Why Does the USA Have to Continue to Let any Foreigners migrate Here?..?

Question

Don't we have enough people here..and aren't most countries able to develop like the USA did years ago? This is not 1880. Why do we have to be the country everyone runs to. The melting pot days are over.
I think it's time to Close our Borders to Everyone new trying to get in. They don't love my country anyway...so why are they here. If you listen to mexs on this site...you'll know thye hate us but want to steal our jobs and lifestyle 'cause they're too lazy to fix Mexcio.

Answer 1

We need to secure our borders and halt all immigration until we get the current illegal alien situation taken care of. Secure the border, enforce the law, cut off handouts and freebies. If you make it difficult to get here, there is no job waiting for them and no handouts they will stop coming. Ironically, Mexico has one of the toughest immigration policies and they enforce their laws.

Answer 2

There is a big difference between illegal Aliens and legal immigrants.

Legal Immigrants are require and usually have a hard time gaining legal status. Most of the legal immigrants are highly educated and usually work in areas where there skills are required. Can you imagine how bad the health care system would be with out all the immigrant doctors and Nurses?

Americas Greatest people have been immigrants and it is these people that made America what it is, people like:

Henry A. Kissinger (Germany)
Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland)
Albert Einstein (Germany)
Admiral Hyman Rickover (Russia)
Nicholas Tesla (Poland)

And Many more.

The Illegal Immigrants should be deported as soon as they are found and boarder system could be improved.

Answer 3

Whoa I can't believe it ! I came to live to the US when I was a teenager, I came because everyone back home says that this is the best place on the entire world to live in, I'm so happy to be here, I love this country more than where I was born. I will never go back because this is place where I have my family and so many friends, I'm a US citizen and I pay for everything that I got. So please don't say that people don't love your country, because isn't true, my family is very big so I assure you that there is thousands of people who loves the United States, also I'm not Mexican but I respect every single people doesn't matter if is black, white, Hispanic, European I just respect them because we all are human being and all of us have so many dreams to do in life, good Luck to you and I hope you think differently this time :)

Answer 4

I feel that you're acting a little xenophobic.

I agree that we need to do something with the ILLEGAL aliens that are here, and amnesty is NOT the answer.

But closing the borders is NOT the way to go, either. Border Control is.

Alph, there is no call for that kind of language and accusation here.

Answer 5

They should stop all immigration for 5 yrs and clean up & out the travesty we have>There are enough legals here to fill the jobs at a fair wage>But the Liberal Gov wants amnesty & freebies for illegals for votes>So they can take the middle class as we know it to the provety level>Then control us like puppets>

Answer 6

B/c America is the country of immigrants. Oh and it does have more jobs than any other country out there. And we all know what your trying to infer here. You don't want to see more mexicans here. But hey. Mexico is our neighbor, if it was the phillipines, then hey, you would see more karoake shops.

Answer 7

If Americans don't wake up and realize that we are being invaded by people who hate us there will be no America soon. Those who say Mexicans are only here to work are ignorant and their foolishness is dangerous. 95% of all outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles are for people known to be illegal aliens. I guess murder is seen by libefrals as "work Americans won't do", so that makes it alright.
Funny how liberals scream that we are already overpopulated yet they want to allow every Mexican criminal to stay here. It's treason.

Answer 8

I think that its not a easy situation for Americans and for in migrants but we have to be considered and be concentrated in the people who are here now illegally they need to resolve this problem before let any body else in thru the borders. PEACE ON EARTH AND BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS ITS WHAT WE NEED!!!

Answer 9

Here here... just because we lag way behind in the maths and sciences doesn't give us the right to usurp the best and brightest from other countries to fill positions that we are either unable or unwilling to train ourselves to do.
Stop the brain drain and maybe these jobs will move to the workers instead of vice versa, so that standard of living can be based on merit instead of hegemony.

Edit:
Of course thumbs down... apparently some don't appreciate just how profoundly the US and our economy benefit from immigration. Sad.

Response to Clint:
Exactly my point, only this issue has posited illegal and legal immigration as wholly disconnected. Nothing happens in a vacuum and when we import highly educated professionals to fill jobs in America, that is a net loss from their source country (remittances cannot cover the opportunity costs created by a departed professional class). We seem to act like being on the receiving end of the brain drain is our birthright. How would we respond if droves of our best and brightest were leaving for greener pastures, after our tax dollars had helped to raise, protect and educate them? Second, how would most of us (the lesser educated and less skilled) feel if our doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists and bureaucrats desserted us? If we had the means, wouldn't we follow them? I can pretty well guarantee I would. This is an issue of morality and fairness, if one absorbs the world's best and brightest (who took up valuable seats to get their training) is it realistic to expect the lesser trained to just accept this? We have an immigration policy that is skewed heavily towards skilled professionals, how should we expect the neighbor to react when he sees that his friends have taken their taxable income and expertise (again gained through training subsidized in that country) someplace else?

In the world today there is reality and there is the emotion-laden fodder that we are force-fed. A seemingly vital component to "American Exceptionalism" is the idea of the benevolent giant. This benevolence (like many comforting constructs) operates on a sliding scale based on the level of critical analysis. We picture ourselves as a major force of good, we deftly ignore the School of the Americas, the human cost of our drug policy in source countries, extraordinary rendition and others in exchange for red herrings that don't challenge us to look at the effects of our policies.
Immigration is a difficult issue, one that deserves more attention than a piecemeal analysis, or the reactionary answers that seem so popular here.

Answer 10

It is that very melting pot idea that is the greatest strength of the United States. The diversity present is this country is wonderful. The United States was a grand experiment and very successful. The words of the lady in the harbor are still true.

"Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

We should do everything we can to stop illegal immigration, but the United States is a land of immigrants and it should continue as a shining beacon of liberty for those who choose to follow the law. Xenophobia will not serve the interests of anyone.