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3.2.07 @ 12:01AM

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McCain better wake up and quick! Here are some numbers for consideration:

* 270 thousand. Number of illegal aliens in jail for felonies!

* 100 thousand. Estimated number of illegals who belong to gangs.

* $23 billion. U.S. taxpayer transfer payments for services to illegals.

* 28 thousand. Citizens killed by illegals over the past ten years.

* $20 billion. Money that leaves the U.S. for Mexico and points south!

If McCain proposes/supports legislation that grants citizenship to those here illegally; this life long Republican will vote for a third party candidate.
-- Bob Montrose
Fort Lee, New Jersey

I just don't understand what part of ILLEGAL the members of both houses don't understand. As far as having to pay back taxes to stay, big deal, lots of them don't make enough to pay taxes anyway. If the first thing someone does getting into America is break the law and continue to break the law with fake ID and SS cards, then I don't care what you call it, if they are allowed to stay it is AMNESTY.

I heard after the Swift raids that wages were raised and Americans took lots of those jobs. Is this true?

Illegals in America should not be getting any help using tax dollars, schooling, welfare, health care and babies born to illegals should NOT become citizens just because the mom happens to give birth in America. They are killing our schools and causing hospitals to close.
-- Elaine Kyle

Our immigration problems are the result of two conditions - (1) a border that is too porous and (2) a process to attain legal immigration status that is so arduous and expensive that few even attempt it. Address these two problems with an eye toward serving the bests interests of this country and we will finally be on the road toward a rational immigration system.
-- J. Brick
Beaver Dam, Arizona

CARL & JAY
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Show Trial Senators:

Senator Carl Levin awaits the closing of business hours every afternoon at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue so he can fish through the wastebaskets and dumpsters there. All the while, his home state of Michigan loses jobs and businesses to other state that have no aversion to "profits."

Senator Jay Rockefeller, a beneficiary of "Big Oil" doesn't seem to mind anything "big" as long as he or his wealth isn't the object of "big" government's observations.

Thus, what we have here is the Democrat party, looking for a cause. What cause are they looking for? They're hoping the wastebaskets and dumpsters of the White House and Department of Defense provide them with one.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

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