What do you think about the immigration law? Do you think it is good? If you were going to be deported how would you feel??
136575
i dont think the immigration law is all that good.  most people who are here illegally do jobs most americans would not want to do anyway.  Not to mention, at one point in time someone in our past immigrated here, what gives us the right to say we can be here, but you cant, its supposed to be a free country
213328
OK,I have been called alot of names for this but here I go ....\nThere are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country RIGHT NOW.If they all became LEGAL right now that means:\nThey for sure would be paying taxes.(imagine how much 12 million ppl would contrbute)\nThey would have to be paid decent wages(thus not lowering wages).\nThey would no longer be ILLEGAL.(tired of hearing that one,how are ppl illegal).\nThey would be documented,with health screens,finger prints,background checks.\nThey could no longer be exploited.\nI know I am forgetting some things,but I think this is the only solution(here come the insults).I don't agree with breaking apart families,or sending ppl away that have been productive members if this society for decades."Illegal" immigration has been going on for a long time and only now it is a country wide issue.And I don't think all those ppl should be deported because some ppl want to label them as "illegal" or because they are stigmatized.\nAnd I also think the border should be better looked after.I love my ppl, but damn.
462896
I have no fear of immigrants.. anybody who goes through the proper ways of getting here are welcomed by me and most Americans... it's the illegal immigrants that I have a problem with.. no I have no fear of them.. but I want people in my country for the safety of my country documented and known to be in this country... it's a violation of our law to come here illegally and our laws need to be upheld.
233327
New deportation policy....\n\nANYONE (especially you) WITH AN IQ LESS THAN 50
649338
It sounds to me a lot of the time that both sides want the borders secured, even pro-illegals.  Pro-illegals, for the most part from what I have garnered here on this forum, seem to want the illegals who are currently in the USA to be given amnesty if they do not have a criminal record, and they want the borders secured for the future.  Secured borders is the only area that I can see agreement on.  Anti-illegal supporters want ALL illegal immigrants currently in the USA deported, no matter what the cost, because they believe the long term costs will be far less, even if the short-term costs of deportation is large.  They feel that illegal immigrants should leave the USA on their own steam and should then apply through proper procedures and they are welcome to come back if they qualify.  \n\nI've also gotten the feeling on this forum that both sides feel the blame for illegal immigration should fall upon the shoulders of employers who knowingly hire illegals and most people feel that these employers should be severely punished.  It is felt that if the employers would not hire the illegals, they would have no reason to come, in the first place.\n\nPersonally, I feel strongly that the "anchor baby" law should be gotten rid of.  I don't know that the majority of Americans feel this way, or not.  I feel that this law is outdated and also is an extra motivation to illegal immigration.
128494
Thats Right drizztbabe- \nIts A MOOT Arguement\nYou Cant Undo 200+ Years Of American History \nBecause A Bunch Of Screaming ILLEGAL Aliens \nAre DEMANDING For Us To Break Our Laws\n\nThey Will All Be Deported Soon- \nThey Should Stop Their Whining And Pack Their Gear\n\n***schlierkamp_wannabe320 (Below)\nYoure RIGHT- We Wont Have To Deport Them\n\nIf Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO(ANY EMPLOYER) of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - \nNO EXCEPTIONS - \nThen within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States And Back To Whatever Country They Came From.\n\nThey'll Go Home Themselves\nNo Deportation Costs\nAnd They Wont Come Back\n\n***Hayleylov- THATS Right- COMMANDO!!!
306855
First of all, immigrant come here illegally because there is no EASY way to come here. If there was an easier way to come here without immpossible expectations many would do so.The laws are more like how lucky you are as opposed to how deserving you are.I like your viewpoint!
69739
I LOVE IT!\n\nWTF. (if someone reports me, you're a dumbass, because this is an opinion, and im not threatening anyone.)\n\nMexicans come to United States. Steal our jobs, bring crime, and end up in our jails. 400 illegals were taken off the street in a recent operation. We pay for jails through taxes. Jails must board and feed immates, so that's our money. They also take our school districts for granite. We pay for schools. We pay for public health, which some take that away. Sure America maybe the "promise" land, but only for the legal aliens.\n\nIf your direction to this comment is about illegal aliens, than I strongly back it. If tis about legal aliens, I firmly disapprove of it.
