Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) , on target again

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) had a brilliant editorial yesterday on National
Review Online. Here are a few highlights:

What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Let's try to
imagine it.

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent
fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without
health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los
Angeles's maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity
billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states,
and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto
theft by 40 percent.