Why all of the sudden, is immigration or illegal immigrants a big deal,, I mean did the government get bored?
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no it has finally hit a level were it is a huge problem in all areas of the country.\n\n\noh and we are not talking about immigration, its only illegal immigration. legal immigrants are welcome and many are friends of mine, they did it the right way.
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NO! Because we cannot afford a huge flood of immigrants into this country, our social structure cant bear it.  Plus, then you are allowing everyone in- I dont know about you, but Id prefer Mexico keep their child molestors and murderers, we have enough up here already.  Are the schools in your area empty?  Are they complaining about having too much money?  I know mine are filled to the max, so an uncontrolled flood of illegals filling the place up faster than we can build new schools would not be a good thing.  Are the jails empty and your cops having nothing to do in your area?  Not the case where I live.  Are the roads empty where you live?  Not where I live, I dont know if they can bear thousands of new cars on the road, as you flood us with illegals.  Are your health care costs Low?  Is it easy to find a Dr. in your area?  By adding millions of uninsured illegals to our system, do you think your costs would go down or up (duh-up of course!)? Etc Etc.  Legal immigration allows for non-criminal, educated people, who actually want to be come productive citizens to come to the US in a controlled manner.  Legal immigration is great.  Illegal immigration is horrible for the US and for all the legal citizens (both immigrants and natural born).  Learn the facts of this problem before spouting off about how our government is "being mean".
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But thats just it. I personally dont think there was an effect. They gathered, spoke their peace, now they are happy. No laws were changed, no one arrested (surprisingly). no one hurt. I feel they could have gone about the issue a diffrent way, but i still dont see any changes in our country today because of yesterday. I dotn support what they are doing or why they are doing it, but why couldnt they have done it differently? Not going to work never solved problems for anyone. They wanted us to feel what it would be like if there were no illegal immigrants in our country, i dont know about you , but nothing changed here, i still watched mexicans buying stuff at our local store, no protesting, no signs. so i still dotn know what the point of yesterday was.
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no but we won't be talking about it after the elections because this issue which has been around since 1849 seems to come up when politicians need distractions from the real issues affecting America such as:   corporate welfare, millions of Americans uninsured, the working poor, minimum wage increases!!, war in Iraq, WMD's, Katrina, CIA leaks, diminishing civil rights, disparity between rich and poor, using God's name for political gain, and many other issues that truly affect Americans everyday..... and not this crap about illegal immigrants being the cause of all of America's problems!!!!!
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Mexicans are not being persecuted in America. Even those that are here illegaly. Although there seems to be more public sentiment against illegals here of late. I would blame that on the media or the politicians makeing an issue of it more than anything else. ive lived in Texas all my life the illegal alien thing is nothing new.there were plenty illegals here for more more than thirty years and never heard one complaint until the last few weeks when the media started blasting it out the airways. Unfortuneately Ive noticed that the media seems to have a large affect on the popular opinion here. Why they have chosen this time to make it a major issue is beyond anything i can understand.
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Yes, we are all getting tired of it. I have been involved with immigration since the early 90's so I am really tired of the justifications of breaking the law. Along with all the rest of the parroting that goes along with it.\n\nRemember one thing: POOR people no matter if they are US Citizens, legal immigrant or illegals they do not pay taxes and unless they are levitating they are subsided by the taxes payers.
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the main issue, which everybody is not considering is the (ILLEGAL) immigration, not the immigration itself, the US is open for legal immigration, so why go illegal ? just to not pay taxes? why didnt illegals fix their situation ? they were given too many chances.
