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Illegal aliens a burden and a threat to America

December 24, 2006


I am in favor of legal immigration, but our society can only sustain a reasonable number of immigrants.

People need to be aware of the terrible consequences that will develop, and are developing, due to this onslaught of people here illegally.

Road safety: This is not about workers getting to employment. It's about the potential for fatal accidents. There's no corrective action - illegal immigrants should not be driving.

Disease: Our kids must have proper immunizations. Diseases eradicated in the United States are on the rise again, and who knows what strains of flus, etc. your children are going to be exposed to?

Employment: Cheap labor? The employers are the only ones benefiting from illegal immigration. The executives at Swift must have thought they died and went to heaven with employees who can't have their own ideas, complain, demand raises or better conditions. This is one of the biggest union-busting programs in our history. Employers would have to pay legal citizens a decent wage, something they're trying very hard to avoid.

Schools: Nothing like adding a huge number of students needing special attention, adding huge costs and diverting teachers' attention from where it should be - teaching American children.

What other country lets people sneak in, and then tolerates complaints of "rights violations" and demand for law changes? How absurd. You'd be lucky to leave with your life in most places.

- Tim Wisecup,
Ankeny.

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There is not one documented benefit from the presence of illegal aliens, except for those greedy employers who employ them. When our immigration laws were enforced years ago, our economy was the strongest in the world.

Today, because of the presence of illegal aliens, our unemployment rate is high, Americans are killed by drunk illegal-alien drivers. They have gangs in every state and the list goes on.

They are here to make money, period. They receive free medical care, free education and free meals at schools, at a cost of billions to legitimate taxpayers. They have no intention of melding into our society.

They march through the streets waving Mexican flags and demand rights to which they are not entitled. Illegals should be marching in their own country, making demands of their own government.

- Ginger Corbett,
Maquoketa.