Everyone or almost everyone agrees we need legal immigrants right?

Question

If we make it harder for the Illegal immimigrants to enter it will be twice as hard for the legal ones. Why not make the entrance into America easier for the theImmigrants to enter and have a more stringent criminal background check?

Bored at work read again!!!!!!!!!!

There are records of crimes.
And their crimes are not adjudicated like ours.

Give the boarder patrol better equipment more help and better training to do theses things.

Answer 1

That sounds like a great idea. You provide work permits for a temporary time. Do background checks, tell them they most leave in 6 months and can apply again for a work permit and they will do that. Most immigrants already do that.

Answer 2

How would you do it, and what would the criteria be? Would you deny someone because a disorderly conduct charge was made, or proven? They might have been demonstrating for free elections or trying to smuggle bomb parts. I like the idea of free ingress and egress for all. It will never be possible while we have terrorrists, and there is no way to prevent them until we treat all people as equals; and they will have to perceive that equality. So, how about we just do away with the quota numbers, tell all who enter that they have a new start, and execute anyone who commits a capital crime to make room for them. And since the laws of the land are in English, and ignorance is no excuse, it would benefit them greatly to learn it. No requirement, just it's not an excuse.

Answer 3

How do you know that making it harder for illegal immigrants will also make it harder for legal immigrants? If your doing things by the book and everything is legit, its not that hard. My husband is a legal immigrant and yes, it has been expensive and a pain in the backside to fill in all the paperwork with documentation, but its not that hard, i would say... we have the documentation and we know the information to give. We don't have to lie.... or make up social security numbers, etc.... its not "hard".

backround checks (if you don't already know) don't always ensure that the people are legal or legit.

Answer 4

The real question remains: how does big business fit into the picture? They basically dictate the laws in our country. If it suits agri-business for there to be undocumented workers, this problem is not going away.

The government does the bidding of big business. The needs of citizens is unimportant.

You heard it hear from me.

It isn't exactly a democracy any more, and probably hasn't been one for a while.

Answer 5

I said that yesterday. Coming from the southside of Chicago our neighborhoods are very culturally divided and that is what makes America beautiful. However, letting people off the hook when they have clearly violated the law only screams hypocrisy. You might as well spit in the face of all the people who have waited in line and dealt with the red tape of legally entering the U.S. Black,European,Hispanic,Asian, or whatever nationality or creed.

Answer 6

Gidget, good government requires order. Security at the border should be the order of the day, day in, day out. This needs to have 100 percent priority! Everything else is secondary.

Answer 7

Why don't YOU go to Mexico and petition THEIR government to do what you think needs to be done instead of expecting the United States to cover all bases, Gidget? It's Mexico's gross wholesale widespread national dysfunction that's to thank/blame for this whole status quo, ameri-fare's just a band-aid trying to stop the bleeding, and frankly we're talking free hemorrhage here, and a little Cur-aid on the corner of the wound isn't going to solve the problem. Mexico needs reform, Gidget, to take care of its' own citizens, how about you go there, and cry them a river instead? 'No mas' to tired sob-stories, 'no mas' to illegal immigration' 'si' to border enforcement, the enhancement of the US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement service to make them effective, and I even think it'd be a SUPER idea to start up a national illegal alien apprehension hotline.

I think it's really positive that some cities, counties, and states have decided to stand up and hold their ground against illegal immigration, when it's all 50, and Mexico realizes they have to take responsibility for the welfare and the future of their citizens instead of dumping their problem on america/conniving new ways to milk every copper cent humanly possible out of our economy, then both countries will be better off. But, someone has to say 'no more', Gidget, why not you? Mexico's systemic national dysfunction will never be changed by you advocating for more of the same that hasn't worked in the past, eh? Let's do something different, here, something that sounds like accountability, and responsibility, not just on the part of Mexico, but of their citizens, our country, and our citizens, too. There's laws that actually govern this whole immigration business, let's see them enforced, for a change, and not just lower the bar to the convenience of the latest hard-luck case to come staggering across the desert or whatever. Sure, we can help Mexico, but it apparently needs to be VERY structured help, and contingent upon things like real evidence that they're trying to actually help on immigration reform etc.

Why don't you write to their newspapers or something, Gidget?
Become a positive voice for the People of Mexico in their efforts to reform and become economically successful, instead of just trying to encourage MORE law-breaking. America's dumped tens of billions, if not hundreds, over the years, into trying to help Mexico stand up. But, apparently it's like what happens when you give money to a drunken bum. He doesn't spend it on new clothes, or soap, or food, or a place to stay, he goes and buys another bottle of vodka, and ends up RIGHT back in the same gutter where you found him, Gidget. Well, Mexico needs to 'sober up'. Let's not have any more of this. Let's see Mexico support itself. BY itself. Thanks.

Answer 8

Only in limited numbers and categories we actually do need. Fortunately we offer them a good deal once they get here so we can be picky.

Too many poor, unskilled, uneducated immigrants drains our services and degrades education, so that category needs to be limited.

Answer 9

Background check with whom? What kind of records do you think Iran, Mexico etc keep on their criminals. Almost none. If they ever catch any.

Answer 10

How much easier could it be -- a short walk, drop another 3rd world country kid, get welfare, demand rights!