disadvantages of illegal immigrants?
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they bottom out the wage base,and greedy AMerican employers make a larger profit because nobody else will work as cheaply. They financially drain free healthcare programs, making it more difficult for Americans to utilize them. They force the US to pay big money to ship them back home when they are caught. There are disease,biological and homeland security risks from coming across the borders un-inspected. They cause stiffer regulations for those people who want to legally migrate.
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Pros, The illegal immigrants will be treated better and be able to drive legally with insurance. Hopefully less use of false documentation and identity fraud. For them they are rewarded for their struggles to come here, which is not a pro for American Citizens.\n\nCons, We will entice people from all around the world to disregard our immigration policies. Multiples of illegals here that may be a risk either criminally or for National Sercurity reasons will be given a free pass to come and go freely. (The first World Trade bomber was given amnesty in the 80s and flew back to Afghanistan to learn how to make bombs.) Our social systems will be strained further as they feel more capable of using the system and a chain reaction on those displaced from the immigration. \n\nAlso, the employers who are enjoy low wages and no fear of litigation or workers comp would lose all benefits of hiring illegal workers.
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A normal healthy economy does not depend on immigration. Mass immigration normally does more harm than good by promoting social unrest, breaking infrastructure, destablizing population, and increasing poverty. Immigration requires three conditions to be a good thing: 1) there is somewhere for those people to go, 2) there is something for them to do and someone to pay them for it, and 3) they are willing to assimilate into the existing culture. Without those three then you have high crime, poverty, and/or invasion.
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We all know the disadvantages are death, misery,repression, fright, bodily injuries, rampages, evilness.\nThe advantages would be population control, improved economy for many, advances in technology, employment, nationalism( may unite people who have a common enemy), education about other societies, spreading of ideas.
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I've seen those facts before, attributed to the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThe fact is that illegal immigrants concentrate, not only in states, but in specific localities.  That is enough to significantly impact statistics for that locality, be it a state or a county.\n\nThe impact is huge, but it is mostly for state and local costs, which the federal government refuses to reimburse while refusing to allocate (federal) funding enforce laws that might prevent this from occurring.\n\nContact your Congressmen. Don't forget to say that the 10 year 'rolling amnesty' through the 'statute of limitations' provision in the Senate bill has got to go.  They are ignoring the elephant in the bedroom.
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You'll likely be ordered to repay any benefits you illegally collected.  I think as long as you do that, you won't be in worse trouble.  However, if you fail to do that, I'm pretty sure there are criminal penalties you could suffer.
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Oppose illegal immigration, for legal immigration.
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I think the cost of deportation fo a single illegal immigrants is costly and can not be measure in term of economics alone.  It is important to realize to whom (the race of the people) the laws for immigration are inforced.  If it was not a tool for discrimination it would be a big issue. But, with the advent of outsourcing to other countries, the largest group of illegal immigrant are not the our biggest threat. \n\nMost are working in fields that most american would shun. The fact is they are exploided because of their residency status.   By their choice as determined by their action, they need no saving.  What you want to do is make them tax paying citizens as opposes to deportation.  It is more cost effective.   \n\nAnd they will be the next group of citizens complaining about Illegals.
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Cons, can be illegal, Pro's, free.
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unwanted immigration is different than illegal immigration. i assume you are trying to defend the hispanics crossing the border. i have no problem with them crossing the border as long as they pay taxes too. they recieve healthcare, education, and even social security - but pay nothing into the system. THERES A REASON WERE 7 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT (other than the war). we should consider a high sales tax and no income tax - that way everybody is paying, and based on how much they spend too.
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Pros:\na bunch more relaxed people\n\nCons: \nanother thing for the gov't to tax\nincreased car accidents\neven more people not caring about anything but themselves\nmore overweight people\nlogistics problems to when and where it is legal\n\nIn other words it is an unintelligent thing to do.
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Once again, Jessica has proved she can copy and paste.  Get some knew material and maybe an idea of your own.  I've seen this same answer for 5 questions.\n\nTo answer the question:\n\n1. higher taxes\n2. strain on an already burdened economy\n3. lack of health care for Americans who really need it because the  illegal aliens are sucking it dry.\n4. everything you said.
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For me, it's not clear how education affects illegal immigration. You could argue that an abundance of poorly educated citizens, scavenging for low pay jobs, might actually deter illegal immigration.\n \nWhat is clear, is that well educated people are less threatened by illegal immigration because their job's profile is not that of the kind that an illegal might take. Further on, since they are likely to hire some of these illegals, they might benefit from the cheap labor.
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One pitfall would be OVER POPULATION by the wrong kind of people!\n\nAmericas Standard of living would be drastically lowered.\n\nAmericas Quality of life would suffer.\n\nAmericas children wouldn't have a future!
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It would affect the US economy,  no doubt. In labour intensive areas like agriculture, it would result in the increase of prices while our tax money which goes to support the illegal immigrants will see a reduction. Everyone is worried about how the average Ameican who is so dependent on the labour will fend for himself. \n\nAlso, not all the people who are doing manual labour are Mexicans/ Latinos. And not all Latinos illegals either.  \n\nLastly, it will also get all the couch potatoes up and a obese nation on it's toes again - maybe we needed this to jolt us out of our sedentary lifestyle into a more active one?
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Illegal immigrants do hurt our country. The reason why is because they take are jobs from us and government money away from those who were born in this country.
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Mine is illegal aliens causing a division for Middle America.. I am opposed to the idea of having a rich and poor division here.. The rich will be rich, the poor will be poor.. how boring America will be without us Middle class citizens..