Why are immigrants "ruining" the country?

Question

Many of you have been saying that immigrants are ruining this country, taking your jobs and your money. Which one of you would like to clean someone’s house for $6.00 an hour? I’m sure all of you are angry because you wanted to clean that house! Why did your great grandparents come here? They wanted a better opportunity for their families. I think it would help if some of you would imagine being in a foreign country like Laos where you don’t speak the language and have to come up with a living wage.

Frankly, it’s too late. There are illegal immigrants here, and if you want to stop the influx of more you have to pass some sort of policy is that REALISTIC. Let’s have amnesty and than regulate future immigration.

Wow I RACE CARS how intelligent of you to call me an idiot, jack@ss.

Okay they drive the wage down. But why don't you get on the case of these corporations that outsource to India? Its easier to blame the people on the bottom of the totem pole than on the top.

Drunk Driving and illegal immigrants are two different issues. In the case that you are referring to the illegal was caught for drunk driving BEFORE he killed those girls. That’s on the law enforcement hands. And how in the world did he get a driver’s license?! You can’t get one if you are illegal. The state of Virginia is to blame. Why didn’t they arrest him beforehand? Heck, I don’t want any criminals or drunk drivers in this country but immigration and drunk driving is not related.

Answer 1

I think you're right, with a couple of reservations:

any immigrant who came here legally, went through the process to get a green card, etc. gets first crack at health care, education benefits, and citizenship.

Those that came in illegally, but are paying taxes, working, etc, are next.

Those that came in illegally, have been claiming welfare benefits, not working, engaging in criminal activities, have a criminal record back home, etc, can be sent back home now.

Answer 2

I am not against immigrants. Some one who come here legally with back ground checks I welcome with open arms as long as they support themselves and their family.
It the immigrants that broke our laws by crossing the border illegally that cause the problem. They could be terrorist, murders, rapist,pedophiles, or just some hard working people.
Do you want someone coming into your home that you know nothing about, that what happens when they cross the border illegally. America is my home.
If you give amnesty to them now, then you will have thousand more coming hoping that the government will go same in another 10 years.

Answer 3

I am a naturalized citizen (an immigrant ) who started at minimum wage and worked my way up to a top paying job! People's attitudes get them fired, not immigrants. As human resources manager, when lay off time comes around, I choose the guys who have caused me the least headache and has given me the most production throughout the course of the project! I do not care about creed, race or religion! My job is to make my company money, so who soever what's to work, will keep their jobs. It's that simple!!

Answer 4

They live 20 to 30 per household (know this first hand, we have a rental property in Southern California) Since they live 20 to 30 per household they can afford to work for $6.00 an hour.

If they weren't here driving down wages housekeepers could be earning $12.00 per hour not $6.00

We have already played the amnesty game in the 80's IT DIDN'T WORK!!!


It isn't too late............. We need to fine employers HUGE fines, build a wall & arm it, and start deporting. We need to stop playing around and send these people back to their country of origin.

Answer 5

Here is an example of other things they seem to get away with:
CHEAP LABOR?
Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs,
But the bottom line is cheap labor.
The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, a lie...an oxymoron. There is no such thing as "cheap labor." Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour.
At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent,
He qualifies for food stamps. He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care. His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books .
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare.
All of this is at the taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00 an hour left after paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean up .

Cheap labor?
YEAH RIGHT!
Wake up people!

Kind of scary, isn't it when you think about it?

Answer 6

it is good to see there are other folks with a sense of reality.... all the those who resent people who speak a differrent language and can still kick butt seem weak

if the grasshoppers made laws to keep out the ants, the grasshoppers would still lose at the end of the summer, legal or not, those that work hard and save will be ahead.

as for the laws that don't work... whatever

Answer 7

First let me say, my native American indian great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents were already here when the first hispanics got here from EUROPE.

Second I will answer your question.
Illegal aliens work for cash, and work for less than minimum wages, taking jobs which were always worked by US citizens for higher wages. In this way, not only do they take jobs from the poor US citizens, and lower and middle class citizens (like in construction and hotel industry, jobs which used to pay $25 to $65 an hour but now pay only $5 or $6 because of illegals), they drive those now unemployed US citizens onto public assistance, which the rest of the working US citizens have to pay for.
All studies show those most hurt by illegal aliens coming here and working for poverty wages, taking the entry level jobs are: 1st - Black US citizens, and 2nd - US born first generation hispanics. Those are the very people who are losing jobs and incomes to illegal aliens.

Illegal alien women who come here and have babies, then go get welfare, WIC, food stamps, HUD, Social Services for Immigrants, MEDICAL etc..... are NOT WORKING, they are leaching off of US citizen tax payers.

Illegal aliens are not earning enough to live on, so they subsidize their lives in a number of ways, 1) they steal, 2) they use social services or charities, all of which is stealing. Using social services and charities is stealing from US citizens who are poor, and who need those services and that money when they go through hard times, now with all the illegal aliens there is nothing left for US citizens who have lost their jobs to illegals.

Illegal aliens work for cash and do not pay taxes (which is a CRIME), those taxes go to pay for the services which they are using and abusing. Or else they use STOLEN social security numbers which is a CRIME, a FELONY, the worst kind of crime, for which, by US law, they should be arrested, and the punishment is a $250,000.00 fine and 25 years in federal prison, then deportation.
Making up, or "borrowing" a social security number is STEALING, and using that number (even "made up" numbers BELONG to someone) can ruin the REAL owners life.

The children of illegal aliens are filling our schools, which WE PAY FOR, it costs BILLIONS every year to pay to educate the anchor babies of illegal aliens, tax dollars which illegal aliens ARE NOT PAYING.
It costs US taxpayers BILLIONS every year to pay for the crimes committed by illegal aliens, the legal services for those criminals, the court costs, and the cost of keeping them in jails and prisons. Most crimes committed in the US southwest are committed by illegal aliens, including car theft, burglary, rape, murder, child molestation, vehicular homicide, drunk driving, assalt and battery etc...... Those illegal aliens SHOULD NOT BE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Let them go commit crimes in their own country.

Illegal aliens are criminals, they are in violation of United States federal laws, and they are all subject to arrest and deportation.
It is not too late. Illegal aliens can be deported the same way they came in, a little at a time, a hundred per hour, every hour of every day, of every year, for as many years as it takes to get them out.

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS, they are CRIMINALS who have no legal right to be in this nation.
We will NEVER reward people for breaking our laws again.

Answer 8

Do you live in a bubble?
Do you not see what is going on?
Health care is high? GEE- I wonder why?
Crime is high in southern states? I wonder why?
Hit and runs, DUI, incident people are loosing their life's to these illegals. Is that fair. What would you do if you lost one of your kids to a drunk and driver, and knowing that drunk and driver is an illegal, has no point of being here.

Answer 9

well they are not ruining the country they helping the country you me everybody an amnesty to a noncriminal aliens and you are the first who make any sense

Answer 10

i hate immigrants, especially mexicans, i hope they all get kicked out or killed