How do illegals actually affect your life personally?
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I have to pay non-insured motorists insurance just because those who don't pay for insurance are covered. Talk about *** backward. For 15 years I lived in Central Phoenix Arizona and I saw many crashes where at least one person always ran away. I think that America has room for everyone, but just as long as they do it legally like paying for insurance and taxes. It also wouldn't hurt if they kept up their front yard. For heavens sake, many of them are in the lawn business.
I recently worked an accident where a person (who may or may not be an illegal, but had a mexican ID and nothing else) ran into someone, had no insurance and tried to run.
i am a contractor and they are the only ones that apply for work
Lot's of illegals join hispanic street gangs and commit crimes. This is a FACT.
Gang activity and vandalism.
Then you must live in an area that has not been saturated with them yet. Enjoy it as those of us in those areas are paying a heavy price across the board.
In reply to your statement to me , I can tell if they are illegal as part of my job requires them to identify their SS#`s etc.. which as citizens we all have however they do not. Looks do not make the person illegal but a lack of documentation does.
they bring me joy, for they r friends 2 me, and will help when they can...very polite and respectful...haters dont crap on yourselfs now
You asked how illegals affect our life, but narrow down some very important aspects. Social burdens on us and our children must not be brushed aside as secondary to employment.
15 years ago my husband made$17.50 an hour, plus benefits, as a drywaller.
When the home market was booming, housing starts were at all-time highs, his wages dropped to about $8.50 with no benefits, because the contractors can pick up illegal workers at the 7-11.
My son's 2nd grade class has 37 kids in it, because they have to waste 1 teacher on a class of 8 kids who didn't bother to learn English before they started school.
If I don't pay my doctor bills, my credit rating gets dinged. When they don't pay..my medical bills go up.
It is personal when my taxes are paid out for illegals. I've never had to compete with them in my career but others do and I take that personally, too. When hospitals are closed by misuse by illegals, that's personal. When any aspect of the illegals hurts my nation or other Americans, I'm going to take that personally as well. So I am for Americans only in my country.
How can you separate the cost of the illegals, with the harm they do. For competing for jobs, employment, and such, I doubt if the illegals are going to advertise their status or lack of, so how would you know
Do you really want me to list all of them? We'll start with:
Heath care: My insurance premiums are 80% what they were only 15 years ago.
Vehicle insurance: My insurance premiums are 80% what they were only 15 years ago.
My tax dollars: Being paid to hire bi-lingual teachers so illegal aliens children can be taught in our public schools. The public schools that are funded by tax payer money. The taxes that some illegal aliens are able to avoid paying.
My social security: My social security will be affected when I retire due to illegals using stolen information to collect social security benefits they never pay into.(Pro immigration crowd notcie first I said "SOME ILLEGAL ALIENS". Not all. I do realize that some legal citizens are guilty of the same. However if the illegals were not guilty of it that's just that many less stealing other citizens money).
Would you like me to continue?
I'm a Deputy Sheriff in the southwest. I call illegals "job security" since I arrest them pretty much on a daily basis.
no I live in New York but if I lived in Californa,New Mexico, Arizona any state they go to and work in then I would be mad if I couldn't get hired and they did, because employers do not have to pay them as much, no benefits etc, I hear farmers, factory, construction people all saying they can't get whites to work for them which I think is lies unless people in other states think themselves too good for those kind of jobs
Personally. they DO NOT!!
There are so many Latino immigrants (many of which are illegal) that it has become a requirement of many companies that managers speak Spanish. The last company I worked for had a work force in the plant that spoke only Spanish and an office staff that spoke only English. There were only 7 of 125 employees that were bilingual.
they work cheaply, lowering the cost of food.
The day just might come... and I hope it does not. that you will have to rush a family member to the emergency room,.. where tha thospital will be on stand by because the illegals are there with such life threatening illnesses as an ingrown toenail or a baby with diaper rash.
There is just not enough room to print all the negative aspects of illegal immigrants.
They have really destroyed "Americans looking for a better life"
in their quest to "find a better life for themselves"
ILLEGALY
Just like bank robbers
Just like drug dealers
Just like thieves
Just like politicians
"Who were looking for a better life"
They took from others so that they may have. Illegally!
And you find that acceptable?
Sounds like someone should be in school today.
im in l.a. west l.a. chrenshaw district, downtown l.a., Im all over and so are they, one hit me and neither did he have a drivers license, or registration, or insurance and it was a pain in the you know where. the schools are overcrowded, dont wait in the emergency room for 20 hours, that is if it still is open.
