Is the argument "were only here for a better life" a valid one for sneaking in our country?

Question

If thats their reason, then if there are 7 billion people on earth, who decides who is welcome into America? Also if 7 billion people came in what would the standard of living be?

So if you the argument that all are welcome we need to make room for 7 billion people in our cities and towns. Its not possible, therefore is there argument is moot?

Answer 1

NO! There is no valid reason for sneaking into our country. They are illegal aliens. They are invaders. They are criminals.

They work for pennies on the dollar and are happy to get it, but at the same time they resent that they are being exploited as "cheap labor".

THEY are feeding the demand for cheap labor by agreeing to be used as slaves for big business....and then they complain to American citizens about how they are treated. They represent the epitome of "circle logic"

Americans are sick and tired of their crappy complaints, demands, demonstrations, etc. Would you like some more whine with your queso during your free ride BACK TO MEXICO?

Answer 2

400 hundred years ago that argument was a valid one to established the first colony but apparently now it's not a valid argument for people that want to come and work here. People that come to this country illegally have the same dreams that those that came hundreds of years ago the only difference is that then this country was "up for grabs" and now it's not. About the second part of your question; I doubt that 7 billion people want to come and live in this country, if you haven't notice there are people (I'm talking millions) that do not like the American way of life and are not planing to move here even if the doors were open to everybody.

Answer 3

What's the old saying: It's a recession if my neighbor is out of work; it's a depression if I'm out of work.

My point is this: When you know the person individually then yes "we are only here for a better life" seems to resonate. Now there are 20 million here for a better life. Why not 7 billion?

WHere do you stop and draw the line?

We cant take care of them all. We simply can't. We shouldn't be expected to. WHERE DOES IT STOP? When is enough, enough?

PS-- Ever noticed when the cost of immigraiton comes up, the anti illegals are able to find and point to dozens of studies demonstrating the cost? But the pro illegals just whine about "doing jobs americans wont do", "pay taxes too", etc--hyperbole and opinion, no facts or figures.

I pay 30 percent of my income in taxes, and I am enraged and outraged.

Answer 4

It's absolutely a good reason to try to get into the country. If you are a poor guy in Mexico who can barely support his family, and working as an illegal in America triples your income, wouldn't you do it, too? I know I would if I had the same circumstances.

It's also our right to say "tough luck, get out." Which is exactly what I'd do, too. Lots of countries have restrictive immigration policies, it's not like we'd be the only ones. I understand their motivation, because they instantly make their lives better if they make it and if they get caught they get taken by back to the border to try again. We need to have some actual penalties so they'll stop trying or the businesses will stop hiring them.

Answer 5

I truly believe their only concern is to create another Mexico. At some point this all will burst there will be nothing left. Illegals are creating the same kind of country they left.They seem to think it will always be like it is now, but the country is under a great strain..Programs are drying up. Jobs are harder to get. I wonder where they will go next?

Answer 6

thats a good line yes! Exellent indeed! but have u ever realise the moon and the sun, pass frontiers, fields, cities, states, countries just to give US! a better life and yet nobody qst. that! it dont matter were we are and what we do is all better for a better life! even if it is robbing a bank i men i know is not right but is just a pursuit in some way to get "A BETTER LIFE" think of it like that it might make sence! and sorry if i didnt answer your qst. but i wanted you to see this side of the story!

Answer 7

It's not a valid argument. If they want a better life, let them make their own country better or go through legal channels to come here.

Answer 8

First of all, with that argument, they also have "their government is killing them, their government has failed them, it refuses help them, they ignore them, businesses in the US attract them of a better living wage here, so the come here. I know their wages here are not good, it's better than living back at home.

They also come here to stay alive, feed their children (if they have any), and to say the only argument is to have a better life, seems to me as if you are making them sound selfish and that they don't really need to be here.

Answer 9

YA they love to break the law.Better life line wont get them anywhere.We see through the bs and deport them every day but we need to more before these stats get worse.
Illegals Killing Americans Faster than Terrorists
Layla Gonzalez at The Hill Chronicle has written a post in which she claims that illegal aliens kill more Americans on average every day than are killed in action in Iraq:

Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. If those numbers are correct, it equates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That is 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.

If you have ever spent more than two weeks watching the local evening news in Houston (where I grew up), this would come as no surprise to you (except the pro-open borders local MSM in Houston would never use the denigrating term “illegal”; they prefer “undocumented” or “Mexican national”).

And it’s not just murder being pepetrated by our unwanted and univited intruders:

Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.

You want to bring all of our men and women home from Iraq?

OK, I’ll compromise with you: bring them all home tomorrow, and immediately redeploy all of them — with their M1A1 Abrahams tanks, their Apache helicopters, their full arsenal — to our borders (with the heaviest concentration on our Southern border).

As Layla concludes — yes, our President and our Congress does have blood on their hands. But it’s not the Soldiers’ in Iraq; it’s the blood of civilian US citizens being slaughtered in our own country by our illegal neighobrs.
h/t Jules Crittenden

Answer 10

Only if I can steal too and say the same thing. Like, breaking into illegal's homes and carrying everything they have out. Don't think they'd appreciate their logic then.