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cadenas -> RE: With tax revenue down 25%, GOP still pushes tax cuts | Jay Bookman (4/16/2010 7:34:49 AM)
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As usual, there is not an iota of fact in here!
a) Illegal immigrants contribute a lot more than they cost, including shoring up Social Security with $7 BILLION every year.
b) Why do you claim that Lindsay Lohan and Timothy McVeigh are illegal immigrants? Or why do you mention drunk driving and crime?
c) A good fence will cost trillions. The construction cost of the short segment approved so far - which only covers about 10% of the total border length - is already up to $50 billion or so - and that doesn't include the cost of maintaining and watching it. East Germany went bankrupt trying to protect a fence 200 miles long. To watch the US borders, you would need approximately the entire US military just to watch the land borders.
And your two examples of fences that supposedly work? The whole West Bank is smaller than Delaware! North Korea is pretty small, too, and China for the most part doesn't guard the border.
Meanwhile, "high-tech fences" have consistently bankrupted the countries trying to build them. East Germany's fence was only about 200 miles long - but so expensive that it was the main reason the country went bankrupt. The DMZ in Korea - 150 miles long - requires the force of the US military.
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ORIGINAL: cuckoldmepls
Once you add in the total cost of Illegal aliens, from education, healthcare, food stamps, energy assistance, 2 meals a day at school, and all the lives that have been ruined by drug smugglers, and people who have been killed by Illegal aliens by crime and drunk driving, leaving their spouses and children dependent on the states, it runs into the half a trillion dollar range. A good fence only cost a few billion. By the way, China has a high tech fence to keep north koreans out, and obviously Israel has one. Fences do work. If you don't believe that then let's take down every back yard fence in America and the fence around the whitehouse.
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