Is it true that only illegal immigrants live 20-30 to a house?
822613
I don't buy that......I am surrounded by illegals in my city, and I am also in Real Estate and I have YET to find 20-30 illegals living in one residence, more hype....
367079
I think it probably depends more on where you live, as to how you feel about it. Most people closer to the border, our fellow Americans, aren't to happy with ILLEGAL immigration. Always remember to say legal or illegal, that is the issue, not immigration.
439290
I don't know how an illegal can do that! It's the ones who come here with bags of cash, and buy a house and a car and get a business that freak me out. Are these people checked out or what? I've lived here all my life, worked hard and all I own Is a house and an old car.....Got to be something wrong!
644097
Nooooo, until they take out the amnesty clause, I don't ever see it passing the house.  We can't reward criminals, otherwise the whole damn country of Mexico will hit the border and try to get in.
707746
Not really its a way to keep people who sneak in ,  out.  Why would we want illegals here ?  To not pay taxes, to add to the crime we have now,  too add to the already over populated areas?  Tell me what positive thing comes out of it at all for the country?  Use your brain or common sense if you have either lol, its a known problem.
133390
From where I'm from people have to come to the US to secure a better future for themselves.  This was the case for my mother.  She had me in Mexico and had a pretty good job and everything else she needed, but she knew she would never move up.  She wanted better so when she was about 22 or 23 she left everything behind except for me, a little bit of money,  and the clothes on her back and crossed into the United States illegally.  Now 20 years later.  We have a home thats paid for she started a restaurant after working hard for 10 years and she became a US citizen and learned english.  When we got here we barely had very little money and no place to stay at to begin with.  No family no nothing.  So if my mom managed so can you.  Especially since you dont have children.  If you want to do it it can be done.  Get your education first of all and dont worry about marrying too soon.
78305
I no longer live there because it is too expensive for housing, a typical problem with the most densely populated areas.\n\nIf you have $3000 per month or more though, go for it.  Try to buy a modest house in a good outlying area.
487521
No, it isn't. It's quite simply that in recent years it is getting out of hand. As the owner of a fairly large construction company, I can give you an example why people like myself have such an issue with illegal aliens. In 1995, the cost of framing a custom home was about $7.00 per sq. ft. . In 2005, the cost for the same job is about $3.25 per sq. ft.. This is DIRECTLY related to illegal aliens, in that they are highly skilled craftsmen who can do just as well a job, but because they don't have insurance, or pay taxes, they can cut a bid in HALF, and still maintain the same profit margin. Almost 30% of every penny the company makes goes to taxes alone. Add another 5% of each individual's income for worker's comp. Which illegal aliens can't get, nor can they get the bonding and liability insurance policies I am requred to maintain as a part of doing business. Their average income is $12 per hour. My average payout for wages is $18 per hour. That's per man. So do the math. How much house do you think I can afford to build at $3.25 per foot, at $18 per man hour with a 9 man crew per jobsite? Notice, the cost of housing (along with the price of fuel) has increase almost 150 PERCENT in the past 10 years, yet the income of TENS OF THOUSANDS of AMERICAN construction workers has been cut in half, just so they can compete in an open job market. So tell me mister, who SHOULD I be pissed at? I don't see any senators running the bottom out of my business. But I do support ANY efforts they can make to keep ANYONE else from doing so. The White House has had ZERO impact on my particular job market. The criminal activities of 10 million Mexicans HAS.
1075160
Illegal migrants break the law, and should not be here. You would not want strange people breaking into your house.
908150
The illegals being here in itself is not that big of a problem.  What makes it so bad is that they are depressing wages and therefore lowering the standard of living for everyone else.  Think about it --American workers used to be able to make a living wage performing construction and manufacturing jobs.   Now illegals take those jobs for less money than a American worker can work for.  The reason is because the illegals live 6 - 10 people in one house and are just used to a lower standard of living.  The real problem is those people who hire the illegals.  If they stopped hiring them, they would stop coming.  Ask any worker in the US and they will tell you that their expenses have increased way faster than their wages have over the last 10 years.  I know this is a long and complicated answer but illegal immigration is mostly an economic problem, not so much a crime or social problem.  I like Mexicans I just get sick of them taking Americans jobs away!  Americans cannot afford to work for $5 an hour -- not unless we move 10 people into a small apartment like the Mexicans.
651552
No..they are strict about ILLEGAL immigrants being here and with due reason.
