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A VALLEY DIVIDED

As you might expect, we are deeply involved in the debates about legal/illegal immigration.

Up to now, I had assumed that, for us, there is a net benefit to having so-called 'illegals' in the economy.

The right wing GoOPer local paper agrees with me and has some facts.

Economic benefits of valley's undocumented outweigh costs: economic analysis: Underground labor contributes $1.5 billion a year, costs county $220 million

Interesting. Not that it will change any minds as this is not an economic issue. It is an ethnic prejudice issue. Those pesky brown people again.

To me, we happen to be living in the Mexican's country. It is ours only by wars and the drawing of arbitrary lines.

There is plenty of room here.

Well, a lot of people don't think so.

These are the same people who hire the gardeners, laborers, and housekeepers with under-the-table cash.

Hypocrites are the most hostile of advocates.