How have Illegal Immigrants personally impacted you, good and bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's always the liberals with money to send their kids to Sidwell Friends or some other private school that are so ready to agree to an influx of illegal immigrants because their kids, neighborhoods, and lives are not impacted.

What are you talking about? How do you know immigrants are legal or not? My child attends public school and there are a few immigrants but I have no idea if they are legal or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's always the liberals with money to send their kids to Sidwell Friends or some other private school that are so ready to agree to an influx of illegal immigrants because their kids, neighborhoods, and lives are not impacted.

What are you talking about? How do you know immigrants are legal or not? My child attends public school and there are a few immigrants but I have no idea if they are legal or not.

DP here. The fact that over 1,000 undocumented minors who entered this country in 2014 were “settled” in Fairfax County tells me that illegal immigrants are indeed in our public schools. The exact number of illegal aliens in the DC area public schools is not known (because schools cannot report immigration status), but to deny they are there is a flat out lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see a study of the economic impact if all the undocumented workers suddenly disappeared. Because I suspect it wouldn’t be the utopia all you hardliners are fantasizing about. Illegal immigrants actually pay billions in tax dollars, never mind spending money on goods and housing. Never mind the work they do.

Since Trump started cracking down, it’s led to a drop in those filing returns. Yet more drop in revenue thanks to Trump

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dipping-amid-trump-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration

Please look at the economies of gateway cities, like el Paso, where 25% of the population is either foreign born or illegal. Although the city has grown enormously, economic prosperity has not come with the growth. It is the 11th poorest city, only 75% completed high school. Industries which prey on illegal labor have relocated there and have kept wages very depressed for the whole community. Please do some research on these local economies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's always the liberals with money to send their kids to Sidwell Friends or some other private school that are so ready to agree to an influx of illegal immigrants because their kids, neighborhoods, and lives are not impacted.

What are you talking about? How do you know immigrants are legal or not? My child attends public school and there are a few immigrants but I have no idea if they are legal or not.

See previous posts about unaccompanied minorsin northern va.

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Anonymous wrote:multiculturalism is a big problem. It doesn't work

Multiculturism is what made America Great.

And, it is. However, in most cases, the cultures adapted to us. Today, it seems we must adapt to them. I am, of course, not addressing the indigenous tribes. That was a travesty, but they were not always very nice to each other, either.

What an ignorant perspective! The more recent immigrants, in fact, have assimilated, in many ways, more than their Irish, Italian, etc, predecessors. Take note that Little Italy in Baltimore and NYC, long standing Irish bars in many major cities, Little Havana in Miami, and Chinatown in NYC and SF would not exist if those communities "assimilated" quickly. Same with Little Saigon in NoVa and Hasidic communities in NYC.

Yeah right. That's why you see so many immigrants who have been here 10, 20, 30+ years and still can't speak a word of english.

So you are going up to and asking people if they are immigrants and how long they have been here? Just want to confirm how you know this.

My Buba (grandma) immigrated from Poland and was here for some 40 years until her death in 1985 and her English was horrible.

Your Jewish grandmother arrived here from Poland in the 1940s? That alone was quite a feat. The Jewsih population in Poland was almost completely wiped out - worst hit of all the countries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's always the liberals with money to send their kids to Sidwell Friends or some other private school that are so ready to agree to an influx of illegal immigrants because their kids, neighborhoods, and lives are not impacted.

What are you talking about? How do you know immigrants are legal or not? My child attends public school and there are a few immigrants but I have no idea if they are legal or not.

DP here. The fact that over 1,000 undocumented minors who entered this country in 2014 were “settled” in Fairfax County tells me that illegal immigrants are indeed in our public schools. The exact number of illegal aliens in the DC area public schools is not known (because schools cannot report immigration status), but to deny they are there is a flat out lie.

Is the numbers of illegals in public schools sufficient to make property tax hikes (if any) noticeable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see a study of the economic impact if all the undocumented workers suddenly disappeared. Because I suspect it wouldn’t be the utopia all you hardliners are fantasizing about. Illegal immigrants actually pay billions in tax dollars, never mind spending money on goods and housing. Never mind the work they do.

Since Trump started cracking down, it’s led to a drop in those filing returns. Yet more drop in revenue thanks to Trump

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dipping-amid-trump-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration

Please look at the economies of gateway cities, like el Paso, where 25% of the population is either foreign born or illegal. Although the city has grown enormously, economic prosperity has not come with the growth. It is the 11th poorest city, only 75% completed high school. Industries which prey on illegal labor have relocated there and have kept wages very depressed for the whole community. Please do some research on these local economies.

El Paso, literally on the f’ing border. Not representative.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:multiculturalism is a big problem. It doesn't work

Multiculturism is what made America Great.

And, it is. However, in most cases, the cultures adapted to us. Today, it seems we must adapt to them. I am, of course, not addressing the indigenous tribes. That was a travesty, but they were not always very nice to each other, either.

Someone who doesn’t know much about American history and assimilation.

Tell me why my European ancestors used their native language for several generations after moving here? And it wasn’t English. They used it in school, their newspapers, in church. My great-grandmother’s primer is in this language.