There are a lot of immigrants in the area where I live. I work and 'rub shoulders' with people from all over the world on a daily basis. Most of them are friendly or at least civil, speak english well enough to be understood, and are pleasant enough to be around. I don't consider most of those personal interactions to be a negative in my life in any way. However, there are also some who do not speak english, who expect /me/ to speak spanish (I assume because I look like I might speak it), and who seem to spend a lot of thier time just loitering.
I suspect the first grouping are legal and the second illegal, but I can't say that I 'know' that, as I'm not in the habbit of demanding 'papers' of people I interact with casually.
I also don't have any children in school. From what I've heard from friends who teach, aparently, that makes a big difference, but, as it's not first-hand experience, I won't go into details.
I do get an awful lot of literature in the mail in spanish & english - and no small amount in spanish, only. I find the latter a little offensive, because of the implicit assumption that I can't speak the language of my native land. Again, I suspect, but do not conclusively assert, that some of that is the result of illegal immigration.
Finally, the one serious negative that was most likely the result of illegal immigration is identity theft. My wife and I have both had our identities stolen. That did damage my credit rating some and mess up her college transcripts, and took years to fully resolve. Again, we were told that the perpetrators were most likely illegals.
But, that's just personal experience. The issue, itself, goes beyond direct, personal impact, to impact on our society an nation.
My husband is an illegal immigrant, he's hard working, loves me and our children, makes me laugh. I didn't judge him by the color of his skin or the country of his origin and I still do not. My husband pays taxes, spends his money here, speaks english and obey's the laws so it's frustrating that all this immigration stuff. Every year we apply for his TPS and work authorization, costs us $250 and going up - he's approved every year; we tried to get permanent residency for him, spent a year and $2500 and immigration thought he was living somewhere else so they kept taking our money only to learn we couldn't go forward with it - they don't give you your money back either.
My husband has a drivers license, pays his insurance, he's not involved in any hispanic gangs, he's just like any one else here except he's illegal. So my life is affected personally every day and I wouldn't have it any other way. He's got a kind heart and I love him, no matter where he came from or how he got here.
We've been married for 6 1/2 years and have two beautiful children.
They have driven the cost of healthcare sky high, which disables me from affording health insurance or healthcare for myself or my son. Not to mention that because they work under the table the national poverty level is far lower statistically than it should be. And what that means is when I was pregnant and became so sick and came so close to losing my son and was put on bedrest, I couldn't get the government assistance that I had been paying into since 15 years old. And I am still paying for that, while they are still getting it for free.
Furthermore, where I live there are very few corporations. You have to travel at least 30 minutes to the nearest and then have a completed college degree to be accepted. So when I was sick and my son's father wanted to take on a second job cutting grass or doing landscaping he couldn't find one because the positions were already taken by illegal immigrants.
That's how it affects me personally.
My great grandparents came from Italy
They learned the english language, repected our country and obeyed our laws.
Living in the southwest I find a lot of immigrants that cannot speak english. Especially in the service industry, they are not respectful and feel we owe them something.
Of course that does not go for everyone, I don't want to throw a blanket statement, I'm just saying I come across that alot.
Generally if someone cannot speak english at all they recently came here or it isn't a priority to them.
Here is a great quote from a United States President.
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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I take it personal when my family is subjected to diseases that illegals bring in, because they have not been health screened. I take it personal when they do things that I need complete ID to do (get jobs, get their kids in schools, rent or buy property, buy cars, drive a car). I take it personal when I try to go to a business establishment and no one there speaks english well enough to understand what I want, then one of them says 'stupid american.'
I'm afraid they steal my SSN.
I work in construction. I am in a union. Illegals work for 1/3 the rate that I make. They work for cash under the table. They work overtime for straight pay. For the past 2 years, I have not worked the required 1000 hours needed for medical benefits. In my town (Riverside,NJ) we are being sued by the Latino clergy, because we passed an anti-illegal law. Illegals rent a house for 10-20 guys and split the rent. Rents have risen drastically in my town, because landlords know they can charge more for illegals. They are willing to pay the higher rent, because they are splitting it 10-20 ways.
You are trying to brush aside the aspects why Americans do not want illegals here... the costs and benefits directly affect me and all Americans- or is the politically correct term now US Citizen
They over crowd the classrooms. ER's packed with illegals b/c that is where they get their medical attention. They come here w/o medical records and bring illnesses with them. They live off our taxes. They get free rides through college. They are draining our system. They have no respect for us our our laws. They have child after child that they can't afford and want the tax payers to support their public assistance (welfare, wic, food stamps, medicaid)
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