If the "illegal" aliens just "want to work",.....?
344051
why are they protesting at all...its rediculous. if they don't like our laws, but want to work in this country without obbeying those laws, they can just take thier asses right back across the border where they came from. what if we did that in thier country, took thier jobs but didn't pay taxes or get legal citizenship, you think they would let it fly? hell no...
467374
I agree, amnesty and citizenship would be an expensive route.  The argument for having aliens make up a portion of our workforce has always been that they are taking the jobs that others do not want.  Why don't others want these jobs, partially because of the low wages.  As such the majority of Illegal aliens would qualify for government assistance if made citizens.  If all 11 million were to take this option and receive welfare the costs to taxpayers would be phenomenal.\n\nOne Item I would add to your list though is to tighten the rules, prosecute corporations that hire illegal aliens.  Only if the demand is decreased will the flood of immigration slow.
370983
It would be a taste of our own medicine.\n\nThe American citizens of course would start working the works illegals used to do, and not the legal residents because lots of them have College and Post graduate studies, they will keep doing better paying jobs, among with a minority of American citizens.\n\nTherefore, all school drop-outs, and citizens without much education will be doing the work of illegals, BUT FOR HOW LONG?  a week?  a month? \n\nThen, people will stop working or demanding better pay,  and employers will not be able to afford the new ALL-AMERICAN-WORKFORCE.\n\nAll the suddden: SURPRISE!! Higher income people can't find produce at the grocery store! Non-perishable food is getting scarce, factories are closing!\nWell, what do we do... lets go to the restaurant! OH No! the restaurat is closed, there is another one open across the street, but they have only one choice and a waiting time of 4 hours.... \n\nEmployers and Factories send the whole production plant overseas to cut on costs.... OH, Noo!\n\nOH! What do we do now?  \nIf Illegal Aliens are kicked out, the USA will be slowing down in production and stocks, sooner than we think the Country would STOP and it would be Americans going to Mexico or to other Countries.\n\nThen what? it will be Dear American Family, please fill this application for visa and wait 5 years before you can come into my country, thank you for your patience.
572279
Finally a question worth asking, i think we should try it and actually find out. without us there would be no work or stores for the illegals to go into. so what it comes down to is still the illegals need us more than we need them.
456326
Rock on. \n\nAnd even though they're "cheap labor", they're taking away jobs from those that have taken all of the appropriate steps to be here legally. Even a low-paying job is a  valuable job to someone who doesn't have one.
972354
Are they....I dunno...what I do know is that do the job "Americans" wont and get paid pennies for it.  Plus employers take advantage of them and don't offer any type of medical or dental or anything.  Most of them work 10 times harder than any American in the US.  I don't think its right they don't pay taxes. It's unfair for us to assume they all want to be here without paying their dues, some do want to but can't.  I dunno, I can go either way on the subject but all I can say is that every American at some point in time was an illegal...heck...didn't we steal this country anyway?
634634
Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. \nWhat jobs won't Americans do? \nAmericans still \n--clean their own houses, \n--do their own landscaping, \n--clean hotel rooms, \n--work in restaurants and fast food places, \n--paint houses, \n--DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, \n--work in airports, etc. - I Can Go ON And On\njust like we have the past 200 years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. \nThere are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so ILLEGAL Aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers By FALSELY DEPRESSING The Wage Rates\n\n5 Percent Of Our Workforce Are ILLEGAL Aliens\nThe Unemployment Rate In The U.S. RIGHT NOW is 4.7 Percent\nLets Do The Math\nDEPORT The ILLEGAL Aliens\nUnemployment Drops To ZERO \n\nWithout illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. \nThe definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" \nThe study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products \n(which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), \nusing minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products \nby approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... \nhardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims. \n\nConsumers are NOT benefiting from lower labor costs. \nAgain, it's CEOs and business owners who benefit from taxpayer subsidies for their illegal alien workers. \nThe Big Three automakers say they moved so many jobs to Mexico because their labor costs are 80 percent less than in America. \nAnybody notice the price of new cars spiraling downward under NAFTA? I Havent\n\nIt is time we take back our country. This is a very real problem and we had better stand in unison against this threat to our national security.
381330
Illegals ARE the reason Americans can't find work!\nIf these people are not happy in their own countries than why come here & wave their coountries flag? By being an illegal they force wages down for our legal citizens; big business being what it is (all about the money).\nOur government is selling us & our country to line the pockets of the powerful. Send the illegals home let them apply to come here like so many immagrants have done & continue to do. It's the ones we don't know about that can hurt us!!!
325563
I think that you go after the employer, you arrest them and put them in jail for a significant time and you fine the hell out of them. I have a formula for this. \n\nNO JOBS = NO WORK = NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
583948
Well... if "real" American employers prefer to hire an "illegal" immigrant.. it must be for something.\nAsk those American employers why they hire them.
685786
I would hope that they would do what is right, deport all of them that is possible and arrest and put in jail anybody that hires them without proper paperwork. Fine the company's enough so that it is not worth it to them to break the law and pay substandard wages.
198239
I think the same as I do about any other illegal aliens - go back home to your own country.  If you want to live here, then come here legally.  And if you want to live here, be ready to get a job and work for your money.  I work for mine, and I am tired of supporting bums that refuse to work.
988372
WHAT??? And leave such a "cushy Nation" like ours?  Then those people would probably have to WORK for a living!!  Instead of being a whiner while they collect what Government dole they are receiveing and whinning its too little, and not working a day in thier lives :)\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
683622
Do you want to wash dishes and mop floors for $7 a hour?  They come here and do the jobs that the lazy Americans do not want to do.  They do the jobs that the useless people sitting at home on welfare and say they can't get jobs should be doing.  If all the useless welfare recipients of this country went out and got jobs then there would not be any jobs here for immigrants and they would not come here.  So don't get mad at them for taking the opportunity to do what the lazy Americans do not want to do.
307527
They would be totally screwed. No one but desperate, struggling immigrants would be willing to work in sub-standard conditions for far less than minimum wage, getting sprayed with pesticides and God knows what else.\n\nIf you haven't already read "The Fight in the Fields" about Cesar Chavez, you should... I'm guessing you probably own it already.
398388
not a bad idea but if they really wanted to be citizens they should do it the old fashioned way.  they just want to work for a few years then go home and live like kings off the money they made here
309241
racist want white supremacy, the people you and I encounter with want illegals out because they think they are avoiding the law, which might be true, but still they don't know of any hardships these people go through when risking their lives to cross the border. I am not making excuses for them but realistically how are they going to point out all illegals? Hard workers who are illegals come here to do what their little prissy hands won't, and they say illegals are taking their jobs. i highly doubt they and their ancesstors sprung from US soil, literally.