Re: Please help - illegal working in US

[Robert E. Lewis]

No, you just want to subsidize producer workers' salaries by limiting the labor pool (to the extent some people willing to take a particular job are not allowed to take that job, the labor pool is being limited).

Of course, those Americans working the fields are going to need those higher wages - as you say and hope, their grocery bill will be going up (and the bill at McDonalds, etc.)

Thanks for the clarification. I spoke to an uninsured Arizona driver last night, and she wants to know when she can expect your subsidy check in the mail.

[Chipper Wood]

U.S. stats :

100 Cities with Highest Percentage of Foreign-Born Residents (pop.

5000+) #1 Sweetwater Fla. 74.9% City-data.com crime index = 240.5 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)

Top 100 High-Educated but Low-Earning Cities (pop. 5000+) #1 Stanford, California ($41,106, 94.6%)

Top 100 Low-Educated but High-Earning Cities (pop. 5000+) #1 Union Beach, New Jersey ($59,946, 8.5%)

Top 100 Least-Educated Cities (pop. 5000+) #52 South Tucson, Arizona (3.7% bachelor+, 41.1% high school+)

Top 100 Least-Safe Cities (Highest City-data.com crime index) (pop. 5000+) #1 Markham, Illinois (2405.7) #18 South Tucson, Arizona (1100.0)

[Nova]

The property crime rate for Tucson is higher than LA, Detroit and D.C.. Tucson's violent crime rate is less than any of the three.

-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)

[Wes]

Ref:

to the FBI's 2002 data (latest complete data) the crime index for Tucson is 7542/100,000 population.

Detroit is 4298/100,000

Washington DC is 4047/100,000

Los Angeles is 3998/100,000 and

NYC is 2973/100,000

I haven't scanned the whole database but I see that Topeka is

7355/100,000, giving Tucson a run for it.

Furthermore, the City of Tucson now considers petty thefts such as drive-away gas theft, convenience store "beer runs" and many other such crimes as "non-criminal". As such they will not investigate and the best you can expect is a postcard to send in to get a case number for your insurance claim.

In effect, crime has been "de-criminalized" pretty much like Bush wants to do with illegal aliens. Too bad he won't do it with drugs; a much more worthwhile endeavor.

[David Hall]

That sounds a lot like saying that buying property insurance is subsidizing arsonists and theives. I think the reason for buying uninsured motorists insurance is to protect yourself if someone damages your property or injures you and are unable to pay their liability either through insurance or personal assets. It is to protect you. In Pa. you are required to have a certain amount of liability insurance on your car in order to get/maintain your license plate and they seem to enforce this requirement aggressively. However you still need to get uninsured motorist insurance unless you are willing to accept some idiot from out-of-state or who is driving without a valid plate destroyoing your car and you eating the cost. I would no more go without uninsured motorist insurance than without homeowners insurance. I don't get it for the other guy's benefit, I get it for my economic security.

Dave Hall