What are specific problems the US will (or has already) suffer because of illegal immigrants?

Question

I need specific details about it. Like, what is wrong? Less money and overpopulation? What else? What does our future look like if this keeps up? What are ways we can stop this?

Answer 1

Emergency Rooms shutting down or overcrowded.

To stop it enforce laws against employers of illegals and shut down all illegal crossing of the border whether it takes fences, land mines, attack dogs or killer robots.

I have to respond to rabble_ro...

The positive aspects of helping people become citizens ? and what are those?

"I would say that the best way to eliminate illegal immigrants is to go ahead and spend the money to help them get on their feet in their own countries.... help farmers and industrialists become more self-sufficient and competitive in their homelands"??

Mexico is the largest but not the only contributor of illegals. Mexico has natural resources, industry and agriculture. It is also like most 3rd world countries is run by kleptocrats. These leaders steal as much as they can. Any program to help, will only help the kleptocrats. The leaders love the illegals going north because not only do they send money back to Mexico, which the leaders get a cut of, but they relieve the leaders from having to do anything positive for their own country. Illegal immigration is the great safety valve for Mexico. As for being taken advantage of in the states, sure it happens but not on the scale that workers are taken advantage of in Mexico.

Answer 2

The main thing I have heard people complain about is health care and schooling and so on which the government has decided must be available to children who live in the US, whatever the status of their parents. Generally, this has to be considered the fault of the bureaucracy, not of the child in question.

This has to be offset by the economic boon which these people are to us. In fact, it could be argued that helping them become legal will cost us something, as they will then be eligible for at least minimum wage and certain legally mandated benefits. But there is a vast work force in the margins of the American economy who willingly work for low wages and few if any benefits rather than have nothing at all. In order to offset the costs of providing this legally mandated minimum for each person who is currently working below that level, we will need to consider the fact that these will then become taxpayers. Along with legitimacy and the recording of their salaries in legitimate W-2 forms, we will have taxes from them for the rest of their lives.

Because these "illegals" work hard. It is the only way to survive in that situation, and they know it before they cross the border. They are productive people, and consumers at the lowest levels, where they do, after all, pay taxes: sales tax and excise tax on the things they buy. Once they are legitimized, they will work even harder, for they will be able to get something for what they do, and that, my friends, is called incentive. Their increased consumption, as well as their productivity, with further fuel the American economy.

I say amnesty and a simplified and far more generous green card policy, but keep the full citizenship requirements right where they are. Let people come here, work, establish themselves, study when they have time, and take the citizenship test when they are confident that it is worth their time and energy to study for it. Let a green card be a common and well-accepted thing: the permanent resident, whether or not applying for citizenship, should be respected everywhere except the polling both. There, we must keep up the standards. It's only fair to those who work for it.

Answer 3

But Canada is consistently supplying the paintings visas, in Mexico i have noticeable the aid the Canadian Embassy offers to any folks who wishes to visit Canada for paintings. The diference is that you just point out, Mexico (my nation) is a nation that have not been equipped to upgrade the financial system, to increase our financial system on the rithm we ought to, and there don't seem to be enougth jobs for all of the mexicans. And the hole betwen US wages, and Mexican wages are so colossal, that expand the immigration. Besides Mexico is the bridge for a few of the immigrants that come from Central and South America. And the border is extense, so it make it extra dificult to make it comfortable. So, for the US the truly concern is the south border, that is as traditional, as the truth of the immigration is.

Answer 4

Well, the biggest problem with illegal immigration is that immagrants have to look for low position jobs to hide theirselves by inconspicuity. Most of these jobs are labor positions, thus meaning there is a hightened supply for this type of worker, lowering the pay for those workers. Many companies look for the immigrants because they can pressure and intimidate them. Dont have to pay for insurance and health benefits and retirement. So these poor people are stuck with low pay hightened labor and a bunch of people complaining about them. Illegal immigration is one of those lovely details that effects the most determined people in another country. The truly law abiding citizens wont frequently actually immigrate to another country illegaly, so the people to immigrate are the ones that are motivated by crimes in Mexico, or just plain flat dont care about breaking the law. While they are looking for a better quality of life, they do get it, but they have to protect themselves in their new and dagerous environment. They may have to steal, fight, etc.

Ultimatly the results of illegal immigration are that we have heightened crime, lowered wages, supressed people and a dependance on other people to provide the labor jobs. And because we live in a welfare society there are more people who utilize the systems that we have in place.

We can stop illegal immigration by making it legal. We can treat the minorities with the same respect that we treat everyone else. This will not create an unbalance in our system, will provide more skilled laborers in every sector and will balance out the growth increase. Ultimatly providing more value in our country and providing more competition for employees (which we really need).

Answer 5

Well, if this for a debate - I would focus on the positive aspects of helping people to become citizens, not "keeping more people out"...

If you seem hateful or like you have no compassion for people who want to join our way of life, you won't win many people over.

But if this is for your own personal knowledge - then I would say that the best way to eliminate illegal immigrants is to go ahead and spend the money to help them get on their feet in their own countries.... help farmers and industrialists become more self-sufficient and competitive in their homelands. Then they will have no need to immigrate and be taken advantage of here in the states.

Answer 6

What's wrong: By draining public funds, creating unfair competition for jobs with America’s least prepared workers and thereby lowering wages and working conditions, and by imposing unwanted strains on services designed to provide assistance to Americans, illegal immigration causes harm to Americans and legal residents.

Illegal aliens are displacing roughly 730,000 American workers every year, at a cost of about $4.3 billion a year, and the supply of cheap labor depresses the wages and working conditions of the working poor. The approximate doubling of the illegal alien population since the time of that estimate means that the number of jobs lost to American workers and the costs of displacement would also likely have more than doubled.

The costs of illegal immigration to the taxpayer are numerous, but the largest costs are education of their children, emergency medical care and incarceration for those arrested for crimes. Despite being ineligible, some illegal aliens also get welfare the same way they get jobs: with identity documents falsely identifying them as U.S. citizens. In addition, if they have U.S.-born children, they may collect welfare assistance in the name of those children. The annual net cost of illegal immigrants (after subtracting their tax payments) to the American taxpayer is likely to be more than $45 billion. Our recent study of the net fiscal “Costs of illegal immigration to Californians” estimated the partial costs at $10.5 billion in that state alone.

Stopping illegal immigration is actually quite simple: America gives billions of aid to Mexico each year. Pass a law that, for every illegal immigrant caught trying to cross the border, $100,000 will be deducted from the aid. In 1 day, Mexico will stop all illegal immigrants. They will build a wall faster than you can think.

Answer 7

In Britain illegals have caused tensions due to the fact that they will work for about half the wage that the Brits will for the same work. This is good I suppose for employers but I certainly don't want less pay because of this.

Basically they work for less. You take a wage cut or lose out to them...

Answer 8

If this keeps up, we are in danger of becoming a third world country ourselves. Just in some areas in California they outnumber Americans and English is not spoken anymore.

How to stop this? Only if the government enforces existing laws.

This problem is not about race or hate, it's about preserving America.

Answer 9

possible terrorist attacks.
also may experience overcrowding (wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy after tho')