Can amnesty to ILLEGAL Immigrants be good for our county?
463383
no besides the fact that we would be rewarding them for breaking the law, the last time the government granted citzenship to all of the illegals, it cost roughly 80 billion dollars and there were a lot less aliens then not to mention how many more would leave there crappy country. they left there country because it is horrible, and now they are dragging this country down
500555
great point! i think that it is because a lot of illegal aliens are illegally registered to vote in several counties and, because they are voters, our politicians don't want to upset them and lose their precious votes. i am not sure that the polititions can do anything about the problem, i believe that it is up to the citizens.
785635
I think we should.  Because the people are the ones being effected, so I think the registered voters should be allowed to vote.   I think it should be this way for each individual city or town.  If the people of the city or town vote to not grant amnesty to the illegals, then I agree that the illegals and their kids(whether they were born here or not) should be deported.  i think it would be a lot cheaper to have them deportedthen to spend our hard earned taxes on them to have free welfare and medical benefits, and send their kids to school on the taxpayers expense.  Not that I don't think their kids shouldn't get an education.  I just feel like it's a burden on the people (taxpayers) who have to pay for their education out of their own paychecks while the illegals just sit back and collect under the table and don't have to contribute to the education system or any of these other things they are getting for free.   I'm not racist, I just feel like our money could be going to other problems this country has.
1129162
It might sound good to an illegal criminal, but not to LEGAL USA Citizens:\nSenate Bill-- the rights illegals will get:\nCurrent Bill:\n\n1. grants amnesty to the MILLIONS of illegals already here!\n2.grants amnesty to illegals FAMILYS,who live OUTSIDE the country\n3.admits HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of unskilled "guest workers",through a new "guest worker" program,with a direct path to permanent resident and citizenship!\n4.admits 1.5 MILLION\nagricultural "guest workers" with a direct path to citizenship!\n5.increases the number of employment based, immigrants admitted to the U.S. each year,by 400%!!\n6.gives the Dept.of Homeland Insecurity,the discretion to waive fines for employers who knowingly hire illegals!!\n7.allows states to give ILLEGALS,in-state tuition benefits that they can DENY to citizens who live in other states!\n8.requires consultation with the MEXICAN government,before we begin construction of a fence along OUR border!\n9.creates new student visa programs,with direct path to citizenship!\n10.allows ILLEGALS to claim Social Security benefits,for work performed ILLEGALLY!!!!\n11. Adds a 10 year 'statute of limitations' to give amnesty to illegals coming in in the future if they provide documentation saying they were here for 10 years at any future point. (This to people who have been using false documents all along.)\n12. Each of the guest workers in each of the 1.5 million person PER YEAR and 200,000 unskilled person PER YEAR program would, upon obtaining residency or citizenship be able to bring their families as well. This includes indigent parents at a time when we already don't know how we will fund old age requirements for the baby boomers.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal just touted a poll saying Americans are beginning to prefer Bush and the Senate's view to immigration reform. However, I've read the questions they asked. Had I not actually read the Senate Bill and had I been asked those questions, I'd have ended up being counted as supporting Bush and the Senate in this. People only approve of the Senate Bill if they don't know what it says.\n\nThey are not looking out for legal American Citizens. They don't listen to us. They are listening to freeloading illegal immigrants. If enough of the voting legal population will get their heads out of their butts and let their senators and representatives know how they feel about this atrocity to the American people they just might start to listen to us. \nThe laws on illegal immigration are already on the books, they just need to ENFORCE THEM.\n***********Americans Need to Get Their Heads**********\n*********Out Of Their Butts And Pay Attention************\n\nCredit goes to: DAR and yars232c Y!A members
1050021
It is.\nDo you mean the Illegals should get Amnesty?NO.
1046828
They shouldn't be even considering most of the proposals on the table, as they give benefits to illegals that even US citizens do not get (tax amnesty, social security amnesty/fraud, etc...).  \n\nHopefully they won't be our elected officials too long if they keep this up, but most voters are apathetic/uninformed and that's probably the biggest issue we face.  If the elected officials are not "punished" (i.e. not re-elected), then they will get the message that they don't "know better" than the rest of us.
264575
Businesses are the true criminals here. Those who come here illegally to have a better way of life wouldn't come if no one hired them. And no one would hire them if they couldn't do it cheaply and without any insurance. And the illegal immigrants aren't trying to hurt any one but they need a certain amount to live and the businesses just don't pay enough...so the rest of us have to pick up the slack through our taxes while the businesses line their pockets with the profits from the underpaid workers. The only thing we can do is:\n\n1) legislate (yeah, right. like the businesses don't have our government in their pockets.)\n\n2) boycott (Can we really boycott everyone? Nope.)\n\n3) Ignore the problem and hope it doesn't cause the earth to stop spinning and that USA still means the same thing 20 years from now.\n\nHey junior_03yes (BELOW): You must be from California, because there are white farm workers all over this nation...just nut here in CA. You should get yourself an RV and do a little road trip.
418164
Read the following facts and you will understand the threat.\n\nApril 26, 2006\n\nhttp://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3751199\n\nLos Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said Tuesday that he will tell Congress that close to 100,000 children of illegal immigrants in the county collect $276 million in annual welfare benefits.\n\nAntonovich, who is in Washington with the Board of Supervisors, will meet with congressional representatives and provide information about the impact of illegal immigration on county services. \n\nAntonovich said 98,703 children of 57,458 undocumented parents received Cal-WORKS welfare checks in January, or a total of 156,161 recipients. \n\n\nFrom the  Los Angeles Times. \n\n1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. \n\n2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. \n\n3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. \n\n4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. \n\n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally. \n\n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages. \n\n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.\n\n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal. \n\n9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.\n\n10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).\n\n\nFrom the Center for Immigration Studies \n\nLess than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. \n\nOver 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. \n\nThe cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. \n\nThe lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE \n\n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
369202
Sounds pretty good. I hope I never have that opportunity.\nThen I would be a hypocrite. I think everyone should play by the rules.My spouse came here legally 9 yrs ago and has never spent one illegal day in this country. I think everyone should pay the price the same way. What is good for one person is good for the other. Don't reward those who disregard the laws.
419262
decades ago\n\nFrom the L.A Times\n\n1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. \n\n2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.\nhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040119-082933-4484r.htm\n\n3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.\n\n4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. \n\n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.\n\n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.\n\n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. \n\n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.\n\n9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.\n\n10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).\n\n(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)\n\n\nLess than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.\nhttp://www.cis.org\n\n\nOver 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.\n\n\nThe cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. \n\n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
1098903
My belief is No!  I am a tenth generation American with many immigrant grandfathers, I am also Choctaw Indian.  My husband and I have been forced to deal with a decaying economy, and poverty because Illegal Immigrants come to America and Accept all the benefits every Legal Immigrant, and American has already earned.\nIs Stealing a crime?\nWhen you reap benefits that you have not earned you do not deserve them.\nAnd, that is what Americans are raised to believe.
216046
There is no question that as a whole it is beneficial to the economy of California (and the whole U.S.)  Immigrants, including esp. illegal immigrants are among the most productive workers in the U.S., and whole industries such as agriculture rely on illegal immigrants as a work force.\n\nNow, while beneficial to the economy as a whole, illegal immigration does expand the labor market, thus helpful manufactures, agribusiness, etc., and consumers but doing so to the detriment of US labor (organized and otherwise.) Wages are depressed by the influx of workers.
141096
too many "mixes" going around\n\nStay in the USA with onlt AMERICANS\nhelp get our county back
1123027
Yes, more than likely. And it's possible if another amnesty is to be given to more illegal immigrants again, you'll have a _lot_ more home-grown terror cells before long! Trust me. Just watch and see what I'm saying!
854385
?\n\nif people want to keep careret county (wherever that is) the way it is, then development could be viewed as bad.
920999
I have lived in so cal all of my life. Sitting Pretty must be well insulated form the problem or just doesn't open her eyes. I used to live in Santa Ana Ca. I had my house broken into and robbed on 5 different occasions. The last time was in plain view of two of my neighbors as this illegal kicked out my front window to carry out my TV. Yes I know he was illegal because he left fingerprints.\nI had to keep the battery to my pick up in the garage to keep it from being stolen (learned that one the hard way too) This was well over 20 years ago before the first amnesty. I finally had to move. Last time I visited that neighborhood everyone had steel bars on their windows and doors.\nWhere I live now the illegals have taken over a city block. So bad is the problem the Police had to put in a sub-station just to try and keep a lid on things. Cops walk a beat in that neighborhood to try to foster good community relations so that at least some of the residents will report crimes to them. Gangs from LA have been seen there trying to recruit the young kids. I see them everywhere now..especially the moms with their little anchor babies. Katsulove is absolutely correct on the costs. Remember Cali tried to pass prop 187 in 1994 because of the huge drain on our economy.\nI know many Americans with hispanic last names and I count them as close personal friends. Actually I married one and you should hear her talk. They don't like what they see any better than I do.
1072630
You're right,most all the illegals could be deported,over time!! Amnesty should NEVER be given to people who FLAUNT our laws by breaking them!!!  amnesty NEVER works,all it does is ENCOURAGE even MORE lawbreakers to come here!This is not even fair to those who have waited for years to come here legally!! I think,that IF there is a "guest worker" program actually NEEDED,that it SHOULD NOT automatically lead to citizenship!! The United States of America does NOT need any more citizens! And, we can not AFFORD any more poverty level,uneducated,welfare people!