214128
Does your friend have legal or illegal status? If she is legal, she has nothing to worry about. If she is illegal, she should do whatever is necessary to gain legal status before she does have to go.\n\nThe United States is a nation of laws. We cannot pick and choose which laws we follow, or the very fabric which holds our country together will begin to unravel.\n\nTo those who say we should "overlook" this law because so many have been here so long, I ask these questions:\n\nWhat if an illegal immigrant (NOT undocumented worker) is hungry? Is it alright to allow him to steal to fill his belly?\n\nWhat if an illegal immigrant has to get to work? Is it alright for him to steal a car to get there?\n\nWhat if an illegal immigrant is missing the señora and feeling a little randy? Is it okay for him to commit rape to satisfy those urges?\n\nWhy is it different, then, when it comes to breaking immigration laws? A law is a law is a law. We cannot pick and choose which laws we allow to be broken vs. those ones we follow.\n\nIf you do not like the immigration laws, elect someone who will change them. Until then, every illegal immigrant in this country is a slap in the face to those who immigrate legally. Immigration to the United States is not easy - it is not supposed to be.\n\nThere is no "right" to be able to immigrate here. You have to earn it. As with anything, that which is worth having is worth working for.
172776
Oh, my dear PANCHA...  You already know my stand on this,... but we'll 'dance' again...\n\nIt may very well be that many illegal immigrants don't understand the severity of their crime.  But that doesn't matter:\n\nIGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE...Period!  Without the 'Rule of Law', society would degrade into utter chaos.  \n\nImagine that I go into a parking lot and find your car, unlocked, and with the keys in it.  Does that mean that I'm suppose to drive it?  And if I take your car, get caught, and am charged with a crime,... would it be okay with you if I claim that I didn't understand how severe the crime was?;  that I decided to take the car because I wanted to get somewhere faster than walking, and the opportunity just presented itself? (...and yes, that IS a fair comparison).\n\nNo one should enter another STATE, much less another country, without being knowledgeable of the laws which apply to them.\n\nOne would think, given the overwhelming opinions against your rhetoric on this issue, that you would have 'seen the light' by now.\n\nBut PANCHA must, indeed, live in a  very dark and lonely place...
640993
If you or your parents, grandparents, etc., came here to the U.S. legally, then I am very proud of saying you are a fellow citizen. However, if you are illegal then you are a criminal. You broke our laws and should not be given any of our benefits or rights, except the benefit of a free ride back to where you came from. I don't hate you, I just want you to play by the rules.
245525
Immigrants are great, but these are ILLEGAL ALIENS.  It looks to me like a great opportunity for INS to find all these lawbreakers in one place and initiate arrests.  With our being told which companies HAD to shut down completely or partially, that the Attorney General, Homeland Security, or whomever is responsible for fining companies who do hire illegal aliens, really just have a list now that they can follow. \n\nThe protest offended, but didn't really affect me, or the town in which I live.  The following things bothered me:\na.  these protests were for ILLEGAL ALIENS, NOT regular immigrants.  Their PR machine was great in blurring the lines here.\n\nb.  The Mexican flags were still very prominent.\n\nc.  I was soooo tired of seeing all the posters written in Spanish!!!!!!  And the signs that were translated to English were often very critical of this counry that they claim to love so much.\n\nd.  One of the organizers, last name Rodriguez I think, was on some TV shows the day before.  He made very negative comments about the U.S. in general.  It seemed he was leading up to the one comment that made me wonder about the REAL agenda.....he said, paraphrasing, that the southern part of the U.S. was STOLEN from Mexico, and that the people just wanted to reclaim what was rightfully theirs.  Okay, we did fight and confiscate land way back in our early history......but wasn't just about every country formed by gaining land from somebody??  \n\ne.  The whole thing would have been so much less significant, had our media simply refused to give these demonstrations wall to wall media coverage!!\n\nf.  Do these illegal aliens have the constitutional right to assemble like this?  This is just a question I wondered about.......they are not citizens.\n\ng.  IF these folks are really protesting for rights, better conditions, etc., well, I can't help but be curious as to why they don't just demonstrate in their own countries where conditions must be worse.  Couldn't they use this energy to focus on problems at home?\n\nh.  I can't help but wonder WHEN the LEGAL CITIZENS of the U.S. will step up to the plate, care enough to organize as efficiently as these folks, and take our voices and opinions to the streets, all the way to Washington D.C.\n\nWhew, got some of that off my chest!  I understand the plight of these illegal aliens, and this IS a country of immigrants, but it's also a county of laws.  What do you think would happen to us if thousands of U.S. citizens decided to sneak into Mexico, Colombia, Venzuela, Russia, China, etc., and march on their capitols & make demands for rights while waving American flags and speaking mainly English?  How about trying that in Cuba or Iran?  \n\nWelcome to all immigrants, just do it LEGALLY!  We do have a process in place for that.  Many of us feel that we and our country are being greatly disrespected by the ILLEGAL ALIENS. (I am ever so tired of the term "undocumented workers"..............does that mean that we citizens can drive around freely with no drivers' licenses, and simply be "undocumented drivers"?  Political correctness can get way out of hand.\n\nI just about forgot one other thing that burns me, and that's the so-called Spanish version of our National Anthem!  This is not a translation, the lyrics are totally different.  This is the United States.  We speak English.  A common language is necessary for assimilation.  And our National Anthem should be sung in English!  What's next, translating our Constitution, the Pledge of Allegience, etc??
