In 1996 Republicans gave 2.7 million illegals amnesty, last year we had about 850,000 illegals in the U.S.A. If Mexico took all our jobs after NAFTA, then why do they come here to work? I wonder if the pay 60 cents per hour in Mexico has a effect? Does lack of Health care in Mexican Jobs have a effect?
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Because Republicans are out to destroy our country.
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A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants.' Crikey, that's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas. According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million\nThat does not make me happy at all.And its not just in Texas its every where.\n\nIR this nurse tells a different story.........\nhttp://www.rense.com/general54/anchorbabiesborn.htm\nMy commute to work exceeds fifty miles but it gives me time to reflect. It is 1987, and I am an obstetrical nurse working in the crowded San Fernando Valley of California. Tonight I drive to my job in "Labor and Delivery," knowing the scenario before I arrive. Eight other nurses will battle through the night in this very busy obstetrical unit. Our patients are 99 percent pregnant illegal alien women who have broken United States immigration law to birth an American citizen child. \n  This will be their families, entry ticket into the United States. For them, no pesky visa applications and no waiting in line for several years like so many millions that enter this country through the front door. Pregnant Third World women have discovered that the only thing they have to do is cross the U.S.--Mexico border.\nAnd this was in 1987 nothings changed has it?
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somebody said about no real jobs and the mexicans issue. This anyway doesnt apply on me I am not mexican, but why I cant find a decent Job. I have my education and i am sure not because of the mexicans but because of the OUTSOURCING. My Job aswell of many other vanished for some CHEAP LABOR overseas (india and china), The issue of the illegal immigrant has been  a problem since forever, but why now it was erupted? Because the Big companies are laying off people left and right, and outsourcing the jobs of others, maybe they knew some retaliation will happen so they erupt and paid money in millions to let media concentrate on mexicans.\n\nBeside that someone said the 300.000 on welfare.... Did you trach how many are not mexicans on welfare and they are capable of working but they dont want to do anything beside selling crack on the streets and hang out arround. You know how many are those? MANYYYY.\n\nWhat about the war thats is not OURS!!! war expense everyday was estimated of 100 millions. Gaz for vehicles, food for soldiers, etc... What we have to do with irakians problems? why we still there? thats beside everyday we lose one or 2 soldiers. These are humans !!! THATS where you lose Money!!!\n\nAnd for those who said now we have laws about immigration I am afraid that you missed totally the point of the person who asked this question. He mentioned the settlers as a prove that all white, yellow, black, brown except what called red indians are IMMIGRANT. You accept that fact or not, this country history return back to 300 to 400 years max. \n\nAnyway americans are offensive to newly immigrant? yes but because of some rules in some companies about zero tolerance against discrimination they dont say it out loud. btw If the americans didnt descriminate against others based on their origin...why there is a law prohibit the descrimination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Made_in_America(Above)-Hows This Answer ????\n\nLEGAL Immigration is a good and healthy thing for a nation, because it is done at a rate and in a way that allows a country to collectively decide what sort of labor/jobs ratios it wants to maintain. Limitless ILLEGAL Immigration, however, leads to the modern-day equivalent of slavery, benefiting only the conservative corporate elites.\n \nTranslation:To The Conservative Corporate Elite In This Nation...The Answer To Your Question Is YES\n\nAlthough These"Indentured Servants"Are Free To Go, They Stay Because Their Lives ARE, No Doubt, Better Than At Home,\nBut ILLEGALs Are Still A HUGE DRAIN To The Taxpayers\n\nHeres Something NOBODY Thought Of Yet\n\nIF We Deport The ILLEGAL Immigrants employers would respond to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. \n\n1: They would offer HIGHER Wages, INCREASED Benefits, and Improved Working Conditions, so as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers.\n\n2: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.                     \n\n In Turn The US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and wages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as would the union movement in this nation.\n\n(Wait A Sec....I Aint Done....Stay With Me Here Folks)\n\nThe NEXT Turn Of Events Would Be For IMMIGRANTS To Come To The US In Search Of A Better Life And Then You Would Not Ask Questions Like THIS Because The IMMIGRANTS Would Be Getting A FAIR And DECENT Wage,(NOT $3.00Per Hour)And Would NOT Have To Shack Up 10-15 Inna Cardboard Box,They WILL Pay TAXES,They Will Have Insurance(HEALTH And OTHERwise) And The REST Of The Nation Would Not Look DOWN On Them As We All Have Shown That We Do Right In These Forums Because They Would Be LEGAL, DOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS In Our Nation\n\nResult:Better For The Immigrants-Better For The Economy\nAnd Situations Described Above By meridocbrandybuck Would Be Virtually IMPOSSIBLE(You Are Describing Some ILLEGAL Immigrants)\n\nThe ANSWER To Your Question Is \nLimitless ILLEGAL Immigration IS, Without A Doubt, the Modern-Day EQUIVALENT of slavery, benefiting only the Conservative Corporate Elites.\n\nSeems To Me That The Administrations Agenda To Keep Their Foot On The Throats Of The American Middle Class Is Finally Coming To The Surface
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if we didn't have illegal immigrants in this country working for such low wages, the economy would never survive. i doubt many american citizens would get down on their hands and knees to do all the dirty work that illegal immigrants do. if all of them in america decided to strike, we'd probably all go into inflation by the end of the week.
