ACLU and others sue to stop Columbia County measure on illegal immigrants

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wkumar wrote:

I know the Columbia County area well and I know it can't afford to do the work that this measure is supposed to do. The ACLU and the Northwest Workers Justice Project were right to challenge this.

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Fed up Suffolk Taxpayer wrote:

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People like you are the reason over 15 billion in US dollars leave the US instead of keeping it in the American economy. Then on top of that illegals drain educational and healthcare resources.

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Fed up Suffolk Taxpayer wrote:

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People like you are the reason over 15 billion in US dollars leave the US instead of keeping it in the American economy. Then on top of that illegals drain educational and healthcare resources.

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Cricket 23 wrote:

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Source: Inter-American Development Bank, March 2006 report,“Remittance 2005”. Mexico remains the largest recipient of remittances, at over US$20 billion, followed by Brazil and Columbia which for the first time reached over US$6 and US$4 billion respectively. Central America and the Dominican Republic combined to reach over US$11 billion; and the Andean countries totaled almost US$9 billion.
http://www.iadb.org/mif/v2/files/guemez_remit...
As much as 50% of remittances are unreported. As published in the Development Prospect Group Briefing #3, "This amount only reflects transfers through official channels. Econometric analysis suggests that unrecorded flows through informal channels may add 50 percent or more to recorded flows. Including these unrecorded flows, the true size of remittances, is larger than foreign direct investment flows and more than twice as large as official aid received by developing countries."
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPEC...

bob wrote:

if you have not studied the evil that is the federal reserve now is the time. illegal immigration is a win/win for our government. the combination of stagnant wages and money leaving the country is necessary to maintain our fundamentally flawed monetary policy.
http://video.google.com/videoplay...

wkumar wrote:

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I know Columbia County better than you do and I know how losing this money will affect it. Have you been there?
I am not sure where you get the random 15 billion dollar number from but there are economic reasons for trade, international support, and of course the mistaken war in Iraq which do cost billions of dollars a month. Why am I responsible for that due to my belief that a small county can't afford to many cases?

wkumar wrote:

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I know Columbia County better than you do and I know how losing this money will affect it. Have you been there?
I am not sure where you get the random 15 billion dollar number from but there are economic reasons for trade, international support, and of course the mistaken war in Iraq which do cost billions of dollars a month. Why am I responsible for that due to my belief that a small county can't afford to many cases?

Fed up Suffolk Taxpayer wrote:

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What planet have you been living on for the past 10 years?!? Illegals have been sending money home to their native lands for a long time. Why do you think former mex prez Fox has been complaining about tightened border security? Because the more illegals here, the more money mexico makes. And the ones that stay here have been draining healthcare and education funds payed by the taxpayers as well.
You tell me how that benefits this country? All so some business can make a profit? You sir need to pull your head out of your @ss.
I work as an RN in peds, these people provide no benefit whatsoever other than to themselves and businesses.