Why is there no problem with illegal Canadians like with Mexicans?

Answer 1

The only biggot to answer this question so far is macho man.
The Canadians are our "good" neighbors. We may joke with 'em a bit but we can't complain when they come to visit. They don't go on welfare, form gangs, sell drugs or crap on us for treating them to some good old U.S. freedoms.

Answer 2

Simple answer to that - Quality of Life!
The major reason for the illegal immigration facing the United States is due to the poor quality of life that Mexican citizens are seeking to escape by traveling to the United States.

The major issue is the poor Mexican economy. The majority of the border jumpers are those seeking to work in the United States because 1 U.S. dollar converts to almost $11.00 pesos. As a result even a low paying day labor job makes it worth the limited risk of getting caught a deported to jump again another day. For a Canadian jumping the border the dollar converts to about 1.09 canadian dollars so you can see the reason why we don't see a whole lot of Canadian day laborers.

Another reason that there are not a lot of people looking to jump ship and resettle in the U.S. from Canada is the fact that they have universal health care. While health care in Mexico is abysmal in most cases, except for the elite wealthy portions of society, Canadian citizens pay higher taxes but receive relatively good heath care in comparison to the United States. As a result, the U.S. policies to provide emergency medical care, including illegal immigrants, may draw some immigrants into the United States, even if after the care they will be deported, but for Canadians they already have the health care and even enjoy lower pharmecutecal cost then in the United States.

Along with health care there is also the other government benefits enjoyed by Canada's citizens such as Social Security, and unemployment benefits which I do not believe Mexican citizens have or if they do are far inferior to their needs.

Also as seen recently in the news their are major crime problems in Mexico in the governments recent conflicts with the Drug cartels which have caused violence and attacks on the Mexican armies which sometimes affect the citizens. This alone makes for a number of Mexicans just trying to escape violence like the refugees of any conflict.

I guess the reason Mexican's are coming to America is the same reason people have been coming to America since its founding... to find a better life. We don't have a problem with Canada, Europeans, etc. because the majority already have a good life in their native land. For others they may be too far from America to travel here, although Haitians take the risky journey across the sea along with others, but Mexico is just a jump across the Rio Grande.

Answer 3

Because everybody likes Canadians.

Answer 4

Because Canada is not a thirld world country, thus there is little incentive to leave. Mexico has low wages, high crime and high corruption.

Canadians, while having a collapsing socialist health care problem, have many other incentives to stay. Due to this incentive there is no necessity to come to America in droves because it is impossible to become rich in Mexico without doing it through the trade of drugs.

Answer 5

There are only 32 million Canadians. If more than one third of their population was here illegally and spoke French, it might be a problem.

Answer 6

Because Canada has a stable government with a comparible economic structure to the US so there isnt a reason for canadians to sneak across our border.

Answer 7

Because there are very few illegal Canadians here, but there are MILLIONS of illegal Mexicans. Get it?

Answer 8

Because the Canadians aren't sneaking across the border and establishing little "mini-countries" in every city throughout the USA.

And when they do come over, they speak English and don't impose a burden to the system.

Answer 9

canadians have a country that cares about them unlike the mexican govt. there are jobs in canada there not flooding are borders. its a simple as that........

Answer 10

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 !