Is work going to suck when none of the immigrants show up?
206847
nope, didn't last time... only people it sucked for was the people that lost their jobs... FOR NOT GOING TO WORK
355871
The Enchanted Fairy is right!\nNow let's hope INS goes to a couple of these big protests and rounds up a bunch of these illegal scumbags!\n\nWe could make a big dent in the illegal population by enforcing the labor laws and giving HUGE fines to both the illegal worker and the company that hired them. After awhile it would become cheaper for those companies to pay better wages to Americans, than to hire the illegals!
129487
I am a lawyer - but not an immigration lawyer.  I have numerous clients who ask me the same question.  From what friends who practice in that area tell me - it is VERY diffcult to speed the process up.  Unless you have a dire emergency - you will probably have to wait.  Obviously the US is a bit nervous right now about immigrants. \nHope it works out for you!
176686
Yep. We have similar problems up in Canada with another ethnic group. We welcome immigrants, if its legal. Otherwise they live for years absorbing money without paying taxes, and sending a good portion of this money back to their home countries, where it is no longer is able to add to the nations economy.\n\nBTW-illsuitedwan... what's your definition of illegal???Illegals do NOT pay taxes, they are paid under the table (illegally) to avoid getting caught.As soon as the IRS recieves tax information on an illegal, the department of immigration is notified and deportation process begins.  Unless unemployment in the US (and Canada for that matter) is at zero percent which it has never been.  then there are 'legal' citizens who need the work, and would pay taxes. Employers get away with hiring illegals and paying them far less than the minimum wage (because they're illegal), automatically putting these people below the poverty line. So how is this helping them?
135079
Well - gosh - I see so many "Americans" lining up to clean, cook and do yard work.  These so called jobs being taken away from Americans (ha,ha) are given to immigrants bcuz they will do them for next to nothing in pay and if YOU were to do any of these jobs you would want $50 an hour with benefits and vacations and sick time and a say in what you do and a title for your job and pay raises etc, etc. You get the drift ???????
613683
Good luck.  Stick with an American if you want the job done right.  Stop outsourcing all of our jobs to foriengers, we have enough right here.  OK?
332792
yes i think that would help but this whole guest worker crap is not going to work its just another way around it heres why :\n\n\nI wonder how many nurses, teachers, or high-tech workers would work for $8 an hour. Wait, you didn't know that Bush's "guest worker" plan would be open to those people too?\nThat's what they have in mind. And, there would be no wage-related restrictions on it other than the minimum wage. So, employers could offer a teaching job for $8 an hour. American teachers would either take that rate or, more likely, they wouldn't. So, the employer could hire that "guest" worker from Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi would consider that a king's ransom. All the requirements of Bush's plan had been met: there wasn't an American willing to do the job.\nBush's plan would force millions of previously higher-wage jobs down near the minimum wage. What phrase would most Americans use to describe such a plan?\n\nWhat exactly does he mean by "families"? Will their immediate family come with them or not? If not, are we going to be able to split up families? Not all people coming here would be Mexicans or from the parts of Mexico near the border. Is Bush going to require men to travel hundreds of miles to see their immediate family?\nIf, however, they're bringing their immediate family with them, there will no doubt be hundreds of thousands of children born, and those children will be U.S. citizens. Who's going to be able to make them go home after they've had a U.S. citizen child? And, won't most "guest" workers intentionally have children here so it will be harder to make them go home?\nAnd, given that, doesn't this plan consist not just of an amnesty, but as a massive incentive for a huge chunk of Mexico's population to come here? Was any thought put into the consequences of this plan at all?\nNo, no guestworker program should take the place of following the law! This still allows the law-breaking illegals to go to the head of the line and disrupts the ability of legal immigrants to get their chance! Until such time as all able-bodied welfare recipients are put to work, all homeless people, all college and high school students have the chance to work, we don't need to import anyone to take our jobs! Stop pandering, stop giving handouts and stop lying to the American people!\nEvery so often the real agenda slips through\n\nhow can an American be expected to do a job that has had the wage undercut by cheap illegal labor from Mexico? How will legalizing this cheap labor change that situation? Of course, it will not. In fact, it will only encourage more border crossing, which will result in more Mexican citizens and others living in the United States and having children who are U.S. citizens, and who are thus harder to deport when their “temporary” guest worker visas expire. Given the fraud, incompetence, and bureaucratic lethargy that mark most government programs, how can the public have any faith that such a plan would work even remotely as advertised? \n\n\n\n\nAll of these illegals will eventually stay, become voters, if the DNC has their way, their population will continue to grow and they will become a voting block that has NO interest in our language, history, military, or patriotism, only the $$$$ that are available will be the main interest.\nThat scenario is not totally here yet, but it is lingering in the future if our national course of extreme liberalism continues to erode the very fabric of our nation.
316919
Yes, I believe that is the answer to the illegal problem, go after the employer, arrest the people that do the hiring and put them in jail, make the company's pay a huge fine per illegal, that would get the message out to the employers that it will not be tolerated. \n\nNO WORK = NO JOB = NO MONEY = NO REASON TO BE HERE.
308664
Yes, employers of the illegal immigrants are the problem, if you take away the employment there would be no reason for them to be here. They the elected officials are suppose to uphold the law not break it and there are laws against employing illegals. I think they should be arrested and treated no better or worse the any other employer that decides that they do not have to adhere to the law.
469626
Good point.  I know of many cases where people have worked the heck out of illegal aliens for days and when pay day comes they report them to the cops or immigration to avoid paying them.  The employer is usually someone that hires them for handyman work and it never involves major companies.  Bottom line is that the illegal alien usually get returned to their country.  Also this mostly occurs in border communities.
151865
No.  The illegal alien problem can be handled by SEVERELY penalizing employers, and diligently finding those employers.\n\nThis will both eliminate the influx of illegals and will cause the giant mass of illegals to go back to their country to seek employment.
128360
By all accounts, we are putting them to work.  And that's fine with most people, especially the people who hire them.  So there is no problem.\n\nBut problems were made.  Because they became more numerous, they became more visible, and so they got more notice.  Eeek!  An immigrant!  Two, three, a dozen, right over there!\n\nNow we have to sort out frightened people's "concerns" against the economic benefits of having them here to do our crop picking, lawn care, babysitting and other low-end jobs.
202297
Most of them, take up positions in unskilled labor. Without them many businesses would have to pay higher salaries to get non-immigrants to do those jobs. It would make certain services/products more expensive.
331724
I feel like it's a slap in the face to every person who has immigrated here legally. What really frosts me is that this is also an amnesty for the employers who have enjoyed the unfair competitive advantage of hiring illegals over the past years. How can an honest business person stay in business when your competitor's payroll expenses are 50% less than yours?
562251
One day you will walk into work and you will already be there.  Then you will know it is too late. Then when you get back home, you will be already there, too.  Now, not only will you not have a job, you will be homeless, too.  Unfortunately, it continues to go downhill from there, I'm afraid.  Not much you can do.\n\nIt's such a shame, but that's the way it goes, in the Twilight Zone.
672183
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!
238275
come on.  you don't expect too many citizen will do dishes, do you?  Maybe true for new legal immigrants.