>Not in my neighborhood. They are middle age people. "On balance in
>contributing to the fisc" doesn't really mean anything to me. I see
>the consequences of an overburdened system all around here. The
>emergency rooms are overrun with non english speaking legals or
>illegals. The public health care system is shutting down in LA.
> Emergency rooms are closing. What emergency rooms remain open
>require 12 hour+ waits to see a doctor. My disabled friends suffer
>because there are so many people on MediCal that they have cut
>doctor pay down to next to nothing and they don't get decent
>service. Its a bottom of the barrel thing. I don't care what the
>national stats say. What is happening on the ground here is real.
Ok, then it's your observation vs. more than 20 years of extensive survey and interview research into Mexican immigration by the sociologist Douglas Massey.
Doug