Why  does congress want to make that immagracion law anyways?We're just here to work.?
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This has nothing to do with volleyball..post it somewhere else!!
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first of all no legislation has been introduced that will change their current status . Most of this has been brought on by a bill proposed in Congress that would have stiff penalties for illegal status . I personally think that this has frightened them and they want their voice's heard . As it stands right now the ideas range from amnesty to prison . It's anyone's guess what sort of comprimise will come out of this .
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Because the new bill will make it a felony to be in the country illegally.  It will also be a felony to hire someone who is illegally in the United States.
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That is what they are hoping for. This is an invasion.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits. \n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them. \n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years. \n\nIf you go to a country and refuse to assimilate, continuing to speak your own language then you are really not an immigrant -- you're a colonist ... and that's what the Mexicans are doing, they're colonizing the American Southwest as part of their "reconquista" Read about mecha in the link I provided and you'll see what the Mexicans real agenda is.\n\nhttp://www.americanpatrol.com/MECHA/MEChAindex.html\n\nMost Mexicans believe the Southwestern US rightfully belongs to Mexico; and most believe they should have the right to enter the US without government permission. –Zogby Poll (June 2002)\n\n~~~\n\nHalf of all Mexicans – over 50 million – would move to the US if given the opportunity. –Pew Hispanic Center (August 2005)\n\n~~~\n\n84% of Americans view Mexicans favorably.\n\nBut only 36% of Mexicans view Americans favorably.\n-only 26% of Mexicans say Americans are hard-working.\n-only 16% say Americans are honest.\n-and 73% say Americans are racist.\n\n-Zogby Poll (March 2006)\n\n~~~\n\nThe prohibitive cost of providing illegals with free healthcare has shut down more than 60 hospitals in California since 1993; many more are on the verge of closing. –Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Spring 2005)\n\n~~~\n\nIllegals enter this country without health screening. Consequently, epidemic diseases from our past – polio, tuberculosis, plague, leprosy – are on the rise.\n\n~~~\n\nIllegals consume $69 billion in social services annually. –Rep. Russell Pearce (AZ)\n\n~~~\n\nAccording to the US Census, 96% of the increase in public school enrollment is due to immigration.\n\n~~~\n\nThe Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that children of illegal immigrants cost public schools $28.6 billion annually.\n\n~~~\n\nIllegal immigrant labor depresses wages for American citizens by $200 billion a year. –Lou Dobbs, US News & World Report (01/31/05)\n\n~~~\n\nThe cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer is $55,000 per illegal. –Center for Immigration Studies (July 2001)\n\n~~~\n\nAccording to the US DEA, 92% of the cocaine sold in the US comes in through Mexico (2004) as does 65% of meth and
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They are doing an excellent job. It's just sad to see that average American citizens have to take time out of their day to do a job the government should be doing.\n\npisano ombre, you should really knock off the gringo sh*t, it's getting old. You wouldn't like it if people called you a frijolero, would you?
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Because the big company's pay them handsomely for the favors. Lets log America, rid the planet of those rotten trees, and call it the healthy forest act. Lets drill for oil, in environmentally sensitive areas, we will call that the American energy independence act. Lets let corporations spew poison out of their smokestack and we will call that the protect American industry act. We could also set the old and the sick and the disabled out on the side of a hill to die and put that under the social security reform act and the nation has no need for poor people we can send them to Mexico and refuse to let them come back because Mexicans are better workers anyway. Catch my drift?
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because we accidently voted for thoes people who support that into office.  But I agree....it is time for people to get off their lazy backside and get a job.  My mom is legally blind and has  masters degrees and works full time.  They just want to use the government to be lazy and quite honestly it is stealing from the government....don't those people have any pride in themselves!
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There was a bill just passed by the U.S were immigrants can't be in this country and anyone who hires an illegal or helps one will go to jell and fined. Now they are trying to make it a law, but there is a debate going on in the senate, they are debating over different propositions regarding if they should give illegals an amnesty,meaning they will become legal if they have been here for 5 to ten years, another one is the permit to work for six months, where after a period of a few years they will possibly be able to get there legalization,but with this permit they also have to leave after the time given and then get another permit to come back,(it's really unsure)and others I'm not aware of,  It's really ridiculous now that illegals have been here so long and have adapted to the customs of the U.S and furthermore there are millions of undocumented families and persons who have really struggled to get here to work hard and have a better life, people have lost there lives's trying to cross the border, and all they wanted was to come here to work and provide for there family, just like any other American. They just want an opportunity to make an honest living, and not live in there possibly corrupt countries where their own government fails them constantly and gives them no hope for progress.  Well this is my point of view, not to offend anyone or anything, everyone has the right to view this issue as they choose to, this is how I choose to do so and I hope it helps you at least to know one part of the issue.
