what is the current illegal immigration controversy?
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basically in a nutshell the controversy is over changing the current immigration laws to where it is a felony to be caught entering.. thats the idea congress is kicking around and people are pissed. illegal immigrants have been coming in for decades are comfortable with how things are going. and the counntry reaps huge benefits from the cheap labor.. california would collapse without migrant workers.. and probably many other states.. so for them to act like everyone who came here for work is a felon is extremely hypocritical. they are the same people who hire these workers to watch their kids and pick their avocados. this country was made up of immigrants since the beginning. we know people enter illegally. thats not the issue at hand. its what to do with them thats the big debate. they cost us a lot of money but they earn a lot of money. and pay taxes.\n\nso because of the proposed 180 degree change of policy..people took to the streets.
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Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.
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The GOP and their dirty politics is fueling this immigration debate.....
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No, we've had the same amount of illegal immigration for the last 120 years.  The only reason that this is even getting press is because certain politicians are looking for a hot-button issue to distract the dumbest in our society so that they don't demand that the politicians deal with real issues like war, debt, health care and social security.  Nothing will change with immigration and no one will notice when it no longer makes the news.  Just smile and ignore those stupid people when they get angry over this non-issue.  We're waaaaay to smart to get suckered into a BS argument about something that's not going to change and doesn't really matter at all anyway.  Besides, you and I are to busy worrying about real issues to be bothered with this crap.
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Try to find something about corruption in politics, I think you`ll find some interesting news. :)) OR Government structure and agreement beetwen political parties - they`ve got troubles with understand eachother. Anyway, Could you specify what kind of revolution are you looking for? The biggest and known recent scandal is "Rywin Gate".
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This article should be a helpful starting point.\nhttp://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
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I'm not positive, but I doubt illegal immigration is happening anywhere near as much anywhere else as it is in the US. So, it's probably not a huge problem in other countries, but I'm sure they probably have rules and regulations on the issue as well.
772194
Too many!! It is irrelevant to the issue now. We have too many illegal aliens in our country, now, today, 2006 and we need to put a stop to it and deport those here. There has to be a stopping point to the law being abused. That time has come.
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I just got a email from a friend regarding Australia. They are having some immigrant Muslim problems. The radicals are getting out of hand. The government and citizen are dealing with it. One signs said" if you don't like our language, culture and laws get the hell out". \nA few years back they had a real Chinese illegal problem ships dumping of them. They dealt with it rather fast.They cut out chain immigration better now as family unification.\n\nThat is as much as I know on this new immigration anti terrorist issue, but I think that is about as much information that one will get. Most will probably be opinion depending on their side. I have no agenda.
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Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.\n\n\nthanks cherokee rose i put my signature on  petition you rock
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The reality is \nthat we don't have an "Illegal Immigration" problem in America.\n\nWe have an "Illegal Employer" problem. \n\nYet it's almost never mentioned in the mainstream media,\nbecause to point it out \ncould slightly reduce the profits and CEO salaries \nof many of America's largest multi-state \nand multinational corporations - \nwho both own the media \nand contribute heavily to conservative politicians.\n\nEncouraging a rapid increase in the workforce \nby encouraging companies to hire non-citizens \nis one of the three most potent tools \nconservatives since Ronald Reagan have used \nto convert the American middle class \ninto the American working poor. \n(The other two are \ndestroying the governmental protections \nthat keep labor unions viable, \nand \nending tariffs while promoting trade deals \nlike NAFTA / WTO/ GATT that export manufacturing jobs.)