Immigration and the Conservative

Romney doing the job Republican establishment just won't do - HUMAN EVENTS:

I'm a big fan of Ann Coulter. She's very witty and goes after liberals with a hammer and tongs and isn't afraid to make liberals sputter in rage. That she's a pretty and tall blonde doesn't hurt, either. Once you get past her turn of a phrase and the controversy that she causes (controversy means a conservative is correct and the Left has no leg to stand on), she's a good researcher and you get a lot of footnotes proving she's right as well as Right.

She talks about illegal immigration and how it divides the Republican party into the Establishment and Conservative wings. The sad truth is that many businesses hire illegals to work dangerous or exhausting jobs for little pay and the immigrants use America's social welfare system to make up for the lesser pay and no benefits. Let me give you an example: several years ago, my parents decided to leave their huge home and move into a much smaller home in a development. For several months, my dad and I would go to several developments a week that were still under construction and wander about, checking how well the buildings were put together, trying to see what room would go where and so on. If there was work going on after 5 PM on a Friday, the workers were Hispanic. If the workers were American, they were home by five and didn't work Saturday. Having illegals working for you saved you a lot of money in salary and workers comp. Hiring Americans exclusively put you at a disadvantage and lowered your profit margin. Illegal immigrants from Mexico are almost twice as likely to utilize government services as Americans (75% to 39%) and the services illegal immigrants use are less efficient in terms of money and time. Taxpayers end up paying for the benefits received by illegals while those companies that hire Americans have to pay for their workers' benefits themselves.

Another problem with illegal immigration is that it is unfair to those that want to come here legally. I've known people with green cards and it's a big bother to fill out all the forms and meet all the regulations and paperwork when being an illegal means you don't have to do any of that. It can take years to get through the waiting list to move to America where illegals that fly here without visas are usually given an appointment to go to court (which they usually skip) and allowed in to do whatever they want. Illegals can usually avoid paying taxes and in many states can ignore the requirements of having a license and insurance to drive. It is a bad idea to tell millions of people that they can break laws when it's convenient but they can get all the benefits of being a legal immigrant or citizen.

Our immigration system is broken. People come here illegally, often carrying drugs for the smugglers. Once they arrive, they are often enslaved to work in sweatshops or brothels. No one knows how many die in the desert or are killed by human traffickers. People following the law are punished and those who break the law are rewarded. Democrats don't want to change the system because illegals mean people the government will have to service, people that might fraudulently vote for them in elections, people who will need them for generations. Establishment Republicans see illegals as discounted workers and are comfortable breaking the law because the chance of being caught is low. People are dying, people are enslaved and people are being taken advantage of. It's okay to some because it means profits or government jobs for Democrats. It's simply wrong to conservatives.

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