Are they going to be naturalized, or they are going to live through their lives as illegals for a long long time?
2006-07-05 15:01:00 · 17 answers · asked by L B 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Yep, I agree with PacMan, they should be sent back. BUT you know that's impossible money-wise. Still, if we did it, and also took steps to make the border more secure, it would certainly show we're serious about controlling illegal immigration. I agree with people who are saying that to make illegals legal is only to cultivate the idea that our laws and what we say mean nothing.
Maybe a solution would be to focus sharply on preventing illegals from getting employment. That;s what they come for. If they can't get it here, they won't come.
As for the argument that they only "do the jobs no (real) American wants to do", it's poppycock. What happened in the landscape industry is now happening in other industries. They came in and were willing to work (and hard workers they were and are -- I'm not saying I don't respect them) for less money than any US person can survive on. They do this at the beginning because what they get per day is so ridiculously much higher than what they could get at home, that it seems like a fortune. Also, they don't intend to stay and they also just don't realize what you have to earn here to have the kind of life of "The American Dream". As a result, at least in CA where I live, no landscape contractor can afford NOT to hire latinos, because her or his bid would be way too high compared with everyone else's.
This pattern is already repeating itself in other industries. Money from the US constitutes 30% of the income produced in Mexico, I read somewhere.
I am against another amnesty. This is only a way to undercut American workers, and that's why business moguls are for it. Same reason that they are taking our jobs overseas. More profit. Great - we'll have cheap goods produced overseas and cheap services here - and no one in the middle class (if there is one) will be able to afford either one of them.
2006-07-05 15:32:32 · answer #1 · answered by stillgrowing 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is unfortunate that they are in this position, and we do have to take into account their predicament. However, anyone who isn't already American doesn't have any 'right' to come live in America and obtain the "American Dream;" Yes, we want to have people able to immigrate here and do that, but its a privilege, not a right. The United States, and indeed any country, has a vested interest in being able to control the flow of people in and out of the country, not the least of which are security and health concerns.
Before anything can be done about the illegal immigrants now in the country, something has to be done to prevent further illegal immigrants from coming in. Why? Well, let's say we decide "amensty & naturalization for those here now, but no more"... well, people will see that and say "hey, if we get in the U.S. and stay, they might do that for us too." Even enforcement efforts will be weak compared to the rate of immigration. Bailing the water only slows the sinking boat. Plug the leak, however, and you stop the sinking altogether, even if you don't bail any more water.
But given the 'speed' with which Congress is moving on this issue, they'll likely remain illegal--and growing in number--for some time to come.
2006-07-05 15:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by DakkonA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legal immigrants like my father and his family should be offended and are offended by illegal immigrants. I don't think they should be sent packing, but I do believe that they need to go through some kind of extensive process to become a true American. We as 2nd generation immigrants must insure that this happens.
2006-07-05 15:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by Brickey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their lives will be tremendously upgraded while American lives will be tremendously downgraded as we just can't afford to support all of these people, the children they will have and all of the relatives they will bring in also. Right now they are entitled to rights in the US that Americans are not afforded. A lot of them as you know by what is reported in the news have become arrogant and rude. They are the majority right now and becoming more everyday. When it is time to vote remember the politicians that have sold us out and vote accordingly.
2006-07-05 15:32:32 · answer #4 · answered by papricka w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be deported. But what happens and what is right are not the same. They will be rewarded for their disregard of our laws. After all, Lawbreakers have rights, Victims get victimized again by the system because they have been proven to be vulnerable. Deportation? Of Course not!!! This is what happens to Legal immigrants.
2006-07-05 15:10:26 · answer #5 · answered by foolhardy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is not the end it is just the begin, but when we talk about immigration or illegals we think just in Mexico (thanks to them the food that we eat and the clothes we wear is cheap and nobody else wants to do that job!!!) and there is illegals from all the over the world like from Russia -china Poland - Italy but nobody says any thing about them why????? so this is gone to end
2006-07-05 15:16:53 · answer #6 · answered by Enrique C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We come up with a form of 2nd class citizenship for them. They pay more taxes and somehow are given fewer rights. It is ethical because they are illegal.
2006-07-05 15:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by mbezlr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if the government follow through with the plan, if they allow it, then they would have to go back home.
2006-07-05 15:16:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will live their lives the same way they did before the political votes occurred.
2006-07-05 15:26:01 · answer #9 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I THINK they have to stay since the cooperate world depends on the cheap labour they provide
2006-07-05 15:44:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