Why do some people not care if illegal aliens bring diseases and health problems to USA?
611992
Because most of them are healthy
545629
I hate to admit it, and I might have the CIA knocking on my door in a few hours for saying it, but I dont like Americans. I have lived here my whole life and I think that as a whole, Americans are arrogant, greedy, simpleminded, intolerant, ignorant, and superficial. (Case in point: work2twerk who posted your first answer.) We have a horrible system of not taking care of our children and elderly and those who are sick. We can not see a doctor when we need to because we are uninsured and we can not go to college because we can not afford to. Something isnt right when the richest country on the Earth can not care for it's citizens.
1180460
The bigger problem is making people care. There is too much citizen apathy in this country. Until that problem is addressed, nothing else really matters.
722294
There are no benefits. Without illegal immigrants there would probably be less taxes for us taxpaying citizens (they don't pay income tax, and they cost us taxpayers fifty billion dollars a year), there would be less unemployment for American citizens, higher wages, less crime, and fewer illegal drugs brought into this country. The majority of illegal drugs brought into this country are brought in by illegal Mexican immigrants. In the beginning it might have been mostly the jobs that American citizens didn't want that they were doing but that isn't true anymore. I'm a construction worker and they have almost completely taken over the construction industry and if you can even find a job you have to take it at a lower pay just to compete with the illegal Mexican immigrants. They can work for less money than us and still bring home more money because they don't have to pay income tax. I think it should be a felony for American companies to hire illegal immigrants. They don't even have to have health insurance because they get free health care at the expense of us taxpaying citizens. The government won't give me free health care. They are here illegally and I don't think they should be rewarded for breaking the law.
441262
The same reason people who are born in the country have, worries about employment, strains on the welfare system, worries over the standard of living falling because so many people live in one place.\nJust because they are immigrants legal or illegal doesn't mean they don't worry about how life will change due to so many more people living in the same place with the same needs ie work, food, home etc
665823
wow.  very well said.  what happend between white settlers and native americans, while very sad and wrong, is in the long gone past and its flat stupid to be upset over that.  i am upset with illegals because they come here ILLEGALY and DEMAND that we give them free stuff and financial help and all the freedoms of a US citizen.  while they may seek a better life by coming to America (cuz we just that cool) if we wanted you here, we would let you here.  many latin american countries are underdeveloped and diseases can travel through borders easily when people sneak across them.  plain and simple.
576192
It occurs to me that there are DAMN few people in America that are not decended from immigrants. If we had a bunch of illegal white people living and working in the USA, no one would be upset about it.
395200
President Bush,just when I want you to be tough, your not. 11 to 12 million illegals are here in the States. Taxes not collected could pay for free health care for the entire American citizens. It could also pay for social security to insure it would be around until I collect, the extra could go toward education or prescription drugs for the elderly. Also, I'm sick and tired of having to press 1 for english when I'm calling my own damn bank. If your in America you better learn english or get the hell out.\n\nLMAO, Beth, you have no idea, no clue at all do you. If you care about America maybe you would understand. Now I don't know if your Mexican or if your married to one, I don't care. I have Mexican friends and a few inlaws married a few. They are decent hard working people. What you don't understand is I don't care about illegals, we don't need them here. I'm not racist, I just care about America first, not Mexico.
523180
1. They are entering the country illegally, meaning they are breaking the law\n2. We don't know who they are, where they are going, and what they plan on doing, so they provide a huge security risk.\n3. Some of these people are abusing our system by using our health care system without paying into it, they also find ways to fraudulently use other systems (welfare, food stamps etc) without paying taxes to help refund these.
1037250
luckily you cannot catch this disease since its a mental illness....removing it is a bit trickier... since they actually believe they know whats best for the rest of the world and cannot accept the fact that most people disagree with them as evidenced by the last two elections... they enjoy making up   what they consider catchy phrases such as fascist neo con Nazi  etc, and spreading propaganda  even if it  endangers  the country they live in...which they claim to love but  act like they hate....so though you may not be able to cure them... their symptoms are so  prominent, that it is easy to avoid them...