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Well, the reason this is all going on is that the government wants to keep us busy fighting amongst ourselves so that we are too blind and busy to see how they are abusing their powers and taking our rights. So, to do that, they have started discussing numerous immigration reform bills...some that would come down hard on illegal immigrants...other bills that would give them a short cut to legal status that would put them in front of many who are legally trying to enter the country...and there are many sub-issues being tossed around.\n\nDoes the gov't really want any reform? NO!!! They just want citizens to think that illegals are ruining our country and wasting taxpayer money. And they want the illegals to think that citizens are racist and heartless. This will lead to all the fighting and marching we have witnessed over the last several days.\n\nReality is that if the government really wanted workers for the business, they could have them by raising the number of persons legally allowed to enter, and making the process easier and less expensive. But the government LIKES to have illegal people here. WHY? Because the businesses that control government want slave labor. That is currently frowned upon, so they get the next best thing...illegal immigrants...little pay, no complaints, scare tactics...it all keeps their underground workforce under tight control. All the while illegals are treated as criminal when the true criminals are our government and businesses. Don't get me wrong, I hate having people come here and break our laws, but the most angering part of the whole thing is that these laws are put into place out of an artificial need to keep immigration low and to appease middle class workers who do suffer from job/business loss due to influx of workers who are willing to work for far less than is enough to raise a family on."Our" government really doesn't give a damn about the middle class...who are the fools who vote these jerks into office based on the lies they are told. \n\nSo, while illegals are wrong for being here, they are not the source of the problem. They are merely seeing an opportunity and grabbing it...similar to seeing a dollar bill on the ground in a crowded room with no way of knowing whose dollar it is...the first person who sees it is entitled to the dollar, because if they don't pick it up, the next guy who sees it certainly will.\n\nOf course none of this ranting leads to a solution, but I do get carried away from time to time. :) What can we do about all of this? Beats the hell outta me, but I know that calling people criminals and calling people racist doesn't solve anything, it just leads to more anger and more name calling and more distraction from truely important issues...which is what the government really wants!
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You can pick almost any issue and someone will feel that it is the top issue and the country is divided on it.  I believe that most people are in agreement that the Issue of Illegal Aliens is out of hand.  There are many things wrong with the way we handle this sitation and many of the problems are our governments doing.  \n\nWhen things are running smoothly in this country, people all working and no foreign issues on the top of our governments list of things to do such as fighting a war or negotiating a peace for someone else.  We all get along fairly well.  However we now see that people that are here illegally can hurt us as the hijackers of 9/11 did.  Many jobs have moved out of the country and replacement jobs are not as good as what you had and boom the Illegal Aliens are taking all of our jobs.  Well yes many American Jobs are performed by Illegal Aliens, however they get paid less than minimum wage, work long hours without overtime and if they did not perform these jobs the jobs themselves would cease to exist as Americans do not want those jobs.  I have noticed that on this forum at Yahoo Answers there seems to be a leaning to the fact that all foreigner's are Illegal as many people refer to either being Illegal or being a Citizens.  There is another category and that is being a Resident Alien and there are a lot of those out there.  Just because you are foreign does not make you an Illegal Alien.  I see a wave of mistrust of foreigners in this country that could in fact be very dangerous.  I also realize that because of things that happened 9/11 we may never trust as we once did.  While this issue looks to be all black and white it isn't and a lot of it is the governments fault for following antique laws instead of updating them to meet the needs of todays world. Our leaders need to figure this issue out and get something happening before it all boils over and makes one hell of a mess.
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Yes, I love it!  I look on the internet news daily for more stories like the one about the mayor of Hazelton, PA, or Sheriff Joe in Arizona, or big unexpected roundups of illegals in different cities.  It does my heart proud to see the citizens of the USA standing up against this injustice that the government has allowed to occur and get out of hand - illegal immigration.  I believe the power of the American citizens is now snowballing against illegal immigration and whether the Federal Government wants to or not, they are going to have to listen to the people whom they work for, and act accordingly.  The days of the freebies and handouts for illegal immigrants are quickly coming to an end and the smart ones will start planning their own voluntary self-deportations now, rather than wait until they are found and shipped out, possibly leaving family members behind in the USA.  Better they start planning and get themselves organized for an orderly return to their home countries before they get caught by immigration officials or the police or their landlord or their employer.  This way, if they have lived cleanly in the USA so far, without committing further offences since they first illegally came over the border, they have a hope of returning legally one day, if they go home now and apply to immigrate to the USA through the proper procedures.  WAKE UP ILLEGALS!  Do yourselves and your families a favour and return yourselves in an orderly fashion now, while you still can.  Otherwise, don't cry and whine when you get caught and shipped out on a moment's notice, when you aren't ready.  The jig is up!  Amnesty is NOT coming!!  Wake up and smell the coffee!