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Really the only thing we can do is pressure our elected officials to enforce the laws already on the books. The immigration bill that they are looking at now is just a farce and is loaded with things to enhance the political stature of the various sponsors. Of course, we all know that the government isn't about to listen to us, the little people, so, what can we do. If I thought I could get paid to go help build the fence, or if i were younger, join the border patrol. A moat? Thats funny, Florida gators? THats even funnier. You folks on here crack me up. Call your congressman, email your congressman thats the only thing you can do to make yourself feel better. there is nothing else you can do.
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You are so right. This will be Mexico in a few more years if something is not done. People need to educate their self as to how their congress men are voting and get them out next time around if they are selling this country out for some votes from the mexicans. If their legal thats fine.....if their here illegally then they broke our laws and we don't want them and should not have them. Since when do we reward someone for breaking our laws.\nI don't want to here this crap about our great great grandparents probally came here from another country once upon a time. Yup, maybe so,  but they stood for hours at Ellis Island...did the paperwork and thanked god for the chance to come here. Theygot no freebee's, no welfare, (they had pride) they rolled up their sleeves and went to work and paid there way. They did not put a drain on our schools and hospital.....if they made a bill they paid it...they had pride, didn't want something for nothing.\nIf our goverment gives amnesty to people that broke the law then they are selling our country out, plain and simple.\nGo to Mexico and see what you get if you break the law, see if there is anything you can get for nothing, or if they feel they owe you anything. I have been told you can commit murder over their and if you have $50 in your pocket you can walk away .\nThese people have to be laughing at the stupid americans over here.  They go home and tell them about all the things you get for free here in the good ole USA. Then a few more thousand come across the border. What do you think this talk about amnesty is doing, many more want to get here before this takes place, then their safe and will get to bring all their family over here.\nI can go on and on...if we don't stand up and be counted soon, its going to be to late.
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The current legistlation regarding illegal immigration is a sweeping reform bill that would, in fact, make it easier for people, people who are currently in our country in violation of our laws and customs, to become legal citizens.\n\nIt would also make it far harder for companies to employ illegal immigrants, who usually receive abysmal pay and suffer under reprihensible working conditions. Further, the proposed legistlation would strengthen our border patrol, currently vastly underfunded and understaffed.\n\nEveryone at some point seized the land they are living on by force from the people (or in rare cases, many millions of years ago, animals) who were already living there. The issue is that a soveirgn nation must be able to control who is allowed to become a citizen, pay taxes, and enjoy the benefits of those taxes.
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They are going to accomplish two things:  Prove exactly how irrelevant and insignificant illegal immigration is to our society and to the economy, and will wake up the slipping giant that is middle America.  This is a hugely ill-conceived idea.  The leaders of LULAC/MeCHA/Aztlan should be jailed just for ill-serving the ignorant poor people they are hurting.\n\nMy plans?  Work, my friend.  Someone's got to pay the taxes that give illegal immigrants free education, healthcare, school lunches, food stamps, subsidized housing, college tuition, oh, and I almost forgot, the ability to help them free up some cash to Moneygram back to Mexico.
