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Who gets to decide what theg changes are and how big they are. and i always wondered, for a town like hazleton, do the people who live there have any say in it at all? >> no. they didn't have any say in it, tucker. i was at the forefront ofn' that issue in hazleton where we saw a very sudden migration of newcomers coming into the city with no real explanation as to why it was happening and why hazleton. and it is startling for a community to see a change like that. to give you a good example, in the year 2000, english as a second language in the hazleton area school district, the budget was $5...

No one who makes these decisions does it in their own neighborhood. they say it will make you richer. has hazleton become richer? >> no, quite the opposite. it becomes much more difficult when your income tax goes down. our population grew by 50% but our tax revenue stayed the same. that's when we realized we not only had -- we had an illegal immigration problem on top of it all, but no, when people are coming in and are of lower income or lower end of the economic ladder, that's less tax money that you are getting and it becomes more difficult to provide services. >> tucker: why do all the ex...