If this a day without illegals, will healthcare, fuel/heating costs go down, since they won't use them freely?
613766
Heck, it won't go down for the rest of the legal consumers ... it takes more than one day for prices to go down ... so .... more days without illegals!  Please!!
286856
Are you talking about hr 2237?\n\nIt would make illegals criminals and send to jail anyone who helps them. ok well, once all the illegals are in jail and the people who help them...and then the prices of everything in the US starts going up .....I dont think people really have thought of that aspect. Of course i'm not for it. So once illegals are in jail...who's going to pick your oranges for your morning breakfast??? or are you going to go and work for long hours for minimum wage?? I doubt most US citizens would.
708674
Pre-empting daytime TV for endless hearings and investigations while they accomplish nothing in Washington, the economy begins to wane as taxes kick in and expenditures on social programs increase at the expense of defense and national security. Not wanting to deal with the terrorists in their backyard just means they will come to play in ours. And probably illegal aliens will get amnesty making those who applied legally for citizenship look foolish. At some point someone will realize our international influence has a great deal to do with our food production in this country, and the UN will try and take control of our farm produce. We already have lost most of our freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with the left. The careful avoidance of the gun control issue by democrats just means they have learned their lesson not to take on the NRA. the question will be can they last two years, until the Presidential race, before going liberal? I hope I am completely wrong, but I remember what the democrats were doing before 1994 when they had been  in control of both houses for decades. Had the "rising tide" of eager young republicans  kept the last of the pledges of the "contract with America", "term limits" and rotated out of office then they might not have been defeated as badly by the "change" attitude, or as complacent with status qou. The success of illegal immigrant and private property rights ballot measures in states that went democrat prove the republicans weren't paying attention to what were traditionally middle class values, democrat or republican. I think most people are just hoping for PROGRESS, low taxes, lower energy costs, some kind of peace (isolation is a utopian dream, 9/11 reminded us), so that life and prosperity can go on. But the influx of illegal immigrants to work cheap and demand benefits and exodus of good jobs, must be dealt with.
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Illegal aliens are not worse than 9/11.\n\nIf half of the illegal immigrants were forced to leave than there would be 5 million more jobs available to working class Americans.  In addition those employers would then be forced to pay decent wages and to hold workers comp insurance.\n\nThere would be less drain on hospitals which are required to treat everyone who comes into the emergency room, lowering medical costs.  The military would not be affected, but we would have to increase border patrols and border security.  Personal services would probably start costing slightly more.  Most manufacturing is already done overseas (most jobs in the U.S. are now service related) so there would be less effect there.
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It would be a taste of our own medicine.\n\nThe American citizens of course would start working the works illegals used to do, and not the legal residents because lots of them have College and Post graduate studies, they will keep doing better paying jobs, among with a minority of American citizens.\n\nTherefore, all school drop-outs, and citizens without much education will be doing the work of illegals, BUT FOR HOW LONG?  a week?  a month? \n\nThen, people will stop working or demanding better pay,  and employers will not be able to afford the new ALL-AMERICAN-WORKFORCE.\n\nAll the suddden: SURPRISE!! Higher income people can't find produce at the grocery store! Non-perishable food is getting scarce, factories are closing!\nWell, what do we do... lets go to the restaurant! OH No! the restaurat is closed, there is another one open across the street, but they have only one choice and a waiting time of 4 hours.... \n\nEmployers and Factories send the whole production plant overseas to cut on costs.... OH, Noo!\n\nOH! What do we do now?  \nIf Illegal Aliens are kicked out, the USA will be slowing down in production and stocks, sooner than we think the Country would STOP and it would be Americans going to Mexico or to other Countries.\n\nThen what? it will be Dear American Family, please fill this application for visa and wait 5 years before you can come into my country, thank you for your patience.
686955
It will still be the issue of enforcement. We have a guest worker program. If they enforced the laws we would not be in this situation.
