What role does corruption in OUR system play in the immigration question?

Question

Do you think the 'illegal immigration' problem is really a 'politicians taking money under the table' problem?

Answer 1

an enormous amount. The drug cartels that operate in America are very wealthy, that is why our government comes after the hard working Americans, instead of really busting the bad guys. It is all for show on your local, and national news. And, as soon as one drug house shuts down, another opens up. I've lived in the ghettos most of my life, and I promise you. It is all for show. The illegal aliens that bring the drugs across our borders, contribute to that corruption. The weapons smugglers in America are wealthy as well, there for you see much less opposition from our government. Allot from the people, but little from the government. If any person, and I mean any person standing on America's soil believes that our police, and government is not as corrupt as their own, they are sadly mistaken.
Thats like saying the majority of Americans are well educated, and wealthy. They are terribly wrong there as well.

Answer 2

Corruption is the key to our immigration problems.

The Dems pander to the illegals, because they want them as future votes. What they don't understand is that the illegals hurt the core Dem constituancy, those in the lower socio-economic rungs of the ladder. Illegals DO artificially hold down wages of those here legally. It's all supply and demand.

The Repubs are OK with the illegals because they provide a lower-cost source of labor. That, obviously, helps increase business profits, some of which flow into the campaign chests of the Repubs.

This lower costing labor does terrible damage to the US. There is the wage suppression issue. There is the removal of the need for innovation. Historically, when a manual labor task has become too expensive, technological innovation has come to the rescue. The incentive to innovate is removed.

Answer 3

Is not doing your job, corruption? If so, there is corruption in the issue of immigration in the USA. Our Fed. Gov. is not going after approx. half of the illegally here immigrants that got here getting a visitation visa. When the visa expires, the "guests" just disappear into the fabric of American. The Feds don't follow up or chase these folks down and throw them out. That's what your tax dollars are buying for you. I call that corruption. Taking money and not providing the service agreed upon. If you or I as Americans did that, we would be fined or imprisoned. Double standard, sounds like to me.
I rather believe that the large industrialist are paying off the Fed folks, Sen etc. in order to maintain low wages and available workers for their own benefit. These pay offs are not always in the form of cash but can come in the form of favors, campaign contributions etc., or gifts to others who would benefit the "target"
person to be manipulated. Jobs to kids of friends etc. They get around the laws one way or the other. We got to keep chasing this very issue in the seat of Government if we expect to live in a free and fair USA anytime in the future.

Answer 4

Mexican corn producers are wiped out by U.S. agribusiness.

Neoliberal policy is a weapon against the poor; the wealthy and powerful will continue to rely on state power.

Despite the right’s rhetoric, immigrants play a critical, irreplaceable role in the U.S. economy. “If we didn’t have those elements [immigrant workers], we would be moving into a situation like Japan and Europe...where the populations are graying in a way that is very alarming and endangering their productivity and endangering even their social security systems,” Lewis Goodman, an American University expert on U.S.-Latin American relations, pointed out to the Associated Press last year.

Wages are kept low not by undocumented immigrants, but by corporations that have carried out a one-side war on U.S. workers since the 1970s.

People who listen to politicians that feed into thier own insecurities and racial predjudices fail to realize the fact that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are helping take the lead in one of the most important things that can actually raise wages for all low-wage workers--building a stronger union movement.

Answer 5

I think the illegal immigration problem is caused by our strict immigration laws and how long it takes to go through the process legally. I have been trying to bring my wife here since Feb. and we still have more time that we have to wait. I think it will take at least 2 more months. Because she is married to a U.S. citizen, the process goes faster for her. It can take more than a year for someone to come here if they do not have a relative here. I can't blame the people who come here illegally. I wouldn't want to have to go through all that if I didn't have to. I think the solution to the problem is to loosen up our immigration laws to make it easier to come here legally.

Answer 6

We all talk about the immigrants but they're the pawns. Businesses who hire illegals and government officials who choose to not enforce the laws are much much worse.

It's not money under the table it's right on top. Campaign contributions to Congress from business is what makes them their puppets because without campaign funds they will not be re-elected.

Answer 7

You know, I begin to wonder, at least at the state and local level. After all, that is how the home countries of the illegal immigrants are run. I haven't quite moved over to that point of view, but I am beginning to want more information on that point.

dn_reen - I thought you were Argentinian?

Answer 8

It is a case of mismanagement. The INS should deport anyone with an expired visa; instead the government let them overstay their welcome. The employers are not suppose to hire people without valid work visa, and SSN, and yet the IRS issues ITIN (indiv. taxpayers ID number) for illegal immigrants to report income.

Answer 9

Yes it is. There are laws on the books that punish employers for hiring undocumented workers. They have been largely ignored by this Administration. If you want to stop undocumented workers fro coming here..ARREST, FINE and IMPRISON ANYBODY that is found hiring one. Have mandatory fines and sentences, no deals. And make it per worker, like $10,000.00 fine and one year in jail per worker. If a company hires 100 it's $1,000,000.00 and 100 years in jail. If a person hires one worker to clean his pool and mow the lawn....$10,000.00 and one year in jail. If they don't have jobs, they will head home.

Answer 10

Alot!! Unfortunately. Who in our government stands to benifit from the invasion of immigrants....and of them gaining citizenship??

Democrates.....if they become citizens who do they vote for? Dems. That's about ohhh 10,000,000 votes.

If this happens...we are soon headed for a total state of socialism!!