Where are all of you  from  and  is there a large illegal immigrant population in your area?
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I'm from California.  This year for the first time hispanics are 51% of the population if one includes the illegals.  Whites are less that 50% of this stated population.\nI have nothing at all against hispanics except that out state is overcrowded notw and this state doesn't have the infrastructure or transportation system to construct enough housed for everyone who wants to come to California to Live.  The true cost of illegal immigration is tthe cost to provide housing for them including the infrastructure, such as schools, parks, police(crime), for protection, medical services, recreation, social services, ets, etc, etc,\n\nIt's a real serious problem and the quality of life is going to hell here.  The middle class is moving out of state.  many , many hispanics want to take back California as part of mexico so they refuse to assimulate and refuse to learn our language. So everything has to be printed in two languages.\nI could go on and on for hours.\n\nit's bad and getting worse.The only real solution is to put up 2 huge 20 foot high parallel fences along the entire border ( 50 feet apart) with dogs and lights and sensing devices between them.\n\nor we can all move out and just give them the State because it's going to hell anyway.
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Ok....let's get one thing straight.  When my (and many others) ancestors came here long ago IT WASN"T ILLEGAL!!!  Most of them came here not for money or a better life but for life itself (jews, scots, irish).  They had people actually killing them, I mean gun to the head, knife to the heart.  And they came to this country and FOUGHT for this country, losing whole families along the way.  I live in the south and am a proud southerner (that does not mean racist), my family were poor dirt farmers from Tennessee who scraped by with what they could grow or what they could buy with the little money my father (who had to drop out of school at the age of 12 to get a job - only boy out of 11 children - and fought in Vietnam) made doing odd jobs.  Today we have laws in place to stop the over population of our country.  My husband is an immigrant who went through the proper channels.  Yes, it cost money that we didn't have but we STILL went through the proper channels.  They will let you in unless you have something to hide, all you have to do is fill out the paper work and wait.  I know that today time is money and one day can mean the life and death of someone you love but AMERICA is NOT to blame for the state of your home country.  I am all for immigration if it is done legally!  As far as I am concerned, whether you come from Mexico, China, England, France, or Tim-buck-too, if you come here illegally you should be prepared to face the repercussions of doing so.  Breaking the law is breaking the law, period.  No one is above it (with the exception of the Bosh family - or so they wish us to believe).
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where are you located?
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I agree with you,mate,but it looks like we're on a loser here.Some  of the answers make a distinction 'legal' & 'illegal',but if they see an obvious foreigner in the street,they don't ask themselves that question,they think 'bloody immigrant'.A little bit of racism here,don't you think?
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i am. i am from Philadelphia pa how about you?
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hmmm.....don't see many of the regulars answering this question/statement do you.\n\nanother aspect of this immigration topic we have yet to pick the scab off.\n\nI love it.\n\nOh but I have to add....they are all going to post quickly with "illegal".....though that had nothing to do with the question.....that is going to be your basic answer.\n\nLMAO\n\ngood post!
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For anyone who is illegally here in the US.
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Illegal immigration in the US???
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Where are you located??
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Illegal immigration is a problem everywhere including other countries.
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Oh I see you decided to speak English again. Good for you. \n\nTo answer your question: I think this illegal immigrant situation became a monster slowly. In other words, at first only a few hundred people were sneaking across the border daily. But over time, it has progressed, kind of inconspicuously, into a few thousand or more per day. It is one of those things that most people don't notice until one day we wake up and see that our world has totally changed and we didn't see it coming because it happened so slowly over time.\n\nBut once it was brought to our attention, we found that we needed to do something about it. No double morality here.\nIllegal is illegal,whether it be drugs, underage drinking, or a parking ticket. If it is illegal, then I am having a problem understanding what the big misunderstanding is.
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Why do people on here assume that everybody here is from the same area. Don't you realize that people from all over the world are reading your questions?
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fenchurch is wrong in stating that most are here legally. INS statistics say otherwise, to the tune of about 8-10 million people depending on which survey you read. Illegal immigrants cannot legally vote, although many have forged ID's and Social Security cards, so some may have tried it and succeeded (depending on how well their backgrounds were checked, which generally isn't very well). Illegal immigrants are basically spitting in the faces of all who came to this country LEGALLY, through the proper channels, like my ancestors had to. And the liberals don't even call them illegals anymore-which they are. They call them "undocumented aliens". What a joke.
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Which is your area..???
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A recent poll conducted in South Florida, Southern California and Texas revealed that 57& of those polled thought Illegal Immigration was the nations most serious problem.  The remaining 43% responded... No habla Ingles.
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I just think it to be really funny that we just walked into mexico, set up our homes there and claimed half their land ours and now that they are coming here we are all up in arms as if this is a great injustice.  Note to all Texans...you are all technically illegal immigrants in Mexico's rightful land.  We have to stop only thinking about ourselves people!
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What state are you from?