146998
I feel that they should NOT be deported simply because they came here illegally.  There needs to be a better system of monitoring for all immigrants.  Those that are committing crimes should be punished, and those that are working hard should be given a way to work for citizenship.  There are many, many illegal immigrants that work hard in the U.S., pay taxes (YES they pay taxes too!), buy cars, send their kids to college (YES! Undocumented Immigrants can go to college) and support our economy.  It's hogwash that people think that we can just deport 11 million people and not have it mess up our country.\n\n\nIf you are talking about all immigrants, than the only people left in the U.S. would be Native Americans!!
619063
I also feel this law is outdated and should be abolished.  In fact, just tonight, I watched a show on TV that said that some years back the Cuban government released all of their worst criminals and put them on shoddy boats aimed towards the USA in order to get rid of their worst criminals and take advantage of the stupid foot on dry land law for Cubans.  I don't understand why the USA isn't quicker at changing laws that are outdated.  Other countries are so quick to take advantage and they obviously keep right up to the minute on what our laws are.  \n\nRegardless, we still have laws about immigration and I want them enforced and I want ALL illegal immigrants deported and I want this done asap, regardless of the cost, because I believe the cost will be less to the American taxpayers in the long run.  If our immigration laws are outdated, they should  be updated, and if things take too long, they should be changed so that applications can be expedited, but the USA has a right to determine who they want for immigrants and how many of them they want and where they should live and what types of jobs they will do.  It is unfair that they flock to certain states and towns and so overburdening the social services, school systems, corrections systems, and medical care of those areas.  With proper immigration systems, people are told where they can go.  The immigrants aren't the ones to decide where they will go - the government has the say as to where they can go.  With illegal immigration - they flock to wherever they want and this causes some areas to be overburdened and without the proper tax basis to support them and actually causing a negative effect on the legal US citizens and immigrants in those areas.\n\nThere is a real, sane reason why a country should have a say in who gets in and where they will go.
100661
I am a legal immigrant from Australia.\n\nI haven't been able to work for years due to immigration law, but i don't whine and moan about it, i deal with it and wait in line until i have the money to pay for most of the process.\n\nGive illegals a break? You have to be shittin me.\n\nInstead... oh we will just give them amnesty and reward illegal activity. For fuck sake ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL.\n\nWhy should i who did everything legal wait for years and let these bastards just get a free ride? FAIR..I think not.\n\nFlame me you wankers, like a i really care.
479602
actually it would be all of the above and then some. i think they would take the law out of our country and we could just do what we wanted when we wanted to whomever we wanted without suffering any consequences. that's what they are aiming for. can you see that?
480062
And then they get deported. Yay! *golf clap*\n\nSeriously, who cares if a Mexican takes a janitorial job under the table for virtually nothing. Are you gonna clean those toilets? Who cares if an illegal immigrant is taking up space? Deport him if its a problem, but please people... stop b!itching about the illegals. They are illegal. They get deported or they scramble to make a life here without any government services. Either way, who cares?