why do people think illegal immagration is wrong?

Question

I mean most illegal immigrants are a vital role in our agricultural, dairy and meat products that are produced in the U.S. so whats the beef they are doing very difficult jobs at below minimum pay wages and unhuman work conditions and people still lash out. Whats the deal!

Answer 1

It's illegal - as in against the law. These unplanned workers saturate the job market. This is why unskilled labor jobs pay so little in the US. Just wait until the skilled (educated) illegals begin to come. Then all the jobs will be low paying. Best bet to succeed in the US is to start a company and hire a bunch of low paid illegals.

For most people, it's not a problem until someone else eats their lunch. No other country allows illegal workers to come into their country to work. Unlike the US, other countries enforce their laws.

Go to Mexico and see if they allow you to work there. The answer is No. They will not allow you to work there, but we are expected to allow others to come to the US and spoil our good paying jobs and reduce our lifestyles.

Answer 2

Try this on...lets say you were waiting in line for concert tickets, ones you wanted really bad. the line was long and you have been waiting a really long time, just standing there and the line is not moving very fast. somewhere way up in front of the line a whole group of people got in line(took cuts) and no one said anything to them. they got their tickets cheap with discount passes and the concert sold out. and you are still standing in the same spot with no tickets.

wouldn't you be upset.
Think about it.

Now say you want to go get a job because you have to feed yourself and your kids and they all pay 5$ an hour because they found a bunch of people that are used to making 2$ an hour or less. and the job has no medical benefits and you have to work in unsafe conditions because the other people are. there are no other jobs because all the bosses have done the same thing. you remember that your father did the same work for three times the pay with benefits.

would you feel good working there when you can not afford to feed your kids. you could always quit because the boss has lots of peole to hire that will work under those conditions.

would you feel like lashing out, --at the people who are providing a vital role. the people the bosses love to hire.

no you would probably support them and thank them and wish there were more of them ,, right. right.

Answer 3

If the corporate interests would pay a living wage with decent benefits, they would not have trouble hiring legal workers. Bush lies when he says that illegals do the jobs that Americans won't. They do the jobs that Americans won't do for $6.00 an hour. Prosecution of corporations for using illegals is essentially non-existent under the Bush administration. Besides, it is illegal. They trash and devalue any area where they live because they put 25 people in an apartment. They are not US citizens and have no vested interest here other than the money they can earn and the benefits that they can leach from us, the taxpayers.

Answer 4

I would say for two major reasons. The first is that people who enter the country illegaly are breaking the law. That one should have been reasonably obvious, this is a nation of laws and people who break the law are expected to suffer the consequences. The second major reason is in your question, because they are doing jobs at below minimum wage. Those jobs used to go to people at fair wages but now, companies are using illegal labor to drive costs down which is going to put a citizen of this country out of their job. Now, do you think that's fair? Illegal immigrants aren't coming here and finding jobs that "no one wants to do" at low wages, the problem isn't that simple. Once upon a time people were able to support themselves at those jobs and start families. Illegal immigration has driven the tax base down and put lots of people out of work. I wonder, do you think that's fair? Nobody is saying that illegal immigrants aren't good people or that they don't work hard and don't have the same hopes and dreams as the rest of us, we all know they do but that's not the point I'm afraid. Any nation has the right to ask that people move there legally, it's really not that much to ask, wouldn't you agree?

Answer 5

Immigrants are not a vital role in our agriculture. Its just that most Americans wouldn't do that work for the wage paid them by agri, dairy and meat producers who take advantage of illegal workers. In some parts of Mexico their wages are 4 dollars a week. They are driving down wages when they come here illegally and work here illegally. Its wrong to say they do jobs no American will do. They do jobs no American will do at extremely low wages.

Answer 6

Define Illegal ?? The answer is in your question. There should be an office where these illegal emmigrants can get help to become legal. They need to be guided in going the right direction. Yes, the Mexican workers are hard workers and they will do the work to stay here. Just like my Norwegian emmigrants, They would work as maids , hired hands on potatoe farms. Wash clothes on a rubbing board for the wealthy. Walk for miles to help do the haying and threashing.
The deal is: They need to do it the legal way. Is that so hard to understand ?? When they become a legal citizen then I doubt very much that they would work as a low paying vegetable picker. Poor things. Exactly what emmigrants have to endure.

Answer 7

Illegal immagration is wrong because let's face it, when they get here (America) they take over! They take over and look at you like you're the Immigrant!!! Anyway, I wouldn't be so hard on illegal immagration if our country would treat ALL illegal immigrants the same (that's our fault though!) When Cubans come here illegally, our country don't send them back to their country, but when a Haitian comes over illegally, our country is quick to send them back...sometimes on the same floatation devices they came in...which is sad!!!

