Will the UNITED STATES eventually turn into a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY if the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS REMAIN HERE????
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Yes\nIf We Do Not Stop The Incredible Flow Of ILLEGAL Aliens,\nThe US Will Lose Its Status As A First World Nation\n\nMore than 20 million illegal aliens presently reside in the United States, with roughly 12,000 additional illegal aliens entering every day.\nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIllegals\n\nIn Comparison, The Populations Of The Following 18 States COMBINED Equals  21,149,673 \nRanked By Population \n34 -  Utah -               2,469,585 \n35 -  Nevada -             2,414,807 \n36 -  New Mexico -         1,928,384 \n37 -  West Virginia -      1,816,856 \n38 -  Nebraska -           1,758,787 \n39 -  Idaho -              1,429,096 \n40 -  Maine -              1,321,505 \n41 -  New Hampshire -      1,309,940 \n42 -  Hawaii -             1,275,194 \n43 -  Rhode Island -       1,076,189 \n44 -  Montana -              935,670 \n45 -  Delaware -             843,524 \n46 -  South Dakota -         775,933 \n47 -  Alaska -               663,661 \n48 -  North Dakota -         636,677 \n49 -  Vermont -              623,050 \n(n/a) District of Columbia - 550,521 \n50 -  Wyoming -              509,294                    \n                                                    \n                           = 21,149,673\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population\n\nNot all illegal aliens come from Mexico.\n \n---In 1997, the Illegal Alien population was 54 percent Mexican. \n---The Illegal Alien population is currently 70 percent Mexican, with 30 percent coming from other countries. \n\nLatin America, including Mexico, is the source of 90 percent of illegal aliens entering into the United States.\n\nA 2004 Fox News article stated that "it is not just Mexicans who are flooding into our border states anymore.  Along with the Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Chileans,  agents of the Border Patrol now encounter Chinese, Pakistanis, and Indians.  Nationals of countries other than Mexico are known, in Border Patrol parlance, as 'OTMs'" - Other Than Mexicans. \n\nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIl...\n\nOn January 9, 2004, President Bush proposed a guest worker program - a thinly veiled amnesty for illegal aliens. \nA February 29, 2004, Fox News article subsequently stated that from 50 percent to 90 percent of illegal aliens apprehended claimed they were coming here for the "amnesty" (their words). One Border Patrol officer stated that "They believe that they are only responding to an invitation." \nIn fact, official Border Patrol apprehension statistics show that total 2004 apprehensions as of June 30, 2004  represent a 190 Increase over total 2003 apprehensions.\n\n\nFrom the Los Angeles Times: \n\n--Over two-thirds of ALL births (66 Percent) are to Illegal Alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the Taxpayers\n\n--40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes. Why would they want to be legal and pay taxes?\n\n--Over 300,000 Illegal Aliens are living in garages\n\n--Less than 2 percent of Illegal Aliens are picking crops\n\n--29 percent of Illegal Aliens are on welfare.\n\n--Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California Detention Centers are Illegal Aliens. \n\n--29 percent of inmates in the Federal Prisons are Illegal Aliens. \n\n--It cost Los Angeles $276 Million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of Illegal Aliens in 2004\n\nMexico is NOT a poor country. \nIt has the fifth richest economy in the world, and by sending its teeming masses to our country, that status keeps on rising. Mexico has more resources per square mile than the U.S. and plenty of money to take care of its own people.\nYet ILLEGAL Aliens From Mexico send about $39 BILLION (B)Annually back to Mexico to assist their families and prop up the corrupt Mexican government that keeps most of its citizens in poverty.\n\nThe Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the
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As long as their are poor people, and third world countries, there will be no end to immigration issues.\n\nI see what you are getting at, I think.  Without the immigrants; without the poor, there would be no middle or upper classes.  Poor people do the work for the middle and upper classes to maintain their social status.\n\nHope that was kind of what you were getting at :)
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iono y pplz keep sayin  America wouldnt be anywhere without immigrants...umm,,hello fukers America has made this far and i dont think loosing immigrants is gonna dethrone America..but i guess we gotta have sombody to cut our grass
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It may happen if enough immigrants make their way into the states and ruin this country like they did their own.  Then they can either go back or up to Canada...and nobody wants to go to Canada!
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No not yet unfortunately, i hope they pass that because these illegals are causing this country money and some might say no they are not, but the way things are going it definitely will.  Either come in legally or go away!
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i hope never!! please go home to your own country and fix your problems that you all have there..we don't want you all here illegally and you should never be awarded for breaking our laws !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The floodgates will open.  We think we have it bad now?  Every able bodied man and woman from every impoverished hell hole in the world will be stowing away on frieghters bound for Mexico or Canada and cross the border hoping they will be made a citizen that way.  Not to mention the increas in Mexicans crossing to fill those low paying jobs that the newly legalized Mexican will no longer do for cheap wages.
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Oh heck no if that was to happen it would be the ghetto of the USA. I read in an artitical a few week back where Vincente Fox of Mexico was talking to some people of Columbia saying that the Mexicans were going to over rule our government. Don't know how true the source really was but as daddy says talk is cheap.
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Way to go!  Congrats to the friend who got the new job as well!  If the illegals went home, business would be forced to pay a better wage and would entice US citizens to work!
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Hell no!  I don't expect the same from others who enter the U.S. illegally.  If I was to work and live in another country, I would definitely make sure I went there legally and had at least some knowledge of their language and culture.  I expect the same from foreigners who enter the U.S.
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It will eventually subside after the government decides and announces what their plans are for immigration.  Yes, there are a lot of very important issues today, but this is one of them.  This issue needs to be settled in a fair and just way and the laws of the land, whatever they be, must be strictly enforced.  Giving the illegals amnesty can only encourage more illegals to come to the USA because they will see that as a tacit okay to them coming illegally and it will be encouraging to them by saying, "If you come illegally and stick it out - eventually you will get rewarded for it, just like those before you."
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Life would go on... I don't think America is going to fall apart without any one minority (not that I have anything against Hispanics, or minorities in general)... I suspect this is in response to 'what would happen if illegal immigrants get mad and leave the USA.  This seems to be the line the media is running with these days, but the mass protests on May 1st didn't affect the economy in any substantial manner (the 10cent hike in gas prices has done far more than they could hope to do), heck it even made my day better, since a segment of the population wasted their time making fools of themselves protesting in the streets instead of impeding traffic on the interstate...
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I believe it is headed in that direction regardless of what happens. Things are already to far in motion to just be ignored now. Whether the illegals are sent home, or made legal, prices on Ag goods will be rising within the next few years. If the illegals are granted amnesty, they will be demanding higher wages, so no matter what, prices are going to rise.
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This is what suprises me...that the "legal" immegrant population is willing to allow their way of life here in the U.S to be dramatically reduced for the sake of their "Illegal" counter parts. What's going to happen when we let all these people become citizens? a new build up of illegals will start! Your schools, your freeways, your hospitals are all overcrowded NOW! What does the future hold when we don't say NO? The poor will continue to crowd into their dingy one bedroom apartments while the rich will continue to exploit them for pennies! Pretty soon OUR country will be like Mexico in that we will have those that are rich exploiting those that are dirt poor!....and you will have brought it on yourselves!
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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!!!
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I'll continue life as usual. Clean my own home. Mow my own lawn. Cook my own meals. People who are not accustomed to doing for themselves the things that they are currently hiring illegals to do for them do not have one drop of my sympathy. Businesses want to leave? Let them. Agriculture can return to American families...where it belongs. Americans will have to do their own dirty work, and there's nothing wrong with that. Civilizations crumble when too many of their citizens do too little for themselves. Make yourself useful and productive or no one will need you.
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Yes, but even that won't work.  Demand for their services is too great.  I suspect the government will be as effective stopping illegal immigration as they are stopping drug smuggling.