Transcript
Jesse Gutierrez
Executive Director, Nevada Hispanic Services, Inc
I choose to disagree about a couple of things that the gentleman has mentioned [about immigration]. There are a lot of misperceptions and you just brought a lot of them up. He has addressed them but patriotism, I think that there is more Mexican-Americans that have won the Congressional Medal of Honor than any ethnic group, if I am not mistaken. [Further,] we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us when the big expansion of the Madison government took over when they bought the amount of land that was originally Mexico into what is now called the United States. But the other things that you mentioned, there are studies, if you take a moment to look, in 1995, there were several studies about the misperception that the immigrants are taking welfare more than what they are contributing to the country is false. There is evidence about that, there are studies about that, they contribute much more money than those people who are contributing to the taxes because they never take it back. They may be using illegal numbers or whatever, but they never see any of that money and all of that money, where does it go? There are facts that there is more money going into that system than is being taken out by social services and if you want to, you can go and study those facts, they have been done. In 1995, they did some studies about that so there is more evidence about that all over the world.
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