How many to go ???

How many to go? Hard to say, but extrapolating the numbers of those in my immediate neighborhood, I'd estimate perhaps 30 million. Seriously. Even the media, being uncharacteristically conservative, says there are 11 million.

I was surprised to see where that story originated; I have a good online friend in N. Hampshire who I have "known" for twenty years and not long after we "met", we were discussing illegal immigration and she came out w/ the "But who will pick our crops?" progressive mantra. I told her we never had a problem until we started allowing them to get welfare benefits, coinciding with the ease of assuming someone's identity, thanks to the Internet.

Used to be, most of 'em would do the seasonal work, then go home and live like kings on the money they had made. Now they've learned to game the system. Now many of them get construction jobs on projects, then when the job is done, they file for unemployment and go back to work when the benefits run out. Those who are here legally/are citizens or have forged documents are also running HUD scams, buying old houses and fixing them up to govt. standards, then renting out the subsidized rental property to others of their own nationality.

We could clear out a huge percentage of the illegals if we'd just tax remittances, that money sent back to their home countries. It's been suggested before but no one has even put forth a bill before Congress, as far as I know. I would start at at least 10%, but 25% would be even better. Mexico gets more money from remittances than PEMEX, the nationalized oil company, has in revenues.

That's not just money that leaves the country forever, but money that doesn't stay in the community, turning over from buying groceries and in turn the store employees buying other goods and services, money that does not get deposited in banks, helping others to obtain loans. It's money that eventually would pay for infrastructure, but is gone forever and of course, no taxes being paid on the hundreds if not thousands of other transactions that a single dollar would be used for had it only stayed here locally.

Multiply all that by whatever huge number you wanna pick out of the air, thousands of other towns across America where the same thing is happening. We're talking billions and billions of dollars, paid out to false or fraudulent claims like the one in the article, the money leaving the U.S. and all the money THAT money could have generated, not to mention the increased crime rates, even the money for the trial such as this person is about to get. (I'm sure his attorney will be a court-appointed one, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

Building the wall and deporting these freeloaders is as close a single issue voter I can be. It's time we insist our representatives do something about it.

"A country without borders is no country at all."
- Ron Paul