"Illegals have been here, cutting OUR grass, cleaning OUR homes-"
Um, speak for yourself, kimosabe.
K, maybe I'm not of a high enough socio-economic level to qualify as one of your "ours," but I did grow up with folks handicapped by illegals. They're called legal Mexican immigrants. (I don't personally know enough from other countries to have a category--one guy in the Navy who was from Peru, immigrated as an adult and went straight into the service is not even close to a decent sample.)
A lot of the ranch hands where my dad worked were second or third generation, and a lot lacked good English because the schools taught them in Spanish, rather than English. Illegal criminals assumed they were also illegal, so they were targeted for crimes on the assumption that they wouldn't call the cops. Even at schools with a lot of illegals this pattern repeated. (Seattle. Machete.)
You want to hear a REAL anti-illegal rant? Get some folks who came here legally started. "F*ing stupid Mexicans" was the nicest of the phrases used, and that's toned down because a 15 year old girl was standing there. Sure, his dad was from Mexico, but they're Americans.
I have no desire to base immigration policy on the personal guilty conscience of some guy who had enough money to hire folks to clean his house and do his yard work, but didn't want to pay to get it done legally. You want cheaper help around? Reform the laws around hiring folks so it's reasonable to hire an untrained 17 year old on summer break.
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The self-absorbed idiot who drives his Prius to the gym, walking on the tread mill listening to his iPod, can to pay a citizen to cut his grass, and pay the employment taxes if he employs a housekeeper, but he should keep his sanctimonious homilies to himself. The rest of us cut our own grass and shovel our own snow, or pay the neighbor's kid if we're too busy or too infirm.
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