Borders are created to prevent illegal immagrations from happening.How do we really know if the # has reduced?
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LMAO "from happening"\n\n\nAll of you were immigrants at one time, creating the largest genocide ever. Even worse than hitler, were the majority of your people.
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As it stands right now,illegals are here in this country and no one knows their whereabouts or who they are,in places like Chicago some with criminal records have taken over the street gangs,they are used as shooters against other gangs and as enforcers for extortion against small buisnesses,since there is no record who or where they are the law in many cases can't find them since most will flee back to mexico for awhile till things die down,an identification would at least show who is in this country criminal or otherwise.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR\n\n\nAppropriate Procedures. Unemployment benefit payments to illegal aliens can, largely, be prevented by more careful verification before a first payment is made. Following is the recommended general procedure for implementing a verification system. Specific procedures must be developed jointly with the INS.\n\nWhen a claimant indicates that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, the claimant should be asked to produce his or her immigration document. If the claimant does not have a document, he or she should be advised that no determination of eligibility will be made until such time as the claimant returns to the local office with the required document\n\n        Immigrant Entry and Native Exit \n\nLooking first at all workers shows that between March 2000 and March 2005 only 9 percent of the net increase in jobs for adults (18 to 64) went to natives. This is striking because natives accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18 to 64 year old population. \n\n\nAs for the less-educated, between March of 2000 and 2005 the number of adult immigrants (legal and illegal) with only a high school degree or less in the labor force increased by 1.6 million. \n\nA national unemployment rate of 5 percent is irrelevant to the current debate over illegal immigration because illegals are overwhelmingly employed in only a few occupations, done mostly by workers with only a high school degree or less. In these high-illegal occupations, native unemployment averages 10 percent — twice the national average. Moreover, the unemployment rate does not consider the growing percentage of less-educated workers who are not even looking for work and have left the labor market altogether. It would be an oversimplification to assume that each job taken by an immigrant is a job lost by a native. What is clear is that the last five years have seen a record level of immigration. At the same time, the unemployment rate of less-educated natives has remained high and the share that have left the labor force altogether has grown significantly. Wage growth has also generally been weak. Thus it is very hard to see any evidence of a labor shortage that could justify allowing illegal aliens to stay or to admit more as guestworkers. Rather, the available evidence suggests that immigration may be adversely impacting less-educated natives. The statistical findings of this study are consistent with other research that has looked at the pattern of immigrant job gains and native loses in recent years\nhttp://www.cis.org/articles/2006/back206.html\n\n\n\nThe U.S. unemployment rate today is at the highest level in 20 years. \nMillions of hard-working Americans who are desperate for jobs can't find them, and both the short term and long term prospects do not bode well for many American workers.\n\nThe economic problems we face would be bad enough if all we had to contend with were a recovering economy, the continued threat of terrorism, and increased competition from foreign companies. \n\nBut a Congress that should be looking for ways to help unemployed Americans is busy opening the floodgates to millions of new immigrants who take jobs away from Americans - and also helping companies take the remaining jobs offshore.\n\nIt almost appears that our government is committed to making sure everybody in the world has a job - except Americans.\n\nHistorically, the U.S. admitted around 300,000 legal immigrants per year, but Congress changed our immigration policies back around 1965 and opened the floodgates. We now allow more than a MILLION legal immigrants into the country each year. A small number of these are refugees; some have special skills not easily found here. But an increasingly large percentage of those pouring through our borders are undereducated, unskilled workers who threaten the income of blue-collar workers, the backbone of America. Millions more come here each year ILLEGALLY, and the government does nothin
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There have been restrictions on immigration from the time that the U.S. was formed.  There are several reasons for this.  I will give you three:\n\nStrict control of immigration protects our national security\nby keeping out spys and terrorists.  We relaxed our immigration laws incrementally from the 1930's and continuing to today and we have seen multiple terrorist attacks in that time.\n\nControlling immigration controls allow us to screen out the criminals and deadbeats.\n\nToo large an influx of immigrants at any given time could potentially cause our economy to collapse.
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Technically, it's 12 months, but practically it's closer to 6 to 10 months, before the border officers might seriously doubt that you live here and don't allow you re-entry into the country.
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Border Patrol keeps records of everyone who has been deported within the past 12 months.  They can tell you over the phone if this person has been deported and at which port of entry.  As for finding out their immigration status, you will need their full name and birth date and possibly their country of birth.  Status is a very difficult thing to find out.  It is also difficult to find out if a person is being held in a deportation center awaiting a hearing.
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If an illegal uses a number that belongs to someone else to get a job, the Social Security Administration gets notified of the taxes collected under a name that doesn't match those in its records. It is fairly obvious that there is a person who is showing up at work at the address of the employer who is an illegal immigrant working in violation of the law. But since the people in our government are collaborators in illegal immigration they have deliberately chosen not to act on this information. \n\nGetting a false Social Security Card as part of false id's is easy and cheap all through the United States. But you don't even need a card. You just make a number up. The government cares so little about enforcing the law that I've heard there are something like a million people working under numbers that are all zeros. If you do get caught selling false identification including Social Security Numbers, you can be prosecuted.