401632
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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I don't know if you will consider this an intelligent answer or bashing, but this is my opinion: Not only would prices go up, but availability would go down.  I tried doing agricultural work in the 70's when I was a young and inquisitive hippie type.  I cannot imagine that any of us spoiled Americans who could possibly get any other type of work would want to do that for more than a few days.  It is NOT FUN.\n  I think that the produce would rot in the fields if there were no Mexicans available to pick it.  Most of us would be unable and unwilling to go out there and do anything that is that uncomfortable and dirty and exposes you to the sun, and agricultural chemicals, snakes, etc.\n  It is my opinion that the hype over closing the Mexican border has more to do with making middle Americans feel insecure than it does with Mexicans really.  I also believe that the typical Mexican working in the US would much prefer to be legal, would chose to be if it were easily possible.\n  I frequently travel from the middle of Mexico to the middle of the US by bus, the border has buses from Mexico lined up 24/7 all full of Mexicans, all going to every part of the US.  You never hear about those people on the news, do you?\n  I have found travel in the US to be less easy, more expensive, and more hassle these last few years.  What we need to be asking is why are our freedoms being curtailed?  All of this hype over Mexicans is just being put out to distract Americans from the facts of lessening freedom for us.  \n  Of course our country could not run without the Mexican work force.  Take a look around your own town wherever it is, I bet you will find a whole section that is Mexican.  Mexican groceries, clothes, Drs, all anyone would need, including buses that are totally run in Spanish and cross the border daily.\n  You needn't worry that the borders are going to be closed to Mexicans, what you need to worry about is are they going to be closed to YOU unless you are rich...  The folks who are putting out this brainwashing have no real interest in the rights/abuses of Mexicans, they are after your rights.\n  I hate to put this out there, because it is probably just going to get me in trouble, but I think a lot of the stuff that is on the news is nothing but brainwashing.\n  Some of the people here in Mexico believe that there may be as much as 30% of the Mexican workforce in the US at this time, and I know for sure that the American retirees are here spending money like crazy, I spend most of mine here in Mexico.\n  There are larger issues of economics and social control here, you can count on it.  We are not being told the truth, we are being manipulated by someone, I have no idea who, but I bet they are super-rich...  And they have no intention of cutting off their own supply of cheap labor.  They just want you to be too afraid to do anything but earn and spend money which is all they care about you for.  Whew! glad I got that off my chest, hope you find my opinion interesting.
1005394
Yes. How many people answering this question live close to the Mexican border?\nWe can hardly pay for our own healthcare, and they get freebies.
401018
Yes ... I Think It Will Have An Impact- AND I SUPPORT It\n\n1-People Will Lose Their Jobs And Be Replaced By Citizens\n\n2-There Is CERTAIN To Be At Least ONE Incident Of Violence\nPrompting Washington To Realize The DANGER In Keeping The ILLEGALs Here And Ensuring The Full Endorsement Of HR4437\nWith NO AMNESTY\n\n3-There Will Be Less Traffic That Day
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Without illegal aliens, \nthe price of agricultural products \nand other goods and services will NOT soar. \n\nThe definitive study on this subject \nis the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" \n\nThe study concludes that \n'since labor is such a small component \nof the end-price of agricultural products \n(which includes price to the growers, transportation costs,\nprocessing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), \nusing minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens \nwould increase prices of agricultural products \nby approximately 3 percent in the summer \nand 4 percent in the winter ... \n\nhardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, \n$25 hamburgers, \n$1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms \nlike the pro-illegal alien lobby claims. \n\n\n\nDeport, Deport, Deport \nIMMEDIATELY Upon Discovery
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Thats The Day That\n\n1-People Will Lose Their Jobs And Be Replaced By Citizens\n\n2-There Is CERTAIN To Be At Least ONE Incident Of Violence\nPrompting Washington To Realize The DANGER In Keeping The ILLEGALs Here And Ensuring The Full Endorsement Of HR4437\nWith NO AMNESTY\n\n3-There Will Be Less Traffic That Day \n\nYes ... I Think It Will Have An Impact- AND I SUPPORT It
665573
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...
389948
yes, anything to stop all those illegal mexicans from taking our jobs, getting our free education and health that the average taxpayer doesnt get....
626164
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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REMEMBER THE ALAMO...\n\nIf illegals can't freeload off Texas, then they'll go elsewhere.   Then the Texas economy will be able to provide more jobs to LEGAL ALIENS and other AMERICANS that are looking for work.  Personally, I would deploy armed NG Troops and citizen volunteers on our borders both North and South.  NO PERSON should be allowed to enter our country without a sponsor, a reason to be here and a good background check.
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There Are 300 Million People In This Nation That Go To School And Work And Shop And Buy Gas And Groceries EVERYDAY\n\nIf 15 Or So Million Of Them Take The Day Off And "BOYCOTT" The Nation, I Dont Think It Will Have Much Impact, If ANY At All\n\nLet Em Boycott For A Day, OR A Week\n\nThis Is AMERICA Not MEXICO\n(Maybe The Wheels Would Fall Off The Wagons THERE, But Not Here)\n\nThey Can Boycott Their ILLEGAL @$$ES All The Way Back To The Border