What do you think..................?

Question

...of this whole immigration thing, please feel free to speak your mind. do you REALLY think the US would be better off without illegals?????

Answer 1

Illegal immigrants have broken the law once; how many of them will break the law again?

If the President grants amnesty to illegals then certainly people applying for visa and petitions legally should be granted wishes to remain in the U.S. Where does that leave us standing?

I have a strong opinion on this topic because I am a U.S. citizen who married someone on a J1 visa that entered legally. Because he had a 2 year home rule restriction we were not allowed to remain together in the U.S. even after appealing our case for two years. Although the government acknowledged that we were legally married they still denied us. I had to choose between my family, career, and home or my husband. I chose to be with him and left everything behind.
If I must leave the U.S to be with my husband then it seems only right that illegal immigrants should not be allowed to stay.

Answer 2

There is no doubt that the Citizens of this great nation would be better off without 12-20 million illegal immigrants to support. Few pay their way and besides driving down wages and our standard of living, a good deal of the money they make goes back to their country instead of circulating in our neighborhoods where they live and work. Our citizens are competing with people who are so poor in their own country that they will work for slave wages and it looks good to them. They are making their employers wealthy at the expense of our citizens. Please boycott those businesses that hire illegals and that outsource jobs overseas. These include Citibank and many others. When you call a business with an 800 numer, ask where they are located. You may be suprised.

Answer 3

Illegal immigration does not come without cost. Sadly, the ones paying for it are the legal citizens of the US that could use one of the many jobs taken by illegals. I'm talking about construction, housekeeping, house cleaning, landscaping, restaurant work, and yes even farming. Being a woman I wouldn't consider construction but If I hadn't gone to college and had a degree I could very well be doing house cleaning. But tell me, how could I make a descent living when there are illegals that are willing to do the same work for half the pay?

Answer 4

1. They break our laws by sneaking into our country, so no respect for our laws.
2. We do not know what kind of diseases these people have , so they are putting our health at risk.
3.They disrespect our flag.
4.They refuse to learn English (or speak it only when it benefits them)
5.They expect us to pay for their medical.
6. They expect us to pay for their children's schooling.
7.They send millions and millions of dollars out of this country .
8.They live with way to many people in a house, against most cities fire codes and other codes.
9. They take jobs that American people on welfare could be doing.
10. Alto of Americans would be alive today if these illegals were not here.
I could go on and on, but my answer is YES, the US would be better off without the illegals.

To Kanishasmama:
Did your husband need to get a medical exam or not?
go to the link, to see how illegals are hurting Americans health.

If you are, so ashamed of the gov. and to be called a USC, then get out. (and I am being polite). You should, take a better look around the country, that you are so ashamed of.

But, Thank You, for calling me a kid, I had a good laugh, out of that one!

Answer 5

I think something needs to be done about the quantity of them. I do not think American taxpayers should be working to support them and the children they have given birth to here.I live in south Florida and there are far too many working here under the table, and I am sick of seeing them on assistance from the government paid for by my labor and sweat. I make too much to get any help and I work 60 hours a week to just exist and barely get by. It really busts my chops to see illegals and their kids get free medical and prescriptions and I cannot afford insurance or a check up, I have not been to a doctors office for 12 years since I lost my insurance, I have had to go to the emergency room twice and am still paying on it monthly.Also the section 8 crap, I pay $1045.00 a month for a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apt and there are illegals living in my complex in an apartment that is paying only $8.00 a month!!!! why should I have to work to pay for them????

Answer 6

I'm sorry but this response is for the ignorant people who do not believe that the whole process takes to long is a excuse for not doing it the right way, I just finished the process and it has been over a year for me to get my husband legal and to you American Girl grow up kid everybody from different countries carry diseases. What would you say to people if you were from Mexico You are no better then people from Mexico, they just come from poor countries and are trying to better their families. I agree if they are illegal then they should be deported back to whatever place they come from and the US would not be a better place. I am ashamed of the US Government and ashamed to be called a USC they are punishing the USC over this immigration crap, separating families and making them wait for over one year to be reunited.There is alot of ignorant people out there that think just cause a Mexican marries an USC then they automatically become a citizen , No they get their lives torn apart, so you kids need to grow up until you know whats going on in your stinking country.

