If it were easy to immigrate here legally, would we have a problem with undocumented immigration?

Answer 1

the answer is no , but not only because most would come the right way , but because most undocumented immigrants aren't a problem at all , if they were the government would had get rid of them long ago . most undocumented immigrants are people with moral , who like to work and aren't looking for troubles even when they did not come the right way , the fact that they did not does not make them anything an anti immigrant may trow at them .

yes the undocumented have a price , they are not slaves and none should expect them to never use a hospital or should wish they did not have the chance to go to school even when all the money they never get returned to them , knowledge makes powerful nations and if we started denying this opportunity to anyone we would end up being the country which used to be rich with the biggest number of people with out skills . logic says that if anyone thinks someone with out education is costing the country because of his lack then in that logic one should want to educate that person or just admit hypocrisy .

however it is important to have a country in which everyone has the same rights and abuse to anyone is not likely , today the undocumented are easy target to thieves and to abusive people which abuse the fact that most of them would do anything ( unlike most Americans ) and take advantage of them . so yes we could have way less undocumented if it was easier to do it legally , not every person in the world wants to come to America and not all like it once they are here , so yes we could have a better system and that its why there is neeed for a legalization today ...


AS ANYONE CAN READ IN SOURCE THE NUMBERS I GIVE SUPPORTED BY IMPORTANT STUDIES CLAIM HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS NOT THE SMALL AMOUNTS THE ANIT-IMMIGRANTS CLAIM THEY COST TO THE ECONOMY .

Answer 2

If you want it and it's easy, you get it.
I you want it and it's hard, less of those that want, get.

In any event, unless an institution puts laws and restraints to enforce that law into effect all will be lost to anyone who comes along and on a whim chooses to kick it (the program) to the curb.
We need law. We need control and we need people to decide what is best for our institution and it's future.

Sadly our laws are not being followed.
There is precious little control.
And those that should be deciding are either being bought off, scared off or are stupifyingly inept.
We do have a problem with undocumented immigration and this is why.

Answer 3

Yes, for those no country would willingly admit. And legal mass immigration of poor people ignores the strain on schools and services that were the reason for immigration limits to begin with.

Answer 4

Legal immigration is indeed a long difficult process, but it is necessary. A nation must know who is coming into its borders to be able to protect its self. It must be a do-able process or we wouldn't have millions upon millions of legal immigrants already in this country.

Contrary to what one of the posters said above, the illegal aliens are a huge problem. And they do not contribute more than they take. Below are figures for my state of Arizona. They speak for themselves.

The $1.3 billion in costs incurred by Arizona taxpayers is comprised of outlays in the following areas:

Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in Arizona and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Arizonans spend approximately $820 million annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings.

Health Care. Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state’s illegal alien population is now estimated at about $400 million a year.

Incarceration. The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in Arizona prisons and jails amounts to about $80 million a year (not including the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).

The unauthorized immigrant population pays some state and local taxes that go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments might generously be estimated at $257 million per year. Compared to the $ 1.3 billion in out lay,for the services the illegal alien incurs, it is very one sided.

The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost items. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state’s taxpayers would be considerably higher if other costs such as special English instruction, school nutrition programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.

Answer 5

No--because easy immigration means no borders. If it were easy to get here, all of Bangladesh would move here ---a nightmare. *shudders* Foreigners should stay home, there are enough homeless here already.

Answer 6

How "easy" are we talking here?

Easy as in "forgot to cross a t" or Easy as in "we don't NEED no stinkin' forms"

Do you support immigration without health exams? Without criminal background checks? [US [law considered] felony/ habitual misdemeanor = bad ... clean US criminal record = good!

I ain't against immigration, just against immigration without CONTROL!

Answer 7

its already easy to come here leagally but every body wants something for nothing.no one knows what a honest days work is any more all take and no give.shut down the borders now if home is to hard whaaa deal with it but dont come here.

Answer 8

Awww.....is to hard hard for the worlds welfare cases to come here...

THERE IS A REASON FOR THAT...

I don't care how hard it is...it's like that for a reason. Just because it's hard doesn't make it right for them to break the laws.