What is the single biggest problem with illegal immigration?

Question

What factor, more than anything else, is causing problems in america in regards to illegal immigration?

Answer 1

There is no single biggest problem. There are numerous problems, a lot of them bad problems.

Every person for illegal immigration should be forced to compensate these innocent people who have had their social security numbers and identities stolen by these illegals who invade our country with no care who they hurt. They should have to not only compensate the money lost from their social security accounts after they are zeroed out once the fraud is detected, but every last cent the victims had to pay taking time off work, every cent that went into photocopying documentation, every cent that went towards lawyers and gas driving somewhere to get this mess taken care of, and any other financial expenditure the victim had to cough up. They should also be forced to compensate the victims for the emotional hardships endured. They should have to compensate for the money and time spent trying to straighten out their credit ratings after these illegals have ruined them. They should be forced to compensate these victims for every single hardship related to what these illegals have inflicted upon these people. Currently, the system does not provide any compensation at all and a lot of people are never restored to previctimization status. Oh but these pro-illegals claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime that hurts no one and that we are whining when we complain.

'Total purgatory' for taxpayers
Frustration can mount for victims of this kind of fraud. Eventually, the government agencies involved do catch up with the legitimate consumers; but often, not until they are looking for money. Victims can have trouble getting disability or unemployment benefits. The government doesn’t try to alert victims of their victimizations, they usually find out by chance when they’ve been victimized further.
Other victims find the Internal Revenue Service on their backs, looking for payment of back taxes for wages earned by their imposters. Some see refunds held up by the confusion; others see their wages garnished.
Victims find themselves in a financial nightmare. All those imitators make a mess out of their work histories, Social Security benefits records and credit reports. Victims are haunted by bills and creditors. Victims receive threatening letters from the IRS, asking to pay taxes on money earned by these illegal Mexican colonizers. Victims are told to re-pay unemployment benefits they had received, after the government discovers they were "working" while drawing benefits when it was really these illegal Mexican invaders all along.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814673

You think these illegals care that they are hurting innocent lives? Their loyalty is to Mexico. They proved that during one of the first rallies when they took down the American flag, hung up the Mexican flag, and then hung the American flag upside down underneath it. THAT is how they feel about America.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm


Then the people who want to appease them pull out the excuses about how people who are not even alive now, and haven't been for hundreds of years, 'stole' the land from the American Indians. Even American politicians are carrying out this traitorous attack on our sovereignty! If this keeps up, the United States of America will become a 3rd world country, just like Mexico! Mexico's problems are not the fault of Americans, but they are becoming our problems because the Mexicans are invading us and bringing their problems with them.

The illegals make up about 5 % of the work force. The unemployment rate is about 4.5%. Keep in mind that the unemployment rate does NOT represent everyone who is unemployed. It only counts those who are collecting unemployment. Everyone else's plight is ignored. The unemployment rate if everyone was counted would be tremendous. We do NOT have a shortage of labor, we have a large surplus. The more illegals that come in and take our jobs at minimum wage or less (often less) puts more and more Americans out of a job. Most of these Americans are never counted in the unemployment rate if they do not manage to get unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits are hard to receive.

Illegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits.

The illegals get welfare by stealing social security numbers and identities and using false papers. Therefore, the time limits under the Clinton welfare reform doesn't apply to them because once the time limit is up, all they have to do is get new stolen social security numbers and identities and false papers and start all over again. American citizens who draw welfare are limited to the time limits from the welfare reform and are then cut off. American citizens who fall on hard times and have to turn to welfare assistance have a harder time finding jobs that pay enough to live off of because the illegals have taken jobs and depressed the wages of those jobs still available to American citizens. Therefore, those in the lower working class are highly unlikely to ever be able to "work their way up" since the opportunities have been stolen which will entrap these people into poverty with little to no way out.

My family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.

They not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them.

I am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years.

"Mexico is waging war on the U.S. through mass immigration illegal and legal, through the assertion of Mexican national claims over the U.S., and through the subversion of its laws and sovereignty, all having the common end of bringing the southwestern part of the U.S. under the control of the expanding Mexican nation, and of increasing Mexico’s political and cultural influence over the U.S. as a whole.

Cultural imperialism

We experience Mexico’s assault on our country incrementally—as a series of mini-crises, each of which calls forth ever-renewed debates and perhaps some tiny change of policy. Because it has been with us so long and has become part of the cultural and political air we breathe, it is hard for us to see the deep logic behind our “immigration problem.” Focused as we are on border incursions, border enforcement, illegal alien crime, guest worker proposals, changes of government in Mexico City, and other such transient problems and events—all of them framed by the media’s obfuscation of whether or not illegal immigration’s costs outweigh its benefits and by the maudlin script of “immigrant rights”—we don’t get the Big Picture: that the Mexican government is promoting and carrying out an attack on the United States.

