i'm from new york, but i wonder how many people the "border problem" is affecting here on YA?..do you know?

Answer 1

I live in Dallas Tx and they are everywhere. the city I live in actually built a 'park' area for the illegal day workers so that they are not out in the streets in the morning causing traffic accidents when people stop to pick them up for work

Answer 2

Hi , I live on the border, in Texas. The whole state of Texas has been affected by this. Mostly those of us on the border. There are 94% Mexican residents. Some of them are illegally here. About 80% do not speak the English language. So, I would think over a million people are affected by the "border" problem.

Answer 3

North Carolina here, Come visit sometime and you can see for your self what kind of affect "the border problem" is having here. It is a national problem, not just a few border states. Illegals here act like they have a right to be here, simply because there is someone willing to hire them. We are experiencing gang related activity, crime has increased over the last two years, and taxes have been increased to pay for the multiple births by Illegal Immigrants. Going to a Wal-Mart is like entering little mexico. Our insurance rates have increased due to so many uninsured drivers in the state. it is a mess!

Answer 4

I live in Texas and it's a huge problem just like the other Texas resident mentioned. I know a lot of good American contruction workers who have been put out of work by illegal laborers. It's got nothing to do with the illegals being better or harder workers. It's all about how cheap the labor is. In my particular area, the illegal laborers (now mostly men in their 20s) are consistently producing poor quality work and spend half the day taking breaks. But, they still work for less and most builders don't really care about the quality of work the illegal do. It's gotten so bad that certain type of contruction materials no longer have the information printed in English, just in Spanish.

Answer 5

In Los Angeles, where schools are overcrowded and underfunded, and construction of new schools are behind, the strain is really a problem. It costs $18,000 to educate one child for one year, and the amount of needed bilingual education above that needed for legal residents slows down instruction for our children. I really think the better life the illegals want for their children is directly at the expense of a better life for our own children. Education is our source of upward mobility in this country, and we are trading our children's chance of upward mobility in to give it to the children of illegal immigrants.

This is not just through degraded education, but also increased gang violence, which I understand is being fed from across the border, particularly from El Salvador and Central American countries.

80 hospitals/clinics in the area also closed recently due to the burden of having to provide health care to those who could not pay.

Also, having an open border that over a million people we do not screen come across every year is a national security nightmare.

Answer 6

I'm from Michigan, and those damn Canadians are forcing all of the people in the U.P. to have their accents, and there sure are a lot of white people running around, and why can't we build a giant dam across the Great Lakes so we don't have to listen to Brian Adams anymore. These Canadians should be like us, why do I have to say 'eh?' at the end of every sentence, eh?

Answer 7

I live in Iowa, and it is a big problem here. In our small community there are approx: 400 Mexicans with more and more moving in. I see them in line at the grocery store paying with a food stamp card and wic coupons, then handing over cash for their beer and cigarette purchase.

Answer 8

I am in Arkansas and we have a HUGE problem! More than 30% of the people who work for Tyson Foods (their headquarters is here in Springdale, 15 minutes from me) are ILLEGAL. Tyson is the SECOND LARGEST employer in the STATE..... So, do the math!

Answer 9

Finally getting some good mexican restruants here in TN

Answer 10

depends on what "border problem" you are talking about. i live in washington.. we see it here.