What exactly is your position on immagration?
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i am not against immigration just illegal immigration i once said on here this kind of stuff has been going on since the start of time and i was told i didnt know what i was talking about heres a example \n\n:With the onset of hard economic times in the 1870s, other immigrants and European Americans began to compete for the jobs traditionally reserved for the Chinese. With economic competition came dislike and even racial suspicion and hatred. Such feelings were accompanied by anti-Chinese riots and pressure, especially in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result of this pressure was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century. \n\n\nCurrently, millions illegal aliens commandeer jobs away from American citizens. If they don't steal those jobs, they depress the wages to the point of legalized slavery. We have an estimated one million illegal alien Chinese in this country (Source: March 2005 Forbes Magazine). At the same time, we outsource jobs to China where a billion people can't wait to make 50 cents an hour. Human smugglers bringing illegals into America make $7 billion annually according to the report. \n\nDo they work the jobs Americans won't do? False! If American doctors were paid $5.00 an hour they wouldn't be working those hospital jobs either. \n\nYou have to ask yourself if you want illegal immigrant doctors working at minimum wage to perform a by-pass heart surgery on you? Would you like an illegal immigrant lawyer defending you in court for $5.00 an hour? How about a $5.00 an hour illegal immigrant college professor teaching your kids calculus? How about an illegal alien truck driver driving down the road at 70 MPH with 80,000 pounds of steel, no ability to read English and a fifth grade education-from Mexico's educational system? \n\nMeanwhile, profits soar for corporations while the middle class of America plummets into worsening unemployment. Will America drop into Third World conditions as economist Paul Roberts predicts? At the current rate of 4.1 million legal and illegal newcomers imported into the United States annually, it's only a matter of time before, we too, manifest conditions of the Third World. You can't drown the labor market with millions of people and expect to keep your wages high when immigrants will undercut you. \n\nThat's why the pay in China or India is less than $10.00 per day. They have 2.4 billion people in those two countries. That's why they live subsistence lives. In time, that reality will manifest itself in America as the middle class vanishes. It's already happening. You need look no further than California as an example of the first Third World State of America. \n\nCall your representatives
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
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Protect your country and your British identity.  I have visited your beautiful country and I fell in love on my first visit.  I don't know enough about your govt. policies but I have seen on the BBC world news and websites that you are having problems with radical Muslim groups.  I think that every country has a right to control its borders and let in who they want.  The west is losing it's identity.  If immigrants are leaving their countries to find a better life in the US, UK, FR ... then they must make an effort to integrate fully into the culture in which they are moving to.  I hope that our nations say enough is enough.  good luck.
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I would put the emotions and nationalism aside and look at what other countries are doing about their migrant workers. We should identify them, create laws so they can pay taxes, provide a way for their families to stay together, and set up a program to provide for their basic health, human, and education needs.
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It should be left to the federal government.\nImmigration issues (legal or otherwise) are a federal matter and should be left as such.
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illeagl immagrants are ILLEGAL , if i was you i'd call up the feds and shut that dump down and kick them mexicaican and whoever else is there back where they came from, i sure as hell dont want my unborn children growing up without any means to feed themselfs cause sme forigners jumped boarder and took the only chance they had.
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In what Third World country do you live?\nWhat particular policy of the US do you feel you have to accept, even though you disagree?
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Is the question: Are you for it or against it?  I'm not European but looking at how many different countries and different cultures make up the European continent, I don't think we should just lump them all up into one.  I believe they would want their own identities and would like to keep their heritage alive.  Although it is well-meaning and optimistic to believe we should all be one and call ourselves citizens of the world, alas, that is not the case.  We are still culturally divided and as human beings inherently attached to tradition and view our past as well our future tied up to who we are and where we come from.
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Though this isn't a question, I decided to comment.\n\nFor the most part I agree. Yes if you are anywhere illegally it would only make sense that you should be placed back where your are legally allowed to be. And as for our government they don't want to go along with that because it would make them unfavorable to the illegal immigrant vote. Wait did I just say the illegal immigrant vote? Yes...the politicians are worried they won't be voted in by people who can't vote anyway (or shouldn't, though I know fraudulent ID goes a long way).\n\nLaws however are drawn up by use of an underlying moral code. Why is it illegal to murder, rape or rob someone? Because morally it is incorrect. Morally it is correct to believe someone belongs in their own country unless they are given legal permission to be in another country.\n\nLegal permission is the whole point of the matter, I don't care if you want to come to America and make money, by all means do it, this is the land of opportunity. Just check-in on your way across the border. It really shouldn't be so difficult to make sure we are letting people with pure intentions cross over on to our side of the border. If this means you will have to fill out a form, be fingerprinted, and questioned, so be it. It is to all of our benefits to make sure this happens, we don't want to let the wrong person (Terrorists for example) across our borders to kill us (American citizens) and you (the immigrant who is here to cash in legally on America's boundless oppertunities).