335767
personally i think its a lack of communication....some people find it hard to speak the language therefore no comunication = negativity some people these days want everything easy and can't be bothered to try communicate its not just illegal immigrants think about deaf people too the list could go on and on ....myself i have no problem with anyone live life to the limit...xx...and leave the negative behind....xx
988095
I have wondered this same thing many times.  The illegal immigrant supporters always say these things, "Well, there are lots of American citizens on welfare!" and " American citizens break laws, too." and "Lots of American citizens are in jail."  "Sometimes American citizens steal SSNs."  "Sometimes American citizens drive without licenses or insurance."  What these questioners don't seem able to grasp is that, yes, we have bad American citizens, too, but the big difference is that they are AMERICAN citizens, meaning they ARE our problem and so we have to deal with them with our systems and our tax dollars.  However, illegal immigrants are NOT our legal problems - they are legal residents of their own home countries and only those countries should have to deal with them and their problems.  We should not have to pay for illegal immigrants' children attending our tax-paid schools, and we should not have to pay for their medical care when they go to the ERs of our hospitals.  They should not even be here and every time they are discovered via arriving at ERs, applying for social services, registering their children in schools, applying for jobs, etc., they should be immediately arrested and they and their families who are also illegally in the USA should be deported immediately, no questions asked and no consideration, whatsoever.
739805
who cares as long as your feeding your face. i don't pay much mind to it when i'm out with my kids. i don't let them know my disagreement concerning the illegals. i let them make their own minds up about other people.
1092470
people have a problem with people coming into the country illegally because its illegal.
775775
Immigration is not an issue but ILLEGAL immigration certainly is... I agree with what you say but what you failed to say is these illegal aliens are more dangerous to middle-class Americans that al qaeda could ever be...the difference is blowing up a few thousand or killing the future of a whole country & it's citizens!
1102887
Because most Americans are idiots, don’t matter Republican or Democrat the American people want a leader with no “issues”.  For example if you are a leader and can make great decisions, you have done some shady stuff in the past, like had sex with your secretary on your desk when you were married.  The media will find out and make issues of this kind of stuff.  So we get losers like spoon fed Bush’s, Kerry’s, and Gore’s.   But the American people care more about X-Box games and who Brad Pitt is dating then border control, social, or international issues.  We (I am also an American) have become a nation of fat, lazy, morons…now there are a few exceptions I would say 30%-40% of Americans still care and have some brain power, but the masses don’t even have the mental power to understand and formulate opinions on issues like social security or border control.  If you ask an American what’s your opinion, its “I don’t know” “I don’t want to offend anyone” “I don’t want to look bad” Until Americans stop being idiots, sissies, and greedy, this trend will continue…..
569330
Their absence is not noticed at all.  Janitors and yard workers are replaceable.  People enjoyed good traffic flow in California and buses weren't crowded.  Sorry illegals, your plan backfired.  Time to go home.\n\nThey have no proper documentation, spread disease due to absence of health screenings, refuse to speak English or assimilate, and demand to be made citizens!  \n\nCan anybody tell me why educated, skilled, law-abiding people from white European countries (mostly Eastern) have to wait in line for years to get a visa to the US and pay thousands of dollars to become a legal permanent resident (leading to LEGAL citizenship), while these illegals blow in from the desert and work under the table paying few if any taxes, get free medical care at any local hospital, get drivers' licenses to drive uninsured cars, and take advantage of a raft of social services and privileges (like interpretation services at any government office or medical facility) as well as endless material benefits? \n\nA Day Without Immigrants? How about a day without Americans, including police and fire personnel, medical staff at all hospitals, air traffic controllers, water quality inspectors, etc.? Perhaps this would contrast the importance of these gatecrashers with those who really built America?