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The Bill is completely ridiculous. The punishment for being an illegal immigrant and for pretty much "knowing" one, is way too harsh. In reality, we are all immigrants. Granted some are legal and some aren't. However, in my opinion, they help our economy. They pick the vegetables that we eat. They raise our children. They clean our floors that we step on everyday when we go to work or school, etc. These are jobs that honestly, most of us would not want to do. Most of us are too lazy. We'd rather a nice paying job sitting on our rears in front of a computer, as we are all doing now.\nDid anyone watch "A day without a Mexican"?
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its affecting the u.s. because the illegal aliens are taking jobs that the poor can do like manual labor and leaving the poor to die. so they basically are steeling money from the U.S. and taking it to there home country. there for we are losing a lot of money and U.S. citizens aren't getting jobs.
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The President wants to close the borders. This has international and domestic impacts.  Internationally, Mexico is our next door neighbor and a huge source of its funding comes from the funds sent home by immigrants to the United States.  Both the Presidential candidates in Mexico are running on platforms regarding OUR immigration policies.  We like friendly relations with our neighbors. \n\nDomestically, employers want to have access to lower wage workers.  Closing the borders will limit their access to those workers.  Their opposition would make it harder for Bush to address the issue.\n\nDomestically also, there is a huge illegal immigrant population which has never been screened for diseases we have eradicated here, as legal immigrants are screened. Probably more importantly from Bush's point of view, that huge group could easily hide a multitude of terrorists, since they have never been screened for that, either.\n\nSo in building a coalition to address this issue, Bush came up with a guest worker program.  As an incentive to screening the illegal immigrants already here, and for the more human reasons a number of people have already raised on these pages, he came up with a path to citizenship within that program.  That would also bring them within society so that the hard case undesirables wouldn't be shielded by Hispanics who would normally have nothing to do with them.\n\nHe is defending the country as he sees it.\n\nWhat do I think of his approach?  I could design a program with all of those elements that I could live with. Part of it would be to make sure the employers funded the social services needed to support their work force. That would also make their wages more on par with those of our own workers which would help even the playing field. Another part of my plan would be to make the whole thing conditional on a truly secure border. Unfortunately, Bush hasn't asked me to write up the program.
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If we get rid on Mexican works your going to see a whole lot of price increases.  I'm sorry but I have had two houses built and Mexican workers are the best hands down.  They work their butts off and do an excellent job.  In Texas they estimate that 80% of homes are being built by illegal immigrants.  If you took that 80% away no one could afford to by a house.\n\nDon't give me this crap that American's would do these jobs because they wont.  The ones that do will half ass it.  Americans expect lots of money for little to no work.
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I'm with you.  I just can't understand why this is allowed to happen.  I just keep asking, "what part of illegal are they having trouble with"?  And as far as the government is concerned, what can I say?  The whole thing just frosts me.  I almost never vote for an incumbent and after this I may remove the word "almost" from that statement.\n\nI'm sure you understand that if we legalize all of them right now, it will only lead to more illegals entering to take the $.50 an hour jobs these folks will no longer qualify for.  \n\nI give up.  I am so flustered I can't even make sense of my own thoughts.
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Impact of amnesty proposals on Illegal Alien numbers \nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIl...\n\nOn January 9, 2004, President Bush proposed a guest worker program - a thinly veiled amnesty for illegal aliens. \nA February 29, 2004, Fox News article subsequently stated that from 50 percent to 90 percent of illegal aliens apprehended claimed they were coming here for the "amnesty" (their words). One Border Patrol officer stated that "They believe that they are only responding to an invitation." \nShortly thereafter, the Border Patrol was ordered not to collect this information. \n\nWord of the amnesty had spread far beyond Mexico. \nApprehensions included Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Chileans, Chinese, Pakistanis, and East Indians. \n\nBy June, 2004, U.S. Border Patrol official statistics revealed that there had been 135,468 apprehensions along the southwest border during April 2004,  an 80 percent increase when compared to April 2003. A May 23, 2004, New York Times article stated that after a 4-year drop,  apprehensions were are up 30 percent over 2003 apprehensions along the entire southern border,  with 660,000 people detained from October 1, 2003 through the end of April, 2004. \n Representative Kolbe testified that 155,000 people had been apprehended along the Arizona border in the first three months of 2004. \n\nAlthough correlation does not necessarily imply causation, it seems reasonable to presume a relatively modest 25 percent increase in illegal aliens starting January 15, 2004,  through the rest of the year as a result of the "guest worker" proposal.  This 25 percent is a conservative estimate of the increased flow of illegal aliens into the U.S. as a result of President Bush's amnesty proposal. In fact, official Border Patrol apprehension statistics show that total 2004 apprehensions as of June 30, 2004  represent  A 190 PERCENT INCREASE  over total 2003 apprehensions.\n\n\nShort Answer: Granting Amnesty Will Only Result In An EXPONENTIAL INCREASE To The Problem We Have\nWe Should Drop This Addiction COLD TURKEY
