What's your top reason for being against illegal immigration?
B) Illegals use too many government services which costs money.
C) Illegals depress wages
D) Illegals want to "take over" my America
E) Other...(please explain)
I know many of you think they all look so good, it's hard to pick just one...but please do try and pick just one.
Answer:
B, C ,and E. E being that there are too many of them coming at the same time. We don't even get a chance to absorb and deal with one group before thousands more show up expecting the same benefits as the others. We have to build new schools, jails, hospitals, etc.
About C, they also take jobs by the millions that are needed and wanted by our citizens.
I can't pick one because my reasons are all related.
I don't I love EM..LET EM BE!!!
E. Illegal immigrants are a slap in the face to people who took the right steps and paid the $ to get here legally. I am married to one of them (who did the right thing and paid the fees) and have another as a very good friend. The friend has a beef against illegals too, since she busted her butt to make $ to pay her attorney to file the correct paperwork, etc.
Do you really think all the illegal Mexican immigrants come here to pick lettuce?
Here are some facts you should know:
40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
Over 2/3’s of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).
(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
http://www.cis.org/
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.
The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE .
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens
How about the word "illegal."
A.
The law is the law is the law. I read an interesting editorial the other day where a woman used an analogy of someone breaking into your house, but it was ok because they were just trying to better themselves, so you had to let them stay. I could elaborate further, but we have laws for a reason. If you feel you are being oppressed in your country, then protest and try to bring about change. That's how we did it in this country and now we have laws to help keep our society civil.
B goes towards it, but to me it isn't the taxes so much but the fact that our schools are so overcrowded and achieving student programs are cut so far to target ESL that the schools are failing our own children. Illegal immigrants are NOT the only people who think a good education is important, and their children are not more important than our own.
Those are all very good options.My main one would be option B! But of course, I am also ticked off that my best friend has been in this country for 10 years legaly, finished college, master's degree and is about to finish a PHD, works 80 hrs a week to support herself because she can't get student loans as a non resident of this country, and then faces deportation next year since this governement refuses to give her the greencard, all of this after she has paid over 10,000 in attorney fees and such crap.How right and fair is this Amnesty bill to people like my friend? Appearantly anchor babies, uneducated idiots who don't speak a word in English should be given a green card for $5000 ( which btw they seem to not want to pay) while students with high degrees of education, that have paid taxes and tuition fees for years should be deported back to their countries. I am just trying to reason with all this stupidity. Remember, our senators want the dumb vote not the educated one. Pretty soon this will turn into dictatorship, first you get stupid people to become citizens, they become majority, then you reign them however you please= dictatorship.
B
How about asking a question with facts not made up choices based on ignorance..
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E) Because the majority come in unimmunized, and sometimes ill and/or contagious.
The number of cases of diseases, like measles, whooping cough, smallpox, and now tropical diseases, are beginning to climb in this country.
We had eradicated these diseases years ago, or never had occurrences,... now some of them are becoming drug resistant, and we do not have treatments for others.
E, My main concern isn't the Mexicans, but the possible terrorist hiding amongst them.
E) Other immigrants came to the US and went through the propper channels, learned to speak English and became US Citizens.
It's against the law!
(E)- There is no one concrete reason as illegals are all a part of the infuriating problem.
No Criminal background check
No Medical exams
Little to no English
Demands on our servces
Schools taxed to the hilt
Local government / medical over burdened and sometimes incapacitated.
Increased crime
Increasd car insurance to compensate
Increased costs all together.
I can keep going on but the logic is there for those with half a clue.
I cannot affrd this nor can the country as whole.Mass immigration and its byproducts are impossible to fund and overwhelms the systems......
That's a very interesting question. And since I usually side with the illegal immigrants currently residing in the US I don't often offer an opinion against illegal immigration in general.
But, if I had to pick just one...I guess I'd pick A) since its technically against the law. But I wouldn't use that as a stand alone argument.
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