What should the government do with all the people who have waited in line to come here? Should they be giving amnesty too?
2006-11-13 14:55:31 · 14 answers · asked by HOMER 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Why Amnesty Isn't the Solution
In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) giving amnesty — legal forgiveness — to all illegal aliens who had successfully evaded justice for four years or more or were illegally working in agriculture. As a result, 2.8 million illegal aliens were admitted as legal immigrants to the United States. In addition, they have so far brought in an additional 142,000 dependents.
The amnesty permanently added millions of poor to our society.
An Immigration and Naturalization Service study found that after ten years in the United States, the average amnestied illegal alien had only a seventh grade education and an annual salary of less than $9,000 a year.1 Unlike immigrants with a sponsor who guarantees they will not become a burden on the public, when Congress enacts an amnesty, it makes the American public financially responsible for those amnestied.
The cost of amnesties to the American taxpayer is staggering.
According to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies, the total net cost of the IRCA amnesty (the direct and indirect costs of services and benefits to the ex-illegal aliens, minus their tax contributions) after ten years comes to over $78 billion.2
Amnesty disguises the extent of illegal immigration.
Apologists for illegal immigration have actually had the nerve to claim that, because the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. today (between 8.7 and 11 million) is about the same as the number living here ten years ago, illegal immigration must not be that big of a problem. In doing so, they rely on the public’s forgetting that, without the amnesty, there would be closer to 12 or 14 million illegal aliens in the country. It ’s akin to pardoning and releasing everyone in prison, then claiming there is no crime problem because the prisons are empty.
An amnesty sends the message that it is okay to break the law.
An amnesty says that eventually you will be forgiven, even rewarded, for breaking the law. Furthermore, it makes a mockery of the legal immigration process, wherein those who obey the rules wait years to immigrate (instead of “jumping the line” and hoping for absolution later).
The amnesty of illegal aliens skews the average educational and skill level of legal immigrants downward.
As the ex-illegal aliens naturalize and become U.S. citizens, they are able to petition for their relatives to join them here as immigrants. Each one will be able to sponsor parents and brothers and sisters as immigrants. Naturally, the profile and characteristics of the relatives will be similar to their sponsoring immigrant—which, as was noted above, will detract from the high-skills, high-education, high-wage economy we are aiming for in the 21st century.
Amnesty has set a dangerous precedent.
The 1986 IRCA amnesty has created the atmosphere for illegal aliens’ home governments to push our government toward another amnesty or other forms of legal “forgiveness. ” Mexico’s President Vicente Fox began in 2001 to push the United States to “regularize” the status of the estimated three to six million illegal aliens from Mexico in this country. Those who profit from illegal immigration have jumped on the bandwagon and political pressure is building to repeat what was billed in 1986 as the first and last amnesty for illegal aliens.
Amnesty threatens homeland security.
Aliens who apply in the home countries to become legal immigrants to the United States are screened by U.S. consular officials to weed out any criminals or likely terrorists. Millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. have evaded this screening; amnesty would make them legal aliens without the necessary safeguards to ensure that they are not dangers to our national security.
2006-11-13 15:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not necessarily. And I dont think all illegal immigrants should be given amnesty either. I think that if they have been here for over 10 years, and proven to have been working here the whole time, have not been on welfare and have no criminal record then they should qualify for some type of amnesty or guest worker program. Those found in our jails and committing welfare fraud however should be deported. The legalization process should be revised and made shorter and what if those that have been waiting in line to get here do so only to take advantage of our systems as well?! What then? There has to be "real" solutions, "send them all back" however is not one of them.
2006-11-13 15:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by SittinPretty! 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Because they have children, also under the 14th admentment, also its not Mexican killing americans, Trade Center, Boston Marathon, Because it was this country that let them in for many years, so its not there fault, You would have to get rid of all the Russians, Asians, Islamic, India, and chineese the whole D### Country. Besides who or what American is going to pick vegetables and fruits in a 100% wheather and pay taxes with minimum wage and no Benefits. Think! that's why you went to college, Oh Ya in order to get a job you must be qualified through the interview process?
2015-11-12 08:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only no, but H**l NO. regardless of how long they have been here or how many anchor babies they have produced they need to be sent packing back to their country of origin. The United States also needs to put an immediate halt on all financial aide to these countries who do not secure their own borders to help keep the ILLEGAL ALIENS OUT. The United States Government gives over a billion dollars a year in financial aide to Mexico and Haiti just to name a couple.
2006-11-13 17:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by Migra 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Illegal aliens should be deported to their country of origin and must not be given amnesty. Otherwise, the US or any rich country will be full of unwanted aliens.
2006-11-13 14:59:51 · answer #5 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Illegals should NOT be given amnesty!
2006-11-13 15:26:56 · answer #6 · answered by sassy 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Some of the Illegals may deserve amnest ybased on marital status, having children here and lenghth of stay...Most should have to wait just like all the rest...
2006-11-13 14:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by LENNON3804 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
no. no. no. No Amnesty! They should pick an option a bus ticket or flight ticket and go back home.
2006-11-13 17:35:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
They should not even be given a ticket home. They should be forced to buy the ticket or face the death penalty.
2006-11-13 14:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Why not, if a terrorist can be given a full pledge legal aid why can't they?
2006-11-13 15:33:34 · answer #10 · answered by notProudatAll 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