XPost: alt.politics, ny.politics, ny.general   
   XPost: phl.media   
   From: artclemons@aolSPAM.com   
      
   mcs wrote:   
      
   > I saw this conference and here is some very interesting and sad data.   
   > One in ten US people now illegal or were illegal now legal. One if   
   > five in US prisons are illegals. *Their crimes were not being   
   > illegals! so in addition to be illegal.   
      
   What your figures ignore is that the US has had a higher percentage of   
   its populace foreign born. Part of the "illegal" problem is precisely   
   that the US made it illegal for all who wish to come to the US to come   
   while being unable to close or police its borders to enforce its   
   immigration policies.  It should also be note that a major problem is   
   that employers will hire folks without documentation to lower   
   employment costs and skimp on mandated costs like Social Security and   
   Medicare employer costs.  It's also difficult for someone without   
   documentation to make money without violating one law or another in   
   many areas.  Consider for example a Mexican living in California, who   
   can't get a driver's license or insurance but needs a vehicle to get to   
   work, or consider that folks forced to evade and duck law enforcement   
   are much easier to recruit for illegal activities, since they have   
   little to lose.   
      
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