What is so difficult to understand that illegal immigration is just that...illegal? As in law breaking...?

Question

Why should people who break the law by immigrating illegally demand that they be allowed the same rights as those of us who don't break laws? It'd be like me stealing money from someone and then demanding they give me more.

Ah, but MissMeMe, I don't need to do my homework. My ancestors came into the country legally and did not BREAK THE LAW to do so and then demand and protest to be allowed to stay (while waving the Irish and Scottish flags, no less). That's my issue. People keep saying "We're a nation of immigrants" but those immigrants did not violate the law.

Answer 1

Yes, it's law breaking, but I believe it's time for a wholesale change. My wife's grandparents came to the US from Mexico, legally and became US citizens.

We're lax about enforcing the law. People want to come here for a better life.

I actually think there should be a form of modified amnesty (i.e. with a BIG fine) and then set up a real system - one for permanent guest workers, one for migrant farm people. Then, limit the time the guest workers can stay, to say, 5 years or they must apply for citizenship, and pass.

Additionally, many countries' laws favor the people who have no choice but to depend on the state for help, regardless of their legal status.

Answer 2

For your homework tonight, I want you to look up the quote that the statue of liberty holds. This is a nation built by immigrants because of immigrants. Everyone here, including yourself, is the descendant of an immigrant who came to this country in search of a better life. Society has changed and with it, the laws changed, but does that make new immigrants any less deserving of coming to this country for the same reason? Maybe it is illegal, but these people are just that - people, and they deserve to be treated like that. You should also count yourself lucky that because your parents or grandparents immigrated here, you are not in a country that is torn apart by war, economic instability or some other terrible issue and you do not need to leave your country to have a descent life.

Answer 3

Think in terms of ethics instead of laws. Put yourself in the place of a foreign national. If your family could have a better life, would it be unethical to try to give it too them?

Go to LA sometime. Ask some property management companies who make the best tenants. They'll tell you it is the illegal Mexican immigrants. It is quite frequent that the whole family comes to the office and pays the rent in cash on the first of every month. It's their way of proudly saying, "We're making it it!" These people don't want to leech, for the most part, they don't leech. They just want to work and have a better life for themselves and their families.

Laws should reflect ethics. Where is justice if not in ethics? I'd rather judge the law and find it guilty.

Answer 4

Imagine returning home from work and finding a family of "undocumented aliens" living in your house.

They have cleaned the house, maybe even painted it and made a few improvements... so they demand that you let them live there, feed them, take care of their medical bills and pay to educate their children.

As many as a third of the people in prison in our SouthWestern states are illegal aliens... many cities report that half of the crime is committed by illegal aliens... 80% OF THE ILLEGAL HEROIN, COCAINE AND METH ON OUR STREETS IS COMING ACROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER... and that doesn't even count the terrorists our open borders are allowing to saunter in unchallenged!

Similar problems were DOCUMENTED following the Mariel Boatlift from Cuba.

Why are these concepts so difficult for the bleeding-hearts to understand?

Answer 5

Unfortunately, we have citizens who feel the same way. Work hard to earn an honest living. Payday arrives, your enthusiastic and realize, your paycheck states 'Bus fare only!'. The U.S. government needs to step up and stop playing with legal citizens social security; mandate the american english as the official language (which I thought Reagan had done in the early 1980's); enforce there brother corporate america, to extend a feasible standard of living, with health benefits and no bias. etc...

Answer 6

Well put! However they the illegal supports don't even care about the health risks involved. There are so many different factors that's involved including breaking the law.

Answer 7

Ah, but then the arguments start, and enter the lobbyists whose contributors employ illegal aliens, a little fraud, incompetence, ignorance, and corruption for flavor, with a dash of pressure from some other country as a finishing touch, and you have today's illegal immigration debacle. Welcome to the 21st century, when your friendly neighborhood representative has most likely become a globalization kool-aid drinker, and is apparently more concerned with his or her future constituency than their current one.

The best way to oppose illegal immigration is to keep pouring letters into your representatives' office, so they know that there's people in their districts who are in opposition to unchecked illegal immigration, so they can then do a better job of representing you at the state house etc. Vox populi kind of has to speak up from the diaphragm to be heard over the sound of money hitting the table, so to speak...

Answer 8

Not at all difficult I understand
Only the brain damaged anti-anything America fools can't seem to grasp right and wrong

Answer 9

I agree that they are braking the law but I also understand they are human so I don`t think we should turn them away when they show up at hospitals and I also understand that they are coming here because Americans are hiring them and that is the bigger issue to me. Only a few steal identity.

Answer 10

The American Revolution was also breaking the law. Some people just think immigration laws are b.s.