Should immigration laws be reformed?
828684
Do your own homework.   And no, they shouldn't be reformed, they should be enforced.
563540
Read the Immigration laws and follow it.
478848
Are you asking if we should send migrants home to their countries of origins if convicted of some crimes in their host countries?\n\nIf that is your question, then I would say - "Definitely Yes!"\n\nWe have our share of criminals, but they are home grown, we can't help but keep them here and simply use the law to deal with them.\n\nIt's like a parents will deal with their naughty boy but still keep him at home.\n\nBut why would you keep someone else's naughty boy at your home when he caused trouble to you while visiting or staying over?  \n\nYou would send them home wouldn't you?\n\nThe same with governments.  We should send criminal homes to their countries of origins and let them be dealt with by their legal system.  Let them eat their prison food paid by their own tax payers.\n\nI think refugees should be given first a temporary asylum visas.  Check background and then be considered for PR.\n\nIf they claimed that their papers are destroyed and their ID cannot be confirmed, well give them the benefit of the doubt but have a clause for repatriation.\n\nI think this is fair ask.\n\nWant to come and live with us, be a useful member of the community.  Want to sit on their bottoms and have plenty of time to act out their crimes, go home!
513747
No.  Send them back to where ever they are from and make them go about it the right way.\n\nI do have a possible solution to the problem though. All of those people who are pro Illegal aliens can give up their own citizenship to an illegal and then take their place in the illegals country.  Any takers?
536011
Some yes, some no. \n\nI think those that have been here for 15 years, can pass a literacy test and swear alligiance to the US and who can substantiate that they have worked most of their time here or are a spouse of a worker I think they should be granted amisty . The 15 year period has to be unbroken. That is no deportations or arrests during that time period. I also feel they must renounce citizenship in the country of origion. Something we don't do for most imigrants but the fact they arrived here illegally I think is justification for more stringent requirements. \n\nFor those here less than that or ones we keep deporting and catching again. No I think we should grant them no amisty. I feel that the majority of them do not want to be Americans except for economic gain and do not believe in the US. Nor that they would have anything like the tolerance we have for them if the posisitions were reversed.  I think they would throw us out on our ear in a heart beat. Often they do even here. Try to get a job working at a place where mostly illegals work. If the boss is an illegal you'll find that the job is not availible for people of a different ethnic group. \n\nI think blanket amesty would be to revive racial/ethnic/religious prejudice in the nation. I think we will fragment along these lines and encourage even more enemies of the US to come here. While the majority of illegals come here just for work. They have been recruited en masse by legals once here by various racist organizations such as LULU. \n\nI also think that unemployment will reach new heights as most of these former illegals will suddenly want better paying jobs that do not exist and be replaced by illegals. With our welfare system already near collapse this would be just enough to end most social services for the poor for all Americans I feel. \n\nThen there is a secondary issue. If we allow these people to become Amercians in mass. It opens the door for relitives to come over here outside of quotas. So if we give 3 million illegals amesty then we have just brought over 10 million other relitives of these 3 million. I don't think the US could survive such an influx of people, especially when the bulk of them will be of a single non-English speaking ethnic  group. Remember legal US citizens have the right to bring over direct family members legally and unaffected by quotas.
314793
Well in Europe many countries have the very same problem. Example the riotings in france last october or november. Spains problem with the africans crossing the borders in mass...etc... Many countries have this problem since they are getting wealthier and other countries are getting poorer. The reaction should be one of integration within the law, what is definetely wrong is to criminalize something that was not criminalized before and now expect to jail everyone. That`s against any principle of law. What countries should do is make laws more rationaly so they can deal with the reality and not expect to build a wall or stupid measures that don`t solve anything. Law-rights-integration-solidarity (both ways, immigrants should also be responsable for it)
1011282
Legal Immigrants, yes they should be here.\nIllegal Aliens should not be here, and they have criminalized themselves, by their own actions.\nIf you do something wrong, don't you have to face the consequences?  In America, we do.
