Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Apr 2005 20:21 UTC
This month's Wired magazine has a terriffic story about a team of students from a high school in an economically depressed part of Phoenix, who took part in an underwater-robot building competition against students from the top universities in the country -- and won. All of the students are undocumented Mexican immigrants who don't qualify for most financial aid or even in-state tuition, and therefore can't afford to attend college, in the US, Mexico, or anywhere. When I read the article I determined to try to do something to help give these kids their chance, and I was delighted to discover that their faculty advisor has set up a scholarship fund for them, and I'm about to donate some money to help. I'd like to encourage OSNews readers to read the story, and if they feel the same way, to donate.
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This is the problem with illegal immigration. The world wants to come into the United States. The US can not ever support that. Thus natural limits have been set to decide who can come here and who can't. People who come here are basically flipping the middle finger at everyone who wants to come here and everyone who is here (Citizens, immigrants, whatever.) They deserve nothing but a nice boot in the butt and an express ride back home.
This is the other problem I have with illegal immigration. As a tax payer, I basically put a lot of companies on public wellfare. Because rather than they paying their employees proper wages, they hire illegal immigrants, pay them crap, and my tax dollars (rather than company money) goes into paying all the support costs for the illegals.
And here is another problem with illegal immigration, they drive the quality of education and health care down. Have you been to a hospital for an emergency recently. If you haven't, let me tell you this, a) because emergency support is free, illegal immigrants all go there making it impossible for the hospital to actually help real emergencies and b) because hospitals are forced to help illegals and there is no way for hospitals to recover money used on illegals, a lot of hospitals also fold over, making hospitals even more crowded.
As you can see, there is no justification for illegal immigration. It just messes everyone up and the only people who win are the companies that hire illegal immigrants. The illegal immigrants get screwed, residents get screwed. I understand everyone wants to come into the United States, but everyone also wants to be a billionaire.