What are the cons of legalizing Immigration?

Answer 1

Well there are alot, But alot of people don't mainly agree with it due to the fact that it would mean losing there jobs..

Answer 2

As per a Mexican Resident who is laughing at the American's for the Immigrants we are being innudated with. See e-mail below:
Hello Coulterbasher01 (jodyboth),

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Subject: Re: Borders

Message: I do not live in your country, I live in mine and I cannot say I am a wealthy woman but I own my own business and I travel a lot to different countries, and I've seen that you Americans are not very welcome every where... your money is, thou... but I have to agree with you in something, you get the worst Mexicans, the poor ones, the ones with no culture, no money, no education, the ones that have to emigrate are the low class people, and unfortunately for you, that is what you get…

So, the cons are not screening the illegals that want to be legalized, the fact that they came here illegally, kinda gives me the hint that they aren't much on following laws, which is a good look at the people who are coming to our country illegally. Shoot, we don't want our own prisoners getting out of jail and moving down the street from us, yet people want to legalize people who break the law right in front of our faces. Well, why not let the convicts out of jail and give them thier rights back as well, since we can excuse people who don't even live here for breaking the law, I don't see how we can have a double standard for our own prisoners who also broke the law.

Answer 3

I am assuming you mean the illegals who sneak across our borders since immigrating is not illegal. You just have to do the paperwork & wait your turn. Being civilzed- hummm novel idea.
Mostly it would bankrupt the country. The influx in schools, the health & welfare programs. Even unemployment figures would increase as people are fired & let go. The sudden change in need for more housing, more roads, more gas, more food - well you get the point. What a major tax increase !
Add that to the increase in crime & terrorism. No bigotry here- our county now has 23% Hispanics & the crime rate is 58% Hispanic ( assualt,drunk driving & driving without insurance are the majority of crimes) . Our free county health care at hospital is used by 82% Hispanics. They just did an article in our paper last week & we live in an area of over 500,000 people.
Once illegals are welcome how do we close our borders & what about the people who have been waiting legally for years to immigrant. My Mom taught me & I taught my children to never reward bad behavior.

Answer 4

Immigration is already legal. There are naturalization ceremonies all the time. There's a guy in my company who's a naturalized citizen.

Answer 5

Immigration is already legal provided they follow the proper procedures for entering the country.

Answer 6

Immigration is legal...you just have to do it...well, legally.

It's not like the government is saying no one can move to this country.

Answer 7

lol immigration is already legalized, people can legally immigrate to the USA (just like I did)

Answer 8

Immigration in the US was always open until racists in the 1920s got restrictive laws passed. These were largely loosened in the 1960s as one effect of the general liberalization of anti-minority laws and the dismantling of segregation, etc.

In the 1970s illegalimmigrants--mostly Hispanic--became a concern since there were a large number of them. Under an amnesty program pushed by Jimmy Carter, those who were actually here to work were allowed to register and given an opportunity to prove they could be contributing members of our society--and overwhelmingly, they did just that.

However, a companion "guest worker program" designed to deal with future workers was not enacted--again, due to racist opposition. As a result, and also as a result of continued opposition from right-wing elements prejudiced against Hispanics, wwe have had-and still have--no policy structure to deal with hte large numbers of workers that have entered the US to work. And, given the undocumented nature of this situation, a smal percentage of criminals have used this as an opportunity to enter the US as well.

What is needed to resolve this mess is to correct the errors foisted on us 30 years ago--pas a permanent guest worker program. And, we need to tell the bigots to go sit down and shut up and pass another amnesty program--that way we can document and monitor the majority of undocumented workers who really are her just to try to make a better life for temselves--and in the process locate and weed out the bad apples. If the experience of the first amnesty is any guide, once they can become legal, the Hispanics themselves will cooperate and identify many of the criminals.

The "cons" are really none. The two cheif concerns (reasnoble if not real problems) are the possibility of this large number of low-wage workers depressig wages-and the possible costs in social services (heal, education, etc.) As to the first, any economic effect has already occured. In fact, since legal status will make workers less bulnerable, they will likely push for somewhat higher wages--creating a general push that will encourage rising wages generally. Also, historical information shows that any depressing effect on wages occures only at the lower wage levels--and few Americans rely on such wages in any cse--at least in long term employment. In short, the effects on wages are minimal at worst-and legal status is likely to have a positive effect.

Costs: Current studies show that illegal immigrants are currently paying about 2/3 of the taxes needed to offset costs to local/state governments. However, much of the taxes they would be paying are not being collected because employers are either failing to collect these taxes, or are not paying thieir share (e.g. workmens compensation and unemployment insurance, etc). When you add in the added revenue that would result if these workers were legal and so all of these other funds would actually be paid, its likely that all--or nearly all--of the costs associated with the immigrans would be covered. In addiiton, there woud be savings to law enforcement, because their workload woudl be reduced. Finally, You have to take into acount the economic activity generated by these workers--both as workers and consumers. That amounts to over $100 billion a year--and their spending creates jobs and business opportunities--which in turn generate taxes as well (This is simply the well-known "multiplier effect" aplied to this particualr situation). If (even assuming it were possible) these worker s were to be deported, we would sacrifice all of that economic activity and the jobs and business it generates for Americans.

Answer 9

Ok let's go through this again. Immigration is already legal, the issue is what to do about the criminal trash that has violated our borders.

Answer 10

Corporations will need to set higher standards and pay more taxes