Who is most responsible for illegal immigration to the United States?

Question

I will give you 5 choices.
A)The illegal immigrants themselves, for coming to the United States illegally.
B)The Mexican government, for encouraging it's poor citizens to illegally enter the United States.
C)President Ronald Reagan, for signing The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 that gave amnesty & legal status to illegal immigrants already in the United States, or most of them.
D)The first president Bush or president Clinton, for not securing our national borders.
E)President George W. Bush, for not securing America's borders in either of his 2 terms, & for trying to pass an amnesty bill.

Answer 1

All of the above and include NAFTA into the mix.

Answer 2

Here are my responses to your five talking points. 1. – No person is illegal. Illegal is an adjective for behavior, not an individual. If you are able to attach illegal to any person violating a law, whether federal, state or local, then there are many more illegal people than just the immigrants. 2. – The way I understand it, many of the undocumented immigrants’ children are US citizens by birth. So the vast numbers being quoted by public office seekers are skewed for sensationalism. An undocumented immigrant does NOT qualify for public benefits (education & emergency care excluded). 3. – This country does not know poverty. What poverty there is can be addressed. The economy in this country is such that anyone who WANTS to work can find work. There is NO excuse for unemployment in the US today. Maybe there are people that feel above the jobs available, but that is no excuse for unemployment. 4. – This is goes to you. I cannot argue with you on this one. You are correct. 5. – One of our most renown American icons – the Statue of Liberty boasts the following words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” How much more patriotic, my dear James, would you have us be?

Answer 3

The most personal responsibility for any crime is, of course, borne by those actually comitting it. That'd be the illegals, themselves. (A)

However, there is no question that all the other choice you put forth have been very real contributors to the problem. You could add more, going back to the The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the family re-unification clause of which has been a magnet for illegal immigration, and is, in a way, even more vital to the success of the Anchor Baby strategy than the 14th Amendment.

Answer 4

All of the above,The American people are being killed by criminal illegals at a rate of 25/Day. This is more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and September 11th combined. But Bush and the Democraps love the money that their masters in Mexico City are paying them for their souls.

Answer 5

All of the above are responsible for what has happened up to this point.

From now on the only reason that illegals are still here is because our politicians are far too weak to remove the rewards/incentives for them to come here. If they did that 90% would all self-deport at their own expense. The only ones who would remain are gang bangers, drug dealers, child molesters and other har core criminals.

Answer 6

The illegal aliens. I have to admit, as much as I admire President Reagan, that was a poor act. But seeing as how it didn't work then, I don't know why people think it'd work now.

Answer 7

I say all the above. But I think they should have already learned from the mistakes in the history of our country. Will history keep repeating itself over and over. Our children's future lay in the hands of corrupt governments.

Answer 8

F) The scumbags who knowingly employ the illegal alien invaders. If they didn't have jobs, most of them wouldn't come here. Well, the criminal aliens would still come here, but there wouldn't be 20 to 38 million illegals here if it weren't for the employers.

You also left out NCLR which is a Latino supremacist group that openly supports illegal aliens. Our govt gives taxpayer funding to La Raza, which really angers me! grrrrr.....

Answer 9

A-E, coupled with the fact that liberals love votes from the illegals that they victimize, and conservative business contractors use them for cheap labor.

The reason nobody is taking action is because the political elite on both sides has something to gain from this debacle, meanwhile the American people suffer from these people raising crime, drink driving, increasing our health care costs, ans such.

Answer 10

All of the above but especially the Federal government that is supposed to protect our borders.

Answer 11

I think B, if the Mexican government made it's country better, maybe they would all not wanna come here.