Another reason we miss what’s happening is that our focus is on the immigrants as individuals. Thus our leaders talk about illegal immigrants as “good dads,” “hard working folks” seeking to better their lives and their family’s prospects. In fact, this is not about individual immigrants and their families, legal or illegal. It is about a great national migration, a nation of people moving into our nation’s land, in order to reproduce on it their own nation and people and push ours aside.

Thus, in orchestrating this war on America, the Mexican state is representing the desires of the Mexican people as a whole.

What are these desires?

(1) Political revanchism—to regain control of the territories Mexico lost to the U.S. in 1848, thus avenging themselves for the humiliations they feel they have suffered at our hands for the last century and a half;

(2) Cultural imperialism—to expand the Mexican culture and the Spanish language into North America; and especially

(3) Economic parasitism—to maintain and increase the flow of billions of dollars that Mexicans in the U.S. send back to their relatives at home every year, a major factor keeping the chronically troubled Mexican economy afloat and the corrupt Mexican political system cocooned in its status quo. "

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21309

Answer 2

Illegal immigration puts good people in danger, crossing the border and the unscrupulous. Case in point; One proud hard working Mexican tells of making $50,000, last year working 60 plus hours a week on a construction job. one wonders how safe it was. Another case; a immigrant family had a relative arrive from Mexico, didn't understand or speak English, fell to his death the first day on the job at a construction site EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD. Can only wonder how many have suffered at the hand of the unscrupulous.

Answer 3

The Illegal Alien knows before they commit the crime that it is a crime, and they make a choice to commit it any way. I have a problem with giving my respect to a person like that, because if they will knowingly commit a crime that could endanger millions with decease, and crime, then I do not want them to come to my country. They have already shown what kind of people they are. I have family in Mexico waiting to come here, but because of all the problems America is having with illegals, they have received notice that it could take as much as two years longer before they are approved. I am tired of these criminals calling themselves immigrants, they are not. My aunt, and her two sons, are immigrants, not some one that believes they have a right to do what ever they want, when they want. Only criminals, and politicians think like that.

Answer 4

The majority of illegal immigrants that come to the US are here to work and send money back to Mexico. More crimes are commited by in America by Americans. People always have to blame someone else for our own shortcomings.

Answer 5

Mexico has a ruling oligarchy that keeps everyone not of their class or in the very small middle class in poverty stricken subjugation. Mexico is a police state where the poor would all, enmass, migrate up here like a bunch of lemmings if it would get them out of their poverty and misery.

I truly feel sorr about the Mexican people. But until they do what our ancestors did and rebel against their masters they will keep on living in filth and misery.

Answer 6

We are at war and which one of these illegal criminals is gonna be that terrorist with a bomb strapped to him or her??? We must close the borders. ALL the borders..

Now to the Illegal Messicans, Here is the problem: My clean little neighborhood looks like a pigsty in just a few short years since they moved in...

I hate, that they are dirty.

They throw trash everywhere. Poop and pee in parking lots within walking distance of a public bathroom, as well as behind my shrubs IN MY YARD, and dressing rooms and in the attic of your house if they are working up there.. Leave Dirty baby diapers everywhere for someone else to pick up. Beer bottles everywhere..

They are horrible neighbors,they will have live Mariachi bands in the FRONT yard til four or five in the morning for a KIDS birthday party.. PUHLEASE!!!. No respect for the neighbors, Not the elderly heart patient or the Momma who has just got the baby down after hours of trying with you playing that LOUD polka/carnival music all darned day as well..

They do NOT know how to drive.. They don`t have insurance and just walk away if they crash into you and leave you to die.

They all work but are using the welfare system to the max and pay NO taxes back into the system..

They treat the USA like they treated/trashed their own country. I can`t believe the trash they just throw everywhere.. It is disgusting...

They fly that MEXICAN flag and DEMAND AMERICAN rights.

They refuse to back us in war. But want the same rights as the men and women over in the war are dying for..

They pay nothing back into the system they are so willing to suck from.

They expect me to learn a foreign language in my OWN country. You`re in America, LEARN to Speak American/English. MAKE some effort to be an AMERICAN, FOR GOODNESS SAKE.. ANY kind of effort.

THey have fourteen people living in a two bedroom house, 10 automobiles parked in the front yard, you are overloading the electrical and water supply with all those folks in that small of a place. (((Those places are not built to handle but a couple of adults and ONE or two (tops) children)) Not the load of a large crowd.

They show NO respect for anyone else.. Your dog BREAKS (literally) down my fence, Gets my dog pregnant, I show you and you laugh at me.. You don`t offer to fix fence or anything. You laugh at me.

THey drive by and shoot at peoples homes killing babies and Grandma`s. You are just a bunch of COWARDS. Drive by shootings!!!! Get out of the car and stand face to face like a MAN.. You have a disagreement and break out the guns.


By the way, they work NO harder than the AMerican did when he/she had that job.. Get a grip here.. A hard job is hard no matter who is doing it...
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Now my question to you........ What is there, to like???

To the Mexican population that doesn`t live like this, This does NOT apply to you...

From Texas, now the heart of Mexico!!!!!!

