How do illegal immigrants affect the citizens of America.?

Answer 1

additional crime against American citizens
taking jobs that American citizens would be more than willing to do
higher taxes to pay for border patrol guards and extra police to protect American citizens
higher medical bills for all American citizens due to getting medical services at our hospitals and bills not being paid.
higher car insurance rates for American citizens due to them not being insured and having wrecks.

Answer 2

Illegal immigrants are visible mainly because of their desperation. The citizens of these other countries (largely México, some from East Asia) are keenly aware of the American people's stance on the issue. There are two main groups that resort to illegal immigration out of desperation, and each has a different impact.

The first group, certainly the smaller of the two, consists of intellectuals, scientists, and computer programmers who come over on a work or student visa and overstay their visa with intent to remain permanently. These illegals certainly have the bigger impact on high-quality jobs, as the demand for jobs among recently graduated lawful American PhD's is high as it is.

The bigger impact, however, is on national security. Scientists and intellectuals from foreign countries can relay information to their home government if they get a job in the U.S. If the information is sensitive, or if it regards a project intended to bolster our national security, this first kind of illegal immigrant is particularly dangerous.

The second kind, and the one we think of when we hear "illegal immigrant", is a despondent laborer from Central America (largely México) looking for work. Mexican immigrants brave ostracism, low wages and brutal work to pursue a brighter future for their families.

Their main impact on the American people is twofold. First, they are by and large penniless. $40 a day would be a bonanza in their country of origin, and they would gladly face hail, snow and sleet for a chance at it. Second, they tend to draw a large amount of public benefits, without paying taxes (the paying of taxes requires a taxpayer ID number, usually the SSN, which requires lawful status).

Contrary to popular belief, immigrants themselves do not constitute any significant part of the drug trade. The main drug smugglers are the coyotes, or traffickers in illegal immigrants, who carry on the drug trade as one part of their organized crime. The average José Blow on the street is an honest person driven to unlawful immigration by endemic poverty.

The best thing America, as a nation, could do to stem the tide of this second kind of immigration is constructively engage with the people of these poorer nations with an eye toward economic self-sufficiency.

Answer 3

Not that they affect Americans as much as they affect America and America's economic well being and national security, and it's not the illegal immigrants, but rather illegal immigration.

This isn't very difficult to understand: If an illegal immigrant (or anyone for this matter, but obviously this is a problem that arises specifically with illegal immigrants from Mexico) comes into the country to work (god bless them, nobody's against them as people, especially honest hard working people) and John Doe pays him one hundred dollars to do some yard work, or build a patio, or pick apples, or whatever, and the illegal immigrant takes that money out of America and back to Mexico for his family, then guess what; you've taken money out of the U.S. economy and have now circulated into the Mexican economy. Why do you think that the Mexican Gov. is so pissed about the boarder fence. They've decried it as the modern day Berlin Wall (a crock of crap).

Second, if you have one person come over from Mexico to work, don't you think it is in America's best interest to at least know who that person is? Yes, of course, I mean if you're going to come here and make money at least sign the fricken guest book on the way in. Now, if it's important to know about just one guy (is this Enrique coming to work for money, or Mullah Mohammed Akbar Hate America Jalalalabad?) don't you see why it's hurting our national security to have eleven million undocumented people in our country? No other nation in the world has eleven million undocumented people in their country it’s totally insane.

Now, the CIA has released a report saying that Hugo Chavez is helping young Arab men get passports into America, and teaching them how to appear more Spanish; can’t you see why we need to do what every other government does and secure our borders? It’s a basic role of government.

Answer 4

The last I heard in an email from an LA Times study, there was a net benefit of $70 Billion to our economy. That number will become a negative number in about twenty years. I think the biggest effect on us is not the cost, but the lack of control. Americans are a social security number, and are controlled by the laws of this country. When new people come along, and make a wave in the smooth placid waters, many people get scared that their way of life might change. Others are jealous, that someone will get a free hospital visit or housing, or free cheese, but the problem is that they don't care enough to demand that these services be regulated better. Others believe that illegal immigration is illegal, and since they live by the rules, they think everyone should also. Basically, the only thing it effects is our minds. China has a booming economy. If you took all of the people in America and packed them into Texas, you still would not have as many people per square mile as you have in China. It is effecting our minds and nothing else. As soon as we realize a way to get them on the tax rolls, the better off we will all be.

Answer 5

The illegal immigrants work harder then Americans do and there fore are getting better and better jobs, Most Americans are mad because that means that they have to stop being lazy and work harder to get their jobs back.
Remember businesses do not care what you look like they want someone who will work hard for the smallest amount possible. America is all about competition if you can't keep up then you will fall behind like a weakling.

Answer 6

Example 1: Something like a third of all prison inmates are illegal. It costs over 30 grand a year to taxpayers to house and feed an inmate.

