What should be done about the Illegal Immigration Problem in the USA?

Question

undocumented workers are flooding the countryside,
they have no licenses or insurance and it puts us all at risk

Answer 1

Hi, my name is Hank. I believe the best way to handle illegal immigrants coming to this country would be to send an itemized, physically real, bill to their home country. We must take away the incentives for the Church and corporations to abuse refugees and get our government to realize the harm they are doing by their ineptness at handling the illegal immigration problem.

Maybe if some of these countries that are abusing their citizens, economically, by making them work for slave wages, were made to pay the expenses of them fleeing their home country, they might think twice about the abuse of their nationals fleeing.

I’m going to use Mexico as an example, only because it is the closest to the U.S. the easiest to demonstrate for the position I am positing. I’m pretty sure I’m in for a lambasting for this, but, someone has to say it.

How would Mexico react if the U.S. sued to recover what it costs to care for their economic refugees? Would they change their economic policies to be more people friendly, or would they continue to ignore the plight of their citizens?

I believe if we (the United States) were to start suing and billing there would be more attention paid to the matter of people not being able to make decent wages in the country they are fleeing from.

I believe there are a couple of sheriffs, here in America, who have already formulated this plan, and have sent actual bills to the Mexican government. I don’t know the result of what happened as a result of those actions, though. Maybe you could google it to find out.

We have to get the leaders in our government to understand how economically devastating this is to all of us concerned, especially those who are having to flee their home country’s economic abuse.

That brings me to the details of your question--abuse of the economic refugees by corporations and other employers here in America.

Are you certain you want to hear the truth? Because, if you aren’t I’m, to quote a cliché, spinning my wheels, and when you spin your wheels, the only thing you accomplish is to add more pollutants to our atmosphere while getting nowhere.

As long as there is economic incentive for illegal immigrants to make that arduous, dangerous and sometimes life-taking, journey they will come. I can’t blame them either.

If my family and I were stuck where the minimum wage is less than six dollars a day, I would risk all I have to get here to North America, the same as millions of economically abused refugees have already done.

We have to rein in the people north of the border who are abusing the refugees the same as we have to get the Mexican government to change what they’re doing. If we don’t, we’re stuck in the same mud hole I mentioned earlier.

As long as we have a government that winks and turns their head at the employers hiring these abused refugees, we won’t get anything done. Our government need to start enforcing the laws that are already on the books, instead of acting as if nothing is happening at all.

The result of what’s happening is frightening if you care to study it for a bit. The decline in the standard living here in the U.S. is a result of abusing illegal immigrants does nothing but suppress wages for people already living here.

Do you know that illegal immigrants can’t legally vote here, but they are counted in the census? This creates a false impression of how the economy really is--a hallmark of the present Administration. It also affects the size of voting districts as well as affecting the ultimate tallies of those districts.

That’s why the politician’s want their euphemized amnesty that they’re calling earned citizenship. The other large entity here in the U.S. that will benefit from this is the Catholic Church.

The position of the Church not only diverts our attention from the fact some in the Catholic Church can’t keep their zippers up, it swells the membership of their congregations.

I believe with all the lawsuits, the Church is experiencing, it’s leaving their coffers in need for funds--and, this, an influx of pious church members is a quick and easy fix for them.

There are many, many other reasons for what’s happening, but I believe this will keep you thinking about it for a long time to come.

Illegal immigration is no small matter, and there’s no quick fix for it. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the earned citizenship program some politician’s and other illegal immigration proponents are trying to get passed by Congress.

Does indentured servitude sound familiar to you? That’s what earned citizenship is. We (the U.S.) passed laws against that a long time ago. To euphemize words and phrases, as this Administration is doing, is them only trying to make more palatable something we all abhor.

They, this Administration, have managed to make the words: cemetery, booby-trap and automatic ambush sound a lot more friendlier than they really are.

Doe “where valor sleeps,” “improvised explosive device” (I.e.d.s) and hit by a roadside bomb sound familiar? Sure they do. This Administration cut their wordsmiths loose on the argot of war--so people wouldn’t perceive the real tragedy of what the words mean.

Now to bring it all together. Until we get the governments of the countries abusing their citizens to change, get our government to recognize the harm illegal immigration is causing, get the Church active in the abused refugees home country, and for the right reasons, and start arresting corporations for taking advantage of lax law enforcement of hiring practices, we are spinning our wheels. Is America becoming a cliché?

