I wonder how rich we’d be in Los Angeles if we didn’t have to pay for a free ride for so damned many Mexicans.

Ain’t that the truth. (By the way, I was reading in Bill Bryson’s book “The Mother Tongue” that ain’t is a perfectly good use of the language most grammarians say, and, you can go ahead and split your infinitives)

It was the unwisdom of the courts that started this free ride crap, ruling that if they are here, we got to educate them, etc. I believe we are probably the only country in the world to have such a policy.