Why are there so many immigrant issues taking place in America?
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For BEAUTIFUL\n\nIf the supply of foreign workers were to dry up (say, through actually enforcing the immigration law, for starters), employers would respond to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. One, they would offer higher wages, increased benefits, and improved working conditions, so as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers.At the same time, the same employers would look for ways to eliminate some of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. The result would be a new equilibrium, with blue-collar workers making somewhat better money, but each one of those workers being more productive.Many people fear the first part of such a response, claiming that prices for fruits and vegetables would skyrocket, fueling inflation..NOT TRUE..Labor accounts for only about ten percent of the retail price of a head of lettuce,  so even doubling the wages of pickers would have little noticeable effect on consumers.\n\nFor ANYONE ELSE\nSee My Blog\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/profile-PMRb1p42aacMueZmc_FaRn89U4XQsyz9cyAO
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American criminals are America's problem.  \n Criminal trespassers from other countries are becoming America's problem, to the detriment of all Americans.
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I've living in several countries for many years.   For starters, most common people are so focused on getting on with their lives -- you know: existing, feeding their families, staying out of a tribal argument, or avoiding pestilence -- they don't have much else on their minds.\n\nAs for the educated individual in these lands, it all depends on how they were raised, what their major course of study is (or their career), and how pervasive Western pop culture is in their country.\n\nAll in all -- most of the world sees a lot of good and not-so good about the U.S.   Again, it depends on their cirumstance.  If they were a tsunami victim, or a refugee fleeing genocide, and received our assistance, *  or were grateful for our orphanages and refugee camps -- the perspective would be positive.\n\nFor all our weaknesses, America is still a land of opportunity.   Why do you think so many immigrants want to come here?
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The issue is illegal immigraiton. Read more. Everybody and their dog is trying to bum-rush the border these days, and americans don't want a France in their backyard. If you don't understand what that's all about, then sit down and read about all the immigration problems france has been having, the riots etc.\nWe don't want, nor do we need all of that garbage in america. Hence the need to uphold our immigration laws. We need a lot more law enforcement on the job. Do you want to see america tank? Honestly? What kind of country do you want YOUR kids to grow up in? Choose carefully...
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Only reason is cause, this is a "internal" problem. But that's how it is with dividing cities. Poors (in this case: illegal aliens), move to cities, than the middle to upper class move to the suburbs.\n\nIn conclusion, I don't think this will really stir much division of the U.S., because it's not like the Civil War. The illegal immigrationists aren't being used by the people who support them.\n\nAmericans will come to their senses, and support NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
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It's a phenomenon called "drive by media".\n\nThe media has the attention span of a gnat and can not focus on one story for too long.\n\nThey just randonly "drive by" and let fly with a hail of "bullets" about some subject and then it's off to the next story.\n\nBTW, it was not correctly called an immigration issue since it really concerns just the ILLEGAL immigrants and not ALL immigrants. \n\nI think most people are for legally allowing people to come into the country. \n\nI said most people.
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The biggest problem facing America in my view is a creeping insecurity that causes people to be unreasonably fearful and, as a result, more selfish and less open to knowledge and understanding. This fear might arise from a lot of different events - the war in Iraq, 9/11, layoffs, crystal meth in smalltown America - but it has turned into a chronic condition all its own.\n\nWe're all marshalling our metaphorical soldiers around us, trying to keep out the unfamiliar, pile up some money against the uncertain future. We're not taking care of each other because we're so afraid.\n\nIn a way, we're much like the people rioting against the West in the Muslim world. From the Western European/U.S. perspective, people are getting all bent out of shape about something that we take for granted. But imagine that we could remove ourselves from our own perspective and watch our responses from some TV screen in another world. Would our fear-based reactions look any more rational? I'm not sure they would. They seem reasonable because they're familiar. But think about the way gang violence destroys poor communities. Think about the way that sports fans torch cars. Of insurance fraud. Of deep-seeded, insidious hypocrisy in so many aspects of our lives.\n\nI'm not sure we should be afraid; politicians of all descriptions have been exploiting the fear, though. We don't have a sensible, sensitive, and rational voice that doesn't belie self-interest.\n\nI don't know what we can do now. Maybe each and every one of us can give up something unnecessary and wasteful - driving an SUV, smoking cigarettes, watching reality TV - and take time to learn as much as possible about the people we share the planet with.
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Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.\n i couldnt agree more they should learn our language
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Maybe because many illegals do wrong things and affect the life here in USA,
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Whoa, step back, take a deep breath...\nIn America there are no armed struggles taking place over race, ethnicity, or tribe, as there are in Africa - central Asia - poorer parts of South America.\nIn America we have laws on the books against racially motivated violence, and those laws are regularly ENFORCED.\nMartin Luther King was an American; he taught us all lessons about non-violence, tolerance, and race that we have taken to heart.  His work is not yet finished...but we are much farther along in stopping the cancer of racism than many parts of the world.\nSo, please don't judge America on one or two incidents you have experienced or read about.  Take us as a whole.
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I'm not positive, but I doubt illegal immigration is happening anywhere near as much anywhere else as it is in the US. So, it's probably not a huge problem in other countries, but I'm sure they probably have rules and regulations on the issue as well.
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Why should it be a problem for African Americans come from the Carribeans? When everyday we have arabs, chinesse, and many more races coming from everywhere around the world to the U.S..
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The same reason people who are born in the country have, worries about employment, strains on the welfare system, worries over the standard of living falling because so many people live in one place.\nJust because they are immigrants legal or illegal doesn't mean they don't worry about how life will change due to so many more people living in the same place with the same needs ie work, food, home etc
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Most immigrants go to a new country to find economic freedom or freedom of speech or religion.  Since the USA has those things, it is not a valid reason for getting a residence status.  \n\nIf you have some really needed skill (a doctor or machine tool designer or something like that) you may get in some places like Australia.  Or if you have a pile of money.
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As with many immigrant groups, those with a Mexican background have contributed to our culture in many positive ways.  The current concerns of many Americans are the recent increase in numbers and the large increase in illegal immigrants.  \n\nWhile similar things have happened in the past, the “next door” nature of the problem exacerbates the situation by making assimilation into the culture more difficult.  Language is a major factor as a barrier against assimilation.  This problem is further compounded by the large numbers of illegal aliens who must live in a subculture where learning the language is not important.  \n\nLike it not those of Mexican background (as well as those from other Spanish speaking countries in the Americas) are here and their numbers are increasing.  It is likely that they will soon become the largest minority segment of the United States population.  Ways must be developed to minimize (if not totally stop) illegal immigration and other ways must be found to assimilate those who are here.
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It occurs to me that there are DAMN few people in America that are not decended from immigrants. If we had a bunch of illegal white people living and working in the USA, no one would be upset about it.
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First, immigrants know that America offers many freedoms not available elsewhere, and they are aware of the fact that it is easy to "slip through the cracks." They can find labor easily because employers want to hire cheap laborers. It works out for both parties. In addition, the crime market is easily accessible to them and they know that heavy profit lies in drug trafficking. Drugs are available and very profitable to them.