Why shouldn't we boot the illegal immigrants?

Question

My family is realtively new in America. My ancestors worked hard through WWII to start a new and legal life in America. Now we have people from another country living here at no cost to them, but at cost to the taxpayers. Why shouldn't we boot all of the illegal immigrants?

Answer 1

Your points are all valid but we shouldn't boot the illegal immigrants. It's just not practical to hunt down and deport 10,000,000+ people.

Imagine the resources and logistics that would be involved in processing, housing, feeding, and transporting that many people--let alone the manpower involved in finding them and rounding them up against their will. Imagine how that could go wrong--because it could go very badly.

If one percent were killed or injured in that process you're talking about 100,000 people.

10 million people--especially 10 million unwilling people--is a lot. World War II involved transporting 12 million Americans overseas who went willingly and it was the biggest mobilization of men in our history--and that was to save the world, not just tax dollars. We couldn't even handle Katrina and that's small change compared to what this would involve.

Besides these practical concerns I also think we lack the moral ground to deport all these people. Their presence here is unfair to people who came here legally but it's hard to avoid the fact that we had an unofficial welcome mat out for these people for years. American businesses and individuals (think people with domestic help--nannies, housekeepers, gardeners, etc.) wanted their cheap labor under the table. These Americans knew these workers were illegal but they were willing to look the other way because it served their own interests. If we would have taken a stand and enforced our laws years ago we wouldn't have this problem now. I also think forces in American business would be opposed to losing their low-cost labor and it's hard to say what losing them would do to our economy. It would probably be better all around to implement something like the guest worker programs that Bush and others have introduced to create different levels of legal status for these folks ranging from guest worker through to conditional citizenship. That would at least address concerns like taxes and social services. (BTW I'm no fan of Bush but his plans are more reasonable than what I've heard from most everyday folks who haven't thought it through.)

I think we need to move forward on securing the borders and stopping the flow of illegal immigration before we try and do much about all the illegals who are already here. Then we can work on dealing with those who are here already.

I think we also need to let go of the idea of deporting all legal immigrants up front. I believe current political efforts on addressing immigration have been shelved because the political parties--especially the Republicans--are now afraid they would take too much flack for not being "tough enough" if they tried to implement practical policy. The "amnesty" that everyone keeps complaining about represents this demand for unrealistic action in the form of widespread deportation.

We need to move forward with the most practical pieces of fixing immigration and border security rather than getting hung up on impossible goals. Until we close the border illegals who come here will continue to think there's an unofficial welcome mat for them and their low cost labor. Once that's done we can focus on cleaning up the situation in regards existing illegals and their employers.

Answer 2

A international accessory might be the primary clue. Then you convey up unlawful immigration within the dialog, in the event that they emerge as evasive toward the area, that might be your moment clue. And if you happen to produce a badge, they usually seem like a cornered rat, that might be the last clue. No I'm now not a cop, however I have an identification that has a sheriffs big name on it. Yes it is flawlessly authorized, It's issued by way of the sheriffs division in a county I used to are living in.

Answer 3

I had a response...but you made a good point. My new answer would be, we should boot the ones who don't want to work for it. Seriously. I found it kind of scary this past weekend when my boyfriend and I went to a nearby park and the family to our left spoke Japanese, the family behind us spoke either Russian or an Eastern European language, and the family to our right spoke Spanish. Don't get me wrong, I understand that unless you're Native American, your ancestors were immigrants and had to start somewhere, but HONESTLY, ENGLISH! We need to make that our official language at least to start off. Oh yeah, and we need to stop publishing the driver's manual in several different languages and posting up signs giving directions to the polls in Chinese.

Answer 4

I agree with having paid your dues to be here, me too, however, I do think we should issue work visas to illegal immigrants who just want to work to feed their families and instead of helping countries who dont really need the money lets fund Mexico's ecomomy so they are not starving and in need of coming here. With a strong Mexico there will stronger borders.

Answer 5

Accepting the illegal immigrants is an insult to all of those who came here legally.

Answer 6

Allah(God) created the earth for all peoples.
In Islam there are no borders.People can live or visit where they choose.

Answer 7

They should either do it Legally or Not at all.