“We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicatedproblems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works.”— Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, as quoted byRichard de Uriarte, The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992 (quoted in TheProEnglish Advocate, 1st quarter, 2002).
Lie #1: Illegal aliens take jobs Americans won’t do.
Truth: Americans are willing to do most jobs at a fair wage, but theywon’t do those jobs at “slave wages” or minimum wage. Thus, Americanworkers are constantly replaced by illegal aliens willing to work forhalf or a third of what American workers once received. These jobs thatonce afforded a middle class life style now only offer illegal alienworkers poverty level wages, resulting in the shrinkage of the”American Middle Class” and the enormous growth of an ever-increasing”underclass” dependent on government entitlements.
Lie #2: Illegal aliens contribute more to the economy and tax base than they take.
Truth: A large portion of illegal aliens work for cash “under thetable” paying no taxes. The great majority of illegals make $6-$8 perhour, ($12,480 – $16,640 per year). At such income levels, not only isthere no tax due, but they also qualify for the “earned income taxcredit”. In California, public education alone costs over $7,500 perpupil. Multiply that times 2-4 children, add the costs of free schoolbreakfast and lunch, free medical care, food stamps, housing subsidies,and other entitlement “give-aways”. Harvard Professor George Borjasestimates illegal immigration costs the U.S. 70 billion dollars peryear and Californians $1,300 per household annually in additionaltaxes. The Center for Immigration Studies estimate that the averageMexican illegal alien will use $55,200 more in public services duringhis lifetime than he pays in taxes.
Lie #3: Without illegal alien farm labor, a head of lettuce would cost $3.00.
Truth: It already costs $3.00. You just make a $1.00 down payment atthe grocery store. The government finances the other two dollars untiltax time, when the additional $2.00 balance is extracted from yourwallet in the form of higher taxes. The Agriculture industry gets cheaplabor and higher profits, while shifting all the social costs ofillegal immigrant labor to the American tax payer.
Lie #4: Most illegal aliens come here only to seek work and are law-abiding “citizens”.
Truth: In Los Angeles, as of January, 2004, 95 percent of alloutstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) targetillegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants(17,000) are for illegal aliens. A confidential California Departmentof Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers saythe proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborateswith the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, oncomplex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-byassassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A.County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades byrecruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, fromCentral America and Mexico. (Source: The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave, by Heather MacDonald, City Journal, Winter 2004)
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