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www.latimes.com/news/la-n...k=ntottext*****************************Hold the tacos, New Orleans saysMexican-food trucks are outlawed in a parish. Is it racism wrapped in a health issue?NEW ORLEANS In...

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Quote:Is that your idea of research?I've done the case studies, research papers about socio-economic status and crime and education. I've shadowed families to make short documentaries about immigrant...

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Quote:You don't know the first damn thing about crime.Fine. Robert J. Sampson does.->www.boston.com/news/globe...es/?page=1Key points:1. Immigrants have a lower crime rate than non-immigrants.2....

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Quote:2. Second and third generation Americans have a higher crime rate than first generation Americans suggesting that they become more criminal as they become more Americanized.That's exactly the...

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Crime went down across America in the 1990's after the passage of the last immigration reform bill in 1986(?). So, the notion that illegal immigration is going to lead to widespread violence is just...

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read my explanation that you just ignored:Your articles by academics, Smith, look at crime across the entire city/state/country. If you want an accurate reading you have to look at the specific areas....

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But you are always going to have "bad areas". You can't legislate them away. You have to look at the whole in deciding if a policy is good or bad. Otherwise public policy becomes a race to the bottom...

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Finally, a point. As for the sabermetrician argument, I think it is interesting in that I am a baseball outsider in the strictest sense of the word. However, my point of view comes strictly from the...

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So, everyone on the "inside" agrees with you?

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Everyone I have talked to agrees with me (in public education). In essence, you have a large group of students going to schools that aren't paying school taxes. That overloads the system and creates a...

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The majority of schools in LAUSD, including the one I work at, serve students who live below the povery line. Almost all of our students qualify for free or reduced meals, which adds up to three per...

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Quote:If it's semantics that you're all worked up over, then we should simply change the definition of "illegal". What does the term "illegal" mean to you?!So, near as I can tell, you embrace the flow...

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Hey, Phenom.Why don't you move to Germany, or Norway, or England, or Iraq, or Mexico.Let's see if they pay for your healthcare.

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OH, Dummy me! They won't pay 'cause of RACISM!It won't have anything to do with the fact you are not a citizen of their country.It will be all about race.

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Illegal aliens don't pay taxes? Sure. Right. Uh huh.www.reason.org/commentari...0501.shtmlQuote:Illegal Immigrants are Paying a Lot More Taxes Than You ThinkEight million illegals pay Social Security,...

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Quote:What does the term "illegal" mean to you?!Another nativist argument laid bare... www.reason.org/commentari...0507.shtmlQuote:The queue-jumping argument powerfully suggests that amnesty for...

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Judging by your own article Smith, IF eight million ARE paying taxes then SIX million AREN'T paying taxes. Thus, that would seem to make our point for us.I'm down with OBP (yeah you know me).

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No, actually not. First, they all pay sales tax and property taxes (indirectly). Second, what you want is a system that would encourage even more of them to pay taxes. Third, America is getting older...

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Even MORE of an argument to do away with the Federal Income Tax, and go with a National Sales Tax -- to be paid at the checkout, at the pump, or at the register -- by ALL -- Illegal, legal or...

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Immigration and Englishwww.boston.com/news/local...bilingual/

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