Why do people oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants?

Question

The president has a right to grant pardons.
Draft dodgers did something illegal but were pardoned by Carter.
How are illegal immigrants and draft dodgers any different in the eyes of the law?
Congress wants a pardon, you might say, so that illegal immigrants become legal migrants. The surfacing of the underground economy could potentially generate billions and postpone the demise of social services.

They wouldnt be illegal if amnesty is granted.
It's also illegal for underage teens to smoke, watch porn or drink but somehow everyone is fine with this blatant criminal behavior by a large portion of the US population.

Answer 1

Draft dodgers were citizens, illegal immigrants are not.

Consider this: Immigration wouldn't be such an issue if they instituted National Retail Sales Tax, instead of Income Tax. With the sales tax, everyone pays. No cheating. No false documents. Just people paying according to their consumption. Imagine how those rich folks would be doing their share, by paying the sales tax on a Hummer H3? Or even a BMW H2 Hydrogen Powered Car that hits the sales floor in '08? Or fancy jewelry. Heck! That bejewelled toilet seat that J-Lo owns! Who needs stupid stuff like that?! It's time we stopped punishing good work, and placed the taxes upon consumption.

Answer 2

Some support amnesty. I do not.


I worked for an immigration attorney in the mid 1980's. I helped several farm and tourism based workers obtain legal residency status in the U.S.A. I was just a translator, but I grew connected with each case. I had been a proponent of immigration reform, until I moved near the border.

The economic impact of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a touchy subject. They are a great benefit to the farming economy, but a drain to the educational system.

You will never understand illegal immigration until you have had a traffic accident with a SUV, carrying 21 people, crossing the border at a high rate of speed. All the occupants deny being the driver and your car is destroyed. Everyone is deported, and likely will cross successfully within the next 5-7 days. Your car is still destroyed.

By creating an amnesty (again) we only create hope for the millions more who will cross into our country afterward. I support a wall and the systematic deportation of every last illegal immigrant we can find.

If you are a legal immigrant, I welcome you..... and I hope you someday decide to pursue U.S. Citizenship. Many Naturalized Citizens understand citizenship more than those who are born with it.

Answer 3

People oppose illegal immigrants for the same reason that we punish people that commit murder, rape, drug infractions, and child molesters they break the laws of the land and must be punished for it, we do not oppose immigration done the correct way and the correct way is to apply for citizenship learn the language and assumulate into the american lifestyle, not refusing to pay taxes, send billions of dollars out of the country which some would call money laundry operations if done by the mob, use illegal identification and phony social security numbers or real ones that belong to someone else to get social services that they law if done by citizens would land them in jail for fraud, ect are but just a few of the reasons that it is and always will be opposed.

Answer 4

Oppose. an unlawful alien is the identical as a individual who's accused of breaking and coming into after which makes a decision to squats(Squatting is the act of occupying an deserted or unoccupied area or constructing that the squatter does no longer possess, hire or or else have permission to make use of. ... If you desire to supply amnesty to these contributors who broke the regulation then ergo: each jail mobilephone occupied by means of a prisoner accused of the identical defining crime need to be freed as good. For in my brain there is not any change a theif is a theif, whether or not they nonetheless a penny or nonetheless 1 bucks. Breaking the regulation is breaking the regulation. So if the President offers amnesty to the unlawful extraterrestrial beings for breaking the regulation, what's to avert him from starting the jail mobilephone doorways of all people who find themselves presently serving time for the identical crime, no longer a darn factor. So rationalize it besides you desire however the data are the data. Grant amnesty to unlawful extraterrestrial beings then furnish amnesty to each guy and/or lady sitting within the Prison System.

Answer 5

Both sides have decent arguements. On the one hand the majority of illegals do want to come hear to live our American dream and want to do a good job and participate and pay taxes. However, when they come over here illegally it opens a major can of worms and we have to ask the question "why can't they go through the correct process like so many before them?".

Many of us are ticked off that we have to struggle to make ends meat and pay for our expenses, work and try to better ourselves through school and we can't qualify for services. Yet there are people here illegally getting services that we can't qualify for so they get to share or "steal" our American dream that we bought and paid for in taxes and we get understandably upset.

I know of plenty of people that came here legally.

We are a nation of rules and laws and if we aren't going to enforce them, then what good are they?

Also, I think it's particularly worrisome that so many people have gotten into the US illegally. It quite frankly frightens me about national safety. The law of averages has to tell us that at least some of the people here illegally DO NOT have good intentions!

Answer 6

Giving criminal, lawbreaking, illegal alien, foreign nationals amnesty is not the solution.

They'll still be poor, uneducated, non-English speaking 3rd world peasants with a Carte Blanche on Welfare and legally be able to bring ALL the rest of their relatives in, to jump on the Welfare Wagon!

It's said, if they get Amnesty the cost of social services for them would triple. It's now $90 Billion Dollars a year! They'll also be eligible for Social Security as well as the relaltives they bring in!

Answer 7

Why would you want to give amnesty to someone who can't follow even the very first law of citizenship by entering the country legally? Obviously you don't live in an area where it's that big of a problem. If you did you wouldn't have this attitude.

Answer 8

People oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants because to them it represents a sort of compromise in law enforcement. We have immigration procedures in effect because the integrity of the United States as a culture, economy, and functioning government depends ultimately on stability of values and currency. Unrestricted immigration threatens that, and to waive what was put in place as a safeguard, is a sort of violation of the integrity of the U.S. system as a whole.

Answer 9

It is not part of the American psyche to allow criminals to benefit from their crimes. If this was the case we would be no better than the countries that these criminals are fleeing from. It is the mentality of "turn a blind eye" to criminal behavior that has kept the biggest culprit country still struggling for respect from it's own people and the world.

Answer 10

big difference. the dodgers are Americans who didn't want to go to war. they are not thief's and drug smugglers.
it would not be right to the legal immigrants who payed to be here. it would be a slap in their faces to grant amnesty to the illegals who sneak in here, and commit crimes while here illegally. America is over populated with illegals already. we don't need anymore.