Immigration - June 2007

This question specifically focuses on the impact that illegal immigrants have on the job market. I recently saw an article that proved the illegal immigrants have only positive/neutral impact on the job market. In the early 1990's the unemployment rate was 5.8% and there were only a couple million illegal immigrants in the country. Now the unemployment rate is 4.4% and there is 12-20 million immigrants. I don't remember which article it was but I am sure you can find the stats at census.gov or anywhere. Even African Americans went from 10.6% to 8.3% unemployment. Now, based on this alone, the trend seems to be that immigrants really do the jobs that americans don't want. And yes, there might be a few thousand people that lose their jobs, but the world is not perfect.

My question is based on this alone, don't you think it is logical to have illegal immigrants? we will always need people to do the unpleasant jobs, and most legal immigrants wont do it(nor americans).

2007-06-19 15:03:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-19 14:34:00 · 14 answers · asked by Nyema 3

If not, why not? They do listen and being voted out of office is what they FEAR MOST!!

2007-06-19 14:30:37 · 17 answers · asked by elbote72 3

Let me give you a hint:

Viceroyality of New Spain
Viceroyality of New Leon
Viceroyality of New Santander
Viceroyality of New Galicia
Viceroyality of New Mexico... etc...

Texas was part of New Santander.

2007-06-19 14:13:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

question :

is this what the anti-immigrants feel when they talk talk talk about how is it than they represent all of America but can't even make a march worth any news ???

were is the talk talk talk about how it was that they would prove all of the Americans were mad ???

MAIN QUESTION :

how is it possible that the anti-immigrant sentiment of this minority ( as they should properly be addressed as ) was NOT able to have a number remotely close to the number of pro-immigrant which marched nor in their marches or in the total of letters they sent ???

FACT :

a way bigger number of pro-immigrants marched than the so called " huge " number of letters against a legalization ???

what makes is it so hard for this group of people to accept than America does not agree with them ???

2007-06-19 14:11:25 · 19 answers · asked by game over 5

Trying to avoid paying TAXES to your Uncle SAM?

hmmm....

I want to learn about the American Coruption.
:D
Americans: Tell me about Enron! What happened with that corporation?

2007-06-19 12:40:32 · 11 answers · asked by El Alakran Mexican'O'Ian 2

2007-06-19 12:17:32 · 9 answers · asked by El Alakran Mexican'O'Ian 2

I mean, they're making Mexico uninhabitable for their own people, who argue that they couldn't stay in Mexico. Isn't this a tad unusual? What is the Mexican government doing, instead of providing for their citizens' needs?

2007-06-19 11:17:40 · 9 answers · asked by Who Else? 7

How do I do it, and what happens to me??

2007-06-19 11:14:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

what do you think to move in Italy?

2007-06-19 11:07:18 · 18 answers · asked by ? 2

I just think they are like a gang.

2007-06-19 10:58:24 · 6 answers · asked by chicky 2

The cost? millions of ppl being rounded up? public reaction? etc

2007-06-19 10:42:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

From granting amnesty to criminals to saying that if we build a wall they will find a way around it. I hope that amnesty does not pass, but if our congress and W were serious, maybe with this amnesty will would have jail time for those that came after the amnesty.

2007-06-19 10:39:48 · 14 answers · asked by jean 7

We have laws on the books that prohibit employers from hiring undocumented worker. As an American I have to prove my status when I begin a new job. Where is the enforcement? Also, illegal immigrants can apply for, and get, a federal employer ID number.
Let's make it more difficult for illegal workers to take money out of the economy here in America.
What do you think?

2007-06-19 10:24:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there any other race or heritage that is coming in just as fast as the spanish speaking folks. I use this term becuase although a lot of the immigrants speak spanish, a lot of them are from different hispanic countries and I guess not just Mexico.

2007-06-19 09:53:06 · 8 answers · asked by Nyema 3

are u still considered "cool" if you come to india from america? is it still a big deal?

2007-06-19 09:33:54 · 12 answers · asked by ajfkjfkj 1

Illegals light border fires to sidetrack U.S. agents
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 19, 2007


