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Illegal immigrants burn gas, drive up rent costs
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As we engage in discussion about the impact of illegal immigration upon our lives, there are hidden impacts that must also be considered. How many of the now 15 million illegals are driving cars and how much does that contribute to the supposed shortage we are currently experiencing? Would those millions of extra gallons help to reduce the cost of the gasoline we are paying so much for?

Let us look a little closer to home. Has anyone noticed the cost of renting a home these days? Besides the difficulty in finding affordable housing, the current rental rate is so high because of shortages in the housing market for rental property. This shortage is due in part to the many illegal residents currently crowding into the available homes.

Landlords have no qualms asking ridiculously high rates for their properties because they know that there is a good chance there will be many more working adults living there than your normal two-parent home.

Estimates place the illegal population of the Gainesville area at somewhere around 30,000 people. Now these are not homeowners but renters, and it is not hard to guess where they are. Look in the yard at the end of the work day to see how many cars are parking overnight versus how many were there during the day.

How does an illegal alien get car insurance? If they don't have insurance and get in a wreck, who has to pay to repair our cars? What happens to our insurance rates then?

How much of the money they are earning in this community goes back to Mexico? Isn't that a blow to the local economy? Those dollars are not being spent here. There is no sales tax on goods not purchased.

Now, I understand everyone wants a better life for their families, but to say all of us must help pay for that life is just plain wrong. Follow the steps to become a real legal immigrant and I welcome you with open arms.

Lee Marchetta

Gainesville

Originally published Saturday, June 16, 2007

Originally Posted by zeezil

Illegal immigrants burn gas, drive up rent costs
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/st ... 9689.shtml
Your views: letter to Gainesville Times newspaper
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LETTER

As we engage in discussion about the impact of illegal immigration upon our lives, there are hidden impacts that must also be considered. How many of the now 15 million illegals are driving cars and how much does that contribute to the supposed shortage we are currently experiencing? Would those millions of extra gallons help to reduce the cost of the gasoline we are paying so much for?

Let us look a little closer to home. Has anyone noticed the cost of renting a home these days? Besides the difficulty in finding affordable housing, the current rental rate is so high because of shortages in the housing market for rental property. This shortage is due in part to the many illegal residents currently crowding into the available homes.

Landlords have no qualms asking ridiculously high rates for their properties because they know that there is a good chance there will be many more working adults living there than your normal two-parent home.

Estimates place the illegal population of the Gainesville area at somewhere around 30,000 people. Now these are not homeowners but renters, and it is not hard to guess where they are. Look in the yard at the end of the work day to see how many cars are parking overnight versus how many were there during the day.

How does an illegal alien get car insurance? If they don't have insurance and get in a wreck, who has to pay to repair our cars? What happens to our insurance rates then?

How much of the money they are earning in this community goes back to Mexico? Isn't that a blow to the local economy? Those dollars are not being spent here. There is no sales tax on goods not purchased.

Now, I understand everyone wants a better life for their families, but to say all of us must help pay for that life is just plain wrong. Follow the steps to become a real legal immigrant and I welcome you with open arms.

Lee Marchetta

Gainesville

Originally published Saturday, June 16, 2007

I can relate to this story 100%!!! I live on Long Island where rent is crazy high!!! Where the local job market produces jobs that pay 8-11 dollars an hour and the average rent is around $1100/ month for a 1 bedroom apartment! But when landlords can stuff illegals in a 2 bedroom home for 500-700 dollars a month a head he cares not for the Americans that don't have a place to live or still lives with parents! To afford to live in some of these apartments citizens need to commute to NYC and other surrounding areas and commutes from 2 hours to 3 hours ONE WAY!!! I commute to NYC every day and it takes me 2 hours one way!! So 4 hours of my day is wasted!! I could get another job and work those 4 hours!!! I believe I got off point but since the arrival of illegals on Long Island that screwed up the local economy and I haven't even touched taxes, insurance and other services yet!!!

If you look hard enough, they might be behind the stock bubble of 2000 (they overheated the economy with thir labor), the twin cities bridge collapse (they divert lots of resources that could be devoted to infrastructure), the pipes exploding in New York (there are a lot of them in New York), the Texas floods (they pee a lot), and the Katrina Hurricane (it was all an evil plot to help rebuild it).
Keep it flowing, guys.

Mongo

Originally Posted by Mongo

If you look hard enough, they might be behind the stock bubble of 2000 (they overheated the economy with thir labor), the twin cities bridge collapse (they divert lots of resources that could be devoted to infrastructure), the pipes exploding in New York (there are a lot of them in New York), the Texas floods (they pee a lot), and the Katrina Hurricane (it was all an evil plot to help rebuild it).
Keep it flowing, guys.

Mongo

How about this to start?

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/more_ ... _illeg.php
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty248.htm


About 9000 Americans are killed by illegal immigrants a year! More then the Iraq war!!! Why and for what? What did they do? These people did nothing wrong and they died by a foreign national that had no right being here in the first place!!!!

-BorderLegionnaire

Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens which
translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal
aliens
(Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa)

Thirteen Americans are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers for
another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11,
2001.
(Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa)

Eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal
aliens every day a total of 2,920 annually.
(Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa)

K-12 school expenditures for illegal aliens cost U.S. Taxpayers
$7.4 Billion a year
(US Rep.. Gary Miller)

Illegal aliens consume $3.7 Billion annually in Medicare and
Medicaid benefits since 40% of illegal aliens are on U.S. Welfare
(Federation for American Immigration Reform)

$1.6 billion is spent annually in prison costs to house, feed and
clothe illegal aliens who fill 32% of our federal and state prisons
(Fox News Channel O'Reilly Factor)

$10 billion dollars are sent back to Mexico annually by illegal
aliens (according to the Pew Hispanic Center), an amount which
now makes it Mexico's 2nd largest industry.

