how is it going to effect the illigal immigrants?
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it's a law that gives the inmigrant a status of criminal, like comparing it with a thief or violator, or assasin...\n\nthe problem with it is, ok you give the inmigrants status of criminals and u start a big persecution against them... once u get them, where are u gonna put all that people... cause if u give them status of criminal u as country have to follow certain protocol for each inmigrant: investigation, judge, deportation, or jail... it's a lot of stuff, stuff that has costs... i think that the problem is that US never, never in history has controlled its inmigration, since all those african americans that were brought, the european people that came a loooooong time ago; the US has always been a country of big movements of people, i think now it's too late to start putting rules...\n\nin the other hand, the inmigration that's giving "problems" to america is the mexican inmigration, those guys who go cross the border, we'll always try again and again to cross it cause they have nothing else to lose, that makes the mexican inmigrant "powerfull" \n\nI've read, and listen people that beg for inmigrants to go home... for once i would really love to see that happens, because u have no idea of the chaos it would be if u stop inmigration not only mexican, but all inmigration...
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Seriously, I think there will be a lot of fighting. A lot of United States citizens are really tired of illegals draining our economy, and I think the resentment will surface in a very violent way.  And just for the record, I hope they don't pass a bill allowing that, because it certainly isn't fair to the people who earned their citizenship the honest way.  By the way, my family has been here since about 1670.
359418
not sure...but if its really happening, its bullshyt and will cause a huge backlash toward the ILLEGAL hispanic community......damned beaners
207993
Yes it will make a big impact on our youths and current drug users, now they can go to mexico and get these drugs that can cause serious harm to individuals. yes the president of Mexico is doing this on purpose due to immigration reform we are proposing. i see in the future some major trouble for both countries.
145443
Ludicrous idea.  Next thing you know these politicians will label these folks as "livelihood-terrorists".  What harm exactly are these immigrants causing?  If anything, they're keeping the economy rolling right along.
99164
illegal immigrants hurt the country, and the people who hire them. ethnic backgrounds have nothing to do with it-make my day, send home illegal immigrants, and prosecute the people who employ them!!!!!!!
636942
how about" how immigration affects the world around us" ?
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illeagl immagrants are ILLEGAL , if i was you i'd call up the feds and shut that dump down and kick them mexicaican and whoever else is there back where they came from, i sure as hell dont want my unborn children growing up without any means to feed themselfs cause sme forigners jumped boarder and took the only chance they had.
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Some people talk about the enormous damage that would occur to the US economy if suddenly, all at the same time, ALL illegal immigrants were deported - this is so laughable!  No one said they would all be deported at precisely the same time - all 12 million or more of them on the same day!  No, this would of course be impossible.  But it would happen over a period of time and as employers stopped hiring illegals, American citizens would step in to fill those jobs as they were vacated by illegals, more and more as the lack of hiring illegals also caused the wages to return to what they were at pre-illegal hiring.  With more and more American citizens doing the jobs at liveable wages, there will be fewer and fewer Americans on welfare, more tax dollars put into the system, more Americans with more money to spend IN AMERICA and so that even if the cost of a head of lettuce goes up a few cents, all Americans will be able to afford to buy that head of lettuce.  The economy, over the long-term (not so long, though) would be better than ever!
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As long as their are poor people, and third world countries, there will be no end to immigration issues.\n\nI see what you are getting at, I think.  Without the immigrants; without the poor, there would be no middle or upper classes.  Poor people do the work for the middle and upper classes to maintain their social status.\n\nHope that was kind of what you were getting at :)
266297
experts said it wasn't a big impact because many immigrants still went or had to work many of the people from May 1st were illegal immigrants, so guess what, they aren't tax payers, so imagine if instead of illegal were all American citizen that would be another story...
674286
Pancha, I am not talking about the 4% here. I am talking about multiplying that by family not yet here, and by the HUGE increase from the Senate Bill proposed guest worker program.  I think the illegals except those we are really willing to root out (the awful ones) are going to be here legalization or not, so the impact is already here.  My focus is on the future immigration level. This is not just a 'lets make it a little easier'.  This is a 'let's flood the market so we can pay peanuts, like China does' and there is no hope that won't impact us, particularly when the baby boomers retire and need the social services they have been paying into all of their lives.  Read this.  I MEAN it: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1109.cfm
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For me, it's not clear how education affects illegal immigration. You could argue that an abundance of poorly educated citizens, scavenging for low pay jobs, might actually deter illegal immigration.\n \nWhat is clear, is that well educated people are less threatened by illegal immigration because their job's profile is not that of the kind that an illegal might take. Further on, since they are likely to hire some of these illegals, they might benefit from the cheap labor.
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Yes, consider how much water Mexico owes, which we mostly wrote off. That amount of water mostly pays them back, plus factor in the assistance we give to THEIR citizens. Add the welfare, food stamps, cost of each childs education (20 to 30 grand each year) and everything else these immigrants cause us to incur. I think that figure might quickly deflate to zero and then negatives (they owe us in that case).
240816
They think it can't or won't happen to them. After the US is completely ruined they might be in for a big surprise. Then they will make our tough immigration laws look like a welcome mat.
160313
Yes, sure I will stay at my house all day long. It is going to be a day that will show what would really happens if there where no immigrants. People say that we are bad for the economy so if this is true the economy will boom on that day.\n\nFirst some people say it is pointless but then they say that they will go and buy many things on that day. Confusing.....Isn't it? If they say that they will go and buy more things on that day is because they know that this boycott will affect the country. And then they say it is pointless! VERY CONFUSING...........................
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are you referring to illegal immigration? then you could start by talking about getting into everyday things that they effect and then get into the larger aspects such as costing the government billions of dollars, hospitals not having enough money and having to close down, crime rates, etc.\nif just immigration, talk about how they come here and start businesses or whatever and the reasons they came.