We often hear that our immigration system is "broken," how is this so?
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Our immigration system is not broken -- our law enforcement system is broken and our government is broken. The laws work just fine and the immigration system would work just fine if the rules and laws were followed. Let's get together, U.S. Citizens, and sue our government for specific performance and for all damages they have allowed illegal immigrants to perp on us. Any of you legal beagles out there know enough about immigration law and the Rico statutes to help us file a class action lawsuit and demand law enforcement?
i can tell it's broken just by looking at your numbers...that is way too many!
Because employers aren't checking to see if their employees are legal immigrants or citizens and nobody is prosecuting them.
Because illegal immigrants enroll their kids in our schools, demand we teach them in Spanish and crowd citizens out of the ER's in hospitals.
Should I continue?
No, the laws just need to start being ENFORCED!
outraged at sunny's response. Do you realize that illegal immigrants contribute over 7 billion dollars to social security a year that they will never collect.and SS is still going broke...seriously, think about it, what would be do with out them.
To Sunny... First of all, I'm American. Second of all, you are ignorant and naive to think that illegal immigrants are not working "over the table". All it takes to get a job in this country is a social security number, wheter it is their own, or someone elses.and they contribute to OUR social security system.
What's more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks. Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they'll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus. The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year.
Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children. The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families — most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume.
The 1996 welfare reform bill disqualified illegal immigrants from nearly all means-tested government programs including food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid and Medicare-funded hospitalization. The only services that illegals can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education. So please dont blame them for the pathetic state of this country's finances.
I'm personally more worried about all the lazy Americans that choose to leech of the system and take a free ride through life. That's not to bash any one the legitimately needs services for a limited period of time...Im talking about the people who literally NEVER work.
Do yourself a favor Sunny, stop believing everything you hear on Fox News.regurgitating that BS makes you look foolish.
I had modified my post to explain my stance to a person named "sunny" that insulted my intelligence and called me a wet back in his post...noticed that he then deleted his. HAHAHA Guess he got scared!
The law is not being enforced.
Those are the legal immigrants. The broken part is the employers who encourage people to sneak in un-documented and pay them less than a living wage to artificially deflate the price of goods and services, then let their employees rely on tax dollars to educate their children and maintain their health care.
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Because we don't enforce the laws that are already in place. If employers were jailed and illegals were deported and/or jailed - things would be a heck of a lot better. That would cut down on crime, drugs, gangs, ID theft, wasting taxes since money would go to citizens (like it should), disease, etc...
They the illegal aliens say its broken, but what they really want is for the laws to fit them, they want coming here made easyer. But you also right the the U. S. A. welcomes more here legally than the the rest of the world put togather. The fact is we have immigration laws, and they are good, time tested laws, all we lack is enforcement. No amnesty, No reform.
Anyone here illegally should be deported or imprisoned, no exceptions.
Illegals take away resources from law abiding Americans. Employers should be prosecuted for hiring them as they do to beat the wages imposed by the market.
Contrary to what is often stated about the benefits of illegals, it's been shown that they cost the US Taxpayer far more than they benefit the taxpayer.
America would greatly benefit if we deported every single one of them.
What an apt picture, Billy! Did you ever realize that Archie Bunker's "bunker-ness" was part of the joke?
Sheesh. It's not broken, but there are problems. What's not needed is our decline into what is essentially a racist response to a question rather than a reasoned approach. And folks, like it though you may not, immigrants give back to the nation by spending, by paying local sales and other taxes, by helping the economy sort of boom along and help the rich get richer in this Republican world we now live in, and also because those employed under "fake" identitities in the workplace actually contribute funds to social security and the treasury and never are able to get the benefits. Children of illegal immigrants and some illegal immigrants are now serving in our armed forces and one descendant of illegals is now, unfortunately, attorney general. Let's ship him back over the border! Jesus wept.
just go to any home depot for yourself and try and get out of the parking lot without a bunch of Hispanics trying to jump in the back of it!!
I think you answered your own question. The system is broken because we cant handle all the immigration.
It is broken because there are laws that aren't being followed, and violators of these laws are not being prosecuted.
you would think it is broken too if you had to wait an average of 5 years after filing a form to get say your wife or your children to come live with you. Let's face it the system needs reforms because it is promoting illegal immigration and is hindering legal one. Also you cannot seriously think that the U.S. population increase since the 1960's is entirely due to immigration! Americans make babies too you know.
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