Can you give me any instances in USA history where illegal immigrants.....?
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What about the legal ones look what happened to the Japanese during world war two
1118838
I have lived exactly what you are describing.  I began 'preaching' about this problem about 15 years ago and no one would listen. I then lived in California and worked for Social Services. You can just imagine what I experienced there.  I have since moved back to my home midwestern state and now I see it moving in here as well.  It is an invasion that people and legislators have ignored and avoided doing anything about for far too long and now we are faced with a crisis.  Do I think that amnesty will have them respecting our laws?  OF COURSE NOT!  They came here illegally. That, in itself, makes them lawbreakers, if not criminals..  none of whom respect anything or anybody.
846826
Wonderful question.  Unfortunately, you won't get any intelligent answers from the pro-illegals.  They don't have any, so they use the "we were all illegal" crap.
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Yes there are lot of illegal "aliens" in US LOL
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Technically, the people who came in first were not illegal. Simply because being illegal requieres there to be a law first and those didn't come up until LONG after the United States was invaded by the English.\n\nMy thought is that people shouldn't generate all this hate against the illegal immigrants themselves, as I'm sure that if anyone was on their shoes, they would be doing the same (finding better opportunities for themselves and their families). I think someone should start pointing out at the Mexican government (and all the governments from which the US gets illegal immigrants as they are not only Mexicans - I don't see people hating Asians) because they are doing nothing to improve the conditions in their contry so their people don't have to run away.\nAlso, if all this people was really causing such a big problem in the US as they portray it, do you really think that the US government wouldn't have done something useful LONG ago?
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Ok....let's get one thing straight.  When my (and many others) ancestors came here long ago IT WASN"T ILLEGAL!!!  Most of them came here not for money or a better life but for life itself (jews, scots, irish).  They had people actually killing them, I mean gun to the head, knife to the heart.  And they came to this country and FOUGHT for this country, losing whole families along the way.  I live in the south and am a proud southerner (that does not mean racist), my family were poor dirt farmers from Tennessee who scraped by with what they could grow or what they could buy with the little money my father (who had to drop out of school at the age of 12 to get a job - only boy out of 11 children - and fought in Vietnam) made doing odd jobs.  Today we have laws in place to stop the over population of our country.  My husband is an immigrant who went through the proper channels.  Yes, it cost money that we didn't have but we STILL went through the proper channels.  They will let you in unless you have something to hide, all you have to do is fill out the paper work and wait.  I know that today time is money and one day can mean the life and death of someone you love but AMERICA is NOT to blame for the state of your home country.  I am all for immigration if it is done legally!  As far as I am concerned, whether you come from Mexico, China, England, France, or Tim-buck-too, if you come here illegally you should be prepared to face the repercussions of doing so.  Breaking the law is breaking the law, period.  No one is above it (with the exception of the Bosh family - or so they wish us to believe).
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Again we are stereotyping the illegal alien.  Are we to believe that no one coming to this country by legal means will never someday have TB?  We even have citizens that have come down with this disease.  I take the issue of Illegal Immigration very seriously, yet most of my answers on this forum about this issue have left me defending those who are being persecuted by those asking questions the way they ask them.  There is no single group that holds exclusivity to being responsible for being the Illegal Immigrants in this country.  We tend to blame Mexicans, however every country South of the U.S. and Mexican border are basically 100% hispanic and all except for Brazil speak some form of Spanish or another so yes many of the Illegal Aliens come from our hemisphere as it is close for them to do so, however we have illegal aliens from every country in the world living and working here.  There are a lot of good reasons for not wanting undocumented people in your country and health concerns are among them, but do not go at this issue from a biased direction because it is not only one type of people who come here illegally we see only the poor and sick as being the problem and maybe the majority are, however we also have some well off people living here illegally as well.  We can not just bundle up this problem and place the blame on one group of people.  The government is not going to be able to remove the ones we currently have in this country and unless they decide to put some actual money into the problem it is not going to slow down in the future.  America still has jobs when many other countries do not and as long as America has jobs and money we will have people coming to this counry to fill them.  You want to end this problem fill these jobs with Americans and the illegals will return home, yet this will never happen when being on welfare can be a better deal than working at these jobs are.  We have made this problem and have lived with it for years and years and now we can see that it may threaten the security of our country and we want something done about it yesterday.  Well fact is that those who mean us harm were probably already here before 9/11 happened and we started looking at this.  They could be anyone's neighbor or someone you work side by side with and you will not know it until it is time for them to act.  It is too late to close the barn after the cows all got out.  This has been a major issue for all of my life and I figure it will remain long after I am gone.
