why do people have a problem with people coming here illegaly?

Question

if they dont want illegal people to come in this country then why dont they let the immagrents come in legally?

Answer 1

people have a problem with people coming into the country illegally because its illegal.

Answer 2

Because they cost too much. We subsidize education and services for poor people here. That is why we and other countries that do that limit how many foreign poor people can come in. Meanwhile our schools and services only can handle so many people and they are now so strained they can't even support our own people properly. In fact in areas where there is a lot of illegal immigration, a huge portion of the school budget for all children is spent on ESL programs to teach English to those who don't know it. Our own children's education has really been hurt by this.

If we wanted this many, we WOULD have let them in legally. (Well, except for the huge percentage of criminals and gangmembers amongst them, and terrorists.) But until there is some way to make employers pay for the education and services for their work force, this is a real problem. Their better life is at the expense of our children's future.

Answer 3

I personally have a problem with people coming here illegally if they can't speak english and don't intend to learn. Although there is no national language, the fact of the matter is US is an English speaking country and you should speak it if you plan to live here. How do they expect to survive and communicate with others. Think about it! I would not move to Mexico and not learn Spanish, or move to China and not learn Chinese!!

People also have a problem with people coming here illegally b/c of drugs and crime.

It is not like the US doesn't let anyone become a citizen. They just want people to become US citizens legally.

Answer 4

We do let immigrants come in legally. It's just there are quotas about how many we take from different countries. Because we would never allow so many people from Mexico, say, to come here legally in one year, they come in illegally. They then use our resources: roads, schools, governmental services, etc., without paying for them through taxes because they work "off the books," don't have social security numbers, etc.
We are a nation of immigrants, but most of those immigrants came here legally, became citizens, vote and pay taxes. For the most part, these illegals are not evil people, and the only law they've broken is to be here illegally. But this simply cannot continue. We can't take care of all of these people, and it is not fair to the people who did things the right way, who maybe had to wait years to be allowed to immigrate here. "Give me your tired, your poor...." is a poem, not a governmental policy.

Answer 5

A country needs secure borders, and needs to know who is coming in and out of the country. It's a matter of national security. If we just open the door to all people, then we are putting ourselves at risk of terrorist attack, drug smuggling, people smuggling, and economic instability as we get an influx of cheap laborers, which screws up the economy, because employers want to pay the least for the most work.

If somebody wants to come into this country, they need to get in line, do the paperwork, go through the process, etc. It's not fair that these people don't want to learn our language, work for dirt cheap, and cut in front of all those people who did get into this country the right and legal way.

I agree with labeling them felons, and their employers should be fined so heavily that they will never think of hiring an illegal again.

Answer 6

Because the country only allows so many in usually from each country a year unless special circumstances.

My issue is the lip service the Republicans give, and all they want to do is put up a Billion dollar wall!

The legislation was defeated.

I don't understand what is so damn hard about it? If you start ENFORCING the law already on the books by fining the hell out of those who hire them, perhaps they wouldn't come. But no, the repubs need the slave labor. That's why nothing gets done about it!!

Some companies in Calif INS will pick up illegals, do nothing to the employer and transports them back to Mexico. Guess who are waiting for them to get back in at the border? Their EMPLOYERS!!!

Answer 7

I think most people (who have a problem with it) don't like it because it's illegal. The U.S. is a nation of laws, so something that is illegal is illegal. Rather than concentrating on letting people break the law, we should be concentrating on the apparently broken immigration system. I say cut off the illegal entry and fix the legal immigration system so people can efficiently get in the proper way, and by following the law.

Answer 8

Immigrants can enter this country legally, it is just a long and painful process for many of them. Often families are split apart and children are separated from parents often for years, just so they can come to America and join the good life.
We have problems with people coming here illegally mostly because the illegal immigrants are willing to work harder than most Americans. They are willing to take what we would consider to be the most menial and demeaning jobs, and they are willing to do whatever it takes, and they have children who are born here, thus legal US citizens, who they push to succeed in school and who will outdo our spoiled rotten lazy American children.
Most illegal immigrants are not felons, nor criminals, they are people like you and I just trying to make the best for themselves and their families. If you were living in dire poverty somewhere else in the world, youi might just become an illegal alien in the United States as well.

Answer 9

There are laws for legal immigration. It takes time, and sponsorship from within the US. That doesn't work for the masses of people who have no hope within their own countries. No one will sponsor the millions, so they sneak across the borders.

And those home countries love it! After all, if that ten or twenty million unemployed people were still in their home countries, those governments would be at significant risk of overthrow, since they cannot take care of their citizens.

As far as Mexico is concerned, that works for the US government as well. If those millions went back to Mexico, they could cause the fall of that government, leading to another Cuba or Venezuela on our border.

Answer 10

The immigrants can come here legally. There is a process. Why do so many Mexicans feel that they are above the law and that they have a right to be here? There are hundreds of countries on this earth with millions of people who want to come here. All should have equal chances.

Answer 11

The government does allow for people for enter the US legally from different countries around the world. It is a long and costly process and it is definitely much easier to cross the border. Not all illegal aliens are criminals.