This Q is mostly for the anti's on here but anyone please answer..?

Question

Do you honestly think illegal immigration is the biggest problem in the U.S.A. today (in the past 5 years)?
I only need real answers, will just laugh off anythin but!

Thank you all peace and love!

Answer 1

I think it is only a minor (very minor) problem.

Answer 2

No, illegal immigration is not the biggest problem we have. However a few of our major problems can be traced, at least in some way, to illegal immigration. For example...

1. Terrorism. While most illegals are not terrorists (at least not until some rich Muslim offers them money to bring bombs over the border), many terrorists are able to enter the US in the same manner that the illegals do. By defending our borders better and denying entry to those who don't belong here, many of the terrorists that seek to cause harm to Americans will be kept out of our country.

2. Economy. While illegal immigrants are not as big a drain on the economy as say, the war in Iraq, every little bit of savings helps. If we can prevent even 100 illegals from crossing the border, the US government will save anywhere from $10,000 to $1 million (I've heard estimates of the cost being $100 per illegal per year, up to $10,000 per illegal per year, depending on how many illegals are currently incarcerated). That may not seem like much, but $1 million would be a $1/hr raise for almost 500 employees. Now, imagine if we could save $1 billion (100,000 illegals). That's a $1/hr raise for nearly 500,000 employees. With the savings from not having to support illegals, we could raise the federal minimum wage and benefit REAL AMERICAN CITIZENS.

3. Drugs. Many drug lords will send a mule (drug-runner) with a group of illegals heading toward the US border. If they succeed in getting through (which they are most of the time), then the drugs can be distributed in the US. And many times, the mules will get caught ON PURPOSE, because they then receive a FREE RIDE back to Central and South America, where they can pick up more drugs and repeat the process. By cracking down on illegals entering the US, we can also prevent some of the mules from getting here. And while the drug lords are creative and will eventually find other ways to get their product to the US, it will make them work harder and spend more money to do so.

4. Gangs. While there will always be gangs, by reducing the number of illegals that enter the US, you will also reduce the potential membership in gangs. The worst gang in Los Angeles isn't the Bloods or the Crips, or even one of the many Latino gangs, but the Vietnamese gang that rules northern Orange County. They are considered the most ruthless and deadly, yet are also the most stealthy as well. And judging by arrest records, they are also mostly illegals. So deporting stowaways on cargo ships from Asia (which is how they usually get to the US) would help keep the Asian gangs at a more controllable level.

There are a lot of other issues that are not affected by illegal immigration, but as you can see, I have found at least 4 issues that can be helped by defending our borders better and making sure that the people who do immigrate to our great nation are doing so LEGALLY.

Answer 3

Absolutly not. Just look at all the things that this country has gone through in the past five years and you will see that illegal immigration should be on the bottom of this governments list. They should be consentrating all of our resources on fixing the damage from Katrina, on getting all of our soldiers home from a pointless war. On helping all of the homeless and the hungry. Instead here the government is, contemplating the deportation of people who are mostly here to work. To provide a better life for their families. Is this not what this country is all about- A better life??? Do you honestly think that illegal immigration is the biggest problem in the United States???

Answer 4

When I read the news each day rarely does the question of immigration (legal or illegal) make the headlines. Other concerns have been and continue to be more important: the economy, the environment, invasion of Iraq, and now, the new Secretary of Defence is saying that the U.S. of A is loosing the war.

The short answer to your question is no.

Any time a politician is having problems he or she will look for headline grabbing items to deflect the public from them. Raising "illegal" immigrants will get them good headlines. For example, we have the spectre of the Homeland Security building watch towers and fencing the boarder, and patrolling from the Atlantic to the Pacific with blackhawk copters - on the north boarders and the south boarders. The purpose of all this is to catch the terrorists and any illegal immigrant that wanders into their net. The reality is that terrorists do not sneak across the boarders - they fly in (first class) from Saudi Arabia.

Answer 5

Illegal immigration may not be our BIGGEST problem BUT I have already lost my job (which closed down and moved to -guess where- Mexico). Now I have been out of work and looking hard. But I live out of the city in a small town and there are so many illegals that it's impossible to find anything close to home.

