Illegal aliens take our jobs

By DAVID SMIEZEK | Onalaska, Wis.
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I have worked on the road for more than 30 years, and I would like to share some personal experiences.

I’m a boilermaker by trade. I have seen fake Social Security cards being sold out of a trunk of a car. I have seen illegals do shoddy work and hurt people on job sites because they can’t read or speak English.

I have seen illegals get jobs — good jobs, not the job no one wants like the illegals would like you to believe.

I have seen illegals pay the least amount of taxes possible and never bother to pick up a W-2 form.

Pregnant Mexicans get into a taxi and go to the nearest U.S. hospital so their children are born U.S. citizens.

This should not be legal, and I don’t believe citizenship should be granted.

Clinics go under because illegals give false names so no bills are paid. One of the reasons health care costs so much is because people with insurance have to make up the difference.

Schools degenerate because the language barrier slows learning down for the English-speaking students.

Drugs and crime soar in border states, because of these illegals.

Some illegals may work for less money, but the strain on the infrastructure is causing taxes to go up.

President Reagan gave amnesty to the illegals hoping to stop the immigration. All it did was create more illegals. Guest worker program?

Baloney!

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