What about the immigration problem?
113558
Well...just like the famous "War on Drugs," I don't believe this is a problem that anyone is ever going to be able to solve 100% completely.  As long as there are international flights into the U.S. and people are being given Visas to come here, there will always be some that stay regardless of their status, and as long as people can dig underground tunnels between U.S. and Mexico people will be smuggled into the country.
1180460
The bigger problem is making people care. There is too much citizen apathy in this country. Until that problem is addressed, nothing else really matters.
253968
I think that the problem is the perception that it is okay to come here illegally.  We need to secure the borders, and allow legal immigration.  We need to raise minimum wage so those we allow in will not be unemployed, poor, and taking more from the society than they give.  This should go to ALL Americans!  \n\nWe need to amend the constitution to change citizenship to be for children born to LEGAL immigrants or that have one CITIZEN as a parent, otherwise they are not American.  This would eliminate the "Anchor Baby" issue.  \n\nWe need to NOT make all services available in any language requested.  We need to help folks learn english, and we should not disparage those that are learning.  If governement programs, driver license tests, IRS forms, and many others, were not made in Spanish, primarily for illegal immigrants, the need to learn english would be more important.  That being said, English classes should be taught for free by charitable organizations supported by the government.\n\nWe need intelligent, sane policies.  We need to be willing to pay the cost of farm products picked and handled by legal workers.\n\nIf we do all of this, MORE legal immigrants could come to America, because we would not be paying for and hunting down so many illegals!
784043
They say, do you have one? You want to see a real immigrant problem check this out! To be fair your immigrant problem is less of an issue than the muslim/Europe immigration problems. Immigration is a problem in every developed country and always will be, its just taken you a while for it to become a serious issue
938640
American criminals are America's problem.  \n Criminal trespassers from other countries are becoming America's problem, to the detriment of all Americans.
1121234
how about" how immigration affects the world around us" ?
642677
There is not a unique solution, there are many steps to take in this problem. (I'll talk about Mexican speacially, since i'm from Mexico, and i know my country is the main source of immigrants to the USA)\n\nAn important one is, in Mexico we need to find solutions to improve our country's Economy. That should be our objective, in order to stop the emigration of our people, use inside my country all of that power of labor. And reforce our identity, making our families to reunite and reintegrate to our comunity.\n\nAnother step is that the USA should recognize the need of that labor, and increase the amount of work permises they give to foraigners. \n\nAnd i really believe there is the need to create some programs to make legal the illegals, there must be some way to give those persons who have been living in the USA for years, a way to stay, they have already made a life, maybe have a house, or family, and there are millions of them. It wouldn't be human just to deporte them back to their origin countries.\n\nAnother important one is to increase the border security, and in that point the Mexican and American governments need to work togheter, because incresing the border security is not about killing the people who try to tresspass.\n\nAnd another one is that we need to stop the hates, and the names, and the confrontation. In fact, i would say you could have not said "except racist" - that encourage the confrontation, and that is something in this moment we must stop.\n\nAmericans, Mexicans, and all of the immigrants should stop the hating and start the talking.
715778
you could do the current issue of immigration.  There is a ton of information (and opinion pieces) out there right now because it is such a huge issue in the U.S.
436717
what kind of problem?
931229
Immigration into the USA should be placed on indefinite hold until our immigration problems have been resolved. What good does it do to take so much as one immigrant if the whole country goes under.
226296
You can pick almost any issue and someone will feel that it is the top issue and the country is divided on it.  I believe that most people are in agreement that the Issue of Illegal Aliens is out of hand.  There are many things wrong with the way we handle this sitation and many of the problems are our governments doing.  \n\nWhen things are running smoothly in this country, people all working and no foreign issues on the top of our governments list of things to do such as fighting a war or negotiating a peace for someone else.  We all get along fairly well.  However we now see that people that are here illegally can hurt us as the hijackers of 9/11 did.  Many jobs have moved out of the country and replacement jobs are not as good as what you had and boom the Illegal Aliens are taking all of our jobs.  Well yes many American Jobs are performed by Illegal Aliens, however they get paid less than minimum wage, work long hours without overtime and if they did not perform these jobs the jobs themselves would cease to exist as Americans do not want those jobs.  I have noticed that on this forum at Yahoo Answers there seems to be a leaning to the fact that all foreigner's are Illegal as many people refer to either being Illegal or being a Citizens.  There is another category and that is being a Resident Alien and there are a lot of those out there.  Just because you are foreign does not make you an Illegal Alien.  I see a wave of mistrust of foreigners in this country that could in fact be very dangerous.  I also realize that because of things that happened 9/11 we may never trust as we once did.  While this issue looks to be all black and white it isn't and a lot of it is the governments fault for following antique laws instead of updating them to meet the needs of todays world. Our leaders need to figure this issue out and get something happening before it all boils over and makes one hell of a mess.
367079
I think it probably depends more on where you live, as to how you feel about it. Most people closer to the border, our fellow Americans, aren't to happy with ILLEGAL immigration. Always remember to say legal or illegal, that is the issue, not immigration.
306672
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.
992998
I think immigration's out-of-control. I think that a lot of our politicians have some bright ideas about 'one world' etc., and some of those don't quite work out the way they planned, and then there's those gosh-darn unintended consequences etc.\nIf people keep it civil, immigration's no problem, but we're well beyond 'civil' in some cases, and policies need to be improved and amended to slow this stuff down quite a bit....bum's rush doesn't cut it...
1018744
A recent poll conducted in South Florida, Southern California and Texas revealed that 57& of those polled thought Illegal Immigration was the nations most serious problem.  The remaining 43% responded... No habla Ingles.
804440
That's Mexicos problem.  They can deal with it however they see fit or whatever their laws deems.
1076064
America has real problems and yes the undocumented WORKERS had become a scapegoat to the real problems which this country is facing :\n\n- the war on iraq : a war which seems to be eternal and meaningless . it is a fact that most iraquies do not like Americans or their precense in their country , they think that the only interest of Americans is their petrolium and just feel as stuck whit Americans like Americans feel whit them .\n\n- global warming : another huge issue which has been ignore by the bush administration and in fact has been atack as a real issue when every nation on the world knows it needs to be fix and that America is the main cause of this problem \n\n- the huge debt : one of the biggest problems and the one which will have the most lasting efects in America a country which bush recieved whit a record in money ( if anyone still wants to deny this i would like to remind u this is the reason why bush started to give money to his rich friends was the record money which he recieved , money which he did not produce ) and has rapidly become just another country where the richers is richer and the poor need to do as much as they can to survive .\n\nso are the immigrants the scape goat ? once again yes they are .