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I live with this attack on my state and my city, every day. I pay the extra taxes. My wife teaches in the public school system and my kids attended those schools, so I know firsthand the impact there. I deal with the services bogged down and cut because of these people. I live with the crimes these people commit around me. Yes, that was an illegal immigrant who came into my business with a sawed-off shotgun and pointed it at my 70 year old parents (I'll be the first to admit that most of the illegal immigrants do not commit crimes outside of entering illegally, but too many of them do). I have all the "evidence" I need to realize the very real impact these people have had and are having on MY life and MY city. Your province cries over 7,000 who "might" show up, and I suppose exploits the cheap labor of the ones they decide to let stay to build you housing. My state deals with 1.4 million. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that if 1.4 million people didn't do anything but breathe, drink water, eat bread, shit and have babies, you'd have a huge resource crunch. I wonder if you're just playing devil's advocate. Man, I sure hope that is the case.
So you don't actually have any evidence apart from a couple of anecdotes. Acknowledged. I suppose you didn't consider that those 1.4 million people might also purchase goods and services from Americans, or work in jobs making or doing things that benefit Americans?
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You're joking, right? Who built Canadian infrastructure before illegal immigrants?
Mostly legal immigrants, I think. The Canadian immigration system now makes it almost impossible for manual labourers to come here except on a poorly run guest worker program, and not enough citizens want the jobs, so illegals have to fill the gap.
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I thought the best part was when someone said the US border was "heavily fortified."
and no, people don't get murdered over drugs.
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The gangs are fighting for control of the local drug market, and smuggling routes into the United States.
About 1,400 people have died in Juarez's drug violence this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8240213.stm
Funnily enough, Ciudad Juarez is across the border from El Paso, which is the 3rd safest large city in the US according to the last statistics I saw. Why the sudden concern for Mexicans?