Given that it's difficult to cross the border, why are there so many illegal immigrants here?
471143
There is a huge incentive for poor people in a desperately corrupt country to face almost certain death to come to a place where there are far too many short-sighted employers who are willing to sabotage our country by circumventing the whole idea of supply and demand for labor. The problem is not that Americans will not do the jobs that are needed, but that they are not willing to do the jobs for the wages that are offered. Supply and demand says that if you want labor in a tight market, you have to pay what it is worth. By purposefully recruiting desperate people who are entering illegal, and thus cannot defend any human rights they have, the employers are able to pay slave wages, charge for mimimum wage, and pocket the difference.\n\nWe the people are the losers. Instead of building a wall to keep out immigrants, we should deport criminal employers.
544222
They are in other countries because,some people want to pass under the water,and even inside the bush to united states.So the government decided to put the immigration officer to every country connected to united states.And before you can come here,i mean to united states,you have to go to the immigration's office to obtain your passport and some other necessary document in order to come to united states.
789912
Illegals are ILLEGAL.  Those folks came into the country illegally.  They're breaking the law by being here.  What's hard to understand about that?'
480369
The law is the law, and crossing the border illegally is a crime.
689205
I think the main reasons are the wall in the border and the new penalty to the illegal alliens including jail . but they are not only trying to avoid this , but also to gain more rights for the illegal aliens .(citizen rights without been citizen)
1051136
They come here through various methods, from walking, swimming, etc., there have even been tunnels discovered that are air conditioned to get here.  Out of the 3 million illegals that came here last year, about 1400 or so died in the desert.  That survival is not a requirement to be legal, nor should it ever be.\n\nWomen who are pregnant on the border are given free access to our hospitals free of charge to have anchor babies through ambulances.\n\nRight now, if there were a 1 mile train coming from Mexico brimming with illegals the train could not be stopped because they are a common carrier.\n\nThey pay 'coyotes' to get them across.  I knew a guy that stayed stuck in a car for 9 days straight from around Guatemala to get here illegally.\n\nDon't forget also that the Mexican goverment prints and distributes a manual how to get here and end run our constitution to stay.  They tell their people we are stupid.  It irks me to find out that they are right about our leaders.\n\nThere are communities, some not more than three feet on the Mexican side having as many as 150,000 people waiting for their chance to hop the fence and get in.  Some of those places are so dangerous the Mexican police won't go there.  \n\nThe Mexican army shoots .50 caliber bullets at our border patrol, according to them almost every day, to protect drug smugglers and human traffikers to cross.\n\nOur people on the border have been accosted by armies of illegals crossing over and assaulting them and thier families - the Mexican Government keeps trying to sue them for civil rights violations for protecting theirselves, their property, and their families.\n\nAnyway you can think of to get here, they get here.  And people on both sides can and do get hurt.
404628
i'm assuming you mean illegals. You have to give the guys from central america credit. They were all willing to die trying to get here. Most of them ride on freight trains accross mexico to get to the border. Many are maimed and killed trying to jump on and off the trains. Gangs and marauders rob and kill them all the way up the track. How many of us would be willing to die just to live here? We are all decendants of immigrants. As long as they are not criminals, i don't have a problem with them trying to get a little piece of the american dream.....
609819
Each and everyone of us is here because our ancestors were looking for a better life. But what people don't remember is that there has always been a limit as to how many immigrants are allowed in. Remember Stanton Island and what people went through to get here, some were even turned away.So it isn't that immigration is bad or coming to America for a better life is bad, but sneaking over the border is what is bad. I am an ex-Maytag worker, the factory moved to Mexico. America is always trying to fight for the underdog and all the while we are becoming the underdog and then who will fight for us. Our jobs are going to Mexico and Mexicans are still coming and taking more jobs. I would like to know whos Idea it was to say that they are taking jobs away that people don't want, because I wanted my job.
584004
Amen!  It's NOT a MEXICAN ISSUE..it's not just an IMMIGRATION ISSUE...it's an ILLEGAL ISSUE.  NO OTHER COUNTRY WOULD ALLOW IT EITHER...no, not even Mexico.  I have NO problem with anyone who comes here legally.\n\nThere is a process to get here legally.  Yes, this may be a long process, but it's LEGAL and you won't LOSE YOUR LIFE if you do it the way that's LEGAL.  \n\nI really think it's a shame that the protests yesterday really put all of the immigrants in one category..but it was their own fault.
353861
Because too many immigrants are coming in illegally and could be the next terrorist against the United States.
803177
In my city they take up an entire city block. There are so many that the police established a sub-station just for them. The officers must speak spanish and they patrol only that area. Many are required to walk a beat to try to foster good community relations. The neighborhood school is now entirely populated by the offspring of those illegal immigrants. I can tell you that the rest of the city does not get their own substation with officers assigned to walk a beat to foster community relations. Just another example of the hidden costs of illegal immigration.\n\nFor all you pro-illegals out there that want to welcome the illegals with open arms, just try to walk through that neighborhood sometime. See how welcome you are. My guess is that IF you walk away you would have a whole different perspective.
1179780
For your information, people come to Canada illegally all the time, and because of our liberal policies and fairly good social services they feel that they will have an easy ride when they get here. Unfortunately, they are often indentured to some Gang Boss and have a life debt to pay and live a very miserable and isolated life. Also, I am not sure if you are aware of this, but there isn't a 10 foot wall of snow at the Canada/U.S. border and we don't travel around on dog-sleds (anymore anyway). I live in Vancouver BC and it almost never snows here. As a matter of fact, I think Seattle gets more snow than us and they are several hundred miles to the south of us.
538454
A group volunteers doing a great job, who are simply misunderstood by bleeding heart liberals who don't have a bloody clue about the real world.\n\nPatrolling the US / Mexican border is a bigger task than some people think, and the more help the authorities get to do so the better - remember it ain't just illegal workers potentially coming over that border, but also the potential threat of Al Queda linked terrorists & drug smugglers coming over that border too...... and with the Minutemen on the job, it means the border patrol aren't completely tied up dealing with the mexican illegals and can also deal with looking out for the Terrorists & Drug smugglers before they get over the border to fill your kids with bomb shrapnel, anthrax or cocaine.
447809
there are illegal immigrants,legal immigrants and hispanics that were born here protesting. so you can't assume that the protesters are illegal.
650845
Because it's human nature to take the "path of least resistance" and it has been proven over and over to them that it is easier and faster to get a better life for themselves by coming illegally to the USA than to stay home and cause the needed changes there.
1081736
Love it or leave I don't see many people crossing boarders Illegally  in other country's I wonder why
750791
Either some troops on the border or hurry up and beef up the border patrol the way we were promised, and with firearms.  Someone here said that the illegals are not armed - I beg to differ with that statement - we hear all the time about the illegals coming in with coyotes who are often armed, as well as the drug runners who are armed, and at times even the Mexican Military and Mexican Border Patrol, armed, escorting the drug runners over the border into the USA!  I have heard many times about these people firing on the US Border Patrol.  Whether or not your statistics are 100% accurate, I agree that the largest number of illegal immigrants DO cross into the USA from Mexico, either sneaking over the border or overstaying visitor visas.  These, of course, are not ALL Mexicans; however, as there are many from Central American countries coming over this way, as well as terrorists from the Middle East who are learning Spanish and mixing in with the Mexicans and Central Americans, crossing over illegally while pretending to be Mexican.  \n\nAs well, I laugh when I see people on here correcting other people's spelling and grammar and then, in their own posts, they make spelling and/or grammar errors!  Don't correct others here, unless you are 100% CERTAIN that your postings are 100% error-free!