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where are u immigrating from? i can help u i live in canada..what part..contact me if you would like to speak about it further.
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want the truth?\nthey dont want anyone to imegrate.\nYou wont get an answer to this, unless you have friends there, or can contact there embassy.\nEasyiest way is to get a job there, then go.
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I am very honored that so many people want to come over here to the United States. This is supposed to be the land of freedom and opportunity. If we look at it, everyone is an immigrate. People have fled to the U.S. to escape poverty, genocide, political instablity, etc. As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for my ancestors who were forced to come to this land during the slave trade, I would have never been here. Why is it that only the United States is trying to protect the borders so harshly. I've traveled to may countries, not a a legal citizen, but as a tourist, and I have been welcomed with open arms. The resources that we take for granted such as health care, retirement, and social security, isn't offered to a lot of people outside the United States. Everyone should be given an equal opportunity, but on the other hand, we are over looking the fact that there are people who are sneaking into the United States that what to cause harm. Maybe the process of becoming a legal citizen shouldn't be so hard. How would you like it if you were only considered a citizen based on a document of papers? I'm not discriminating against Africans, Jews, Polish, Hispanic, Arabic, or any other race. We just need to redefin where we are trying to do with this immigration bill and not over react by saying that immigrates will be felones and will have to be deported. This just ridiculous if you ask me.
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I agree completely.  I love my country, it is truly the land of the free and the home of the brave.  I think that with respect to immigration, we have to do what is in OUR national interests, not the national interests of Mexico or any other country.  It is simply not in our national interests to have the massive illegal population taking our jobs, driving down wages, using up government services, taxing the environment and causing a housing shortage.
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Are you asking if we should send migrants home to their countries of origins if convicted of some crimes in their host countries?\n\nIf that is your question, then I would say - "Definitely Yes!"\n\nWe have our share of criminals, but they are home grown, we can't help but keep them here and simply use the law to deal with them.\n\nIt's like a parents will deal with their naughty boy but still keep him at home.\n\nBut why would you keep someone else's naughty boy at your home when he caused trouble to you while visiting or staying over?  \n\nYou would send them home wouldn't you?\n\nThe same with governments.  We should send criminal homes to their countries of origins and let them be dealt with by their legal system.  Let them eat their prison food paid by their own tax payers.\n\nI think refugees should be given first a temporary asylum visas.  Check background and then be considered for PR.\n\nIf they claimed that their papers are destroyed and their ID cannot be confirmed, well give them the benefit of the doubt but have a clause for repatriation.\n\nI think this is fair ask.\n\nWant to come and live with us, be a useful member of the community.  Want to sit on their bottoms and have plenty of time to act out their crimes, go home!
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Immigration should be addressed as a country... not based on your ancestry. Fight for what you believe in... decide for yourself, not for other people if flooding one country with limited resources of land with people is a good idea. \n\nMaybe you can come up with an alternative. Not just to let them in or kick them out. The issue is much larger than that. The issue is what brings the immigrants here. That is the root of the problem.... that is what needs the mending. Not the individuals trying to find solstice in the nearest thing to heaven they know only to find it is far from heaven. \n\nMaybe a bit of a biased answer but still, the sentiment exists that you must think outside of the box. It isn't about taking sides... it is about solving a problem. Preventing a fight.
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At least you are going about it "legally" and - BONUS - you speak their language!!  Bravo to you!!  Sorry, I can't answer your question, but just wanted to congratulate you on immigrating to a country "legally."  Too bad everyone can't be like you, as then we wouldn't be having these raving rants in this forum.
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It is an ideal to aim towards. A hundred years ago there were hardly any restrictions at all, you could travel between most countries without even owning a passport. Then bureaucracies and paranoia took hold.\n\nIn most of Western Europe border controls have been abolished, and you wonder why we ever had them. It may make it marginally easier for crooks to get away, but realistically very few terrorists were ever caught at borders anyway; look, the 9-11 attackers, the Madrid bombers, the London bombers were all legally present in those countries, border controls made no difference.\n\nWe should work toward removing the differences in living standards that make people want to move. Those who are serious about the "threat" of mass migration should be campaigning for fairer trade, and for our governments to stop supporting dictatorships that not only oppress people, but allow multinationals to exploit them. As long as rich countries take an irresponsible attitude toward the rest of the world, they will face this problem.\n\nIt may surprise some to know that most people would rather not have to leave their countries to live as second-class non-citizens in hostile countries far from everything they know. They would rather be given a decent opportunity to live with dignity in their own countries.