what if we stopped the ability of anyone who is not legal to send money from the US back to their native country?\nwouldn't this give a good incentive to come in legally and for those here to become legal?
216960
if you block one door they will find another to open.
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I think the skip day is over hyped.  I think that the day will come and go and other than news coverage of protesters, we won't even notice.  ALL illegals should go home.  I don't care if they are from Ireland, India, Siam, or Mexico.  If you are here illegally you have cut in line in front of someone who wants to come here the legal way.  NO WAY should anyone be rewarded for doing that.  Rewarding illegal immigration will only encourage more illegal immigration.  The ones legalized will no longer work for cheap wages which will open the door for new illegals, who will expect the same, "citizen status" in time.
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I read your rants and I cannot debate you because I agree.  However, it still is not fixing the problem now is it?  We really need to look at the practicalities of this.... It will take a process of time, but first, any illegal migrant who is in our prisons or jails, should be shipped out immediately!  No regards on this one.  Next, any illegal migrants who are already employed here should be back taxed on prove able income for the duration of their employ and the employer should be HEAVILY fined.  Then, they should be allowed the opportunity to remain and work as taxable aliens until that time they choose to gain legalized status.  They also should be required to learn the English language, since they are in an English speaking country.  There is so much more but that would at least be a start.  Agree?\n\n\nAs for those who call these illegals-immigrants- they are not.....they broke the LAW.  When you defend them because`they came here wanting to better themselves and help their families' you are propitiating that breaking laws is okay if it helps you achieve your golas, or it makes your life better.....think about it!!!  If it will make my neighbors life better to steal my refund check out of my mailbax, is that alright?  If it makes someones life better to come into your place of business and kill you to take your money, is that alright?  We cannot go around and disregard the law because it is inconvenient people!
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It's bull--it, If you come to this country legally, GREAT..If you come here illegally why should we allow you to stay, you already broke the law...& to let felons come here to work? NO WAY !!!! This country was founded by LEGAL immigrants..............
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I agree. If you want to come into the US you do it legally and you have to obay our laws. OOPs you already broke one. You came here illegally. Laws are for a reason. If everyone got way with breaking laws the US would be like the Country you are trying to flee.
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Neither them, or their children should become citizens. They broke the law to get here - why reward them? It just encourages more to come here.
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What an excellent question.\n\nYou would think this event, since it is a kind of natural flowing, self-exiling exercise by the illegals themselves, should provide our politicians a means of regulating our border.\n\nUnfortunately this won't happen.\nMany in D.C. aren't serious about immigration control.\n\nWhat really gets me mad is that thousands of people  are trying LEGALLY to become American citizens and are stonewalled by this same bureaucracy.
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Hey, you got me thinking ... this is a potential solution to the illegal alien problem, and a money generating operation to boot.\n\nIt's brilliant! Who's with me?
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The majority of immigrants come to this country for the American dream, hoping for a better life and their children. Although it's politically wrong to engage in illegal crossing to another country, the incentive is still strong. Many of them have successfully made it to America.\n\nLet's not to say it's a waste of our tax money for their welfare, education, etc.., but many of the illegal immigrants have improved our economy nonetheless involving in crucial jobs. U.S. employers and consumers would suffer as well as the illegal migrants who are deported. Reforms that deport illegal migrants are unwise: for economic as well as humanitarian and pragmatic reasons.\n\nI think the alternative is to have a guest-worker program, with low administrative burdens and job flexibility for migrants with a path to permanent residency for being hardworking and eventually earning a naturalized citizenship. It could enhance our economy and reduce the flow of attempted illegal crossings.\n\nRemember the United States is made up of various diverse races as a nation. We should be proactive, not reactive, to work around this matter in the long run.
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they can demand all they want, truth is, they're NOT American citizens! They're NOT entitled to any of the rights that this country has to offer to it's citizens. Could we go into another country, and just because we were there, and wanted to remain there, demand our rights. \nOne right however is this: break our laws and land your backside in our jails.. let's enforce that one. They're already broken the law, so lets see if we can follow through on it. \nCaught here illegal and find yourself heading back home, via free ride. Or demand that their country pay us back for the price it cost to return thier own.
