covers the cost of illegal immigration to this country and that is not something we hear much about. I can only recall hearing the benefits to our country from those who seek to make those folks BREAKING OUR LAW into some kind of heros...
"$60 billion dollars are earned by illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. One of Mexico's largest revenue streams (after exports and oil sales) consists of money sent home by legal immigrants and illegal aliens working in the U.S. Economists say this will help Mexico reduce its $17.8 billion defecit and may bolster the peso. $10 billion dollars (as of 2003) are sent back to Mexico annually, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, reported in an Associated Press article, up $800 million from the previous year. ($9 billion dollars were previously sent back annually, according to a September 25, 2002 NPR report). That figure equals what Mexico earns annually from tourism. This is a massive transfer of wealth from America - essentially from America's displaced working poor - to Mexico."
Economic costs of mass immigration (legal and illegal immigration) - CAIR - Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform