Why do we have a problem with illegal immigration? Is it really that hard to do it legally?

Answer 1

if you want to come to this country legally to work, you need a sponsor. that means someone that wants to give you a skilled job which american citizens cannot fill.
most illegal aliens that i have heard of are working as day laborers or in food processing plants like purdue etc. these are below poverty level wages that are not something the government will not recognize as essential. this is where a guest worker program would be much easier to deal with.

Answer 2

Most nations restrict immigration for economic and security reasons. Most countries with economic opportunities have at least some illegal immigration, from people who are too desperate to wait or are simply unwilling to go through legal channels. We have a problem with illegal immigration because the middle class in this country have become dependent on the slave labor of the undocumented in order to maintain the sense that they are better off than they are. If we passed no immigration bills but passed a law raising the minimum wage for all workers, documented or not, to $15 or $20 an hour, those borders would slam shut. We have a problem with illegal immigration because we think we should get construction work, babysitting, and landscaping for next to nothing.

Answer 3

Well some of these answers are right, but the fact is in Mexico officials need to be bribed to be able to apply for the Visa. If you want to come in as a Non-immigrant worker you have to be sponsered by a company, and have a form 867 if I remember right. If you want to come as an immirant you have to wait on a list, we only except so many, family members get preferace, then educated people..and it isonthe needbe basis. right now we are short on nurses, so many people can immigrate as a nurse, or or a E3. The problem is, that it has been so easy to come inthe country ilegal the last 20 years, that people stopped trying lgally, it has been passed down as exceptable intheir culture. they do not see it as doing anything wrong. we can not just allow people to come as they please, last night alone I helped arrest 41 people in a 10 hour shift illegally i the uS, by the time we get them fingerprinted we usually end up showing 10% of them have criminal histories here in the US. Not to mention that this time of year many die in the desert. these arrests take away from our ability to look out ofr the criminals, we easily get 5 drug busts a week coming accross and these people have no regard for the ranchers cattle or property, cross the border in vehjicle and crash through fences, causing livestock to get out and into the road, causing the death of a Border Patrol agent in AZ just 3 months ago. so many people are against a fence, but realistically maybe 1% of those people have ever even seen the border, b/c if they did they would realize there is already a fence there, but it is a week barbed wire fence

Answer 4

Yes it is. Remember, this government is STUPID. Don't believe me, just take a look at George Daaaah b u ask that blind report why he was wearing dark glasses when it wasn't sunny. I'll give you an example, this country has a shortage of 150k nurses at present. That number is predicted to grow to a cool million by 2010. Meanwhile, there are a bunch a nurses in Canada that are trained for twice the number of years as here in the US and they want to come here but don't feel it is worth the hassle of the US checking records all the way back to elementary school, stacks of paper work that cost $100+ per form, probationary periods that you can't work, immigration officers that are dumb as dog **** so they can't file their own forms and blame you when something is done wrong. Again, these are people who have skills way badly need. Imagine how it is for someone who isn't a professional.

Answer 5

oh my dear lord YES.

unless you've actually immigrated, you have no idea how difficult, insulting, and random being allowed into the us is.
you getting into the us is based on the whims of the immigration official who is often in a bad mood.
he may not like your nose. he may think that your masters in engineering is somehow less than his high school diploma. (the guys they have do the dirty work aren't geniuses)
you have to prove that you will not "be a burden" to the us.
that you speak english (many do, and very well at that) with an american accent (how the hell are you supposed to do that)
if you have money, you're golden. most people trying to leave their countries aren't wealthy though because the wealthy are mostly criminals. so you see the problem.

they sometimes break up families for no apparent reason. (like mine). giving a mom and a kid a visa and not that dad. or the dad and the kid a visa and not the mom.

Answer 6

It happens for many reasons...If you were a good citizen in any nation, but the government won't let you be free, give you opportunities to live like a human, would you rather not emigrate illegally than dying "legally" according to that nation's government? It sounds as if it were out of this world but IT HAPPENS. YES, it is hard for the poor to survive under the hand of a corrupt government lead by a corrupt "leader" or "president" as you may want to call it; surviving today not knowing if you will see tomorrow's light, even you want to LIVE! Why? Because you are poor...

Answer 7

It isn't hard, the line is just very long, so it takes a long time. We subsidize education and other services for our poor, even if they pay all taxes that apply to their income bracket. This makes it a very good deal for poor immigrants who can get in, but makes poor immigrants very expensive for us. We, like all other developed countries who subsidize their services, limit the number of poor immigrants who can come. The ones illegally here figured they shouldn't have to wait as others are to get paid education and health benefits. Meanwhile in our border states, education and low income health care are failing under the burden, and we can no longer adequately serve our own people.

Answer 8

Aleks covered the part of getting into the country better than I could.

I would like to add that many illegals have zero interest in become American. They are here for the money and nothing else. Hell many hate the US and actively want to see us fall. Some cultures actually blame the US for every problem that ever happened to them. Somehow we in the US cared enough to influence the villians in these nation's history. We also apparently secretly funding things and other bizarre actions. All of these rumors likely spreading from an occasional CIA op or KGB op attributed to the CIA or sheer jealousy. We've not always been a good citizen in the world but could not possibly do one tenth the stuff we are blamed for.

So many illegals are here for work. They like the higher standard of living (even as an illegal living in the worst US poverty is a much better life than what they have back home) so they stay for years and years. An soon this is a sort of home. They still hate America or feel unAmerican with no interest in learning English or rooting for America in the Olympics for example. They live in Ethnic enclaves and associate almost entirely with people from the same nation or region as them.

This of course is not all the illegals. I've known quite a few. Some from Canada, some from Ireland, China, Mexico, El Salvador, Hondourous, Russia, and so on. One guy I knew from Mexico couldn't speak a word of English when he arrived. With no formal teaching he could carry on a decent convo in English in 5 or 6 months and his English improved every day. He loved being in the US. I think he'd gladly become a US citizen. Hard worker, honest, all round decent fellow. No skills when he came here, was quite good at construction labor in six months. Worked with fake ID so he could work anywhere but still worked for way less than an American would. He lived with 5 other illegals in a 2 room sort of apt that was falling down around them. He was happy to be here.

So there are exceptions. The problems are twofold. Our system isn't even looking for guys like this. One political party just wants the radical kind because they know this group willl vote for them without question. This party doesn't want US citizens, they want people enslaved to them by language and culture. If they were to actually Americanize they might not vote for these idiots. The quotas want rich people and the randomness of visa lotteries is insane. At least legal imigration keeps out HIV, TB and such. All diseases illegals are bringing to the US. Worse they are often bringing drug resistant straings of these.

I personally support increased legal immigration but strict and rabid enforcement against companies hiring illegals. They are easy to find. What I don't want to see is a nation wide witchhunt on documentation in the name of finding illegals. By deffinition the illegals we are after work in large groups. In the chicken factories, construction sites and agriculture in particuler. Places like this, some companies stockers and so on. Elimanate the jobs and they have to come over legal. Make it easier to come over here but only if somebody wants to really become an American and if they are willing to learn English before they come over. That works for everybody I think. We get rid of the folks we don't want and get the ones we do.

Answer 9

it can be hard to do it legally.....i'm here legally, and so I had to go through the immigration process....well, i'm a student here, so i can't really say for like business visa or stuff like that.....there are a lot of forms to fill out.....and it is tough because there is no guarantee that you will be allowed to get a visa to come to america.....and you have to pay, regardless if they give you a visa or not....i'll give you a story of what happened in the immigration while I was there.....see, when they give interviews, its just at booths, while the rest of us waiting are sitting down....we can watch TV or read while the people have their interviews....well, there was this one guy applying to come to america, and he did the interview.....he answered all the questions correctly and at the end of the interview, the interviewer rejected his want for a visa, the guy asks WHY? and the interviewer goes BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOU LOOK....and the guy just has to leave, nothing else said....the interview went well for me and my sisters....just a couple questions and then they questioned my mom who would be our legal guardian.....hope this helps

Answer 10

when people think about illegal immigration in the united states they automatically paint a picture in their head that the problem are mexicans...

but in reality .. there are more european immigrants than the mexican race, asians, and africans put together...

it costs a whole lot of money to find and deport these people... and because of the 1 trillion dollars spent by george bush on military this makes things more difficult..

besides.. if they build a wall between mexico and the u.s. who do u think is gonna built it... mexicans.. cause white ppl wont do it for a cheap price like mexicans would..