So No maybe I'm anti, But trying to help my husband support ourselves and three children! I have a reason to be that way.

If you want to come! Do it legally! Then I wouldn't complain (as much!)!

Answer 6

It definitely is in AZ. 1. It increases the population which we really don't need as there is too much traffic anyway. 2. It increases crime. 3. It increases drug trafficking. 4. It lowers the amount employers are willing to pay, if they can get illegals to do it for 10 why would they pay you 15 or 20 an hour?
5. It increases illiteracy dramatically. 6. It increases the amount of kids in school that tax payers need to pay for.
7. It increases all welfare services and health care that tax payers need to pay for. 8. It increases pollution because illegals have cars that don't have the same emissions controls. 9. It increases your likely-hood of having an uninsured motorist hit you and your insurance rates going up because they have to pay the whole thing. 10. It is a Really scary UNSAFE and unsecured door for terrorists and criminals to enter.

I could go on but you get my drift.

Answer 7

Absolutely not.

Illegal immigration has been a major aspect of the U.S. for many years...

It definitely brings many problems to the U.S. economy, but it also helps it by providing workers which we need (low labor positions). Although we could function without those workers, just put it into reality and think about how many workers we see building homes, picking crops, and doing the dirty work. Say we removed them all-----how long would it take before Americans filled in those jobs? Our economy would suffer for a while, particularly in those fields. Illegal immigration brings crime and fear and other problems, but don't we already have all of those things?! I would honestly be more scared walking through the middle of the Bronx than I would walking through a construction site full of illegal workers. There are good and bad citizens, and good and bad immigrants. Good and bad is a part of life.

I think its wrong that these immigrants are breaking the law and getting away with not paying taxes and suck....but I DO feel they should be given partial Amnesty and a chance to prove their worth. As for the BAD ones...they should be locked up in their own country.

I feel that America has much bigger problems than illegal immigration to worry about. Drugs! Poverty! Obesity! Crime!

TERRORISM!

I know that sounds contradictory...but honestly, if somebody is brilliant enough to come up with a plan to hurt our economy or citizens, don't you think that they could be brilliant enough to enter our country legally first if they couldn't enter illegaly. As long as they have a clean record, why not? Against the strongest military in the world, successful terrorists aren't the uneducated, poor illegal immigrants. After all, wasn't Bin Laden educated in the United States?!

Answer 8

It is a major problem for the USA that needs to be dealt with now, but I would not go so far as to say that it constitutes a grave and lethal threat to the survival of the United States as a country... this infamy only goes to two entities in recent history: the old Soviet Union (during the Cold War) and the Islamic terrorists (today).

Answer 9

lets get for real, who you think pick all the oranges, cabagge, lettueces, clean the mediam in the superhighways, the toilets in the mall, the chicken you got at MAcD. immigrants is what make this country, illigals might no pay taxes but they should as hell get tax when the purchase goods, and when was the last time any merchants turn you away beacuse you did not have you birth papers with you. ok if are not cherokee, or native americam, pure. pick your bags and leave. upps. houston we got a problem...

Answer 10

Be nice. It is the Season to be jolly! Send the Sierra Club and the ACLU Christmas Cards, Hanukkah Cards, New Years cards for the next year. Send them faxes, emails, and letters in every language. Load them up with phone calls, and lumps of coal telling them how much you appreciate their efforts in contributing to globalization, erasing sovereignty and personal /privacy laws and their promotion of Imminent Domain, which deny you the right to own property. These are the pillars of any democracy...two to three tons of mail will let them know how much you care for them this season.

Answer 11

Yes, my biggest fear is for the future of America not the present, I dont want America to become what Mexico is today!~ this is where my discontent comes from. I grew up in a neighborhood that was 99% Mexican descent, and i know first hand what they are like, they arent the worst thing in the universe, but they do have racism, and violence and adultery and crime~ more than I have seen in any other population outside of blacks (with all due respect for blacks) they have come along way!!!