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The H2B program is a good start, but, as Nick says, has a quota that makes it a virtually guaranteed failure. And while I would question that "only 10 percent" of undocumented Mexican workers send a child to public school, it is indisputable that most of us benefit, from the dinner table to the pension table, from their work.<BR>
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Legalize 'em, I say -- if they've got no criminal record, are gainfully employed, and pay a processing fee/penalty. Yes, it's a very personal issue for me, but I feel able to argue it from a humanitarian and an economic perspective.<BR>
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 07:09:40 -0800<BR>From: ngier@uidaho.edu<BR>To: ophite@gmail.com<BR>CC: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Illegals" OK only if they fight in Iraq<BR><BR><BR><FONT size=5>Good Morning:<BR><BR>Larry Kudlow, writing for the conservative journal <I>National Review</I> (4/4/06), goes beyond the requests of the current legislation. He urges Congress to expand the ridiculously low unskilled H-2B quota from 140,000 to the millions of visas that are needed for our service and agricultural economy. <BR><BR>Kudlow also reminds Americans that "illegals have [paid] $7 billion to Social Security and $1.5 billion to Medicare. They are contributing to our wealth, not reducing it." He also adds that "only 10 percent of illegal Mexicans have sent a child to an American public school and just 5 percent have received food stamps or unemployment benefits."<BR><BR>Nick Gier<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><hr />Live Earth is coming. Learn more about the hottest summer event - only on MSN. <a href='http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthwlm' target='_new'>Check it out!</a></body>
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