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Bad idea.Once they are allowed in they won't leave.\nSend the illegals back and don't let any more in.This is an invasion that the goverment is failing to protect us from.Big business wants them here to be slave laborers at low pay and without benefits.\nDon't listen when they tell you Americans won't do the job.If they could GET the job instead of illegals,they would.And when they say it's too many to send back,send them back the same way they got here.One at a time!\nStop feeling sorry for lawbreakers who want to take over and change us to suit them!
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If illegals are sent back to their countries (not all illegals are mexicans), it is going to hurt our economy. Lots and lots of them have bussines around and debts and ongoing credits, the loss of moneys would be too great for commerce. Also, there are jobs that won't be filled, like right now, in florida farmers are starting to complain about the shortage in help to pick their oranges, tomatoes and strawberries, I'm already expecting an increase in vegetables price for next year.
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They should all go back with their children in tow! If you aren't here legally when you have your kid, it should NOT become a citizen.\n\nNo one else is allowed to legally profit from their illegal activities. For example, when they bust a drug dealer, they take everything he owns whether or not they can prove that it was bought with drug profits. Criminals can not write books or do interviews about their crime for money.\n\nSo, why is it that someone who is in this country ILLEGALLY can have a kid and then leech off of the taxpayers' wallets indefinitely through welfare and other social programs? They are benefiting from their crime when they should be made to pay!\n\nIf I make less money than you, and I just want a better life, can I come and live in your home without your permission? I'll have my baby, and you'll be responsible for its welfare as well as mine. Also, your taxes will go up to cover the costs of schooling my baby (and the dozen more that I'll have). Does that sound fair to you? Who is really being mean - the people who work hard for what they have, or those who steal from the working people?
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My wife and i are legal immigrants.\nIt amazes us that the non legal immigrants are potesting for full immigration rights.\nThat is like demanding for the rights for the goods that a thief has stolen.\nHow is that fair to the millions that wait inline legaly for years to be a US immigrant.\nI know husbands that has waited for years for their new wife from oversea, just to be in line legally.\nIt was a big mistake in the past to give citizenship to the non legal immigrants in the past, lets not do it again.\nAllowing them to come over to work legally is a good idea, at least they will be paying taxes like the rest of us.\nWE CAN NOT AFFORT TO SUPPORT NO TAX PAIDING NON LEGALS FOR MUCH LONGER, OUR PUBLIC SERVICE ARE FOR TAX PAIDING LEGALS.\nThis is really making us legal immigrants mad as hell, we wait inline, work hard, paid taxes, and end up supporting non legal with our hard work and taxes. Please stop it.
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You are forgetting one little detail--the idea is to prevent ILLEGAL immigration.  Legal immigrants are welcomed here every day, and still will be.  Why is there even a debate over this--why should one aspect of the law be OK to bend for the sake of ONE ethnic group??  Whoever thinks they are ALL coming here with innocent and angelic intent, is sadly disillusioned.  There is an illegal drug-running/immigrant "trade" going on right next door to us!!  If they are such a strong and hard-working people--why don't they work to oust the evil that is in their own country, so that theirs IS safe to live in???  \n\nI think that assisting the Border Patrol with our National Guard WILL help.  As for the folks questioning if they even have any business there--it is part of their job to GUARD the NATION after all.
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It would be to costly to ship 20 million illegals back to their country.  The incompentent US government needs to start prosecuting companies that hire/exploit illegals.  No jobs for illegals = illegals going back home because their is no oppurtunity for them.  That costs me no tax dollars!\nstraight up baby! you are beautiful!
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Yeah, we all support them with the money we are forced by taxation to pay to meet their needs while they live tax free. And no, I don't want to support them because it lessen the amount of cash I have to support myself. What part of illegal doesn't our government understand? They need to be arrested, prosecuted and then ship them home pronto! Otherwise every American person arrested for an 'illegal' act should sue for wrongful detainment/discrimination.