399360
A good friend of mine had a prosperous lawn mowing business. "Had" being the key word here. He refused to hire anyone that was in this country illegally. The competition started using illegal slave labor "mexicans" and put him right out of business. He had no problem at all finding people willing to work but when other companies are paying way below minimum wage....what could he do???
547439
The scenario you describe could very well happen here.  Especially if illegals receive amnesty and are able to bring tens of millions more of their relatives from back home.  They will pretty soon become a majority - at least in places like California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.\n\nUnfortunately, most people refuse to look at history and learn its lessons.
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NEW: Homeland Security Report:\nhttp://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf \n\n40 pages of reports and pictures of pure insanity!\n\nDuring the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.
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Good point.  I know of many cases where people have worked the heck out of illegal aliens for days and when pay day comes they report them to the cops or immigration to avoid paying them.  The employer is usually someone that hires them for handyman work and it never involves major companies.  Bottom line is that the illegal alien usually get returned to their country.  Also this mostly occurs in border communities.
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Do people see the "ILLEGAL" in front of immigrants? I am so tied of people saying “your ancient were immigrants" HELLO we did not have a law on illegal immigrants during those times. \n\nAnd why are you throwing that this way I'm an African American my ancient were drag over here, and their kids had to fight for rights that should have been giving to them on birth.  So when they went to the streets for Civil Rights it was because of the 13th amendment. Not because they jump over a wall. \n\n\nAnd to say that they work the jobs American don't want PLEASE TAKE THAT S%%# some where else the fact of the matter is that they work jobs for less, so that they can get them illegal. If you saw the news illegal immigrants hold waiter jobs (Americans work them), construction jobs (Americans work them), cashier (American work them), housekeeping (Americans work them), warehouse jobs (Americans work them), and etc. I can go on but the whole thing about the jobs are that illegal immigrants will work for less pay then an legal citizen will so a business will hire them first for the low pay. Many Americans who are low in education try for these jobs and are turned away because it is a bid on the lowest paid worker.\n\nBut if you don’t agree with me I don’t care because in November the Congress will feel my words, on my vote.
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Why does everyone keeps bringing the ( Oh they do the jobs no one else wants that's why we need them)in 1986 they had the same argument,so Reagan gave illegals amnesty,as soon as they were legal,they left those jobs and took over jobs that US citizens needed,not only that,the ones that stood in those low wage jobs went into welfare because they claimed they could'nt support their families(one wonders how they managed to support their families before they were made legal)don't expect this group of illegals to stay in the same low paying job once he or she is given amnesty,they will go against US citizens for any good paying job,so now expect another bunch of moochers cross our borders and claim they are here to do the jobs no one wants,DOES ANYONE SEE A PATTERN HERE
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It is all said. No wall will stop illegal migration. But illegals don't just come from the south. They come from many other parts of the world. USA has received people from everywhere, the original settlers were inmigrants from England, and if you take a close look at your family tree, I'm sure you'll find an inmigrant among your close relatives. So why all this fuzz about. Everytime politicians want to distract the people's attention from critizicing their goofs, they take on illegal migration as a sure way of deviating the citizens opinion. So, what else is new?
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Just so happens in-case you haven't noticed all over the news and paper and internet..Hispanics are the ones flooding our boraders...now if there was a bunch of other nationality coming over it would be about them...and Get one thing stright...what you consiter racim to us is about LAWS...you don't think that Americans do those jobs at all that you posted??? Only the Hispanics??? Something is wrong with your information. oh and btw..Illegal is Illegal
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I've seen those facts before, attributed to the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThe fact is that illegal immigrants concentrate, not only in states, but in specific localities.  That is enough to significantly impact statistics for that locality, be it a state or a county.\n\nThe impact is huge, but it is mostly for state and local costs, which the federal government refuses to reimburse while refusing to allocate (federal) funding enforce laws that might prevent this from occurring.\n\nContact your Congressmen. Don't forget to say that the 10 year 'rolling amnesty' through the 'statute of limitations' provision in the Senate bill has got to go.  They are ignoring the elephant in the bedroom.
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I have worked in resturants, and dug graves, worked on a farm, drove truck, in a factory, and worked some construction, I would do it again if able. I wonder what some people do not know about the word ILLEGAL. it is scarry that criminals are allowed to just roam in the US without knowing who they are or what they are up to.