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    Immigration woes bring residents together

    Sunday Apr 1

    Immigration woes bring residents together

    About 200 show up to discuss system said to be broken

    By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer

    The last thing one might expect from the sparring factions in America's great immigration debate is consensus. But put them in a room and they will probably agree that the country's immigration policy is not only dysfunctional - it's broken.

    Stagnating economic growth in Mexico, an inventory of low-skill jobs in the United States and a $1.4 billion annual border en-forcement policy that has not deterred northern flight from Mexico were some examples of why it's broken, according to five panelists who spoke Saturday in Palo Alto to about 200 Peninsula residents.

    The forum covered issues, including current, past and future immigration legislation, data on which states illegal and legal immigrants are traveling to and how Mexico's newly elected president, Felipe Calderon, is handling immigration with the United States.

    In light of the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, the panel came at a perfect time, said Larisa Casillos, director of the Bay Area Immigrants Rights Coalition.

    She said roughly 1,100 individuals have been arrested in the "Operation Return to Sender" raids since the March immigration rights protests. That is no coincidence, she claims.

    "They're trying to tell us, 'You shouldn't march in the streets and demand for more rights. You should just lay low and not ask any questions,'" she said.

    Alex M. Saragoza, an associate professor of Chicano studies at the University of California, Berkeley, said the United States is likely to see a drop in illegal immigration after 2010 because Mexico's birth rate is slowing and older people are less likely to cross the border. He said illegal and legal immigrants send between $20 and $25 billion annually to their home country.

    There may be truth to the arguments of those who want immigration efforts relaxed and those who want them strengthened, said Stephen Levy, Director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy. The difference is one side looks at the present, the other to the future. An illegal immigrant might be a slight drain on the economy, he said, but as that person's children grow up and start to pay taxes, the economy will benefit.

    The event, held at Hewlett Packard's headquarters, was organized by the Peninsula chapter of the World Affairs Council, the League of Women Voters and Avenidas.


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    An illegal immigrant might be a slight drain on the economy, he said, but as that person's children grow up and start to pay taxes, the economy will benefit.
    Might be a "slight" drain. Come on. The fact we are paying for the birth, health and education of thier children is a massive drain. Also the fact remains that thier children will more than likely drop out of school, get low paying jobs and end up on welfare. Give me a break.

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    the United States is likely to see a drop in illegal immigration after 2010 because Mexico's birth rate is slowing and older people are less likely to cross the border

    Birth rate drop, not here they're breeding like rats.

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    What is not mentioned here by Stephen Levy is that people have the tendency to wait to have their own children until they can support them in the same style of life and level of material comfort that they had experienced. The presence of the illegal aliens results in ower wages which cause a delay in native born American fertility. At the same time the tax money of the American public is going into subsidies for the aliens who immediately experience a higher quality of life just by being here. The children of illegal aliens are being raised by drawing off public benefits that should have gone to our own not them.
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