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From the article:
“The average House DFLers cast two dozen votes that put privileges and benefits for illegal aliens ahead of Minnesota citizens in 2007 and 2008. Here are the facts.
Illegal aliens do place extreme costs on Minnesota taxpayers – – in terms of crime, health care, schools, tax burdens, and social benefits.
According to the Department of Corrections, there are over 500 foreign-born felons in Minnesota prisons – – for murder, child molestation, drug-pushing, rape, armed robbery, and other serious and violent crimes. One out of every 16 felons we pay to guard is not from America. It is estimated that more than 10,000 more alien criminals are in our local jails or county probation systems. [1]
Health care costs for illegal aliens are also massive. By federal law, Minnesota hospitals must provide very expensive emergency medical care to undocumented aliens. Lenient medical facilities frequently provide more than the minimum services, and pass the cost along, either to working Minnesotans who have health insurance or to the taxpayers who reimburse hospitals for “charity care.” A 2005 report to the Governor estimates that such expenses exceeded $17 million in FY 2005. [2]
Students are taught in over 90 languages in the Minneapolis school district, and illegal aliens have over 14,000 children in Minnesota schools. [3] Until the House DFLers took control in 2007, school districts received extra state funds to make students proficient in English for five years, and then had to pass the burden for teaching them English to local taxpayers. That incentive to teach students to speak English within five years has been eliminated by the new House DFL majority. [4]
Minnesota taxpayers also pay for social welfare benefits for illegal aliens. [5]
The primary duty for dealing with the issue of illegal aliens indeed does rest with the federal government. But almost every time that even small local action was proposed, House DFLers took the side of illegal aliens over taxpaying Minnesotans.
For example, when four schoolchildren were killed when a van hit a school bus, it took police days to probe through the false identities of the illegal alien who was pulled from the van. House Republicans proposed the modest idea of cracking down harder on the people who provide false documents used to get driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. The bill did not even get to the House floor. [6] In fact, House DFLers even voted against requiring that the test for a Minnesota driver’s license be given in English. [7]”
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Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform
Ruthie Hendrycks
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It just seems to be a never ending nightmare. Democrats are fishing for more votes seeming not to realize how many legal voters they will lose and Republicans fake an opposition. All this while Minnesota struggles under the burden of illegal immigration.
In either case legal residents are being forced to subsidize illegal residents and their families while jobs disappear, homes are foreclosed and gas and food become unobtainable.
Churches, which have no other interest other than filling their pews with people willing to donate, ask us to view these people as refugees. They are not. Neither are they running from genocide or war or from economic desperation. These people simply took advantage of Bush’s open door invitation and illegally entered the country.
Although I could never call myself a Republican, the DFL/Democrat party has distanced itself so far from where I am, I have no choice but to register as an Independent and vote for anyone other than a Republican or Democrat.
Marti Oakley