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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the feeding cats analogy. If FCPS (and other school systems) give so many free resources, the world will show up on the doorstep. That is exactly what has happened and the quality of our school system has suffered because of it.[/quote]

Ehhhh, let's take a closer look at who, exactly, is inviting these "cats" into the country and local areas in the first place. All the posters complaining about the kids in their schools whose parents work as gardners and nannies under the table should probably ask themselves who is employing these gardners and nannies.

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Disclosure: I am a Hillary-voting, pussy-hat wearing resistance voter.

This, to me, has always been the most hypocritical of progressive arguments: "All of these immigrants keep our economy going, doing jobs citizens don't or won't do." But, of course, citizens [i]would[/i] do these jobs at some price point, far above where it is now. And then, yes, much of the middle class would no longer be able to afford the stuff and domestic help we have now, and then there would be an even bigger child care crisis and housing crisis. And THEN, maybe, we would see the needle move on parental leave and affordable child care, because it would be the American citizens who could no longer afford or find cheap enough ways to deal with these issues.

I think the anti-immigrant folks are right when they argue that open immigration depresses wages. If wages go up, and we still don't have enough unskilled or lower-skilled workers, then we can talk about open immigration.[/quote]

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