What are your opinions on the illeagal alien situation in the U.S.?
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before i get b!tched at by hundreds of latinos, let me expain the reason why i support the house bill,otherwise knwon as HR4437\n\n1) illegals drain our circulation of wealth. yes, they contribute 5 billion in our economy but send back anywhere from 50-55 billion back to their home countries so were looking at a net loss of roughly 50 billion. \n\n2) we willl be rewarding illegal behavior with U.S. citizenship and benefits.\n\n3) our standard of living would steadily decrease.\n\n4) illegals dont pay taxes and receive the benefit of public education, the use of our roads, etc etc.\n\n5) i waited roughly 8 years to get my citizenship. if we let these people get their citizenship now, we are allowing them  to "skip" the line. america is a land of freedom and opportunity, but should also be maintained as a land of equality as well, where illegal aliens should not be placed above law abiding, freedom loving people everywhere.
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Here's a whole Web site on that: http://www.vdare.com/mann/reporting_aliens.htm
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YES! I TOTALLY AGREE!!! I'VE HAD IT WITH ALL OF THESE ILLEAGAL ALIENS COMMING IN AND GETTING JOBS AND BENIFITS AND NOT EVEN BOTHERING TO LEARN OUR LANGUAGE I HATE THOSE BAST#RDS! THEY SHOULD GO THROUGH THE ACTUALL LEGALIZATION THING BEFORE THEY COME IN HERE TO F^@K UP OUR COUNTRY!!
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Think it's still not a problem...?\n \n\nFROM THE LA TIMES\n\n \n\n 1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are  predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.\n\n        2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.\n\n        3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.\n\n       4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.\n\n        5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are  Mexican nationals here illegally.\n\n      6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.\n\n        7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most  likely illegal aliens from south of the border.\n\n        8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.\n\n        9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.\n\n        10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak  Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).\n\n        (All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)\n\n\n        Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on  welfare.\n        http://www.cis.org\n\n\n        Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.\n\n\n        The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].\n\n\n       The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the  average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE\n\n  29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.\n\n \n\nMexicans dishonest and theft, since their born always be theft and lier ,\nstupid goverment trust to all illegals, they never pay tax and they never speak english because goverment website espanols.\n\nwhat they want just MAKING BABIES to get more all benefits and citizen must be pay the price....KICKS ALL POLITIC TRAITORS
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It would be nice if they did in fact control the Gov, but unfortunately, the scale of screw up we are seeing could not be anything but human in origin. \nI mean, if they had the technology to travel hundreds, maybe thousands of light years, you would think they would do a better job of running the federal Government.\nYou see, it's not them. They are sitting back in their UFO's laughing. \nGoing 'Like how did these monkeys even get out of the f*****g stone age?'. And the other alien passes him the alien J and says 'Dude, they didn't, we gave em the tech for a laugh, Old Gfvyusdgf has a bet on about when they Nuke the S**t out of each other'. So the first alien is like '(Bwaahahahahah), cough, cough, that Gfvyusdgf is such a dude, dude'.
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I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
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I believe in Aliens landing. I am not so naive to think that we are the only living things in the universe. I thinks aliens do exist and they are much smarter than we. \n\nThank you for the article. It is pretty cool!!
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No.  And those that do have the most pathetic arguments in support of it.  It's always "compassion." Or they try to tie it to the civil rights movement of the 60.\n\nNEWS FLASH\nIllegals aliens are NOT citizens.  They have only HUMAN rights in the USA.  THAT'S IT.  They have no Constitutionally guaranteed rights.\n\nDeporting them is NOT a civil rights issue.  We have the right to manage our immigration policy however we see fit.\n\nAnd regarding compassion, I have tons of compassion for them.  But we have a country to run, and we can't let people just waltz into the USA.  WE CAN'T ALLOW THEM TO IMPORT POLITICS.  Poor, uneducated, illiterate people tend to like SOCIALISM.  I don't.  I'm not talking about good all american bleeding heart liberalism.  I'm talking about Castro quality SOCIALISM.\n\nAlso, they are massing in the Southwest by the MILLIONS.  Do you realize that the population of TEXAS is 22 million.  And the proposed legislation wants to make 12 million illegals citizens.  And MOST of those are in the southwest.  So, don't you think the people of these states have the right to not get their vote diluted by potential SOCIALISTS.  this is not about race.  I have no problem with people who are here legally.  But when you allow millions of people in, they congregate together and hold the same political leanings (like allegiance to Mexico and socialistic beliefs).  The fact that most can't speak English just strengthens their solidarity and reinforces their beliefs because they can't understand what most Americans are saying.\n\nThis has the makings of ethnic strife written all over it.  Look at Northern Ireland. Iraq. France. Cyprus. Sudan. Turkey AND Iran with the Kurds.  Quebec in France.  There is a clear correlation between ethnic strife when large areas do not integrate into the whole.  this is what will happen if we have entire cities with millions of new non-English speaking spring up in the southwest.  And this will happen if we have an open border.  The 12 million that we're talking about right now is just a start.  What about the next 30 years???\n\nAnd don't be fooled by the "guest worker" program.  They'll still be dirt poor, but "legal."  Then they'll have a basis for petitioning for rights.  They WILL want citizenship EN MASSE.  It will be the exact same situation, but worse since they'll have been INVITED.\n\nPersonally, I'd rather pay a dollar more per pound of oranges, rather than have my kids or grandkids bombed or have to fight a civil war.
