How does illegal immigration affect you personally ?
813761
How interesting-all the problems we have is the fault of immigrants including the economy and healthcare. This administration is so smart, getting people all stirred up about immigration and no one is really looking at the economy where the middle class struggles and the upper classes do better and better. No one looks at the way healthcare costs have skyrocketed until 40% of US citizens are uninsured. and those in the upper income tiers get the really good healthcare. Meanwhile this administration is building highways to Mexico and Canada while it talks about securing the borders. People, you've been fooled...this is a Conservative link for those of you who think it's a left-wing conspiracy theory.
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
639422
It is not a matter of what people "think" who belongs here, but it is a matter of law. If you were born in America, you are a citizen, therefore you belong here. If someone has come here illegally, then that is a different story. YOU were born here so you are entitled to all the rights and privileges of a US citizen.
619496
I think it just solidified the antagonism felt on both sides. Personally, I am against illegal immigrants from any country.  The key word is ILLEGAL. By doing what they did, I think they just made legal citizens angrier with them and much less likely to feel any sympathy.  Why do they think they have the right to demand a privilege be given to them that so many others worked so hard to obtain? It lessens the value of what the legal immigrants obtained, and sends the message that we'll just throw our hands up and say, "Oh, okay, if you insist, come on in illegally.  We'll yell a little bit then let you stay."  Can you imagine the flood of illegals we'll get if these people are given amnesty?
813843
The term illegal means nothing?????  You need to look in the dictionary my friend and find out what it means!!  I'll help you out - AGAINST THE LAW!!  Apparently you don't understand the immigration laws!\n\nIt does mean nothing to all the illegals that cross the border everyday, that is true.  Because they don't care about the US!\n\nBut for American citizens (including immigrants) the term illegal does mean something!!\n\nFYI -- illegals do bring drugs, gangs, economic liablities to the US
624230
well I will have to agree with a lot of you about the traffic , I did get to work much faster, my son also said it was much more pleasant in school because the teacher could focus on teaching instead of having to stop every 2 seconds to explain ( what mean this word )I'm sorry but if they are illegal then they don't belong here, they effect us in many ways , 1 taking jobs from legal Americans 2 bringing down the pay scale because they will work for next to nothing and the employers know that if we turn it down then an illegal will take it, of course for them they feel they are living high on the hog with that pay because I have never seen any of them here that don't have at least 10 plus adults living in 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, now mind you this is just the working adults I did not add all the kids that live in these cramped spaces as well .
496218
I am a human being.\n\nI am Mexican, the same as many of the illegal workers in the USA.\n\nI would like that the work i want and i have, could be closer to my family.\n\nI am underpayed (i couldn't resist, and copied from catnip, sorry, you express exactly how i feel!!): "I am not paid enough to make a decent living, even though I have plenty of skills that employers seem to want."
984514
I'm not sure there is any difference to the views,perhaps only in the way that each group expresses their displeasure with the illegal alien problem.I think it effects both so called groups and the only other difference may be in the degree it effects each.The illegal alien problem has a negative effect on our nation and both groups see that equally and want it to end .Both show passion in the way they attack the problem.Both want an equitable solution and  we want it ASAP.
242039
illegal immigrants hurt the country, and the people who hire them. ethnic backgrounds have nothing to do with it-make my day, send home illegal immigrants, and prosecute the people who employ them!!!!!!!
1083894
Oh my when I or anyone I know start looking at people who look different than us and trying to decide if they are illegal or not.....well that is the day we should just shut ourselves up in the house with our cats and Dr. Phil.\n\nI am so glad that I and those I love are so completley oblivious to "that" part of this immigration crap.  We don't judge people and think they are OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL because they play "carnival music"....we play boy bands a little too often ourselves, or park cars in the driveway (we have quite a few that my husband calls "fixer uppers"), or comment on how many live in a home.......we don't have alot...but would hate for someone to comment if all 6 of my husbands brothers and their families came to visit.\n\nIt is all general.....some just distort the details to fit the circumstance.\n\n\nPeace.
1049886
I would suggest reading a good article on immigration, titled "Immigration Has Different Impacts". You can view it at:\n\nhttp://www.sandiegolawyerforyou.com/san-diego-immigration-lawyer.htm\nhttp://www.sacramento-ca-lawyers-attorneys-directory.com/articles.html\nhttp://www.la-orange-county-lawyers-attorney-directory.com/los_angeles_orange-county-legal-services.htm\nhttp://www.dallas-fort-worth-texas-lawyers-attorneys-directory.com/dallas-legal-services.htm\nhttp://legal-advice-library.info/blog\nhttp://www.san-antonio-texas-lawyers-attorneys-directory.com\nhttp://www.las-vegas-nevada-lawyer-attorney-legal-injury-defense-directory.com
1101982
Because the issue is truly about Illegals, not immigrants.  By the way, I noticed no difference.
1018860
Maybe because many illegals do wrong things and affect the life here in USA,
331552
Most definitely! Granted I am not Pro illegal immigration, but illegal or not, they are human beings just like the majority of us. I have helped several 13 yr. old children who had been walking so long, their shoes were worn out and the blister were so raw I wanted to cry. A friend (nurse) fixed them up, we fed them, and sent them on their way. They were just children for God's sake. I would hope that if I (or my children) were ever in that situation, someone would help.
687664
Immigration laws affect everyone in america, either directly, or indirectly. If you like being able to speak english to do your daily business, or not having to install bars on your windows, or being able to walk down the street without carrying arms, it might behoove you to consider supporting the reform initiative on border security and illegal immigration. A lot of the countries these people are coming from are 'high-crime', meaning there's daily gun-play on their streets, in some cases. In others it means that their governments have become completely corrupt, and when all that boils over into america because we stood there and let it, then we'll have it on our streets too. Sounds like fun, eh? LOLOL
664673
I've seen those facts before, attributed to the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThe fact is that illegal immigrants concentrate, not only in states, but in specific localities.  That is enough to significantly impact statistics for that locality, be it a state or a county.\n\nThe impact is huge, but it is mostly for state and local costs, which the federal government refuses to reimburse while refusing to allocate (federal) funding enforce laws that might prevent this from occurring.\n\nContact your Congressmen. Don't forget to say that the 10 year 'rolling amnesty' through the 'statute of limitations' provision in the Senate bill has got to go.  They are ignoring the elephant in the bedroom.
476881
For me, it's not clear how education affects illegal immigration. You could argue that an abundance of poorly educated citizens, scavenging for low pay jobs, might actually deter illegal immigration.\n \nWhat is clear, is that well educated people are less threatened by illegal immigration because their job's profile is not that of the kind that an illegal might take. Further on, since they are likely to hire some of these illegals, they might benefit from the cheap labor.