What do you think about Immigration?

Question

Some people think of Immigration as a problem. Why? What do you think?

Answer 1

Immigration shouldn't exist, we should be free to live and travel all over the world without papers. Do you think GOD will ask you for passport to enter to heaven?

Answer 2

The more I look at this situation the more I feel that ANY immigration beyond about 300,000 a year is too many at the moment. I admire immigration but we have too many people in our country right now. We can't support them. The illegals just make it that much worse. Of course they need to leave too and be removed as best we can. There are ways.
Limit Immigration/stop illegal immigration. That is the answer.
AT our current rate of legal immigration, there will be 4 times the number of people in the USA that we have now by 2030.
Once we can handle more people, let more come in. It's just simply good management.
When you are thirsty you drink to quench the thirst ...you don't drink until you drown yourself!
It's that simple. You have to wonder what the Heck is going on in the hall of Washington on who and how well things are being managed.

Answer 3

Here is the main problem with immigration, legal or illegal.
Ask anyone in the world where they want to live and they will say the USA, Canada, UK and France. Now if these countries open there borders and let everyone in that want in, what will happen?
How about over-population, stressed medical and schools, loss of resourses, traffic congestion, unemployment, constant building of homes and cites to keep up with the demands, lack of clean water (sewer, landfill, gas, electric), and congestion at every corner. Cities will grow so big your commute to work can take two hours one way. That is happening now in California. San Francisco and Los Angeles are slowly merging, connecting as cities inbetween grow out of control. You will not longer see the beauty of the mountains, valleys, and deserts. You will drive through nothing but populace. And the lack of Nature and Open Areas causes stress (the studys show this).

The USA is not the only place getting over-crowded and busting at the seams. Canada, UK and France have the same problem. They are getting many from Africa (Algerians), and Asia and Arab countries. They just keep coming as nothing stops the movement to the move developed countries. Yes, the are all looking for jobs and a better way of life but what do they bring us that we need. It used to be you got in if you were a doctor, scientist, engineer and you could come here to help our country. Now anyone comes in. When do we say no, enough is enough.

We are ruining our way of life. It will all change while we are accepting 10-50 million a year in the US. Life will be tough for all of us, even the immigrants. What will we have left when it is all over and we finally decide to close the borders?

Answer 4

I think it is good to bring people in with different ways of looking at things. They tend to be very hard working and set great examples for others as far as the working and civic participation goes. The only thing I have a problem with is illegal immigration!

Answer 5

There are good reasons for immigration limits. As it is our schools have far too many students, particularly those who don't speak English and are harder to teach and to assimilate. The huge number reinforces failure to assimilate, as well. The schools in LAUSD are in a huge building program to alleviate year round schools and 43+ students per class, yet our ENTIRE population growth comes from immigration. Further, the violent gangs like MS13 are fed from illegal immigration, and it is so bad that public schools now require all children to wear uniforms so 'gang colors' won't be worn. I assure you there were no uniforms in those schools, nor need for them, when I attended them as a child. The high schools have full time armed security guards and metal detectors. The programs for ESL students, since that demographic has the lowest test scores, take most of the funds, and even with parents now paying directly for programs (which would have been unthinkable when I was a child) the gifted programs are bare bones where they exist, highly gifted programs are disappearing, music, language (except for ESL students) and PE are programs that don't exist unless funded entirely by parents who have to pay for all students at the school.

California last year spent $400,000,000 on medi-Cal for illegals, and that doesn't count services to their children born here. If you ever have to go to an emergency room, and ever went to one 20 years ago, the impact would be very apparent.

Wages are dropping in all fields illegals are flocking to. Compare wages to what they were in the late 80's. Even in real dollars they have gone down, not just in 'adjusted dollars'.

Our children's education being ruined and their schools becoming unsafe is the biggest thing to me. This is not acceptable. Their children are not more important than our own.

Answer 6

It is a problem in mass numbers. I think we need a moratorium on immigration for about 50 years to allow the melting pot to do its job. We need to get rid of all illegals also and be sure that they can't come back. We can't take in the whole world.

Answer 7

Immigration is not a problem. Illegal immigration is the problem.

Answer 8

It is and it isn't. I have a problom with people coming here and being bums. If you don't want to work for freedom don't come here. If you do work you are more than ok to be here. I know some illegal immigrants and they work very hard and pay taxes. They are some of the hardest working people I know.

Answer 9

i think immigration is great if you came here legally, learned english, work for the true minimum wage, and contribute to make america great. But I hate it if your a sleazy, flea-infested mexican hoping the border, working for three bucks an hour, making every company and school teach people spanish, and live of welfare checks!!

Answer 10

Immigration is fine. It is the illegal alien criminals that I don't like. What part of ILLEGAL is hard to understand.

These criminals demand services and sponge off the US taxpayer. That's wrong.