Impact on sectors such as medical, military, personal services, business and manufacturing\n\nAre illegal aliens worse than 9/11?
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Illegal aliens are not worse than 9/11.\n\nIf half of the illegal immigrants were forced to leave than there would be 5 million more jobs available to working class Americans.  In addition those employers would then be forced to pay decent wages and to hold workers comp insurance.\n\nThere would be less drain on hospitals which are required to treat everyone who comes into the emergency room, lowering medical costs.  The military would not be affected, but we would have to increase border patrols and border security.  Personal services would probably start costing slightly more.  Most manufacturing is already done overseas (most jobs in the U.S. are now service related) so there would be less effect there.
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I'd say it's probably more.  I'm sorry but all the illegals out there aren't all nice hardworking people and they are responsible for a huge increase of crime.  If it's not in you're neighborhood now.....it soon will be.
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Way to go!  Congrats to the friend who got the new job as well!  If the illegals went home, business would be forced to pay a better wage and would entice US citizens to work!
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Pre-empting daytime TV for endless hearings and investigations while they accomplish nothing in Washington, the economy begins to wane as taxes kick in and expenditures on social programs increase at the expense of defense and national security. Not wanting to deal with the terrorists in their backyard just means they will come to play in ours. And probably illegal aliens will get amnesty making those who applied legally for citizenship look foolish. At some point someone will realize our international influence has a great deal to do with our food production in this country, and the UN will try and take control of our farm produce. We already have lost most of our freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with the left. The careful avoidance of the gun control issue by democrats just means they have learned their lesson not to take on the NRA. the question will be can they last two years, until the Presidential race, before going liberal? I hope I am completely wrong, but I remember what the democrats were doing before 1994 when they had been  in control of both houses for decades. Had the "rising tide" of eager young republicans  kept the last of the pledges of the "contract with America", "term limits" and rotated out of office then they might not have been defeated as badly by the "change" attitude, or as complacent with status qou. The success of illegal immigrant and private property rights ballot measures in states that went democrat prove the republicans weren't paying attention to what were traditionally middle class values, democrat or republican. I think most people are just hoping for PROGRESS, low taxes, lower energy costs, some kind of peace (isolation is a utopian dream, 9/11 reminded us), so that life and prosperity can go on. But the influx of illegal immigrants to work cheap and demand benefits and exodus of good jobs, must be dealt with.
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Our first objective was to tighten our borders.  In the wake of doing that it was discovered that there were 11 Million immigrants living here illegally.  The vast majority came here over a vulnerable Mexican border. The discovery led to severe critisism of the illegal Mexican population in the U.S.. All of the things you have mentioned place valid blame on illegal immigrants, not necessarily Mexicans alone.  The attacks of Sept. 11 were committed by a group of middle eastern men who, by the very nature of their business, were here illegally.  The American economy has suffered through loss of jobs, many of which are not in the fields as first thought, but in the construction trades. There, illegal Mexican migrant workers are willing to do jobs for half the normal wages paid to a legal citizen & their wages are usually sent back to Mexico. Crime & drugs are the same thing here in the U.S. & most of it comes over the same southern border.\nI had to rush my wife to the hospital emergency room last week.  It was over-crowded, mostly with illegal immigrants (verified through hospital staff).  They were there because of no insurance & no family doctor. They were using the E.R. as a "clinic" for the sniffles & minor illnesses.  We were there for 6 hours & finally left without any treatment.\nAmericans of all nationalities including Mexican-Americans have had enough.  The UK would not do it any differently nor any better.\nSince you added "missing the point", I have to add that we are not missing the point.  We (Americans) have no argument with immigrants who come here to become ONLY Americans. It is our Country & we don't mind letting others join, as long as they obey our laws, learn our language & accept our culture as their own. We have room for many, but room for only one flag: the American flag.
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That's one of the problems we wouldn't have. Our economy would be better. Jobs wouldn't have been outsourced. We'd have a better environment and an alternative fuel source. Bin Laden would have been captured. We wouldn't have 12 million illegals in the country. And on and on.
