Should immigrants stay in the U.S?  tell why?
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No, they should not.  They should leave the country and follow all of the rules and regulations like everyone else in the world that wishes to come to this great nation.  In addition, they should pay a huge fine to make up for all of the social services they have taken advantage of without paying their fair share.
612598
Send em back home! If they want to be here so badly, they'll do it legally. And besides, we'd be better off without them. We have US citizens with no jobs, that are willing to clean, disinfect, and deliver. But yet, immigrants get the job because they work for less. Americans need to quit being cheap, and think about helping out their country by hiring our own people.
569470
From an American point of view, that should be the stile of all Cultures: a low-level of controlled immigration is good as long as it is well intentioned for the good of the host country. \nIt is safe to say that if the immigrants coming in are fully interested in coming to a new country to assimilate rather than change it they should work hard to do so. And if not they should not be allowed as 1st level citizens with all voting rights of that country, that is the way to loose all that your ancestors worked to attain. That is what we have a problem with in the U.S.
544443
What Dr. Know Says is true except he left out one bit of fact:\n\nWe fought for it and won!  Now unless some other country wants to stand up and fight for it (say Mexico for example) like we did, then I suggest they shut the f*ck up and go back to their own country!  We made laws so that we could keep undesirables out of our perfect country.  If they can't abide by our laws and respect our rules thereby showing respect to us as a Nation then they should not be allowed to live here!\n\nAdri:  Wah, wah wha!  Here's a novel idea:  Stay in their own country and fight to make it better for there decendants instead of coming over here demanding rights they did not earn.  Those jobs you mentioned would be done by Americans for a decent wage if the low life criminals who call themselves immigrants weren't stealing those jobs just by coming over here and making themselve available for cheap labor.\n\nRicky:  That's the first intelligent thing I've read on yahoo answers today.\n\nQuack:  You are so right.  You rock!
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Legal Immigrants should stay\n\nIllegal Immigrants - should go home and be permanently barred for not following our laws\n\nWe need law abiding citizens\n\nBy the way my wife is a LEGAL Immigrant from the Philippines\nIt took us over a year to get her here and we paid over $1000.00 \nbut we followed all the rules\n\nAm I a Racist ???   - Hardly\nLaw abiding and respecting - Yes\n\nYou need to respect another Country's laws if you want to live there
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That's tough to answer since my ancestors were, in part, \n\n1) traced back within one generation of the Mayflower \n  (the original illegal immigrants and the first "boat people")\n2) Irish immigrants\n3) Native Americans\n\nI wonder what most Americans would do if their family was living in poverty and the best way to care for their children - provide better clothes, good food every day, adequate medical attention, better education, etc was to slip across a border and do menial work.  If I felt that was my only viable choice, I think I'd break the law.\n\nHow many people break the law on a daily basis just driving to work by speeding or driving recklessly or failing to follow basic traffic signals and signs?  What's the justification?  They're late .. everyone else does it .. it's not that important .. and so on.  What's the risk?  Injuring or killing someone else .. someone else's father, mother .... and for what?\n\nWhat's the justification for illegal immigrants coming here?  They want a better life, they want to provide for their families and children.  They want adequate food, education, health care.  A better standard of living, and so on.  What's the risk?  Hmm ... fewer people cleaning your houses, fewer janitors, fewer people gathering food in fields ... is that really a risk?\n\nI think we Americans need to show a little human compassion and understanding on this issue.   Just because we're a few generations further removed from our own illegal immigrant roots doesn't give us the right to be so quick and harsh in our judgment today.\n\nI don't endorse all of the latitude being suggested for illegal immigrants, but I do think they should be given the chance to work, become citizens, become tax payers, and earn the benefits that citizens deserve.  Wholesale deportation is not feasible, nor is it compassionate.\n\n"Give me your tired, your poor, \nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free, \nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore. \nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, \nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
177478
come back, because Americans are the industry and without us they wont thrive. they will become immigrants of their own country hahaha that is funny stuff!!!
1038359
Great immigration question.
418649
I completely agree with you. I am married to a U.S citizen and  am trying to go though the immigration system legally myself. I have been here for 9 months and I cannot work or drive or leave the country. My husband is working 16 hours a day to try to pay the immigration costs and for us just to survive. I know that we still have years of this sort of thing to go though. So why should the people that came here illegally be given the right to stay. I have no rights here. It's just a slap in the face to everyone trying to do things the right way.