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This whole issue makes no sense to me.\n\nNow my info is based on my dealings with the construction world, which as you know employs alot of immigrants from south of the border. Now I'm not naive and I know a good many of these so called *legal* immigrants use fake socials and names to get jobs and are in actuality illegal immigrants. Our government is not stupid either but you don't see anybody going to major construction sites and doing immigration status checks now do you? Shutting down major construction projects is not going to win anybody in government very many votes now is it?\n\nIts all politics people. If its currently popular to harass immigrants the government will do so, if its not they turn a blind eye to the issue. Whatever it takes to get themselves re-elected.\n\nNow as to why this is viewed as a huge problem, I just don't see it. \n\nFirst of all the *undermining the economy* statements I see.\n\nEven the truly illegal immigrants pay taxes on the food they eat, they purchase items and pay sales tax, they pay rent, buy gasoline and cigs with high taxes on them, pay utilities, pay tolls, pay insurance, buy automobiles and in cases where they use fake IDs and socials, pay all the applicable payroll related taxes. (and in most cases overpay, you don't think they file returns at the end of the year do you?)\n\nSecondly *they work for extra low wages* The people I know in construction pay industry standard or better wages for their immigrant workers. If anything I hear complaints about how much they have to shell out, usually followed by statements praising the quality of work they get in return.\n\nThirdly *they are taking jobs from hardworking Americans* Honestly, no they aren't. The work they do in construction, while requiring some skill, is mostly back-breaking hard labor. This type of job is considered *beneath* the majority of Americans and lets face it, selling drugs is much easier and while you might be risking a stint of 3 hots and a cot atleast you won't be breaking a sweat! \n\nFourthly, they work, that's more then I can say for some Americans I know. They don't get food stamps, welfare, Medicaid, medicare, social security, or unemployment, they can't, in most cases, afford to have the government look that closely at their status so they get up every morning and go to work!\n\nFifthly, have any of you looked at what it takes to get a green card? Its not a matter of filling out a few forms. There are 3 ways to become a legal immigrant. Sponsorship by an employer, who must prove he/she can't hire anybody else for the job (and even if its true, most employers can't be bothered by all the paperwork) this method also requires the immigrant to hire a lawyer, takes about a year and reams of paperwork (hence the need for a lawyer). Secondly the lottery....yes our government holds a lottery for immigrants who have the equivalent of a HS education to *win* legal status. They give away 50,000 green cards a year to around 8 million lottery applicants. If you don't believe me look up Green Card Lottery. Funny position for a government who currently wants to crack down on illegal immigrants to take don't you think? Enter our lottery and win a chance to live in America! I'm sorry but that seems just alittle cheesy to me. And thirdly marriage to a US citizen. Its just not as simple as people seem to think.\n\nNow I know that there are probally sweat shops employing immigrants at below minimum wage but again which one of you would want that job anyway? Heck, most of the people that I know would rather starve then work at a McDonalds, much less a sweat shop. Besides, if companies want to produce items at  sweat shop wages all they have to do is relocate their factories outside the US...no wait, umm, they are already doing that so again what is the problem?\n\nI'd much rather keep the money here wouldn't you? And as far as the premise that they send money hom
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Because they are the workhorses that do all the dirty work we don't want to do....because we're all the same...human being and should want to help our fellow being.  There are ways to get here legally, but sometimes it is too difficult and people get desparate...so they arrive illegally.  I don't believe the Pilgrams were in this country legally...:P
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What an excellent question.\n\nYou would think this event, since it is a kind of natural flowing, self-exiling exercise by the illegals themselves, should provide our politicians a means of regulating our border.\n\nUnfortunately this won't happen.\nMany in D.C. aren't serious about immigration control.\n\nWhat really gets me mad is that thousands of people  are trying LEGALLY to become American citizens and are stonewalled by this same bureaucracy.
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To all those mocking such a thought and dismissing it as fantasy, you have a very short memory. It has been less than 2 weeks since La Raza and Mecha showed us exactly how organized they really are. Have you all forgotten the tens of thousands of illegals and their supporters marching through the streets of our cities carrying not American flags, but Mexican flags?! You don't think that if they can manage to get amnesty, and start applying political pressure (they already are) that they will get voting rights for all of these people? And once they can vote, they will effectively vote as a bloc. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Once they own the politicians, they will own the country. If you don't think so, all you have to do is look West to California. I have seen voting blocs at work, and they are a force to be reckoned with. And unless we stand up now and stop what is happening, your grandchildren will be speaking Spanish in a third world nation - The USA.
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Read the bills, please don't lie about them.\n\nNeither the House or Senate bills criminalize aid agencies (including churches) or medical facilities for helping illegals.  They are not required to ask or report.\n\nEMPLOYERS that hire EMPLOYEES (whites too!) are requires to check Social Security Numbers against a National database before they can employ someone.  Fail to do so and big fine/go to jail.\n\nThe truth will suffice, my Liberal friends.\n\nThank you for your support.