Answer 7

One person's thoughts on this tangled question will not make it right. When the U.S. invited immigration into the country (and all our forefathers WERE immigrates) they had ports of ,entry to filter out the undesirable; criminals, contagious sickness, and people of suspected political
motives. Now days the U.S. ship has more leaks than a sieve. We can't stop the entry but perhaps we can control what happens inside the country. By that I mean; no legal help like monetary support, tighter foreign supervision, and more big penalties for citizens who employ illegals. I know it will be harsh to some of us living here, but really who are we interested in, our citizens or border jumpers.
Spartawo...

Answer 8

Yes. Populations are surging and our resources get more limited. We don't need illegal immigrants. There are plenty people to fill the jobs that are needed. Illegals use and manipulate the American system to get free education, health care, food, etc. In CA, many ERs at hospitals are closed now because they never got paid by enough patients.

Answer 9

Immigration is an exceedingly complex equation.

There is much of the present and of the historical to factor in first of all, where many mistakes were made.

At the outset of immigration policy and law, much entailed a subtle display of cynicical convenience on the part of the immigration services long ago that no longer may be applied or allowed to apply.

The composition of prospective emigres of 80 years ago is not as that of today: then, they emigrated from Europe; today, from Asia and Latin America primarily, and just a precious few from Africa.

The greed and arrogance today, however, midst American policies is the same, which is roughly proportionate to 80 years ago. This is at least incompetent or worse, dangerous.

Big problem: -- the immigration backlogs awaiting processing is monstrously huge nationwide. I know, I once worked there 2 years.

The cultural bias is off the charts -- both within and between the immigration staffs themselves and as regards the swiftness or not of processing prospective emigres -- there 'is' a selective queue, say, as to whom makes it in or not -- as has always been, whether realized or not... Make no mistake about this.

An even larger problem: -- the corporations are molly-coddled [spoiled] by the lobbyists and politicians, each set to sell out not only Americans but themselves and one another; and there exists the Media that ever lies in wait to pander to [ brown nose] them all. I know, I lived in Washington, D.C, and worked in the Federal Triangle.

The foreign countries themselves, from which many emigres come, have done a lousy job of taking care of their own people and have dropped their irresponsibility onto the shoulders of Americans; and American and western European industries are not to be held inculpable of this dreaded transgression.

Americans powerbrokers, too, have done a lousy job of bringing solidarity to its own, this going back into over one- and two hundred years of negligence, of which a high percentage of Americans today were never assimilated or educated nor were ever intended to be treated soundly -- as evidenced among the red and black races...

Now this same and dreadful high-handed mentality of Power dares allow still newer emigres to step into this equation, an already dissembled gaggle of temperaments and increasingly infirm nation, which America now truly is, for which there is no common thread any longer that can be said: "this is America."

A country would always be better off without illegals when the host country (such as America) into which the illegals would immigrate is itself supporting an illegal if not incompetent infrastructure and system of law and sensibility, wherein no insight and knowledge as regards cross-cultural ethics has ever evidenced.

Immigration policy founded a system of exclusiveness and never had or has it incorporated policies of inclusiveness -- hence, ever has it been an outrageously classist, and a terribly racist if subtle nation.

Yet when we stipulate immigration as a synonym for diversity, which is to say again, as strength, then any nation would not ever be better off without immigrants. For there is invention, brilliance, durability, flexibility, and of course, strength in any nation that allows for variation and breadth. And it is a nation destined to failure that does not uphold this quality and accord with Natural law. So let us not confuse immigration with illegal...

For that 'is' considerably different a subject from that of "illegals" and the explicit illegitimacy of nationhood shown that this country has resolved to, now isn't it?

Answer 10

Sadly, the immigration debate is nothing but a DISTRACTION. Review the current Immigration law, then compare it with the proposed Amnesty bill recently killed in Congress. You'll find that neither side (Dem or Rep) care about the interests of the United States citizenry.

I believe in lifeboat politics and that people should only be allowed to enter our country legally. I believe that violent and dangerous criminals should give up their citizenship to a law-abiding immigrant. I think when an Immigrant breaks our laws, they should be deported to spend their time in THEIR HOME COUNTRIES JAIL (i.e., NOT AT US TAXPAYER EXPENSE).

Flag burning, abortion, immigration, drugs/crime, war, etc.. are distractions designed to keep the MAJORITY WORKING CLASS/POOR from combining resources; smartening up and seeing that WE SHOULD NOT BE REPRESENTED BY THE ELITE/RICH, since THE MAJORITY ARE NEITHER RICH NOR ELITE.

We need to put a hold on ALL IMMIGRATION, find the illegals who are committing further crimes, and deal with what we have now BEFORE worrying about future immigrants.