finethen wrote:
*Ahem.*

Illegal immigrants are not a drain on the economy. *bangs head on table*

They provide millions in unclaimed social security, sales taxes, and very often local and state taxes that they do not recieve back in services. (For a local example, please see the Georgia budget and policy institute's report on the issue, found here: http://www.gbpi.org/pubs/garevenue/20060119.pdf)

Oh yeah, there's also the reduced prices in housing, food, and services that comes from non-union people working in underpaid positions.

The only drain that illegal immigrants produce is on the energy of activists constantly trying to debunk the same bullshit myths propogated by bourgeois media types over and over again. (Maybe I should be sent to Mexico for a vacay.)

Wow, talk about propoganda...

1st, Illegal Immigrants DON'T pay Social Security, FICA, or State and Local Taxed when they are paid under the table.

2nd, Without paying for those local taxes, they have the ability to get free healthcare, their children get schooled for FREE, (very often in their native language, not english, which requires a state paid interpreter). I have a daughter that is here LEGALLY, and she can't get ENOUGH school services because the school systems are breaking under the strain of the illegal immigrant children.

3rd, don't even get me started on Unions, they are a blight on EVERY economy in the world. In my book, if you are stupid enough to let someone else do your negotiation, they you deserve what you get... and often that is NO WORK, or when you CAN work, they are striking... so don't even go there. We keep LOWERING the bar in this country to make the stupid look smarter, and it's about time that we stop doing that, and raise our education systems to match those of Japan, Europe, and India. All areas of the world with BETTER education systems than in the US.

Lastly, your use of the term 'bourgeois' to describe the media is very interesting... I have to make an assumption that your definition of the term is from the Marxist camp, instead of the original meaning of the word. And that being the case, makes your entire statement, and your viewpoint moot. If you're a marxist, you want everyone to be the same, and you just haven't realized that those of us who WORKED OUR ASSES off to get where we are, don't want to subsidize those who are too stupid or lazy to get ahead.

RE: How can Illegal Immigration help our Homeless situation?