428145
I recently read this article in the Chicago Sun Times.  It is both enlightening and scary.  I am living overseas temporarily, but I often wonder what I'll return to when I do come home.  The US is not what it used to be.  Here's the article:\n\nNo easy answers on immigration conundrum \nApril 9, 2006 \nBY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  \n \nHere's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork. \nGo ahead, try it. In Michelle Malkin's book Invasion, she recounts the tale of two fellows who in August 2001 pulled into a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Va., in search of fake ID from the illegal-alien assistance network that hangs around there. Luis Martinez-Flores, who'd been living here illegally since 1994, took them along to the local DMV, supplied them with a fake address and falsely certified they lived there. The very next day, the two guys returned with two pals of their own, and used their own brand-new state ID on which the ink was not yet dry to obtain in turn brand-new state ID for their buddies. A couple of weeks later, all four of them used their Virginia ID to board American Airlines Flight 77 at Dulles Airport and plowed it into the Pentagon. \nThink about that. From undocumented illegal alien in the 7-Eleven parking lot to lawful resident of the State of Virginia in just a couple of hours. Wow. Say what you like about Luis Martinez-Flores, but he runs one efficient operation. \nBy comparison, say you've got two kids under 5, and you'd like to bring over a nice English nanny to look after them. Name of Mary Poppins. Good references, impeccable character. If you apply now, there's a sporting chance the process may be completed before your children's children are in college. \nGiven that the new immigration "compromise" bill retrospectively approves all the millions of people who've been through the super-efficient Luis Martinez-Flores immigration system but without doing anything to improve the sclerotic U.S. government immigration system, maybe it would be better just to subcontract the entire operation to Senor Martinez-Flores and his colleagues. It would certainly be cheaper. The extensive Undocumented American support network manages to run it out of the back of the car from a parking lot without a lot of air-conditioned offices full of lifetime employees on government pensions, and given that the net result is exactly the same people who'd be living here anyway, why not go with the lowball bid? Legal immigrants to the United States can only envy the swift efficient service Messrs. Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar received outside that 7-Eleven. \nAll developed countries have immigration issues, but few conduct the entire debate as disingenuously as America does: The president himself has contributed a whole barrelful of weaselly platitudes, beginning with his line that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." True. They don't stop at the 49th parallel either. Or the Atlantic shore. Or the Pacific. So where do family values stop? At the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you're an American and you marry a Canadian or Belgian or Fijian, the U.S. government can take years to process what's supposed to be a non-discretionary immigration application, in the course of which your spouse will be dependent on various transitional-status forms like
765610
You really didn't provide enough information for me to know if you are racist or not. As far as I can tell, you are.  You say you don't want to live next door to people who exhibit the behavior you described, and you have observed this behavior to a great extent coming from members of particular races. So to say you wouldn't be inclined to move into a predominately Mexican or Black neighborhood would make sense, but you said you wouldn't want to live next door to one. If you weren't racist, I think you would have said that although you have seen many Black and Mexican households that make a lot of noise, park in the yard, etc., you wouldn't mind living next to members of those races who do not have those characteristics. So yes, I believe you may very well be racist, but I reserve judgment since I don't know you personally.
637960
"low 40s high 90s all year around easy to find jobs, affordable renting, friendly people"???????\n\nAre you kidding? If this place existed it would have a population of 50 million. And then the rent would no longer be affordable due to supply and demand, and the people would no longer be friendly due to congestion and traffic problems, and all the jobs would be taken.\n\nGood luck finding this utopia.
833299
No, then the people who live there would have to find somewhere else to live...............
1167528
I lived not to far from there for seven years, and left about 5 years ago.  This was then a Midwest suburban town with actually very limited number of Hispanics at all.  (I joked with my friends that the town was like 'Wonder Bread'.)  When I went back last summer I noticed there were a lot more Hispanics, but hadn't started focusing on illegal immigration, so I didn't think much of it, just that it looked more like LA.\n\nSince the marches I learned that California had cracked down on some border crossings and that Illegals had started crossing into Arizona, some staying there, and others going into the interior.  I learned that Illinois had some mortgages illegals could get.  I understand that Chicago police can't ask about immigration status until the arrest stage (like LA), and that Illinois is now number 6 in the country in having the most illegal immigrants.  Previously when I thought of moving from LA for education reasons, I thought of going back to Illinois, but now I am not so sure that will be much help.\n\nWhat strikes me most is your saying how many crimes they had in Woodstock in the last week.  When I left a town near there, the crime index for my town was 28, with 100 being a national 'average' and city suburb areas like the one I live in now being around 200.  \n\nIt sounds like crime has gone WAY up.  That is really sad.  The place was a cross between Mayberry RFD and Currier and Ives.
396816
Last I heard there were 20,000,000 (20 million) illegals in the United States.  We never sent that many troops anywhere in all history to invade a county.  Therefore, it must be an invasion.