What is YOUR answer or proposal on immigration?

Question

What do you think should be done, or should be changed, in regards to dealing with the immigration issue? Do you feel that anything SHOULD be changed, or are things fine the way they are? Do you support any of the countries that illegals come from, if so, why?

Answer 1

Enforce laws on the employers and the issue will resolve itself. Supply and demand at it's finest. If someone is fleeing some sort of persecution, I have no problem with that.

Answer 2

The USA should be more open to its neighboring countries. As much as Americans pretend they hate illegal immigrants, they don't seem to mind having them serve fast food, clean their offices and basically perform all labor intensive duties that are required to run the country.

Having personally endured the lengthy and expensive immigration process it is painfully obvious to me that no single immigrant has contributed to the rules of the immigration process. If you had to endure the process, you too would want it changed in your favor. Families are separated for months or years at a time in order to obtain the simple right to live and work in the USA. When I began the process, I had a strong desire to live and work here. Now that I have achieved that goal, the country has degraded into a paranoid society, obsessed with war and terrorism. If the country continues to be this way, I think you'll find illegal immigration will become less of a problem since no sane person would want to live in such a place. I miss the old USA where freedom truly meant something. You cant even jump on airplane these days without being treated as a suspected terrorist.

Answer 3

At this point I don't see how it affects us any more or less it will cost a lot more for a massive deportation as someone insensitive has said. Do I support people from other countries yes do i support the most of the reasons they are here? yes. Why? Because we scream and yell about our freedoms and then try to silence those who try to exercise that right. I think that there should be a better way for people to immigrate here. Some of these countries don't have hard copies of birth records so they are not able to provide the correct paperwork. These are human beings not trash,animals,or garbage. and the "people or Americans" who say other wise are exactly what they are calling these other people.

Answer 4

You can attack the employers all you want, but as long as illegals are willing to work for less, American companies will hire them.
I agree that most of these people are horribly poor, and are looking for a better way of life, but starting out as a criminal is not the right way to do it. Since none of the wealth of the countries that immigrants flee trickles down to them, I say that the countries of the illegal aliens should be fined, and forced to pay the cost for deportation, and forced to repay any welfare, or medical costs the illegal obtained in this country. If there were other crimes commited besides breaching our border, and international security, then additional fines should be implimented.
Even if the countries of these illegal aliens do not pay the fines, their debt to us will increase, and our national debt will decrease. If they do pay to keep peace, then the money can be used to protect all of our borders, train qualified border patrols, and the rest can be used to help poor immigrants afford to go through the process. However, I think that the seasonal migrant worker programs our government sponsors only adds to the problem of discouraging immigrants to come here legally. When these policies were set up, there were allot less people living in America, and the farmers needed these workers, as much as the workers need the farmers. However, that has changed, and there are more than enough Americans all to willing to work for less wages, with no taxes taken out, just so that they can pay some of the bills. Any farmer, or business caught using illegal aliens as employees should be forced to pay an increase of six percent of their taxes to cover the loss in taxes, then they should lose their land, or business, and be fined no less than $5,000.00 per illegal alien that had been employed. There are plenty of Americans that would love to be a farmer, or open a business, and these opportunities should be given to the citizens once the criminals farmers, and businesses have been put out of business.
I understand the struggle of farmers, as they are tax exempt, and recieve benefits for crops they have not grown yet. Most farmers live in homes far nicer than most Americans I know of, and yet they are allowed to hire illegal aliens and work them for wages just barely above the wages they recieved in their home countries.
No one wants to touch them because they grow our food, but Americans can farm, as well as they can wash toliets, and they deserve the chance. And, all of the benefits illegal aliens recieve for working for them, you know free education, and medical care. I think that you would find farmers turning people away because there would be too many applying for the jobs.
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Answer 5

If you come here you:
1. Do it legally
2. Learn English

Or :

1. Your employer gets fined (better yet, shut down)
2. If your relatives have been harboring you they get deported with you.
3. You get NO benefits.
4. If you commit a crime while you're here you get forgotten about in the equivalent of the Hanoi Hilton (hey, we can call it the Houston Hilton or the Miami Marriot!).

The small increase in cost of goods and services would be offset by the lack of frustration for not having to have an interpreter when I go to McDonald's.

If people want to immigrate and do it legally...WELCOME AMIGOS!! Como estas!! Le amamos!!

Answer 6

1) Build a wall on the Southern border of the US and enforce existing immigration laws.
2) Create a constitutional amendment that requires at least one parent of all children born in the US to be a US citizen in order for their offspring to get US citizenship.
3) Make US citizenship a requirement for any services.
4) Send all illegal immigrants home, and make certain they are entered in a database that bars them from US citizenship
5) Increase fines to citizens who hire illegals to 1000/day per person.
6) Increase fines to businesses that hire illegals to 10,000 per day per person, and make repeat offenders lose their business licenses to transact business.
7) implement a national ID citizenship card which can not be faked.
8) Make English the official language, and make it illegal to transact business in any language but English.

