Why can New York City thrive with hundreds of thousands of immigrants & it's such a problem for border states
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NYC was founded by the Dutch (original NYC name was New Amsterdam).\n\nThe Dutch have a history and culture of tolerance going back hundreds of years.\n\nIn NYC that Dutch attitude still holds sway.\n\nWe many not love each-other -- we probably don't even like each-other.\n\nBut we know how to live and get along in peace with each-other.
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Society uses many things to justify their problems. But Big City problems\nare problems of circumstance. Humans gather in cities for protection,\nbut after a while the get glutted. There are just too many people competing\nfor the same needs.\nI know it's easy to say. Many have lived there all their lives. But people need to\nstop going to the Big City for "excitement". And more people need to Move from the Big City, to smaller cities where life will be easier for them. Less\nexpensive. Easier to get around.
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In my city they take up an entire city block. There are so many that the police established a sub-station just for them. The officers must speak spanish and they patrol only that area. Many are required to walk a beat to try to foster good community relations. The neighborhood school is now entirely populated by the offspring of those illegal immigrants. I can tell you that the rest of the city does not get their own substation with officers assigned to walk a beat to foster community relations. Just another example of the hidden costs of illegal immigration.\n\nFor all you pro-illegals out there that want to welcome the illegals with open arms, just try to walk through that neighborhood sometime. See how welcome you are. My guess is that IF you walk away you would have a whole different perspective.
64098
i live in new york, but the only reason its scary is cause i think, what if iraq comes and throws a bomb(like the world trade center)the thing about n.y is that alot of people have attitude and dont care.i live in the bronx,i wouldnt move to brooklyn n.y cause thats where shootings happen and manhattan but the only thing about manhattan is that the streets are clean.in summer time in new york is very hot,but in winter its very cold.the only way you can like n.y is if u can handle and take care of yourself.plus in bronx n.y there is alot of parting and music witch bothers after a while....this came from a 15 year old
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IF you are talking about the early 1900's they were very well welcomed since they did all the farm labor. The border in 1910 was just a little office and people came and went with no problems. People didn't worry about crossing the border to much back then. Tijuana wasn't even a town until prohibition and all the Americans started going to Mexico to get drunk and get women. Which was in the 20's. \nRecently in the past few years since housing costs in San Diego county have skyrocketed more and more Americans are moving to Baja California, Mexico. \n I am going to add a question to this .   Why is it that people only have a problem with Mexican immigrants? \nNo one ever complains about any other race of immigrants like German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, polish, Swedish etc etc.  why because that's what we all are. Unless you are a native American Indian your family immigrated to the states.
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It is not difficult for them to find work as there as too many employers who are willing to hire them.  A lot of people believe that the immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans but that really is not true.  They are doing the jobs Americans wont do for the low pay.  Government on the state. local and federal levels needs to start being more harsh on employers who hire illegal immigrants.  A hefty fine for every illegal working would be a good start and closing down their businesses wouldnt hurt either and it is not just small businesses that hire illegals, large companies also hire them.
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Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.
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Pros are we they are filling a great underbelly work force that unskilled, manual laborers need to fill.  And don't say they aren't, cause your full of ****!\n\nCons, don't see any.  They've been here for 200 years, what's the problem NOW?\n\nWhy do you need a solution for a non-existant problem?\n\nOur government is "reactive" not "proactive."  That is, until people make noise about something, they don't do anything.  Then when noise is made, they make a bust, something like that, to show their "goodwill" and then everyone quiets down and so does the government.  Your tax dollars at work!
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The impact of Illegals in this country is bringing some Cities to their knees. The financial cost is overwhelming. It eats at the core of the money available for legal citizens. Crime and gangs have grown in greater numbers in the areas that Illegals have settled, beside all that, they are all criminals just by the act of entering our country illegally.
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NY the state realizes that NY the city is full of nuts.\nHeck- even parts of NYC want to break away and reform into their own cities, just like they used to be. (Staten Island, Brooklyn, etc all used to be individual cities.)
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Only reason is cause, this is a "internal" problem. But that's how it is with dividing cities. Poors (in this case: illegal aliens), move to cities, than the middle to upper class move to the suburbs.\n\nIn conclusion, I don't think this will really stir much division of the U.S., because it's not like the Civil War. The illegal immigrationists aren't being used by the people who support them.\n\nAmericans will come to their senses, and support NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
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Because of all the rich people that live there.\n\nA lot of people that make it in New York or Boston move or get country homes in Connecticut.
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*Retrieving part of an earlier post of this nature*\n\nKK First I'd like to cut to the chase here, it is a wolf thing you know...\n\nI wanna say I have no prob with immigrants, after all most of the people we concider American's ancestors (and some of mine) were immigrants who came here by legal means. There is no problem there.\n\nThat said, let us define then the real problem...\nIllegal Immigration and what is wrong with that can be summed up in one word...\nILLEGAL!!!\nNothing more is needed to define that, but for those who need a definition between immigrants who apply to the US through proper channels and are here by set rules and permissions and those here by illegal means...\n\nOK, they are here not by following proper applicants and permissions, gaining entry by just crossing over into this country or outstaying visa's and never leaving.\n\nI do have a problem with the huge amount of money being shelled out by us tax payers to pay for welfare, education, medical ect to someone here illegally.\n\nNot only that, it is evident here in states on the borders that businesses are using low wage/under the table pay Illigals as their workers. And we are not just talking picking fruit in fields. All sectors are now affected by it, from construction, to manufacturing, to high tech trade jobs. Often using falsefied documents to obtain those positions.\nIt is wrong that Americans who wish to work cannot find work at a reasonable wage and must resort to accepting near minimum for positions that took years of educational expenses and experience to be able to do or to go on unemployment as they cannot find the work that pays a reasonable wage to meet living expenses or to move to areas not as affected by the situation...\n\nIt is past time our government here in the US starts representing the US people and stop accepting big business money to ignore the problem.
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CANADA!  The United Nations seems to agree. So too do all the prospective immigrants who can't wait to get into the country.  They even come illegally.  Yes we're a wonderfully even-tempered people who like to mind our own business, let others live as they believe appropriate and just try to "get along".  What more could you want in a place to live?  Our family has been here since 1780 - province of New York previous to that since 1623 - so we can claim loyalty to this grand Dominion.  G-d save the Queen!
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Queens Borough NYC is the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, and one of the most diverse in the world.  If you want to experience a new culture, Queens has enclaves of many many different groups.  Plus you'd get the New York Job market.  Since you're clearly multilingual with Japanese and English, it seems to me that getting a green card/working visa should not be a huge problem.  The weather is glorious in the spring and autumn, and if you don't mind heat the summers are nice too. \n\nPS  I lived in Japan for a few years recently.  New York has a high cost of living, but nothing compared to Tokyo.
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It depends on the country.  People want to move to the USA, so it is to keep them out.  If you live in a bad country, like when there was East Germany, they had to build a wall to keep people in.
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They cancelled it. New York doesn't want any more foreigners.\n\nNow go back home.