North Carolina has slammed its community college doors in the faces of illegal immigrants; it’s about damn time someone took a stand. What’s the point in educating illegals when employers must break the law to hire them?
Now, before you rise up against me shouting “racist” (I assure you, I expect no less), sit down, take a few deep breaths and keep reading.
Every time I state my views on this subject, whether it’s at a private gathering or a rally at the capitol, some ignorant, hot-headed people invariably call me a racist and even though I know better, I feel obligated to defend myself. I have been physically and verbally assaulted, as well as spat upon, by people claiming that I’m “hatin’ on the immigrants.”
First of all, I don’t hate anyone; secondly, I believe that LEGAL immigrants are the backbone of our nation. I also believe that, like all criminals, illegal immigrants should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, as should their employers.
Illegals not only break the law by crossing our porous border, they make it easier for terrorists to do the same. When they get here, they steal jobs from decent, hard-working Americans who have no option but to collect your tax money in the form of unemployment compensation.
Apologists for these common criminals will say, “Illegals are doing the jobs that Americans won’t.” The statement that these people are trying to skate around is, “Americans charge too much to do this grunt work, so let’s replace them with people who’ll do it for less than half normal wage, and as a bonus, we don’t have to pay taxes on them!”
The relentless problem of illegal immigration is far more serious than you may realize; here are some statistics from the U.S. government. As of Wednesday May 21, 2008, there are approximately 21,536,007 illegal immigrants in the USA. Some of their earnings will, of course, be recycled into our economy, but the vast majority will be sent back to the illegal immigrants’ countries of origin. The cost of social services provided for illegals since 1996 is approximately $397,457,922,036. The number of illegal immigrant children in our public schools is approximately 4,359,434 and the cost of educating these children from k-12 is about $14,170,296,307. Perhaps the money spent on illegals would be better applied to pulling the United State’s economy out of its current nose dive. Of course these numbers are approximate and if anything, are too low.
Not only do these criminals, (in this case I’m referring to the employers of the illegals), not pay taxes on their illegal employees, but the illegal employees don’t pay taxes either; if they do, it’s because they’ve gotten hold of a stolen social security card. Do the math and drop me a line when you figure out how this benefits our flailing economy.
You may notice the number of times the word illegal appears in this op-ed. As a student journalist, I normally limit the quantity of repetitive words in my articles, but I feel that this is a perfectly acceptable way to make a point. These people are BREAKING THE LAW and should be treated as criminals.
What about the illegal children of these illegal immigrants? Should they be punished for the crimes of their parents? The answer is a resounding ‘yes’. Send the parents and the children back to their country of origin; wait, scratch that. Prosecute the parents and keep the children in state custody (something else you’ll have to pay for), and when the parents have done their time, deport the lot of them.
Maybe these children, having had a taste of America, will be motivated to become legal citizens and one day come back to join the ranks of responsible, tax-paying Americans. Sadly, they’ll probably opt to follow their parents back over/under the fence.
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