\n\nFor example, \nwhen Nike began manufacturing shoes \nin Third World countries with labor costs below US labor costs, \nit didn't lead to $15 Nikes - \ntheir price held, \nand even increased, \nbecause the market would bear it. \nInstead, that reduction in labor costs \nled to Nike CEO Phil Knight becoming a multi-billionaire\n\nThe fact is \nthat we have had an open border with Mexico \nfor several centuries, \nand "illegal immigration" was never a serious problem. \n\nBefore Reagan's presidency, \nan estimated million or so people a year \ncame into the US from Mexico - \nand the same number, more or less, left the US for Mexico \nat the end of the agricultural harvest season. \nVery few stayed, because there weren't jobs for them. \n\nNon-citizens didn't have access \nto the non-agricultural US job market, \nin large part because of the power of US labor unions \n(before Reagan 25% of the workforce was unionized; \ntoday the private workforce is about 7% unionized), \nand because companies were unwilling to risk \nhaving non-tax-deductible labor expenses on their books \nby hiring undocumented workers \nwithout valid Social Security numbers. \n\nBut Reagan put an end to that. \nHis 1986 amnesty program, \ncombined with his aggressive war on organized labor \n(begun in 1981), \nin effect told both employers and non-citizens \nthat there would be few penalties \nand many rewards to increasing the US labor pool \n(and thus driving down wages) \nwith undocumented immigrants. \n\nA million people a year \ncontinued to come across our southern border, \nbut they stopped returning to Latin America every fall \nbecause instead of seasonal work \nthey were able to find permanent jobs. \n\nThe magnet drawing them? Illegal Employers. \n\nOur borders have always been porous \nbut we've never had a problem like this before. \n\nAnd it's not just because poverty has increased in Mexico -\n\nToday, about half of Mexico lives on less than $2 a day, \nbut 50 years ago \nhalf of Mexico also lived on the equivalent of $2 today. \n\nYet fifty years ago \nwe didn't have an "illegal immigration" problem, \nbecause back then \nwe didn't have a conservative "Illegal Employer" problem. \n\nAs the Washington Post noted \nin an article by Hsu and Lydersen on June 19, 2006 : \n\n"Between 1999 and 2003, \nwork-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent\nby the Immigration and Naturalization Service, \nwhich subsequently was merged \ninto the Homeland Security Department. \nThe number of employers prosecuted \nfor unlawfully employing ILLEGAL ALIENS \ndropped from 182 in 1999 \nto four in 2003, \nand fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, \naccording to federal statistics." \n"In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies.\nIn 2004, it issued fine notices to three."\n\nThe hiring crimes of Illegal Employers \nare being ignored by the law, \nand rewarded by the economic systems of the nation. \n\nProof that this simple reality is
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My Grandparents came here around the 1912 or so.If you deleted anything concerning Illegal Immigration because of some misguided ideology that smells of media censorship. I broke no rules.What I have to say is for the access of anyone to use or not.This is not a private forum.Is it that you are feeling the heat because I tell the truth.Listen what I have said or not said is not the issue.We need to make people aware of certain questionable actions or half truths.This is one of last forums that host freedom of thought.Please tell me what was so offense that it caught your attention!
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I do not support illegal IMMIGRATION.\nI support AMNESTY for the illegals in the country right now.\nI want illegal immigration stopped for good.I can not believe they left the friggin borders open.
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Listen, you ignorant person. \n\nNobody is against IMMIGRATION. Its ILLEGAL immigration thats the problem. And everybody should be upset about it, not just Republican and Democrats. To say thats racist is absurd, ignorant and morally dishonest.
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poor girl!! People say that this is a illegal immigration issue not a racist issue, but people make it a racist issue when they make comments like "All Mexicans are stealing lazy a$$es" how can you debate with those kind of comments and say it's just a illegal immigration issue?I call BULL SH*T. and agree with you!!
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Illegal immigration is one thing. Threatening to hurt ones child is a totally different thing.\n\nEven if you are angry with what happened with a small bunch of illegals big_divot, taking out your anger on an individual and her daughter is not the way to go. Instead you should make a case against whoever it was and follow it through until they all get the justice they deserve. \n\nThe girl who wrote this topic has every right to report you not to Yahoo Answers, but to the Police. \n\nOne thing is freedom of speech. Another is to make threats to ones livelyhood. And where this is going, your treading on very thin ice.
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Hay the answer to your question on April 5, 2006 \n68 illegal aliens and 2 U.S. citizens arrested in New Orleans following a joint investigation between ICE and the Gretna Police Department.\n\nso what is wrong\n1) illegal\n2) felony\n3) and yes, lots of AMERCICANS will and do wants the jobs