I have been asked my solution to the immigration PROBLEM in our great country tell me what you think.?
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NOW IF I WAS YOUR TEACHER, I WOULD DEFENETLY FAILED YOU.\nHERE IS WHY:\n\nFIRST OF ALL THIS COUNTRY IS NOT RUN BY A KING, IS RUN BY A PRESIDENT. A KING IS A DICTATOR,, A PRESIDENT SHARES HIS OPINIONS WITH HIS PEOPLE.\nIF YOU MADE EVERYONE HERE LEGAL, YOU WOULD JUST OPEN THE DOOR FOR EVERYONE TO COME HERE............\nYOU SHOULD HAVE A BALANCED OF ILLEGALS AND LEGALS...
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I know that I certainly don't want to see that happen to my country.The best way to prevent that from happening is to place a 10 year moratorium on legal immigration,change our immigration policy's to only take the brightest most skilled people here as immigrants.Stop the foolish family preference clause and just close our country's doors .During that time we need to weed our the criminal illegal aliens,arrest and deport them.The illegals that have proven to be good people,non criminal activity for at least 10 years,could be given a geed card.But would not be allowed to use public entitlements for at least another 10 years.I do not want to see this nation drowning in a sea of poor ,under educated illegals or legal immigrants.\nThis entire system must be revamped and redesigned for today's America.Not a 100 years ago.We do not need more people here as we did then.
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I am assuming this is a class assignment since it has been asked a couple times tonight..\n\n "Do you think that immigration should be limited or that any limits should be lifted - Why"\n\n"Do you think that it is different today than in the past and why?"\n\n"Do you think that illegal immigration should be punished and why?"\n\n"Who do you think should have to pay for the immigration process (background checks etc.)?"\n\n"What do you think should be the criteria, if any, for someone wanting to be a citizen (in the past there were job and or monetary requirements, should there be now and why)?"\n\n"Should our immigration laws be stricter or more lenient than other countries'?"\n\nHope this gets you started. Good Luck!
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My solution is to cut off any and all government assistance, immediately to anyone who can't prove citizenship and that includes any child born to a non-citizen. When they can't live off our bounty, they will deport themselves.
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You do make some interesting suggestions. The problem I have is rewarding lawbreakers. I always learned growing up that there would be no rewards for me if I broke the rules. Why don't other people understand these principles, let alone live by them. I agree 100% that Western Union and other businesses of that sort should have a 10% tax. FABULOUS IDEA! Why don't you run for congress? If you're from my area, I'll vote for you. Someone else suggested billing Mexico for any services their  citizens receive...how would you enforce that? It would never happen...how about if every year with our tax return, we get a voucher from the Mexican government for a free two week all expenses paid vacation in Cabo! Not too realistic is it? The true problem here is that IF "our" government wanted to have no illegal immigration, we would have none. This whole Immigration Reform Bill fiasco is B.S. We already have laws that are not even enforced that deal with this problem. And IF they did pass one of the bills currently being discussed, they wouldn't enforce it anyway. So, all of this fighting and marching is all for NOTHING!
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NO! Because we cannot afford a huge flood of immigrants into this country, our social structure cant bear it.  Plus, then you are allowing everyone in- I dont know about you, but Id prefer Mexico keep their child molestors and murderers, we have enough up here already.  Are the schools in your area empty?  Are they complaining about having too much money?  I know mine are filled to the max, so an uncontrolled flood of illegals filling the place up faster than we can build new schools would not be a good thing.  Are the jails empty and your cops having nothing to do in your area?  Not the case where I live.  Are the roads empty where you live?  Not where I live, I dont know if they can bear thousands of new cars on the road, as you flood us with illegals.  Are your health care costs Low?  Is it easy to find a Dr. in your area?  By adding millions of uninsured illegals to our system, do you think your costs would go down or up (duh-up of course!)? Etc Etc.  Legal immigration allows for non-criminal, educated people, who actually want to be come productive citizens to come to the US in a controlled manner.  Legal immigration is great.  Illegal immigration is horrible for the US and for all the legal citizens (both immigrants and natural born).  Learn the facts of this problem before spouting off about how our government is "being mean".
