This creates stance on illegal immigration?

Question

I am trying to get a feel for a few things on where everyone stands. Please give the info and add thoughts if you'd like.
Are you for or against illegal immigration,state you live in and age?

I'm not judging by the way,everyone gets a thumbs up.

ricmon,although we do not agree,thanks for your response,I know you put thought into it and came across in a fair manner. I don't live near your area and i'm not sure what the situation is like so i'm wondering a few things. Do you have a lot of illegals in your city and do you think if you lived in a border state,you would feel differently? Just curious,no judgement.

Skip,kudos to you for doing things the right way. Best of luck on your interview and welcome:)

Answer 1

Against illegal immigration. America is a country of limited resources and isn't a neverending piece of land that can support any population. We take in more immigrants than every other country in the world combined. We HAVE to have limits. Each new person here requires more roads, schools, housing, hospitals, etc. It adds up to more trash in our landfills, more cars on our roads, it's an added burden on air and water pollution. Our education system is failing. We have trouble funding public schooling and as a result of of overpopulation children are packed into overcrowded classrooms where they don't get the individual attention they need for a successful education. Imagine the possibilities for the children of tax paying citizens if we didn't have that added burden? I'm quite sure that our drop out rates would not be so high if children were getting the proper education their parents tax dollars are supposed to provide. We need to take a good look at what is best for our nation and our posterity. We are on the wrong track, and need to come up with a solution before it is too late.

Pennsylvania
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Answer 2

I am against illegal immigration, period! Whether they are illegals that just crossed the border or illegals that have been here for 20 years--THEY ARE STILL ILLEGAL and if they are ILLEGAL, they are CRIMINALS for breaking our laws. The only resolution is to arrest, deport, stop the benefits, and militarize our border from this senseless invasion.

They came here illegally and decided to raise a family so they can jump into the free chow line? Come here legally and do it the right way OR deport the whole family. Sounds too heartless to the bleeding hearts out there? Not really when you stop to realize that illegals today are getting more free benefits paid by our taxpayers than millions of poor, disabled American citizens that will never get the same benefits from our government! There are many hard working American middle class and low income working taxpayers (many work 2 jobs) that go to bed hungry, don't have proper housing, have no health care, can't afford medications for their illnesses and have no hopes of affording a good education, but the illegals do! That to me is not only heartless, but despicable.

America needs to STOP handing out incentives (freebies) and allowing employment for these criminals, by doing whatever deems necessary to:
STOP employers from hiring illegals
STOP the anchor baby BS
STOP the subsidized housing
STOP the welfare and food stamps
STOP the free healthcare
STOP the free education

This illegal alien invasion is truly a form of "terrorism" that is bound and determined to deteriorate our country's infrastructure. How? It has resulted in consistently overburdening our schools, hospitals, welfare programs, unemployment programs, social security programs, our security & police forces due to the increase in crime (murders, assaults, drug trafficking, identity theft, drunk driving, uninsured motorists, unlicensed motorists, hit & run accidents), overcrowded our prison facilities, just to name a few.

Arizona. I'm old enough to remember the quality of life in America before the illegal invasion; and young enough to fight this form of terrorism right here on America's soil!

Answer 3

I think your question is skewed. Why would anyone be for illegal immigration? What I am for is easier legal immigration. Most people should never have to even consider having to enter illegally to come to work or live with their families.

Answer 4

I am against illegal immigration totally, Pro legal immigration and I live in South Carolina and 56.

Answer 5

Texas, early forties. Firmly opposed to illegal immigration.

I have helped (and will continue to help) anyone wanting to immigrate.

I speak a couple of foreign languages and have lived abroad.

I fully agree with my American-Latino friends in "You Don't Speak For Me" (Pro-Security, Pro-Justice, Pro-Wall) and encourage their efforts.

Simply put, the law must be written to respect those who respect it.

People are not coming to all of North and South America by the millions; only to the United States. The land is NOT that different.

Every nation on these continents is a European invention yet the illegals never acknowledge it. They want to come to the one nation that thel people globally are trying to enter and using the "it's ours, too" argument. What?!! If this patch is yours because Europe invaded, then all those other patches are equally yours, right?

So, why is no one fighting to get into Honduras or Columbia or Nicaragua using the argument that "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us"? And, "We're only taking back what the Euro's stole?" Funny, a simple DNA test will prove that most Caucasians in the Americas have quite a bit of pre-Columbian blood just as most Latin-Americans have quite a bit of European blood. Do they know where the word "Latin" is from? It's from the Latin word meaning "Latin". Which is European.

Ditto the following: Hispanic, Spanish, Latino, Hombre, Amigo, Columbia... Which of those is NOT European?

If these people ever get truthful about their fight, they'll be suicidal.

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Answer 6

Southern California. It is the pit of illegal immigration. Everyone should take note of what is happening in California and how destructive it's been because this is what many other states have to look forward to if we don't get a handle on this problem. I am so against illegal immigration. I am of voting, tax paying, child bearing, alcohol buying age.

Answer 7

I am against illegal immigration, pro legal immigration. Age,( here goes...) 52. Live in Las Vegas,Nevada.

Answer 8

Good question. I'm 20, In college here in WI.
And I am not against illegal immigration, but I'm kind of not for it. Why, you ask? I think we need to secure our borders, right? We can agree on that. That's realistic.
But this is where we differ. Ok, we already have 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. We can't and won't deport all of them. They are deporting but for every you deport, 20 come in (i heard). So I go back and say we really need to secure that border (not close it), but we need to understand that we can't do anything but to make the ones already here legal. Legalize them. But they would need to do things for that to happen, pay a fine, learn English (for those who don't know), etc. And give them they chance to become citizens 5-10 years after legalization. Hope you understand my view, it;s what an reasonable person wants. And enforcing the laws (if it ever happens) would only cause chaos.

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No, I don't live where there are lots of illegal immigrants. But I'm from Chicago, and there, I have a house that I live in at an area where there seems to be lots of Hispanics. Some might be illegal but I can't tell. I don't mind them being around.
What people say about illegals is not how I feel. I know people's frustration but these illegals are only trying and wanting to work and making money so they can survive.
And even if I lived in a city in a border state where there was a high population of illegals, I still wouldn't think differently about them. I live in Chicago, and no, the border is not close, but it's almost the same.

Answer 9

I am very much against illegal immigration (like any sane person is), I live in Utah, and I'm 17.

Answer 10

NC, 40-something and came here 5 1/2 years ago legally. I am up for citizenship - just waiting for the interview. I paid a lot of money to come here. I do not begrudge that because the American taxpayer should not have to pay for others to immigrate, even legally. I do begrudge illegals being charged less in some cases than a legal immigrant. That would have been the case had the recent immigration bill passed.

Illegal immigration is wrong. It does not benefit the USA economically. We should do whatever it takes to deter illegals from coming here on our dime.