430609
Are you married?  If so, do you have children?  You should have an opinion to this Immigration Reform, if not for yourself, for the future of your children and their children.  In 1985, I believe, Reagan had a similar bill pass congress allowing those illegal immigrants to stay and become citizens.  Since then, the flood gates of illegals have opened wider, 11 plus million have crossed from 1990s to 2004.  Now, we are facing yet another immigration reform, why?  Because the government didn't step up to the plate when it was time to do so and enforce the illegals from crossing over.  They allowed it, day after day, month after month, year after year.  Now they must face the music on this and do something about it.  But at who's expense?  Not the illegals, but the true Americans that struggle making ends meet.  If the American people don't step up and stop our government doing this, we might as well open the border completely and let any and all who want to come here from Mexico, Canada, and all over the world in.  It's not just Mexicans from Mexico that are here illegal.  Watch the news, they are interviewing many from all regions of the world that are here and have been here for years illegally.  I know we all come from immigrant backgrounds, unless you are a true blooded Indian from North America.  But, our forefathers before us come the legal way.  That's how these illegals should have to do.  Send them home and let them come through the proper channels.  If they had children here, send the children with them.  Just because they were born in the USA should NOT constitute them to be classified as an American citizen if in fact their parents are illegal aliens.  There's a lot to the topic that needs to be addressed and resolved for the betterment of the American people, not the American government.
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I'm never surprised to see idiots like J D answer this question with such hate and ignorance.\n\nI don't believe amnesty is the answer and I certainly don't believe that being here without proper paperwork is a crime where over-worked and under-paid law enforcement personal need to go after undocumented immigrants with full force (unless they are shipping in drugs or guns). Our courts and prisons would be overflowing worse than they are now. \n\nHate, fear, and discrimination should not led our hearts when dealing with these issues for in fact are we not Christians?!?! May God have mercy upon idiots like J D and people who think like he does.
978047
I was on a forum a little while ago and a guy on there had a pretty decent plan.  So I will pass it on.  First . Close the borders for good.  ( I don't think that is possible)  2.   All illegals in the penal system would be deported immediately. ( that is an excellent idea)  3.  All undocumented workers would have 6 months to study and get their citizenships, or get deported as well. ( ah, i am still not sure absorbing all of them would be good for the country, but I think it's good mid ground).  4, after the 6 months any company still employing Illegals get fined 100,000 a day. (Love that).
502857
DEFINITELY YES!!!!!! THIS should have been done YEARS ago, before we had twenty MILLION or more of them here!!! Our country HAS BEEN INVDED BY ILLEGALS, and they should be TREATED AS SUCH!!!!!! INVADERS!! We are at WAR!! We have been and ARE being, INVADED by a third-world country, WITH the ENCOURAGMENT of THEIR worthless government!!!! I say do WHATEVER it takes to stop them!!!
562462
In the United States the percentage would be low. At the current moment, there is a huge controversey over immigration laws in the United States. Actually, if you want to come in, right now might be the easiest and best time to do so. I'm not sure about the U.K., however.
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Send them back, they broke the law. If I broke the law I would be punished and so would you. We dont get amnesty so why should they? \n\nThe law is the law, be it a speeding ticket, murder or immigration violation. It has to be enforced. If we start sending them back and build a wall and patrol it then we will fix the problem.
739077
I support  a  Comprehensive Laws Immigration  Reform  \n\nThen Illegal Immigration won't be called Illegal, but Legal.
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Latest Major Action: 1/27/2006 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. \n\nTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws, to enhance border security, and for other purposes.
883764
We could improve our immigration restrictions. I bet they wish they had had better immigration laws too.
1120150
U.S. should consider making immigration laws easier for everyone who applies for it legally. The Govt. is ready to legalise illegal immigrants but legal people who pay their taxes regularly have to wait for years together in the immigration line to get a Green card.