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Maybe, contact immigration
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MTPIZZO\nYou are part of the problem!!!\nThis country is diverse enough. we don't need any more immigrants and the illegal ones should be sent back. They suck our financial resources to to bone. The ones that don't work (and there's millions of 'em)get treated better than our own elderly that lived & worked their entire lives here. Think about it, why should WE (meaning YOU & me) pay for them to live here?\nThere are plenty of people here legally that can do "the jobs we don't want"\nOne of our local police dept's has started a campaign against illegals by arresting them for trespassing if caught in their town! NOW THAT'S THE WAY TO TREAT 'EM!\nFreedom of speech...here it is in all it's glory....\nSEND THEM ALL BACK!
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Honey, you are barking up the wrong tree by trying to rationalise this problem with those who are willingly crossing our borders and breaking our laws.  Why SHOULD they change this behaviour?  Why SHOULD they fix their own country's system?  They can come here, illegally, but no one seems to mind.. they can work for cash and pay no taxes and take that money back to Mexico.. AND they can apply for and RECIEVE public assistance..INCLUDING welfare CHECKS.. and all of THAT money goes back to Mexico as well.  WE are funding their country and their government only has to tell them HOW.   Don't think for a minute that this is fantasy.. I worked for the department of Social Services in California and I was REQUIRED to give them the benefits even though they were illegal.. and I was FORBIDDEN to even SAY the words 'green card' to them. why?  because it might OFFEND them!!  Needless to say, I didn't stay long.. but I did take the time to talk to many of my clients.. yes, the illegal ones [after all, they made up 90%!! of my case load] and they explained the entire process to me.. all the time LAUGHING at how STUPID we Americans are to ALLOW them to do it.  So, I know what I'm talking about.
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The first thing we can do to help immigration is to STOP it!! This country is diverse enough.\nSecond, we need to force people with enough money to buy a computer to learn english and to form an intelligent series of sentences and paragraphs!!!
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You're right - immigration isn't the problem. It's people willing to overlook the illegal aspects of it. Our country was built on immigrants but when people come here and step on the laws and expect to get rewarded it really gets me going.
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no it has finally hit a level were it is a huge problem in all areas of the country.\n\n\noh and we are not talking about immigration, its only illegal immigration. legal immigrants are welcome and many are friends of mine, they did it the right way.
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Issues like immigration are easy to take a stand on and propose an answer to. It's a way to get people to follow you because its an election year, so the important things get thrown to the side and these sorts of issues take the forefront.\n\nSome would also like to make you think that there's a definite connection between all of these things and that closing our borders would fix these problems however untrue and potentially dangerous that connection is.
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What a silly solution.Accept your countries great achievements.This made america proud.Better to direct your thoughts to todayThen america was the envy of the world. Not so today
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i think immigration is great for our country, but the problem with ILLEGAL immigrants is that they don't pay taxes, but still use public services. that really sucks. as far as im concerned, if they really wanted to be here they would\n1.apply for citizenship\n2.learn our language\n3.become a part of society\nand for all you people who think everyone is just pissed at the mexicans, i don't like illegal aliens from ANY country. immigrants from every country are overstaying their visas, people just tend to focus more on the mexicans because there are more of them than others
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
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Legal immigration has never been the issue,but with the huge number of illegal aliens it may be harder for legal immigrants.The illegals are causing a back lash against even legal immigration.I cant see letting more immigrants into this country when we already have millions of illegals to deal with.The fact that you have a profession will help you I'm sure.but we certainly don't need any more unskilled,under educated,poor people in this nation.We are drowning in a sea of them already.Our\nimmigration policy's need to change to be more like Canada's where the highly skilled,educated,and needed are let in first.We here in America take any one and then \ngive their family members preference.So poor people bring in more poor people.Public services are stretched to the limit now.If this isn't stopped this nation will become just another poor 3rd world country.That no one will want to live in.We are not going forward we are going backwards.