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Taxes never solves problems like this... What you have to do is make the EMPLOYERS pay... the companies that hire the illegals... should be not only be fined a stiff penalty up front...but then... they should be given an added penalty of having to pay much higher tax rate on their profits for another 5 years for breaking the law and hiring illegals.  Most illegals are paid CASH... and because of this... the company does not have to account for this cash going out... they do not have to pay withholding taxes on that cash and do not have to carry insurance for the workers... or pay for unemployment compensations coverage... Not only do companies get CHEAP LABORERS... the benefit by not having the overhead of costs for laborers on records... that they don't have to follow the state and federal governments tax and employment rules and regulations ... IT IS THE COMPANIES... that give the laborers jobs... if they were prevented and penalized for hiring illegals... there would be no illegals coming over the border... WE are putting the emphesis on the wrong area... it should be on the COMPANIES... No paychecks... no medical insurance costs for workers... no unemployment compensations payments to the government... no withholding taxes... no social security deductions in the pay... when it is cash... this is the benefit to the companies... CHEAP hourly wage and that is all... SO... who benefits???? And a federal government that is for the corporation will not solve the problem by penalizing corporations' profit making abilities... But I do agree... we DO NEED a STRONG BORDER... and to deport the illegals back to Mexico... If Mexico legalizes drugs... that will be a BIG help as Mexico will get a lot of "illegal immigrants" who come from the US into Mexico... and they will then have the same problem... SO GO MEXICO... legalize drugs!!!
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You are 100% correct.  As soon as the illegals become legal, they will demand more wages.  That puts us right back where we started.
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some of the responses angered me. Plenty of Americans get there hands dirty everyday. as this gentlemen asking the question has just proved. but I guess you weren't listening. The fact that Mexicans are doing work for less then base wage is not helping anything. Because there working under the table meaning when they get hurt they go to the hospital and pay nothing factor that it and its much more then base wage. Illegals should be sent back home. My single mother immigrated to this country and did it legal why should she have to pay immigration fee's so you can run across the boarder? Legal means are in place to allow people to enter and live in the united states why are they not used?
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No, it isn't. It's quite simply that in recent years it is getting out of hand. As the owner of a fairly large construction company, I can give you an example why people like myself have such an issue with illegal aliens. In 1995, the cost of framing a custom home was about $7.00 per sq. ft. . In 2005, the cost for the same job is about $3.25 per sq. ft.. This is DIRECTLY related to illegal aliens, in that they are highly skilled craftsmen who can do just as well a job, but because they don't have insurance, or pay taxes, they can cut a bid in HALF, and still maintain the same profit margin. Almost 30% of every penny the company makes goes to taxes alone. Add another 5% of each individual's income for worker's comp. Which illegal aliens can't get, nor can they get the bonding and liability insurance policies I am requred to maintain as a part of doing business. Their average income is $12 per hour. My average payout for wages is $18 per hour. That's per man. So do the math. How much house do you think I can afford to build at $3.25 per foot, at $18 per man hour with a 9 man crew per jobsite? Notice, the cost of housing (along with the price of fuel) has increase almost 150 PERCENT in the past 10 years, yet the income of TENS OF THOUSANDS of AMERICAN construction workers has been cut in half, just so they can compete in an open job market. So tell me mister, who SHOULD I be pissed at? I don't see any senators running the bottom out of my business. But I do support ANY efforts they can make to keep ANYONE else from doing so. The White House has had ZERO impact on my particular job market. The criminal activities of 10 million Mexicans HAS.
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Who do you think did all those jobs before illegals invaded our country?  Maybe those jobs didn't exist, or maybe farmers let their produce rot?  Your argument is illogical and self serving.  The fact of the matter is that employers want these illegals here because they can take advantage of them, and the government who looks out for the interests of the business elite, supports them in this.  They try to play Americans for fools by sending troops to the border and suggesting a guest worker program, which is just a way to ensure a permanent source of cheap labor for these greedy employers.  Illegals will work for wages that no American will work for, and as a result they take jobs from Americans and drive wages down for everybody else.  It's obvious you don't know what you are talking about when you bring up something like doing construction work for $7.50 an hour.  Construction work, just so you know, was a good job that paid a lot more than $7.50 an hour and that employed many Americans, until illegals started swarming our country and doing doing construction for shit wages.  A lot of Americans lost good paying jobs, and contruction companies increased their profits by grotesque proportions.  So don't fool yourself by thinking that illegals are essential.  The only reason they are allowed to come and stay is because they increase the profits of the business elite.  But this can only go on for so long.  At some point, Americans will get so sick of being screwed that these businessmen and their politician buddies who are selling out their counrtry for profits, will have no choice but to stop hiring illegals altogether, and these illegals will have no choice but to go home where they belong.
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yeah i totally agree. illegal immigrants can come over here and work for practically nothing, don't have to pay taxes, and can even receive free health care! I work 40 hours a week on the books and have to pay for my health insurance every time i get paid. And what about the people who dont have health insurance at their jobs? what do they do?