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xenophobic twaddle.

Sorry Rob and Annie, please defend your categorization as "xenophobic twaddle".

Is it not telling the truth about the path to legalisation?, about car insurance?, etc.?

Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)
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> The Honorable Tom Harkin
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> 731 Hart Senate Office Building
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> Phone (202) 224 3254
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> Washington, DC 20510
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> Dear Senator Harkin,
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> As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue
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> Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process
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> for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.
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> My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to
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> illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the
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> Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's
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> provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United
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> States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a
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> $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a
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> good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started
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> Before everyone figures it out.
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> Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes
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> taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can
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> apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result
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> for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.
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> Actually it was "at least" three of the last five years, the purpose being to show that the alien had means and had been here for a mandatory minimum period - i.e. to stop a rush for the border by people in Mexico or elsewhere.
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> Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local
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> emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped
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> paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could
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> save almost $10,000 a year. Anyone can do this. The hospitals will chase anyone they think they have a reasonable chance of getting. Legalizing someone's status makes it easier to find them and therefore enforce a collection. Thus this part of the letter claims the direct opposite of the truth.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status
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> throughout the United States for my son. Name a law school or State that does this.>
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> Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden
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> of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car
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> insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still
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> have college age children driving my car.

Again untrue. As a criminal defense lawyer I can tell you two things:
1. the vast majority of people who are caught without licenses and insurance are natural born Americans.
2. Being an alien, illegal or otherwise, in no way exempts you from needing both a valid license and insurance (where it is required by state law).
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> If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal
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> Your Loyal Constituent,
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> Donald Ruppert
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> Burlington, IA
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> Get your Forms (NOW)!! Call your Internal Revenue Service
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> 1-800-289-1040.
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> Please pass this onto your friends so they can save on this great
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> offer!!!!
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