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Yes, but those organizations are breaking the laws against forgery.  There is a reason that word "illegal" goes in front of immigrant, because by entering the U.S. without permission you are breaking the law.
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Yes, both statements are true. The national guard are there as support for the Border Guards. The are helping to guard the border while additional guards are trained. They also are assisting in building systems to monitor the border as well as fencing. The way I understand it they monitor or patrol the border & when they view someone attempting entry they notify the Border Guard, or restrain with out lethal means the illegal immigrates.
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I read in an article that there is a data base that employers can use.  It is not set up to handle the volume of requests and verifications necessary, however.  It has been essentially used on a trial basis.  The Immigration Department maintains it and processes requests.
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If it does not really close the border, it does not really punish employers for hiring someone that is here against the law, and not punish those who broke the law in coming here - then I'm against it.
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The 'immigrant wall'?\n\nThey are talking about a two to three layer fence in urban areas to make it less easy to dash across in groups and scatter through yards.  In other areas where the concern is more the drug runner sort, it will be vehicle barriers.  In other areas there will be cameras, sensors and unmanned drone aircraft feeding information to border patrol.\n\nFrankly, this last should also cut down on people dying in the desert, though I certainly wouldn't want to count on it.
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staying within the US makes crossing the border a continueing crime,  it is not just the event of crossing the border, but it continues as a crime in process, so as long as they are in the nation, at the time the law changed, they are not also guilty of the new higher charge
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The borders are actually very secure.  The real problem there is smugglers, whether of drugs, other goods, or people.  They are very creative, and always have been.  Here in the northwest corner of Washington we are fortunate in that all the border agencies, the DEA, local police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have an unheard-of level of cooperation.\n\nFor instance, Canadian authorities were watching certain suspicious characters and learned that they were digging a tunnel under the border (a short distance from a border crossing!) and placed a simple phone call to our side.  They were allowed to complete the tunnel; we bugged it with electronic devices, and once the DEA had identifed the smugglers' contacts, swooped down and arrested them all.  In another incident, Border Patrol cameras spotted three men exiting a van and walking across the border.  They called the RCMP and the Mounties caught the three men, who were carrying diamonds, $100,000 cash and some 41 handguns.  We picked up the van and its driver.\n\nAnd the one terrorist who tried the border here thought a sleepy ferry crossing was just the ticket.  He fooled nobody and was arrested after a short chase.  (This was that Ressam character.)  He is still in prison.\n\nBefore 9/11 the United States had been working toward borders that were open to most of the world.  We were even letting people from certain countries like the U.K. come in with basic identification, not even visas.  And of course the borders with Canada and Mexico had been unpatrolled by the military for decades (bases on the border were from older eras, particularly those on the Canadian border).  In the Northeast there are many communities which straddle the border and people think nothing of going from one side to the other.  Customs officials are not too concerned about small purchases by ordinary people, and NAFTA was sweeping away a lot of customs duties among the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe only real difficulty with open borders here is the immigration problem with Mexico.  The root of the problem is poverty and it is a regional problem (Mexico faces the same immigration difficulties on her southern border), requiring a regional solution.  However, the Republican Party is traditionally loath to tackle poverty directly - they really are the party of the arrogant rich - and the Democrats rarely have workable solutions (the Marshall Plan is a major exception, and please note that George C. Marshall was not really a  politician).\n\nAs for legal immigrants, I think they deserve some breaks, especially since a new amnesty program for illegals has been mooted.\n\nI haven't said much about terrorists here.  That is because they aren't exploiting the open borders.  The borders may be open, but they are watched and guarded.  No, terrorists are exploiting what isn't carefully watched, and that is "the rules."  Every single one of the 9/11 terrorists, and the previous attackers of the World Trade Center too, had a vaild passport.  All had obtained visas or green cards: where they got away with it was in avoiding the follow-up procedures.  They, and half of all illegal immigrants besides, simply overstayed their visas and ignored the reporting requirements (I remember the government used to pay for TV messages advising aliens that they had to send in their address information every January 1).  And they were allowed to get away with it!  On the border, the government is doing its job.  Once inside the border, the government isn't.\n\nMost of the border security measures being proposed will have the effect of closing the open borders and stifling both trade and tourism, especially casual visits that generate a heck of a lot of money on both sides of either border.  They will not have any effect on terrorists and little on smugglers and illegal immigrants.  Increased vigilance helps, and improving cargo inspection methods will help too.  But we need to be addressing th
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Politics!!!! Politicians. Unfortunately,in politics,the rule of thumb is that only if caught and proved is it illegal. It has been a case of both sides of the border using the situation for mutual benefit. Peace.
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Unemployement working in a similar manner as any other insurance. There is an unsurable case and there is a dedactible. So this week (Cheers, North of the border It is two weeks) it is your Dedactible for this case.
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I don't know but they need to try and send it through again. Time to put a stop to all illegals