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Originally Posted by monster
No, but last I heard, Americans seem to view themselves as a good force in the world, upholding fairness and adhering to basic human rights.
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No, those are images others put on us.
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So tearing parents from children and breaking down doors in the middle of the night to do so might be considered un-American in that respect.
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She is blowing out of proportion a minority of cases where those who did so did it under the direction of the people who are burdened with trying to get employeers to adhere to the law. The mothers have been allowed to stay with the children and the fathers have been sent to detention to await a hearing for, I hope eventual deportation. But again, this is such a small minority of the number of illegal immigrants in this country.
Here is the cost:
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The nation's school system faces the economic burden of providing services to the millions of children born to illegal immigrants. In a 2004 United States General Accounting Office report, three states submitted their annual cost estimates of educating illegal children. The estimates provided ranged from 50 million dollars to 87.5 million in Pennsylvania and 932 million to 1.04 billion dollars in Texas.[i]
FAIR estimates there are currently more than 425,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. This figure is based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 births per 1000) and the size of the illegal alien population (13 million in 2008). In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36 percent of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year and now count substantially more than half.
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