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November 28, 2005
 
 

Contradictory Policies Encourage Illegal Immigration


"Illegal immigrants receive in-state tuition for California colleges but don't qualify for federal loans. They can buy cars and car insurance but, in most states, can't get driver's licenses. And they regularly find jobs at publicly funded hiring halls but can't lawfully work. Immigration policies in the United States are contradictory and often confusing, alternately welcoming illegal immigrants to the country and telling them to go away," the LA Times writes. "'You are not just getting the cheap laborer,' countered Rick Oltman, Western field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, 'you are getting that guy's wife and child, who is in school…. You create these little illegal immigrant communities that are basically sanctuaries.'"

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