Leprosy, (Hansen's disease), was so rare in America that in 40
years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three
years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy
now is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and
other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the
Caribbean, and Mexico
(Thomson American Health Consultants; 2003)

Tuberculosis was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002, when
it spiked a 17% increase, but Prince William County, just south
of Washington, D.C., had a much larger rise of 188%.
(American Medical Association (JAMA) June 2005)

Illegal aliens make up 32% of State & Federal Prison populations
(FNC O'Reilly Factor)

There are an estimated 240,000 illegal alien sexual predators
currently in the USA
(Violent Crimes Institute - May 2006)

Over 1,000,000 sexual crimes are estimated to have been
committed in the USA over the past seven years by illegal aliens
(Violent Crimes Institute - May 2006)

90% of all crime in Brooks County Texas is committed by illegal
aliens
(Brooks County Sheriff's Department April 2006)

In the Jan/Feb of 2006, of the 120,000 illegals caught in the
Laredo sector, 2,500 of them were from the Middle East!!!

A large, but unknown, number of al Qaeda terrorists and Chinese
nationals are infiltrating our country virtually anywhere they
choose from Brownsville to San Diego. One al Qaeda terrorist
was held for several weeks after being captured on our border
and is currently under FBI custody.

A large number of Islamic individuals have moved into homes in
Nuevo Laredo and are being taught Spanish to assimilate into
the local culture.
--unbelievable!

Texas Border Sheriffs have found uniform patches from an elite
group of Islamic suicide bombers
(Verified by Israeli intelligence)

The rate of non-Mexican aliens (or OTMs) and special interest
aliens (or SIAs aliens from so-called countries of interest )
apprehended on the northern and southern borders has increased
from 30,147 in 2003 to 44,614 in 2004.
- Congressman Tom Tancredo

By June 30, 2004, the number of SIAs had swelled 42.5% to
6,022 from "Countries of Interest" such as those the State
Department considers sponsors of terrorism (Cuba, Iran, Libya,
North Korea, Sudan, Syria) and others where militant Islam
simmers (Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan,
Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,
and Yemen).
--Department of Homeland Security

Numerous law enforcement officers have been beaten, stabbed
and shot by illegal aliens over the past few years.
o Officer Rodney Johnson, 40, Houston, Texas.
o Officer Brian Jackson, 28, Dallas, Texas.
o Deputy Brandon "Brandy" Winfield, 29, Marion County, Ohio.
o Detective Hugo Arango, 24, of the Doroville, Ga.
o Deputy Saul Gallegos, 35, Chelan County, Wash.
o Deputy Sheriff David March, 33, Los Angeles County,
o Officer Tony Zeppetella, 27, Oceanside, Calif,
o Officer Daniel Howard Golden, 27, Huntsville, Ala,
o And Dozens More.

Oh Yeah one more thing.
If you want to visit America get a passport see the sites and then go home. If your intention is to permanently live in America get to the back of the line and wait your turn. What makes you so privileged to think you can cut in line and leech off this countries citizens.

My name is Mongo, and I have been an illegal immigrant in the US since 2000.

...
Mongo, your quite the "I'm here, I'm illegal, I'm in your face and deal with it because I can do no wrong" kind of fellow, aren't you? Charming.

Mongo's Mantra:

If not granted some sort of reprieve, I will go underground.
Going back to my home country is out of the question. If Americans don’t grow the political guts to deal with this problem in a comprehensive way at a national level, and this demagogic flurry of hodgepodge state and municipal anti-immigrant laws continues to harass me and my family, I will simply move further into the shadows. If that happens, I will have much less incentive to pay taxes, pay drivers insurance, avoid abusing the health and school system, be a good citizen, etc.

Just try me.

His statement, I fear is the mindset of many of them. As far as his 'incentive' to pay taxes, etc. - my laugh of the day.

Empty threats. They came here to work, make money, get freebies, get their kids educated, and get subsidized housing and free medical care. You can't do that 'in the shadows'.

Personally, I doubt Mongo is an illegal - I think he/she is just a LaRaza plant.

Retardation is not a crime, therefore you are not a criminal!

Originally Posted by Mongo

If you look hard enough, they might be behind the stock bubble of 2000 (they overheated the economy with thir labor), the twin cities bridge collapse (they divert lots of resources that could be devoted to infrastructure), the pipes exploding in New York (there are a lot of them in New York), the Texas floods (they pee a lot), and the Katrina Hurricane (it was all an evil plot to help rebuild it).
Keep it flowing, guys.

Mongo

I think he/she is just a LaRaza plant.

So a Mongo is a plant?

Dang, I would have bet money that it was a cross between a nut and a fruit.

Originally Posted by Mongo

If you look hard enough, they might be behind the stock bubble of 2000 (they overheated the economy with thir labor), the twin cities bridge collapse (they divert lots of resources that could be devoted to infrastructure), the pipes exploding in New York (there are a lot of them in New York), the Texas floods (they pee a lot), and the Katrina Hurricane (it was all an evil plot to help rebuild it).
Keep it flowing, guys.

Mongo

It is painfully obvious that you are a product of the Mexican Education system.