Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
I was including "illegals" as net providers of benefits ... some are undoubtedly criminals
Since they are breaking the law simply by crossing the borders, they are all criminals. Admittedly, they are not all violent criminals, but they are criminals just the same. The person who steals your car when you are away from it is no less a criminal than the person who carjacks you at gunpoint. And while I can sympathize with the person who will steal food to feed his family, his acts lose some of their nobility when you see someone else's children starving because their bread was stolen.

That is EXACTLY the kind of thinking I deplore
Obviously my facetious font did not translate into the Queen's English.