Answer 7

Armed US troops along the border with orders to shot to kill if someone doesn't halt. A fence or wall along the border. Since illegals pose a threat to national security, the Department of Homeland Security and the military should work together in locating, arresting, interrogating, and deporting ALL illegals. And any and all property and possessions of the illegal should be made forfeit since they were gotten while committing criminal acts (being here illegally, etc).

DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS

ENGLISH ONLY IN AMERICA

Answer 8

This is what I think about immigration.

Illegals are causing great harm to the US.

Lowering wage scales on jobs US citizens once did.

Most hate the US or at the very least feel zero loyalty to the US. So it harms the fabric of our nation.

They are costing us hundreds of millions in translations, linguistic help, bilingual eduation, printing of forms & signs, healthcare.

I can go on as there are quite a few problems with illegals. Especially those who do not speak English as a first language.

Illegals come from around the world.

Around the world are millions who WANT to be Americans. Who will learn to speak English and who will take pride in being part of this country. Many of whom may sire or they themselves create the next big economic or technological break through.

Most illegals are employed in certain industries and tend to be concentrated. Tyson chicken for example. We crack down heavy on employers. We dont' need nation wide ID cards. We don't need to beef up security anywhere. We crack down on the main employers there will be no jobs. They will go home.

I'd also like to see local police forces join in with all federal resources for a month long illegal search. If nothing else it will help ID employers of illegals as they will go underground during that month or return home for a vacation. Deport every one we find. Until the protests I felt that we should grandfather in long term residents if htey met the normal requirements such as proficiency in English, American history and swore allegiance to America. I don't feel that way any more. The protests soured me completely on that.

Second we double or triple the allotments for legal immigrants. Maybe even open it up 100 fold. Allow the people who want to be here and want to be US citizens to come over. We will have room, and we will have jobs as the millions of illegals will be shoved out. More so legal imigrants will take up many of those jobs vacated by illegals. The labor won't be as cheap, but it will be people who will be protected by OSHA, the jobs will be manned by taxpayers. By English speakers. We can cease printing in a dozen languages. Save hundreds of millions in tax dollars. Then concentrate on employers. Rewards will be a good way to catch them. Few companies hire purely illegals so far. All it takes is one disgruntled legal who gets canned and they blow the whistle elimanating the illegals and causing a hefty fine for the employer.

The right to eat arguement would hold more water with me if they were not creating a situation where I and my descendents would become just as poor as the nations they swarm into us from. If they were not so anti-American. If they adopted our culture and values. If they were not damaging this nation so much. It is especially appalling since none of the South American nations if they could curb corruption and create a culture with a strong work ethic would be in such dire straits economically. South America has the resources, the people, the opportunity to fix thier economies. They choose to accept this. Instead of protesting on OUR streets let them go home and protest on THIER OWN streets. They hate the US so much then go home! There are 3 people for every one of them who'd love to be here and have the same opportunities they do. Who don't hate the US and who want to be here.

Answer 9

i imagine that many industries count upon illegals and those industries make a contribution heavily to elected politicians. The taxpayers favor a painless answer to the area, and would truly ***** about it than help get useful legislations surpassed. there is not any painless answer to the area, and YA discussions about it seem degenerating into vigilante call calling and entitled defiance. once you have ever been to the South Texas brush united states or the Arizona wasteland, good success with that fence theory. they arrive by skill of the organic gas pipes and farm animals autos now, and finally end up death interior the wasteland in simple terms to get to the promise of a role for slave wages in a slaugterhouse. they are going to continually come, see you later as employers employ them. quit the employers and the section 8 housing, and they gained't come anymore. of direction, you'll pay a lot extra for nutrition and housing.

Answer 10

I think they should start going after the employers! No jobs, no problems!!

There must be thousands like these!

Texas Co. Hired Illegals to Make MREs

McALLEN, Texas, Oct. 28, 2005
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(AP) A Texas employment agency was sentenced to five years of probation for hiring illegal immigrants to work at the nation's top producer of military battlefield rations, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

The Tollin Group was also fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $414,000 in civil penalties Wednesday. It has been barred from Department of Defense contracts for three years.

The San Antonio-based company, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, pleaded guilty in January to hiring illegal immigrants and trying to cover it up by falsifying employment eligibility forms. The workers were hired for Wornick Co., which makes MREs _ or "meals ready-to-eat."

The investigation was initiated in February 2003 after an al-Qaida operative was arrested with information pointing to McAllen and Wornick as terrorist targets. Wornick had been awarded a $47 million contract to produce more than 1.1 million MREs for U.S. forces in Iraq.

The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force ran background checks on Wornick employees and found hundreds of temporary employees with fraudulent documentation.

No direct link to terrorism was found.