Example 2: They illegally sneak across the border and start having anchor babies, taking advantage of a most unfortunate constitutional loophole.

Example 3: Those babies are delivered in emergency rooms, where the staff has to admit the people who are in dire need-even if they know that the people will not pay for it. Drives up health care costs nationwide.

Example 4: Dirty contractors will pick up illegal immigrant day laborers instead of hiring legal, licensed tradesmen to do construction work. Drives wages down, makes jobs less available, becaomes a hardship on law-abiding contractors.

Example 5: Grown anchor babies and others are sent to public schools by illegal alien parents who are not paying property taxes. Property taxes fund the schools. The financial burden of educating anchor babies is borne by taxpaying, legal citizens.

Example 6: Through obtaining forged and dead people's social security cards, puts a drain on tax payer enforced law enforcement seeking to stop these illegal practices.

Example 7: Collecting welfare in liberal states like California.

Example 8: By diluting our educational system through liberal local governments forcing schools to dumb down standardized tests to prevent cultural bias.

My fingers are tired---IN COUNTLESS WAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

The popular view is that illegals consume a huge amount of healthcare and services which would otherwise be targeted toward America's needy families. Also it is widely known that they will work for much cheaper wages, thereby driving down the minimum wage for people who would be willing to work the same jobs, just not so cheaply. Throw into the mix the fact that many illegals add a heavy burden to our crime rate and you will understand why lots of people are not happy. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

Read your economics books... Capitalism needs a large underclass to make it work. Even Huxley in his 1927 Novel about the world of 2020 "A Brave New World" had them manufacturing "workers" in test tubes who were designed to have I.Q's of only 67. The big thing Carl Marx condemned Capitalism for was its requirement to maintain a large working poor. His way turned out to be no better but the implications are still there. If you raised the pay of farm workers high enough you might get tried and true Americans to stay out in the Fields for 12-14 hours six days a week, but the cost of your produce would be to high for the average middle class worker to afford much of it. Remember the cost of bread was so high in France back in 1789 that the poor revolted and cut off hundreds of heads including Queen Marie's head because her concern was embodied in her comment to let them eat cake (instead of bread).Our need for products as cheap as we can get them has caused our car makers to fire thousands of workers. They will send these products to China to be made. (they have 1.2 billion poor people over there.) They will make a great capitalistic society and one day they will use more oil then we do (they are already the second largest user of oil. Plus they own over one Trillion of our 43 Trillion dollar debt.40% of what we buy is made in China now. They send 5 ships here for every one we send. But we can still go to Walmarts and buy a cheap shirt or a cheap vaccum cleaner. Oh wait is that the fault of all those illegals coming in here. What about the income taxes and social security they have to pay and yet do not collect on ... EVER! where does that money go? Oh I remember! That went to pay Bush his tax cut of $44,000 he got in 2003 income tax return, and the $308,000 that Cheney got that year too. Every state knows that for every new person, illegal or legal, that comes into their fair state, that they only pay 84% or the cost of the infrastructure that is required to serve them as an occupant of that state. Growth is a costly thing to government. But whatever we do, lets not just look at the problems these people cause. lets look at the problems they solve too. Oh the border states do get hit hard with some of the infrastructure these people use but I will tell tell you the hospitals who no longer have migrants to see will fire a lot of their staff as no longer needed etc. Growth involves a lot of problems, but it solves may other ones too. Illegal drugs in this country costs us a fortune in health care and law enforcement but it also has created a $75 billion dollar a year sub-culture too that is an industry employing millions of workers as police and chemists etc. so does the economy of the illegal imigrant. Tell those people they will have to find new jobs when the illegals are thrown out.... NO YOU TELL THEM!

Answer 9

They are costing the tax payers millions of dollars a year. They often take up space in public schools that are already over crowded and under funded. They use county medical facilities and do not pay the bills, causing the property taxes that fund these facilities to go up. They cost millions of dollars in overtime pay to law enforcement officials. They take valuable family time away from these law enforcement officials who have to stay late to process them, only to have them come back within hours. Those that are kept in lock-up cost millions of dollars a year in housing, meals and medical care while they are awaiting their hearings.

Answer 10

They cost us tax money and pain.
1. Free welfare, education, medical care
2. Most do not pay taxes, and send American wage monies to Mexico, and other Countries
3. Illegally affect our elections by voting in elections where Legal Identification is not Required.
4. Illegals cost us for the crimes that they commit in our Country.
5. Blatantly demonstrate for Their Perceived Rights In Our Country, while illegally in Our Country, and flying their Mexican Flags.

Answer 11

through "u . s . a . of america" i assume you're speaking about the authorities. it is not the interest of the authorities to look after every person except hostile to overseas armies for the period of conflict. those who position self assurance in money from the authorities to stay are a waste of area, be they voters or not.