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I think everyone is being too hard on you quite honestly. It's a good question and I understand the gist of what you are asking. More and more the government is becoming accepting of illegal immigrants. As you may know, this has been in the news alot lately. Illegal immigrants can come from any country including the middle east. I think we should be cracking down on illegal immigrants more...especially after 911 but unfortunately it seems to be going the other way. We seem to be letting more of them in and looking the other way. Why? Illegal Aliens are often times cheap labor for many companies in the USA. \n\nI don't think the main concern is that they may gather information because as many people have pointed out, they can do that on the Internet from anywhere in the world. I think the main concern is that terrorists will come in an act on the threats they've been making as they did on 911. \n\nI'm no expert but that is my take on it and I hope that helped a bit.
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Sure.  On what topic?\n\nNet fiscal effects of unskilled immigration: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm\n\nCosts of illegal aliens:\nhttp://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/NEWS/60604001/1033/NEWS01\n\nSome impacts of the Senate Bill:\nhttp://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060527-111535-8806r.htm\n\nMay 2005 order for Border Patrol to 'stand down' where Minutemen were so Minutemen wouldn't look effective: \nhttp://www.washtimes.com/national/20050513-122032-5055r.htm\n\nTrends in immigrant make up:\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1405.html\n\nMultiple links on government studies: \nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/eap/east_asia_pacific/chinese_human_smuggling/smuggling_in_the_press/impact_on_governments.html\n\nMore costs and impacts of illegal aliens:\nhttp://www.thevillagenews.com/story.asp?story_ID=6035\n\nDid you have any particular topic in mind?
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I agree with, bigman2006.  Terrorism isn't just bombing places and people.  A terrorist destroys lives and has a personal agenda, such as, Bush.  Bush doesn't care about the American people but cares about big business and the rich.  Outsourcing of jobs is destroying the American dream.
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Good question!\n\nIf you employ illegal aliens for less than minimum wage then you will probably have to start paying them minimum wage. \n\nOther than that, your medical insurance will probably become more expensive. I can't see any increase in food and I don't see the laws getting better.\n\nYou know, now that I look at my answer, none of these would be benefits to you. So I guess unless someone else seriously considers your question and can come up with something, there are no benefits to you.
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Immigration is not an issue but ILLEGAL immigration certainly is... I agree with what you say but what you failed to say is these illegal aliens are more dangerous to middle-class Americans that al qaeda could ever be...the difference is blowing up a few thousand or killing the future of a whole country & it's citizens!
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Mexico is not the true problem for US security. The problem that makes the US a target of terrorism is its policies imposed over other countries which clearly violate their sovereign rights. Outside the US, Americans are perceived as people who only care about themselves, their business and their money. A good lot of American policies imposed over other countries have been clearly a violation of the rights of democracy in those countries, just to favor some major US corporations. Bush should be spending more time trying to make peace than invading other countries and attacking other nations because their ways are different than ours.
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I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
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Under the bush regime our country has become more corrupt than most third world countries...this included both democrats & republicans!  Bush should be impeached for not securing our borders within hours of 9/11...I'm positive it was not an oversight but rather to let in the illegals so big business would keep the money coming!  I know he will rot in hell for what he does everyday to Americans!
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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!!!!!!!
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Once again, Jessica has proved she can copy and paste.  Get some knew material and maybe an idea of your own.  I've seen this same answer for 5 questions.\n\nTo answer the question:\n\n1. higher taxes\n2. strain on an already burdened economy\n3. lack of health care for Americans who really need it because the  illegal aliens are sucking it dry.\n4. everything you said.
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Yes ... I Think It Will Have An Impact- AND I SUPPORT It\n\n1-People Will Lose Their Jobs And Be Replaced By Citizens\n\n2-There Is CERTAIN To Be At Least ONE Incident Of Violence\nPrompting Washington To Realize The DANGER In Keeping The ILLEGALs Here And Ensuring The Full Endorsement Of HR4437\nWith NO AMNESTY\n\n3-There Will Be Less Traffic That Day