the word illegal immigrants?

Question

why do many people always are saying illegal immigrants are criminals, they are lazy, using are tax money, and the list keeps going on. they have steryotype immigrants. you should stop using the word illegal because, yes i understand it is illegal but stop using the word. how would you fell if i was to call you an illegal driver when you get a ticket and that you are a criminal and degrade you and also call you an illegal whatever when you break the law. you wouln't like that wouln't you. so if you answer don't give me your b s i am tired of hearing the same old thing. just leave your opinion if they should stop using the word

you may have your license but you still broke the law

Answer 1

But illegal immigrants are here illegally? If I get a speeding ticket that doesn't make me an illegal driver, I still have a valid license to drive. If i had my license revoked and someone called me an illegal driver i wouldn't be pissed because I am indeed an illegal driver.... same thing with illegal immigrants. your argument makes no sense.

Answer 2

How is one to tell the difference. Because Most people don't have issues will the law abiding Immigrants.
First off when a person breaks the law while driving. They are pulled over and given a ticket. It doesn' mean they are continuing to break the law while driving. Where as if a person is an illegal immigrant here and they continue to stay here they are still illegal. Unless they go back to where ever they come from. Just like a child molester will always be a child molester. Even if they no longer are in jail and have served time. It doesn't stop them from being one.
Unlike a molester who will be that for live an illegal can go back and come back legally. So it might not be a life sentence.
See all immigrants aren't created equally. There are those that follow the laws and obey the rules to come here. There are those who don't. Most Americans don't have a problem with those who do. It's those who don't that most Americans have a problem with it's not fair to bunch the legal law abiding ones with the illegal. How do we tell them apart when we are discussing the issues with a little world like illegal.
If it's degrading to be called illegal then don't break the immigration laws.

Answer 3

""how would you fell if i was to call you an illegal driver when you get a ticket and that you are a criminal and degrade you and also call you an illegal whatever when you break the law. you wouln't like that wouln't you.""

No see if I have a legitimate drivers license then I would still be a legal driver. I may have committed a traffic violation of which I will probably pay a fine, but until they take away my license I am legal.
If you are foreign born, arent naturalized, and dont have a legitimate visa you are illegal.

Answer 4

Criminal, criminal, criminal. There. If you want to call me a criminal for receiving a traffic ticket go ahead, as far as calling me an illegal driver, I have a drivers license which makes me a legal driver even if I get a ticket. No comparison here. Not only that but people make mistakes which may get them a ticket but ILLEGALS on the other hand KNOW exactly what they are doing making them CRIMINALS. So if you want to degrade someone for making a mistake go ahead. But I'll keep using the ILLEGAL word for all the CRIMINALS out there.

Answer 5

Sorry we can use and continue to use the word illegal anytime we see fit. If one is an illegal they are here illegally that makes them a criminal.

Getting pulled over for a ticket is an illegal act comitted by the driver. It doesn't make them an illegal driver. Driving without a license, and without insurance would make that an illegal act, and then they are an illegal driver. Being under age and driving also makes that an illegal act and they are an illegal driver. Point is they'd have a cr*ppy driving record.

Besides - If you don't want others opinions to your questions - then perhaps you shouldn't ask for them if you think they are bs. And no they should not stop using the word illegal just because you think they should.

Only pulled this from a question that was posted a while ago. It was my answer to them too. Only because in part it explains illegal.

That's what you (and others who think like you) would like to think. And some of the ignorance your fellow posters are spewing is insane too. Americans too lazy, booze it up, and rape children. Every Mexican I've been around (excluding the lazy) are the boozers and rape just as much or more as others who fit that character.

Like it or not - illegals aren't here because of lazy Americans. It's because American government passed bills and laws to legally fire Americans so they could replace them with illegals who'll work for less pay. And they're not just here to feed their families either.

And quite frankly if illegals will work for less pay - they'll do anything out of desperation. There are some (and you'd have to agree) who are here looking out for themselves. Who are here without drivers licenses, vehicle insurances, who are stealing, robbing, raping, killing, selling drugs, infecting others with diseases, STDs (HIV included), living off American programs that were set up for Americans. Who are just as corrupt as the Mexican government is towards their people. And you don't think this effects American life in general.

I can only imagine how many of the illegals who are here - had gone into Mexican political government instead and change it to help all of your own in Mexico with creating jobs and help the poor. Instead they come here - really have no rights or say in American policies as illegals - yet march and demand them. Could that be why some Americans hate illegals?!

As the poster said - where do you think the government gets all that money? From the American workers who pay into those coffers. Also most of that money doesn't exist just yet, as the future American children will have to pick up the tab when they get older and get jobs. So your misconceptions of the American government having so much money to spend is your false ideas of what the truth is.

I think it would be wise if our government put that money towards the poor Americans and the Americans they helped displace by funding and backing illegals that are here in the first place. And if illegals want a government to finance them, and feed them and their families - then your native country Mexico should be doing that for you. Not American Government.

Answer 6

Ummm... illegal immigrants are by definition illegal, not eligible to submit taxes and therefore any government services provided to them are "using" tax money unethically, and the list keeps going on. This would be criminal behavior and makes them criminals.

If I had no license or was otherwise not legally allowed to drive and I drove anyway, I would indeed be an ILLEGAL driver and I should expect to be jailed and get my car impounded if I got caught. Therefore, I don't drive if I drink or if I don't have a license.

Honestly, these people either need to get with the program here and get legal or go home and build their own economy.

Answer 7

lol your argument makes no sense my friend and neither does some of your spelling. Be that as it may, illegal aliens for the most part do hurt our country (the U.S.) they use our emergency rooms at hospitals and most never come back to pay their bills. A lot of hospitals all over are closing because of this. They use false documents to gain employment. Nothing is wrong with someone who wants to become an American learn our language and be a productive citizen. But on the other hand nothing is right with someone who comes here and uses our facilities and keeps their allegiance totally to the country they came from, illegally.

Answer 8

ILLEGAL means against the law
immigrant means some one that attempts to legally become a citizen
ALIEN means not of this region/nation comes from elsewhere.
so lets get it right ILLEGAL ALIENS are lawbreakers and criminals. do not make the mistake of calling a immigrant illegal. when someone enters this nation without permission
they are NOT an immigrant.
they ARE an ILLEGAL ALIEN!

Answer 9

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 10

They don't care. They will just push until someone pushes back (as in law enforcement). The lack of enforcement has made them quite bold, but with a false sense of security. If government would indeed try to remove them, they would start whining about "civil rights".