U.S. Border Patrol agents seeking to secure the nation's border in some of the country's most pristine national forests are being targeted by illegal aliens, who are using intentionally set fires to burn agents out of observation posts and patrol routes.
The wildfires have destroyed valuable natural and cultural resources in the National Forest System and pose an ongoing threat to visitors, residents and responding firefighters, according to federal law-enforcement authorities and others.
In the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, with 60 miles of land along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Forest Service firefighters sent in to battle fires or clear wild-land fire areas are required to be escorted by armed law-enforcement officers.
Armed smugglers of aliens and drugs have walked through the middle of active firefighting operations, the authorities said.
The Border Patrol's Tucson, Ariz., sector, which encompasses most of the Coronado National Forest, has the highest incidence of cross-border violators in the nation. Nearly 500,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year -- more than 30,000 a month. In addition, nearly 100,000 pounds of marijuana, with a street value of $200 million, was seized as it was hauled through the Coronado National Forest.
Last month, the Border Patrol -- in a single operation targeting illegal aliens causing what Forest Service officials called "significant damage" to the Coronado National Forest -- apprehended more than 300 illegals along just a three-mile section of U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and confiscated 600 pounds of marijuana in a 10-day period.
At least five fires were set below a Border Patrol observation post during the operation in an effort to burn the agents out, according to a Forest Service report. The fires were extinguished, and no one was arrested.
Wildfires are being set by alien and drug smugglers, authorities said, to create a diversion in an attempt to gain undetected access across the border. The fires correspond to a dramatic rise in assaults against Border Patrol agents -- up more than 100 percent over last year.
"Criminal activity by both illegal immigrants and citizens in forests near the border is a threat to members of the public trying to use their public lands and to our employees trying to manage these lands," Tina J. Terrell, a Forest Service supervisor told a House Appropriations subcommittee last month.
She said law-enforcement personnel have been assaulted, threatened with weapons and shot at, and their vehicles have been rammed by cross-border violators. Because of the remoteness of the area, she said, timely assistance from other law-enforcement agencies is not always possible, and communications limitations and active interference with radio frequencies in Mexico create additional safety risks.
"Even normal enforcement duties bring our officers in regular contact with cross-border violators," she said. "Our officers risk their lives every day to enforce the law in these remote federally managed lands."
The Coronado National Forest is not the only area along the border being targeted for wildfires. Other blazes also have been set, including two this month near the San Luis, Ariz., port of entry as the result of Molotov cocktails -- one of which barely missed a Border Patrol agent.
Authorities said agents are being targeted by illegal aliens and their smugglers for rock attacks -- including grapefruit-size rocks wrapped in rags, dipped in gasoline and set on fire.
"As larger areas of the border come under operational control, we can expect violence to increase as smuggling operations can no longer operate with impunity and do not have unfettered access to the border for their criminal activities," Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar told a Homeland Security subcommittee this year.
"This explosion of aggression is an indicator how desperate and angry drug and human traffickers are at the increasing disruption of their smuggling routes," he said.

2007-06-19 09:32:15 · 14 answers · asked by DOC 3

a.) 40 billion.
b.) 5 trillion.
c.) 500 billion.
d.) we shouldn't deport them.
e.) write in you own cost?
f.) i don't care about the cost all illegal must go!!!

2007-06-19 09:31:25 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

whites are mostly the victims of racism now days and its overlooked like when you go to school u can get called a cracker or white boy or white girl and the person calling u that doesnt get in trouble but i had someone in my class one year say the n word he was suspended 3 days(im not saying that racism only applies to whites or anything im just making a point)

2007-06-19 09:15:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have two choices. Either we live in a hispanic area with high crime, gang violence, etc, or move. I live in Los Angeles and let me tell you it's very dangerous living here. If you look at a hispanic gang member funny you could get shot. I don't think it's fair that people who have lived here all their lives are forced to pack up and move. Sure we don't HAVE to move, but we don't want to get robbed either. I was robbed by two illegals.

2007-06-19 09:01:47 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

...that illegal immigrants do not pay taxes? believe it or not, they actually do.

i admit most of them may not pay income taxes, but every time they go to the store and buy groceries or other items, they are forced to pay a tax like the rest of us as it is included in the total when they ring people up at the counter.

what do you think?

2007-06-19 08:14:44 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

that mexicans can come in our country take away jobs , not pay taxes but still get refunds , abuse the system , and riot whats there to riot about ? we give them all the minority laws? and are minority laws fair ? dont you think that everyone should be treated equally and the same laws should apply to everyone

2007-06-19 07:59:29 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont dislike them but sometimes I feel like Im living in the Dominican Republic not America.

2007-06-19 07:53:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am told by me people that your border states belong to my country of mexcianathe things in my country belong to me and me peoples because it is in me rights. the home you lives in belong to me peoples i can walk in the homes and take what is mine for many many years. you anestors not from all americana but me peoples always here. what is yours is not your but me peoples.

2007-06-19 07:46:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Look at how many times this guy had been in jail. Hey, they are just doing the killings Americans won’t do.

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6676774

Read the artical.

2007-06-19 07:40:58 · 4 answers · asked by John Galt 2

2007-06-19 07:19:44 · 46 answers · asked by Jon C 2

....Do they wave Mexican flags and celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Shouldn't they be waving American flags and celebrating the 4th of July?

2007-06-19 06:55:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.lapdonline.org/top_ten_most_wanted

2007-06-19 06:51:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Curious to see what u think, I say let the screen door to Mexico hit them in the a*s as they leave, cheap jerks

2007-06-19 06:47:43 · 21 answers · asked by magpie 6

A certain ethnic group to lose power in society & have your ethnic group gain power?There are Hispanic groups LaRaza that want massive illegal immigration from Mexico & Central America so there will be more latinos in the U.S.They want whites to become a minority so they can get more power.Doesn't that sound like a RACIST plan to you?

2007-06-19 06:09:22 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous