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Originally Posted by johnny5
(1)The costs of ordinary services around port washington would increase, since there is no more cheap and willing supply of labor.
(3) are you suggesting that some sort of reverse-gentrification is taking place in port washington? becasue i dont think any amount of violence will force the upper class to flee, they are too well entrenched.
(6) think density: there are far more working class people living in apartments and small homes in port washington than wealthy people living in mansions.
(7) illegals can vote?! how??? this is news to me. or maybe im just ignorant.
(8) you knock the socialist, big-government approach, but i think you fail to see the benefits: pay building inspectors more, and they will not need to accept bribes. pay our teachers more, the quality of education increases, all our window-smashers will have the means to rise up out of poverty, and no longer harbor some sort of illogical vendetta.
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1. I would gladly pay more to have work done by legal U.S. residents
3. They won't leave altogether but they will leave the public school system for private schools, that will hurt those left in the public schools.
6. Believe me most people in Port are not working class. Even the cheapest homes and apartments are 2X the amount of working class communities like Ronkonkama or Levittown. Most of Port is upper middle class and Sands Point is upper class. There are some middle class people holding on for dear life but they are not the dominent group. Most of the working class people are in Manorhaven.
7. They do not check your legal status when you register to vote and never check your ID when you go to the polling place.
8. I've heard the poverty argument a thousand times and it may hold true in a severely economically distressed place like Detroit. However living in a place like Port with so many advantages you would have to be an absolute loser to not take advantage of that and succeed in life. The problem is that the culture of the illegals does not value education and I'm not sure what can be done to change that.