Answer 7

These people are taking the benefits of the Americans. Americans have fought and died that we may have what we have today. These people just want to walk across the line and inherit all we have fought and paid for with our taxes all our lives. Freedom is NOT free. Americans have paid dearly.

Answer 8

The reality is that we don't have an "Illegal Immigration" problem in America. We have an "Illegal Employer" problem.

Yet it's almost never mentioned in the mainstream media, because to point it out could slightly reduce the profits and CEO salaries of many of America's largest multi-state and multinational corporations - who both own the media and contribute heavily to conservative politicians. Republicans would prefer that the "criminals" covered in the press are working people, and that corporate and CEO criminals not get discussed.

Encouraging a rapid increase in the workforce by encouraging companies to hire non-citizens is one of the three most potent tools conservatives since Ronald Reagan have used to convert the American middle class into the American working poor. (The other two are destroying the governmental protections that keep labor unions viable, and ending tariffs while promoting trade deals like NAFTA/WTO/GATT that export manufacturing jobs.)

For example, when Nike began manufacturing shoes in Third World countries with labor costs below US labor costs, it didn't lead to $15 Nikes - their price held, and even increased, because the market would bear it. Instead, that reduction in labor costs led to Nike CEO Phil Knight becoming a multi-billionaire.)

Republicans understand this very, very well, although they never talk about it.

The fact is that we had an open border with Mexico for several centuries, and "illegal immigration" was never a serious problem. Before Reagan's presidency, an estimated million or so people a year came into the US from Mexico - and the same number, more or less, left the US for Mexico at the end of the agricultural harvest season. Very few stayed, because there weren't jobs for them.

Non-citizens didn't have access to the non-agricultural US job market, in large part because of the power of US labor unions (before Reagan 25% of the workforce was unionized; today the private workforce is about 7% unionized), and because companies were unwilling to risk having non-tax-deductible labor expenses on their books by hiring undocumented workers without valid Social Security numbers.

But Reagan put an end to that. His 1986 amnesty program, combined with his aggressive war on organized labor (begun in 1981), in effect told both employers and non-citizens that there would be few penalties and many rewards to increasing the US labor pool (and thus driving down wages) with undocumented immigrants. A million people a year continued to come across our southern border, but they stopped returning to Latin America every fall because instead of seasonal work they were able to find permanent jobs.

The magnet drawing them? Illegal Employers.

Yet in the American media, Illegal Employers are almost never mentioned.

Lou Dobbs, the most visible media champion of this issue, always starts his discussion of the issue with a basic syllogism - 1. Our border is porous. 2. People are coming across our porous border and diluting our labor markets, driving down US wages. 3. Therefore we must make the border less porous.

Lou's syllogism, however, ignores the real problem, the magnet drawing people to risk life and limb to illegally enter this country - Illegal Employers. Our borders have always been porous (and even with a "fence" will still allow through "tourists" by the millions), but we've never had a problem like this before.

And it's not just because poverty has increased in Mexico - today, about half of Mexico lives on less than $2 a day, but 50 years ago half of Mexico also lived on the equivalent of $2 today. Our trade and agricultural policies are harmful to Mexican farmers (and must be changed!), but we were nearly as predatory fifty years ago (remember the rubber and fruit companies, particularly in Central America?).

Yet fifty years ago we didn't have an "illegal immigration" problem, because back then we didn't have a conservative "Illegal Employer" problem

The hiring crimes of Illegal Employers are being ignored by the law, and rewarded by the economic systems of the nation.

Proof that this simple reality is ignored in our media (much to the delight of Republicans) is everywhere you look. For example, check out a series of national polls on illegal immigration done over the past year at
http://www.pollingreport.com/immigration.htm

Only the CNN poll asked the question: "Would you favor increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants?" Two-thirds of Americans, of all party affiliations, said, "Yes," but it went virtually unreported in mainstream media coverage.

"Illegal Immigration" is really about "Illegal Employers." As long as Democrats argue it on the basis of "illegal immigration" they'll lose, even when they're right. Instead, they need to be talking about "Illegal Employers."

Politically, it's not a civil rights issue, it's a jobs issue, as working Americans keep telling pollsters over and over again.

"Mass deportations" and "Fences" are hysterics and false choices. Start penalizing "Illegal Employers"
and non-citizens without a Social Security number will leave the country on their own.
And they won't have to confront death trying to cross the desert back into Mexico - Mexican citizens can simply walk back into Mexico across the border at any legal border crossing (as about a million did every year for over a century).

Now even Bush is talking like the Republicans in the House of Representatives - time to "get tough" and give Halliburton a few hundred billion to build a fence.

But still nobody is talking about the real problem here - the Illegal Employers.

Answer 9

Cheap labor being financed by our current administration and those before this one weighs more than enforcement. It's a conundrum.

Answer 10

Knowing the proper number of place settings you will need on Cinqo de Mayo.

Answer 11

That Americans can stop consuming products and services delivered by undocumented workers.