The main thing for us to remember about all of this is: These are real human beings we are discussing, and that it’s not their fault if they want to make things better in their life. All people aspire to do that. It’s easy to forget that and to place the blame in the wrong places.

But, above all this discussing and rhetoric, we must have compassion, and not sink to the levels of the real perpetrators involved in this crime. That’s what makes us uniquely American.

Hank Feral

Answer 2

In 2003 when we decided to spend $100 billion in Iraq we should have spent 1/100th of that and built better levies for New Orleans, built a wall between us and Mexico, and revamped the welfare system and Homeland security so that they are both useable entities that aren't being abused from not having funding to properly oversee. Also, a prison could be opened for anyone here illegally. People would not be able to just go back across to Mexico, they would be detained for 18 months before being allowed to cross back over to Mexico. A second offense would be 5 years.

The other 99/100th of it could have been used to create a program that would make it lucrative to graduate in education to get better teachers and pay teachers that bring their students to a certain academic level an extra $20k a year from the federal government to make sure you are getting EVERYTHING out of our teachers instead of having them just working to get a check. Also, a coalition could be formed that would ensure educators throughout every school district have been evenly spread throughout public schools. This would be to ensure that just because the people with money run the school board, it doesn't mean that their schools are the ones with the good teachers and all the others go to the other side of town with the minorities and poor people. This would come closer to giving everyone a fair chance to make it and assure that everyone is getting a better education (except the rich kids which are now getting the same education as the others unless they choose to go to private schools).

So instead of using all of this money to tear down another country and rebuild it we could be rebuilding our own which is definitely without fault. If you made welfare for people that were looking for jobs or as a subsidy for people that had low paying jobs you wouldn't have so many people on it, and few would abuse it. Illegal aliens would be something of the past as anything is better than prison. And we wouldn't have so many stupid people here asking stupid questions on Yahoo Answers. Not you, yours was a good question.

Answer 3

As a blood born American I can't get the same privilages that these illegal immigrants are getting. Bush goes against everything the middle class american see's as good. Who said "Bush wants to distract us from his Oppsies"? I agree with you. Oh this and other topics could send me on a rampage. In combing the net the news papers and the headline news on such issues it would seem that our voice really doesn't matter much as the Americans that we are. This is no longer our country it would seem. Rather it has turned into a catch all in every direction.

Answer 4

Start building 20' reinforced walls around your country similar to your prisons have with the barbed wire and guard towers. Might want to leave some extra room and plant some mine fields as well. The way the US is pissing off the rest of the globe it seems you're going to need the walls to keep out more than just immigrants.

Answer 5

What kind of answer do you want. This question has only been posted 1,000 times and I think that answers are almost the same. Stronger military presence on our borders, crack down on employers hiring illegals, cut off all federal and state funding to them. Don't issue drivers license, allow them to get housing, don't allow them to be enrolled in schools, etc. We are making it too easy to live here if you're illegal.

Answer 6

make security tighter. When we find the illegals arrest them and after they do hard time send them back and hope they come the right way or learn that jail is poopy and they just stay on their own side. Also to make people stop employing illegals. If they couldn't be employed they'd probably go back to mexico.

Answer 7

The real solution??? Remove the reason they came here: MONEY.

If fat lazy Americans would do the work the immigrants are doing, there would be no work for them and they'd go home. But that will never happen.

We have noone to blame but ourselves- rather, the people who refuse to work! (Do I need to use the word "welfare" here????)

If you were born in Mexico, you'd run, jump, and swim to get here too!













GOOD LORD I HATE FAT LAZY PEOPLE THAT PROVIDE NOTHING TO SOCIETY!!!!!!!

Answer 8

I say we elect and select sealRborders and Sashie these two women could actually pull this off and quickly get things under control we wouldn't need years of hearings on we are doing what again and why ??
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Answer 9

Make them all legal, put several of them in the US military and send them to Iraq or other countries. Make the women be house keepers, maids and servants. Or if they women speak English, make them be girl friends and mistresses, or even waitresses.

Answer 10

Seal the border.

Deport all illegals upon discovery.

Fine employers 50% of last years gross income.

Replace all government officials who disagree with this policy.