The strain is not on the SS system. It is on health care and prisons, among other things.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5BC0A9649C8B63 (from 2002)

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13461203.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16285023/

http://www.migrationinformation.org/...lay.cfm?ID=417

Dana, check with you tomorrow, have to go to work.

Why bother, you two aren't going to agree. You start out with a report that says 5 million when it's actually 3.5 times that. Old saws like they do dirty jobs that nobody else will do, which is pure myth. They do unskilled labor, for lack of skills and they'll work cheaper because they haven't the overhead.

Sure we have room for them, but they don't want to live where we have room. There's plenty of air to breath, too. If they were trees, it wouldn't be a problem. But they aren't, they're people, people than need infrastructure and services, both of which are expensive and they aren't paying for.

With the billions of dollars they take back to Mexico, why haven't they done anything there? You know, businesses and companies, to establish a decent economy there. Because all their potential customers and employees are here?

I though much of the article was pointing towards the fact that they have started to develop their economy now?

No, it only says This is an echo of past claims that didn't bear fruition.

Anyone else catch all the protecting and serving that went on at the recent immigration protests?

I was going to post this later today.

Fuck the police and the media.

The police did not have to use that force and this would never been reported like this if a camera person did not get hurt.

It is pathetic that someone in the media has to get hurt before they will report what the police did negatively.

Good strategy for protesters by the way.

Apparently as long as they were in the street and moving it was OK, but when they were congregating in the park the cops cleared them out. At least that's what I can make of what I've seen on TV.

I'm glad they kicked their asses.

You're glad the police kicked the asses of people who were doing nothing illegal? Why?

Disorderly conduct and failure to disburse are hardly legal. If ordered to move and you fail to do so you will suffer the consequences.

I'm all about letting people come here...the more the merrier. Of course, not willy-nilly...we gotta check 'em out and shit. But we started as a country of immigrants...we should remain so.

Wrong. Not only because "failure to disburse" (this doesn't apply, anyway, because it looks to me like the media was moving when asked in the videos) when you aren't doing anything wrong should never be met with violence, but also:

I have no problem with LEGAL immigrants. If you cross the border illegally you get to turn around and go back home and take all your kids, mothers, grandmothers, etc, with you. I don't care if they were born here or not. Circumvent the process or pay the price.

Maybe they just needed a work out or a warm up or something for a bigger ass kicking later. I don't know.