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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to know what the defense is of illegal aliens in the US.

Why exactly should they not be required to leave?

illegal: Contrary to or forbidden by law

Again, why exactly is it okay to enter the US illegally and then participate in government assistance programs? If someone has an intelligent answer, I'm more than willing to learn and consider new possibilities. [/quote]

I appreciate that you are asking this in a non-confrontational way, but I suspect that any answer I could give would not change your position. I think we (probably) disagree on the very fundamentals of this argument -- for instance, I understand that they are breaking the law and should in theory be held accountable to that -- but I disagree with the law.  So I don't have an argument for you there that you would buy into.

That said, the numbers on illegal immigrants collecting government assistance are (in my estimation) wildly inflated.  Now, you can very well come back and ask me to prove it but I can no more prove my position on this than you can yours. Why? Because no one can. No one has any idea what the numbers are. The CBO has said that the net costs to states is probably minimal.  So, while I certainly know that many people think that even if $1 goes to illegal immigrant families is $1 too much, I personally think that if it is taxpayer dollars you are worried about there are other areas that would come first on my list.

I don't want to get too far off the original topic so I will leave it at that.   :D [/quote]

No pp, but what I'm getting is that basically you have no answer and your beliefs are based on things you can't even prove? Uhmmmm...okay.  :roll: [/quote]

Guess that is what I get for trying to be thoughtful in my responses. So, asshole, what would you like to know?  What facts do you have that illegals ARE ruining this country?  Besides the fact that you don't like brown people?[/quote]

Not the PP you so kindly called an asshole, and I wouldn't go so far as to say that illegals are ruining this country.. but I do take issue with their children being sent to public schools at the taxpayers' expense.

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And I guess my point is that we don't actually KNOW how much is being spent to education the children of illegal immigrants, for the same reasons we don't know how much they are costing tax payers in welfare.  I suspect that it is far less than estimates, I understand that others disagree.  But no one knows for sure and I just can't get outraged over spending money to educate kids, no matter where their parents came from.  Reasonable people can disagree on these points, unfortunately no one is reasonable on DCUM. [/quote]

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