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Immigration, under Politics & Government.
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I think that it's an unnecessary strain on race relations.  I believe they would have been more successful at getting reform by doing this quietly.  The president, who is a conservative, had just pushed a bill to allow illegals to become eligible to apply for citizenship.  So, if a conservative is for it, it will probably pass since most of his party will follow him and the liberal would vote in favor of it.\n\nBut then it got ugly and there were marches demanding AMNESTY (instantly legal), not just the ability to apply for citizenship, and the race issue came up.  They accused whites of being racists, and a BIG backlash is brewing among american citizens.\n\nI've been raised around the hispanic culture and they're fine people.  I work with them daily, and my company has a center in MX City.  Actually, race has never been an issue around here, for the most part.  But this whole May 1st walkout is brewing some serious anger among Americans because they are demanding when they, quite honestly, should be humbly asking.  I've never seen anything like it.  I'm not racist, and even I'm getting dragged into the melee because I refuse to allow an illegal any latitude for their illegal entry.  And instantly people call me a racist or an "arrogant American."\n\nWe gave an amnesty in the 80's and everybody was ok with it.  The idea was that we're going to clear up the illegal issue and keep the new illegals out.  Well, now we have an illegal population of about 10 million...so amnesty is a big POS.  Enforcement is the answer.
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Probably.  I haven't noticed any tangible problems from immigration -- other than problems purely stemming from the fact that we've declared a lot of it to be illegal.  As far as I know, the economy is better and lots of things are less expensive as a result of immigrant workers.  I don't think many Americans are eager for many of the agricultural and service industry jobs that many immigrants perform.  If there is an unemployment problem, it has much more to do with outsourcing overseas, and the general state of the economy (to which immigrant labor is a benefit, not a burden).\n\nAs far as making this country what it used to be -- an ignorant, bigotted, Indian-massacring, slave-owning backwater -- I think that's kind of crazy.  But one *good* thing that you *would* need -- is lots of immigrants.
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It's a phenomenon called "drive by media".\n\nThe media has the attention span of a gnat and can not focus on one story for too long.\n\nThey just randonly "drive by" and let fly with a hail of "bullets" about some subject and then it's off to the next story.\n\nBTW, it was not correctly called an immigration issue since it really concerns just the ILLEGAL immigrants and not ALL immigrants. \n\nI think most people are for legally allowing people to come into the country. \n\nI said most people.
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I don't think the government doesn't want latino here... the government doesn't want any more immigrants in the U.S period! since the influx of immigrants is getting to a point where it's creating problems for the economy of the country as a whole.  Why is that? well, all these people even though they're here in the country illegally, and I'm sure that their sole intention is to do well and to be able to help their family back home and to do better for themselves... however, if things doesn't turn out the way they hope it would be, and they're not getting much support from the government, some of those immigrants will ended up doing anything possible to survive, that being said anything whether good/bad to make a living and I believe that's what the government is trying to end.  It is sad because after all, the U.S is made of immigrants and to be able to stop something that a whole country was built by.. is really not a solution.  I think that although their action is understandable by trying to restrict the influx of immigrants, however... other methods could have been used to help those who sees the U.S as their only way to a better way of living.
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People have lost their sense of patriotism. Rest assured that there will be no loss of American territory to anyone. Americans are getting tired of illegal anything. We are getting tired of our corrupt politicians and all of it.
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I completely agree with you, it was a win-win situation. Besides, immigration is what has made this country the economic Juggernaut that it is as well as keeping us vital.