265879
Well, im american, and we have a lot of debate always going on about immigration policy here too. I know little of canadian immigration matters, however, if it helps, most{not all} immigrants to usa dont contribute much but cheap labor, however, there children usually assimilate very quickly, and that generation becomes contributing tax paying citizens. So, if your an optimist,  it can be looked at as an investment in the future.
116085
It depends on the country.  People want to move to the USA, so it is to keep them out.  If you live in a bad country, like when there was East Germany, they had to build a wall to keep people in.
58695
What is here? Do you mean how to find immigrants to the United States? If that’s the case, it all depends on when. Need more information to answer with any depth.
530953
Most of the illegal immigrants made a CHOICE of entering this country illegally. But there a few of us who did not have much of a choice when we were infants. I agree with you, this country set rules for everyone in the US to follow. One of the rules is to enter the country legally, so technically those who chose to enter illegally are criminals. But why should we spend our tax money chasing after these people who are trying to better their lives when we have true criminals out on the streets? We should all keep in mind that not all illegal immigrants(Hispanics) jumped the border last week. Some of us have lived in the US for over 18 years. We do not have an accent and do not live off of food stamps.\n\nMy answer to your question is that many of us were 3 years old when our relatives brought us here, and I am pretty sure they forgot to ask us if we wanted to enter the US legally or illegally. Let's not be cruel, infants and toddlers are not criminals.
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If you're asking me, a legal immigrant who is still waiting to become a citizen, I'll be glad to answer: because those of us who have come here legally have been able to do so because of our privilege and good fortune.  I have gone through the process, and I know how utterly ridiculous it is to suggest that low-wage workers like illegal immigrants could wait in line for their turn and come here legally.  That is preposterous.  I was very fortunate to get an exemplary education (in a country that boasts an illiteracy rate of close to 50%), and to have come to the US to pursue advance graduate work in a highly abstract discipline.  This is the only way I can think of that I would have been able to come to the US as an immigrant, short of marrying an American citizen visiting my home country.  The fact is that American legal immigration policy is nowadays much more exclusive than it used to be when Ellis island was still functioning, or when your ancestors first came here, most likely without much money, without a graduate education, etc.  And because American immigration policy is far tougher now, it is no surprise that these people took the option of coming here illegally.  I know people like them back in my home country, and I cannot blame them.\n\nIf you ask me to support better control of the American southern border, I'll be the first to second your suggestion.  But if you want me to rail and rant against people who don't know any better and who have been dealt much worse cards in life than I have, then you're asking the impossible.  I am fortunate to be here, and in spite of how aggravating the immigration process has been, I stand in solidarity with those who are less fortunate than myself.\n\nHow can I justify amnesty for illegals?  This way: it is the humane thing to do, especially in the case of illegal immigrants that have taken roots in this country, who have not gotten in trouble with the laws of the land (except immigration law), who have family and friends here, and who have nowhere to go back to.
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I think immigration policy should be more rational, so that more people could come here and work legally. If we don't make it possible for immigrants to feel safe and secure here, and to take advantage of the benefits of living in a free society, then they're much less likely to assimilate, or to feel like contributing to the complex web of American culture.\n\nThe federal government has made it very difficult for many parts of the country to deal with illegal immigration. State governments have the burden of paying for emergency medical care and are mandated to provide education for minor children of immigrants, while having no say in how or whether the US government enforces federal laws.\n\nI think we should be much less paranoid and more intelligent about how we approach the situation, more cooperative, and more realistic.
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I think no illegal alien should be allowed to stay here no matter what country they are from. NO AMNESTY TO ILLEGALS. I do not care if you give me a thumbs down, you are still here illegal and not welcome until you come here and apply for citizenship and speak English so I do not have to look at everything in Spanish. I am not in Mexico or Central America, or Spain. I am American living in America, and I have the right to say this as I am Mexican descent. My grandfather came here legally and became a American citizen. He spoke English and told my mother and her siblings that they were to speak it as much as Spanish. He was loyal and loved America.
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In my opinion its not fair at all. This is America, and in order to be a American you should have to go through the procedures required to become one. I believe that it should not be legal to stay in the USA unless you plan on learning the language, learning the culture and have a plan for you future here. It should be the same all over the world. If you love your home country so much that you want to send money back to them all the time or eventually go back there and your just here to work and take up American jobs, that's no acceptable to me at all. If you love were your from them perhaps you should stay there. In the end no its not fair, maybe people come to this country every day with good intention and they do it the legal way, no one should be allowed over our borders without first proving that they really want to be here and love this country.