But back to what I was saying, illegal immagration is wrong because they're receiving free support from our country; they use our money to get the rest of their families here illegally, then they try to make their languages a mandatory subject in our high schools and some universities....and in some public places like at the DMV...it's not right, then just because a couple thousand illegal families have been lucky enough to live in the U.S. for 20+ years, they expect to be given equal rights as a citizen...and then make an uproar. Also, they say "we've been supporting your country by working under minimum wage and at times in unhealthy environments..." but they fail to realize that they benefitted from that money too as it is worth way more than pesos and Mexican food stamps, so they shouldn't be complaining, Naturalization havn't picked them up as they are still here complaining...it wouldn't be so bad if most of them were polite, but truth of the matter is that most of them are not. I'm not just talking about illegal Mexicans either, you have illegal Armenians, Jamaicans, Cubans, etc. etc., but just so happen that the Mexicans are the one's who are the loudest and rudest...not ALL of them, but MOST of them.

I'm only speaking from my personal experiences with the groups that I've mentioned above, it will be different for someone else!

Answer 8

The illegals working from the front of HOME DEPOT don't work for less than 10 bucks an hour.
And that is just for weeding/gardening. Drywallers won't work for less than 15 bucks an hour.
You need to get around and find out what you are talking about.

News story on NPR told of couple working on dairy farm in VERMONT....8 bucks an hour plus free rent and utilities.
Not he greatest money in the world but a damn sight more than a LEGAL immigrant or an American makes from working out of day labor place doing the nastiest dirtiest jobs that the union guys or the regular employees won't touch.

Have you worked any really ballbusting jobs?....where they work you like a rented mule?

I have worked on factory trawlers up in Alaska processing Salmon....16 hours a day....no days off...until those fish are processed.
And I had to show picture ID , ss card, and take a urinealysis.

I have lined up at three in the morning waiting for day labor place to open at five and if I was lucky I might be dispatched to minimum wage job humping rebar up to flat roof or humping kitchen cabinets up four flights of stairs.
FOR THE FREAKIN MINIMUM WAGE.
And I had to show a social security card and picture ID.

And I have worked on a farm picking Cauliflower and Lettuce in the Poconos in Pennsylvania.

I can go on and on naming ugly job after ugly job that I have had to do for less than what an illegal makes.


Where do you get your info...
Pull it out of thin air?
Your logic has appeared on yahoo answers at least a thousand times...
Where do you get off suggesting that the illegals are the only people that work hard?

The illegals DON"T WANT TO WORK ON THE FARMS....they would rather work in construction or other sectors of the economy.

The Hotels need people to vacuum the floors and make the beds.
They can go to the State Job Service and look for LEGAL WORKERS THERE.
They might have to pay a bit more because they will be hiring people legally but thats tough.
If they have to charge more for a room ...fine.

If the Outback steakhouse has to charge more for a steak.
Thats fine too.


What kind of hard jobs have YOU done?

Answer 9

There was a reason there was a law against their coming to begin with. Poor people take far more in expensive services, particularly education for children, than they pay in taxes. That is why every developed country in the world that subsidizes services for the poor limits how many poor immigrants can come in. Many countries, such as Mexico, prohibit poor immigrants altogether, unless they are family of citizens. We allow some to come, and those are invited, welcome, and budgeted for.

Illegal immigrants are budget busters who strain services and degrade education in the localities where they concentrate. Take a look at the LA Unified School System, if you want a stark example. Almost all special education funding goes to ESL programs, and programs our own children need are ignored. Furthermore, that vast quantity of ESL students slows instruction for the group.

California spent over $10 billion dollars on illegal immigrant services last year, and Los Angeles county alone spent over $1 billion, according to County Supervisor testimony at a House Hearing last week.

It is not just the expense they are to me, although I would much rather spend the extra tax money on a college fund for my children. It is the fact that the school system where my children attend is degraded and in many schools unsafe at the high school level, at least. That means either my children's future is jeapardized or I have to come up with $30,000 a year to send my children to private school, on TOP of the thousands I pay just to give benefits to illegal immigrants.

There are too many of them, and the price is too high. They benefit employers by delivering cheap labor, but even that undermines wages for our own less educated workers, and finding an after school job for a teen trying to earn money towards college is a virtual impossibility, any more.

Illegal immigration is wrong. That is why there is a law against it.

Answer 10

You aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

They come here illegally and then continue to commit crimes. Fraud/ Identity theft, Traffic violations - no drivers license or insurance, income tax evasion, theft of public services, the list goes on and on. Oh, and they demand rights. That really hacks me off. As illegal aliens they should have no rights, except to get the heck out.

If a citizen from another country is caught trying to sneak into Mexico it is a felony and they do serious jail time. They are treated as less than human by the police and the general Mexican public, they have no rights and are deported immediately after serving their jail time. What is good for the goose should be good for the gander.