American culture is constantly changing. That might be scary to some, but it’s not necessarily negative. Cultures just stagnate die.

Were they German who landed in Pennsylvania? Swiss speaking German? Swedes in Delaware? I mean landed here legally in the 1600 and 1700's pre French and Indian War. There were issues based on volumes of Germans not knowing English. That was rectfied in the 1700's. Perhaps some French in Maine but you can check back on census data if people spoke English. Honestly we had grandparents and great grandparents from Europe and they spoke accented English. You'd have to go back centuries.


Plus the Eastern Europeans often lived in neighborhoods with others and there were many languages spoken. [ Chicago and Polish might be an exception]Note the country of origin changes on census data for many European countries of origin.

So bottom line was in the 1700's we went through the press 2 for German. That stopped. Now we have press 2 for Spanish. Note the dialects do present difficulty for public schools. Plus many illegals are not literate in their own language.


On taxes. Office of Refugee Resettlement provides information on release of unaccompanied minors since each must be released to a sponsor. Fiscal year 2017:

PG= 1056. Fairfax =971. MOCO=782. One year only. The feds pay about $70/ student. These are only undocs accounted for but each number for 1 year = a school building. PG and FX over 4 years got 2 high schools worth or 1 high school and 2 middle schools. Small class sizes and social services and additional school capacity are not covered by the $70/student annually.


If a developer build new construction that yielded 5000 students in a 4 year period each jurisdiction would have gone ballistic.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see a study of the economic impact if all the undocumented workers suddenly disappeared. Because I suspect it wouldn’t be the utopia all you hardliners are fantasizing about. Illegal immigrants actually pay billions in tax dollars, never mind spending money on goods and housing. Never mind the work they do.

Since Trump started cracking down, it’s led to a drop in those filing returns. Yet more drop in revenue thanks to Trump

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dipping-amid-trump-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration

Please look at the economies of gateway cities, like el Paso, where 25% of the population is either foreign born or illegal. Although the city has grown enormously, economic prosperity has not come with the growth. It is the 11th poorest city, only 75% completed high school. Industries which prey on illegal labor have relocated there and have kept wages very depressed for the whole community. Please do some research on these local economies.

El Paso, literally on the f’ing border. Not representative.

Its on the border. That is exactly the point.

I wonder what the high schools in the north east on the northern border look like.

[Anonymous]

Each year parents complete Impact Aid forms for LEA's-Local Education Authorities. Technical name for school districts or school divisions. Trump and Obama tried to decrease Impact Aid funding:

Students who are living in federally subsidized low-rent housing;
Students who reside on federal property and whose parents are employed on federal property
Students whose parents are civilian employees of the Federal Government but do not reside on federal property
Students with a parent/legal guardian who is a member of the military services.

If you live in MOCO, work on federal property in DC, apparently there is no impact aid. The form lists sites in MD only. DC also doesn't get the money.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/forms/pdf/280-4.pdf

FCPS gets about 3 million. LEA's do NOT get impact aid for known unaccompanied minors [released to sponsors] even after the post DACA surge.

So an NIH researcher living in Rockville produces impact aid but an illegal unaccompanied minor released to a sponsor in MOCO does not.

[Anonymous]

Cons: made our neighborhood school undesirable ($2 mil houses yet kids go private or lottery to charters).
Pros: we got a ton of free stuff from that school. Free aftercare, camps, activities, backpacks and such.
We have made it off the waitlist to a charter and are now leaving the school though. It will be interesting to compare the two schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:multiculturalism is a big problem. It doesn't work

Then move. Leave America.

Multiculturalism is working in many progressive communities.

The only places multiculturalism does not work is in neo-nazi racist white supremacist enclaves. Go find one to join, you weirdo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:multiculturalism is a big problem. It doesn't work

Then move. Leave America.

Multiculturalism is working in many progressive communities.

The only places multiculturalism does not work is in neo-nazi racist white supremacist enclaves. Go find one to join, you weirdo.

Multiculturalism as far as Illegal Aliens are concerned only works as long as they stay away from you and yours.

Gated communities, higher crime rates, and lower property rates due to section 8 housing are a reality, not the rainbow and sunshine you profess.

Live in the reality of what is happening, it’s no longer just Jose your gardener, juanita your maid, and Pablo the pool boy.

Now it’s active gang members like MS 13, killers like those shown on TV that kill, rape and walk away from the likes of the Tibbetts girl are the norm.

The cartels are here, the terrorist are here, the undesirable are here, and yet you cry for more.

Just look how well it’s working for Germany and Sweden for your answers.

[Anonymous]

One screwed up my commute last week by getting himself run over in the middle of the night because it was just too much trouble to cross the street legally.

Notice a trend?

Won't cross a street lawfully, won't enter the country lawfully... it's almost like they have a disregard of the laws I'm expected to follow.

Odd, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a burglar breaks into my house and he falls down the stairs, should I have to pay his hospital bill? Or pay for the lawyer to defend him when I bring charged for breaking and entering?

That's exactly what you'd be required to do in the U.K.