Question for Democrats: What are your opinions on illegal Immigration.?

Question

I'm a Democrat and was wondering what policies do other Democrats have on illegal immigration.

Answer 1

I am a Democrat also. I think Illegal is illegal and that you need to call them what they are which is illegal aliens. They aren't illegal immigrates nor are they immigrates or illegal Mexicans...they are illegal aliens, period. I feel that they are a major drain on the economy and are taking away jobs that Americans have done for many years. They also have brought down wages which makes it harder for Americans to make ends meet. I feel that they need to be deported back to their home country and they need to stay there. We should also build the fence between Mexico and the USA...Fences make the best neighbors is very true!

Enough is enough and it p***es me off to learn that the Border Patrol (after the Mexican Government got involved) who was sent to Prison has been SEVERELY beaten and it took the warden THREE days before he got medical assistance. It would not surprise me if those American Heroes end up dying in prison and Bush's refusal to pardon them makes me SICK!

Answer 2

Illegals are always talking about how they need more protection and help. In my opinion, they have more than the LEGAL american! An illegal can go to a hospital and walk out without paying a dime, but an american can go to a hospital and pay over 500,000 dollars! They get more finanicial help than the american. America practically opens it's arms to illegals then holds their hands!! And Bush is spending all this money on a stupid fence that isn't going to do anything!!! I mean come on, the illegals already swim the freakin Gulf!!! Like a fence is going to stop them. It's not even an entire fence. They like have areas where they wont be building anything at all. California is the biggest illegal state. America might as well give it back to the mexicans! I'm sorry, but every time I go to get help from the government I've been turned down because some illegal wiggled his way into the system! All of America's taxpayers are paying for the illegals. I think it's time americans stop getting pushed over for some foreigner! Futhermore, how are we supposed to stop terrorists from entering our country when a bunch of illegals are practically running into our country!

Answer 3

I have mixed emotions. I work with them, and they are very hard working, nice people. However, I know what they are doing, and that they are multiplying at an alarming rate. They bring a culture with them which involves drugs. Very few of them ever get high school diplomas, much less college degrees, and they seem to not want to learn to speak English.
We can not have a strong country with many languages going at once. This is the problem the EU is having now.
It is my belief that we need to take on Mexico as a state, and make English the National Language. If Mexico becomes a state, then those people will have to pay taxes. They can not send all of their money back to Mexico at inflated rates. The system, now, is not fair to Texas or the United States.

Answer 4

they are far too liberal for me to do something extremely top to clean up the subject with unlawful immigration. they are additionally offering issues to the Hispanic inhabitants that they could no longer and could no longer grant.They cant supply amnesty,they have not got that potential,they cant do particularly some issues they permit you recognize they could.in the event that they receive some new senators and domicile contributors and that i'm specific they'll that's surely no longer a majority .it incredibly is going to possibly make the two properties somewhat greater honest. are not getting your hopes up my extremist liberal pals,its no longer over till the final criminal vote is counted,and the fat dude sings. i became a liberal Democrat for years till I observed that they are actually not for this usa as an entire and are purely for a small minority.they like the republicans are purely pandering to all specific pastimes communities and have confidence me,historic they gained't help all of us yet them selves.the two facets are purely drawn to votes which will purely enhance their wallet and not this usa or its criminal voters. i will pass all celebration strains with my vote.i will vote for the guy with the main suitable plan to end unlawful immigration,no rely what celebration he/she represents. in the event that they in fact do substitute the stability in the two properties,no longer something will substitute however the names on the tests they get from the lobbyists.

Answer 5

I think illegal immigration stinks, but that we also need to refine the process so people don't have to wait so long. We also need to screen people better so that we aren't letting in some of the people we have been(molesters, murderers, terrorists have all been let in legally at some point). We need to better protect our citizens against identity theft, and we need to stop looking away when illegal immigrants use someone's else's info.

Answer 6

Our illegal problem is actually quite similar to our problem with drugs. We can target the supply (and suppliers) all we want - but without also enforcing laws against users (read: employers), we will not get a handle on it.

We need to enforce laws against employers who hire illegals knowingly (and in certain sectors like farming, the practice is well-known). At the same time, we need to enforce immigration laws such that those without authorization to be in this country are returned from whence they came, barring *reasonable* and proveable cause to be in fear for their lives or livelihoods back home.

I do NOT hold any grudge or ill will toward those who want to enter our country - the day people STOP wanting to come is the day we are in trouble here - but I DO expect all laws to be enforced throughout the economy and society.