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That subject i couldn't fit all my thoughts in this text block.... But in terms of them coming over it's fine .... as long as they serve a role in our society and abide by the rules st by congress. look at the movie day after tomorrow for instance. what do you think would really happen if that were to take place? The last this is, i can deal with immigration, hell this is a country built of immigration, everyone here is from another country at some point in their gene pool, but if you are going to come across, at least do it legally.\n\nOK... the guy who's 2 below me... wow your immature i wont even begin to argue with you except these 2 things\n\n1. "THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON LEGAL IMMIGRATION, NOT LEGAL IMMIGRATION". what does that mean exactly?\n\n2. you obviously didn't read what i said whatsoever, if you did you would see that i don't condone illegal immigration you moron, i said and still say that if it's done in a LEGAL way that its OK.... i bet you had a few damn forefathers alot smarter than you who came through Ellis island. You know the next time you want to run your mouth at least take the time to read what people say and respond in a non-offensive way... you might get better responses.
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There are aliens out there.  I work with some and I suspect they are not all legal.
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well to get the exact truth to this question is not going to come from here but  i can give my honest opinion which has to to with alot of things.  at first, they might have kept it a secret for the intentions of protecting us since they probably didnt know how to handle it themselves.  but as time went on the reasons im sure changed to hide the things that they know the american public would not be content with(agreements and treaties with the aliens, technology, allowing the aliens to abduct human in exchange for technology, etc.).  also there are things happening today that are a result or are related to subjects like this, such as the push for the NWO-New world Order.
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Dont Think Of It As "rounding up and kicking out" \nThink Of It As "Family Re-Unification" With The Dear Loved Ones \nThat Are Recieving 39 Billion Untaxed US Dollars Every Year \n\nWe Can Ease The Pressure On Social Services \nAnd Keep 39 Billion In OUR Economy \nWhile Providing Low Skill Entry Level Jobs \nTo The 18 Million American Citizens That Are Out Of Work \n\n\n\nLet's Not Call It "Kicked Out" Or "Deported" \nLets Call It "REPATRIATION" \nOR We Can Take A Page Out Of Eisenhower's Book \nAnd Call It " Operation Wet*Back " \n\nPC Works Both Ways \n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS \nAnd Their ILLEGAL ALIEN ANCHOR BABIES \nIMMEDIATELY UPON DISCOVERY
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I personally believe there is more intelligent life in the universe then us. Earth is just one planet, revolving around one star. There is over 100 billion stars just in our galaxy, and each star have their own planets revolving around them. And there is plenty more than just our galaxy, possibly endless amounts. So to believe that we are the only existing beings in the universe is pretty ignorant.\n\nAbout Area 51, I think it is just a distraction. The government has the ability to shut down entire networks on TV, yet there are so many movies, books, documentaries, and TV shows about Area 51. If there was really anything to it then the government would be censoring all these sources for people to learn about Area 51. But the government wants us to believe that there is "Aliens" there to distract us while they are handling the real extra terrestrial beings somewhere else\n\nI highly doubt that any alien races would battle over the earth and then suddenly disappear. There are many more fertile planets in the universe that are much bigger and much more useful.
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I have two American Children and is a foreign national myself. I am here legal and both me and my wife are highly educated and doing very good here. We could think about staying but the process of getting that done here is very difficult. I think Americans don't realize how difficult it is to live in the US as an alien witch is a pity because I think that would have change a lot of peoples opinions about immigration. So by other words if that would have made it easier I think in some cases yes and some cases no.
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wow - that's an overgeneralized statement, don't ya think?\n\nHate is a very strong word...\n\nI believe it's the ILLEGAL part of immigration that most people have a problem with - not the immigration itself.\n\nLast time I checked the US was a FREE, Democratic society - you can't just throw someone out - unless they are here ILLEGALLY that is... \n\nThank God for that!
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"and if ignorant people like you would do I little bit of research"\n\nBureau of Citizenship and Immigration Falls Under \nDept Of Homeland Security (Since 9/11)\nAnd INS Does Still Exist As Well\nUnder The Same Blanket (DHS)\n(SO..They Changed The Name...Its Still The SAME Agency) \n\nIts Kinda Like Calling An ILLEGAL Alien \nAn "Undocumented Guest Worker"....\nEXACTLY The Same Thing - 2 Different Titles....LOL\n\nIf The INS Started Carding For And Collecting ILLEGALs During That Protest, They Would Have Turned Into A Mob, And Started Rioting\n\nThey (INS) Are Rounding Them(ILLEGAL Aliens)Up As We Type\n\nThey(INS) Are Starting At The Workplaces, \nStreetcorners, Parking Lots(Home Depot) Etc.\n \nThe Search Will Expand To Public Facilities \n(ie: Hospitals Etc.)\nAnd Residences\nAFTER HR4437 Comes Full Swing (To Remain Within The Law)\n \nThey(INS) Cant Deport All 20 Million At Once\nIt Will Take Up To 5 Years \nTo Find And Deport All ILLEGAL Aliens\n\nBut Its Getting Done\nIt May Not Get Full Coverage In The News\nThey(INS) Dont Want To Scare Em Into The Shadows\n\nBTW - America First(ASKER) - Considering You Never Expressed ANY Racism In Your Question, And Were STILL Called A RACIST......LOL\nIll Call You A Racist For No Reason TOO\nIt Seems To Be The Thing To Do These Days\nYou Insensitive,Ignorant Racist\n\nHave A Nice Day
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Legal Immigrants, yes they should be here.\nIllegal Aliens should not be here, and they have criminalized themselves, by their own actions.\nIf you do something wrong, don't you have to face the consequences?  In America, we do.