May 1 Protest -Will it hurt or help illegals?, page 12

Originally posted by donwhite

Does not Herndon have some interesting history?

Indeed, the mayor and many city councilmen were voted out this week for sponsoring an illegal immigrant work location with taxpayer money. They are calling it a serious wakeup call for illegal immigration backlash in this country. Hard to say what it was because only 26% of the registered voters bothered to even vote

I do know that there are alot of people in this area waking up to this problem since these demonstrations over the past few weeks and they are not happy about it at all.

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It is unrealistic to expect property taxes to carry so much of the cost of local government. Either LBJ or RMN signed into law the block grants from the Feds to the locals, but under the philosophy of Reagan and the 2 Bushes, that is a no-no.

Youre preaching to the choir here. Every time i fork out that $330 a month real estate tax when others who live in nearby counties are paying 1/3 less for the same value house i start to seethe. They will say the high taxes are for schools and the usual things like police and roads etc but i know its largely due to the illegal influx and i prefer to call a spade a spade.

If we could get over it, and issue 11 million Green cards, much of the problems you mention would be solved overnight. Raise the minimum wage to $10 would pretty much fix the rest.

Not sure how that would fix any problems here short of possibly increasing the tax base. The traffic would still be lousy, there would be a major sense of resentment for granting amnesty to criminals (and lets be realistic here, they snuck across the border, many with fake papers so yes they are criminals) as well as a host of other problems. Amnesty didnt work when reagan did it and it wont work now either.

As far as raising the minimum wage to $10 hr that would sort of defeat the purpose of allowing illegals here in the first place which is for cheap labor. For $10 hr you could get an american to do that job and we would have no justification for illegals being here in the first place.

I know the whole give me your tired huddled masses thing and i feel for both sides on this issue. I would want a better life for my family too if i was stuck in a deadend mexican town but somewhere we have to draw the line. Im a soldier on the front lines of what unchecked illegal immigration can do and i think it gives me a unique perspective that many on this board who advocate amnesty dont have.