Answer 7

For one, I don't understand why it is even an issue. It is ILLEGAL immigartion. Isn't than kind of like asking my opinion on Illegal breaking and entering? I guess since I'm opposed to the idea of someone not authorized in my home breaking in and being there, i'm opposed to people breaking into our country and living here.

Secondly, there is a process for people from other countries to become legal citizens of the United States. It's not like we are saying - "you weren't born here so you can never live here." There are ways to be come a LEGAL immigrant. So it's not as if they cannot become legal immigrants, or therefore refered to as US citizens.

They (rich people who need thier houses cleaned, business owners who need things cleaned or picked or maufactured cheaply) say they are good workers and American workers are lazy. But, if they are good workers, then why are they too lazy to go through the process to become legal greencard hoders or citizens? And how trustworthy or loyal can they be if they broke an American law with thier first step into our nation?

If good workers equates to slaves, or (to soften the blow) indentured servants, working for well below fair pay then i would have to agree that illegal immigrants are good workers.

People will re-but and say if they are wiling to work for that then let them. But then you see them living in cramped quarters, 10 or more to a house, shipping thier earned wages back to Mexico and taking $$ out of the American economy.

It's not just Mexicans doing that either. Look at people in the comupter industry. American corporations will outsource tech support and much more of thier IT department to India because it's cheaper. Ok. That's thier right to export american dollars overseas. But what about all of the consultants over here on H1-B Visas who are working for less than half of the fair wage, taking jobs away from Americans who went to American college to get a good job in the industry.

Look into the laws of work visas and anser me why almost half of the IT resumes on monster.com and other job boards are from people on HI-B's who are out of work.

Answer 8

Those who are here illegally, need to be deported, we should never reward law breakers. We have very good immigration laws right now, all we need is enforcement, not reform. As of yet, no Democrat has come out for deportation.

Answer 9

The social collapse secondary to state and federal Republican / Conservative tolerance related to allowing U.S. business owners to criminally invite and hire undocumented workers in order to avoid paying U.S. workers a legal and decent wage is coming home to roost. As our communities collapse under Republican / Conservative gross economic and social mismanagement, the new Superstate between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada has officially been signed by President Bush. Borders are going away. As brought to us by Bush while many were distracted with racist bickerings, we are now one Superstate. N.A.F.T.A., as you know, is an economic alliance between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Without Congressional over-site, Bush this winter signed into law a political extension of that agreement in which the three nations are now the new North American "Superstate" called SPP. All borders are to be "streamlined" and eventually eliminated, major new toll highways are already planned to connect all three nations (including the big one eight football fields wide right up through the center of the new Superstate that the King of Spain will hold the lease and profits from), a common currency (eventually, not at first) and common citizenship. Mexico gets a big chunck of Kansas to use as a staging area for its highway construction and maintenence contracts. The realities of globalization will not go away. And, any moronic racist trying to start war on American soil will be crushed. Any state that attempts to interfer with the "streamlining" of borders and trade between the three nations will become economic wastelands patrolled by U.S. Army tanks. The U.S. middle class must stop listening to their local mealy-mouthed Republican / Conservatives who promote racism, violence, hate, intolerance and backward isolationistic notions. Or, their communities will fail. It takes better problem-solving to deal with changes in our social system and to realistically address our problems than hauling people out into the desert and murdering them. Those states and communities who cling to racism and Conservative feeble-minded backward notions will collapse. They ARE collapsing, and not due to Mexicans. The problems are due to Republican / Conservative plunder of the middle class everywhere and their paradigm that a community belongs only to them. That's plain stupid. Here is the new government's official website:
http://spp.gov/

Answer 10

As with most politics, "truth" and "information" are scarce commodities.

It is mainly simply a political tool in which to evoke emotion in the masses under false assertions that their jobs are being taken, and somehow the country is being "taken over" by illegal immigrants.

The truth is, our economy now depends on the cheap labor they provide working jobs that average americans are not interested in. If there was a real desire to stop it, the answer is extremely simple: a big fence. However, that is not the true desire.

Personally, i think its an important topic due to national security to have loads of undocumented people entering our country. But they should not be treated as scum and criminals. 99% are simply people doing what anyone else would do in their shoes: trying to escape a hopeless economic situation in pursuit of a better one for the welfare of their family.
I think we should tighten borders, but also recognize our need for these people and the labor they provide as we struggle to counteract our large import/export deficit in this country.
I would much rather have more people coming here to work jobs here, rather than seeing the jobs themselves go overseas.