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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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