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04/23/2008: "Immigration, taxes, crime darken Houston Area Survey"

Harris County residents increasingly carry negative views about immigrants, saying they burden tax-supported services including schools and hospitals while contributing to crime, according to the 2008 Houston Area Survey.

The survey found 63 percent agreed that new immigration should be limited, up from 48 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, 61 percent of those polled said illegal immigrants are a ''very serious" problem, up from 43 percent in 2006.

''Whenever there have been large waves of immigrants arriving in the country â€" the Irish in 1840s and 1850s or the Greeks, Italians and Poles at the turn of the century â€" Americans have always responded with antagonism and fear," he said.

[ Basically such comments suggest reasonable concerns are really irrational neuroses. The immigration level is ruining the environment and has to be stopped. ]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5722973.html

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on Wednesday, April 23rd, Osama bin Laden said

The difference is that the Irish and even the Poles, Greeks, and Italians all assimilated into American society within a generation or less. All these third world immigrants have a much harder time accomplishing that because they are fundamentally different - culturally and racially - than the Europeans who settled America. Therefore, the comparison between the anti-immigrant sentiments of yesteryear and those of today are invalid.