Why focus on getting illegal mexicans out of the U.S.A?
929718
YES IT IS A SHAME WHEN THE MONEY THEY ARE WASTING AGAINST PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO BETTER THEIR SELF WHEN IT COULD BE USE FOR SCHOOLS, AND THE POOR,  BUT I DO AGREE WITH YOU. AND FOR THE ONES THAT THINK POVERTY IS CAUSE BY IMMIGRATION, NEEDS TO SIT BACK AND LOOK AND REALLY THINK ABOUT IT.
511039
I don't think that decriminalizing drug possesion by Mexico is a good idea because not only will you have mexican using and smuggling more you will have americans crossing over to take advantage of it.
392242
It is not easy to get into this country legally, but most things worth doing are not easy.  As you said no other country, including Mexico, allows free and undeterred migration to their country so why should the USA.  The USA is a major terrorist target and we must KNOW who is coming into our country to protect our people and property from attack. It is about the greater good.  We could open our boarders and allow any and all who want to cross to come in but then how safe would they be after the bombings, gassing and killings started.
594955
The Mexicans are wanting to take over parts of the United States in order to claim it for their own country. Their strategy is to overwhelm our country's resources through massive illegal immigration, and they are winning. Their alligiance is to Mexico. They do not even want United States citizenship. They are demonstrating for amnesty just to keep from being punished for their crimes, not to get citizenship.\n\nA small sampling of the movement to Mexicanize America is in the following links. An example is in this quoted passage:\n\n"Even as organizers urged marchers to display U.S. flags, the theme of reclaiming "stolen" land remained strong. One popular banner read: "If you think I'm illegal because I'm a Mexican, learn the true history because I'm in my homeland." \n\n"We need to change direction," said Jose Lugo, an instructor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder at a campus march last week. "And by allowing these 50,000, 50 million [immigrants] to come in here, we can do that." \n\nThe revolutionary tone has surprised even longtime immigration watchers such as Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. \n\n"I've always been skeptical myself about this [reconquista], but what I've seen over the last few weeks leads me to believe that there's more there than I thought," Mr. Mehlman said. \n\n"You're seeing people marching with Mexican flags chanting, 'This is our country.' I don't think that we can dismiss this as youthful exuberance or a bunch of hotheads," he said. "
785401
We need to take back our Country from invaders who are costing us billions each year.  Illegals smuggle drugs into our Country adding to destruction of our youth.         \n    Ilegals are used by dishonest employers who do not want to abide by our employment laws.  These are not insignificant jobs but jobs that Americans would take.  They would at least be paid a minimum wage and accumulate overtime, have decent breaks for rest and eating.  \n     It would benefit Americans thru taxes if they are head of household.  This is millions of single moms.\n   If we did not have to support illegals and their families we would have enough schools w/o constantly building more and time could be spent teaching instead of worrying about children who can not understand the language.     \n    We would have enough money to ease the burden on those w/o health insurance thru increased health care benefits.  As it stands illegals receive free health care and our citizens lose their homes, assets or have their credit ruined.  \n     Illegals receive food stamps.  These could help more needy U.S. citizens.\n   The burden on our prisons would be eased and the gangs in prison would be greatly eliminated.\n    Our legal system would not be overburdened.\n  Ilegals do not want to assimilate, do not want to learn the language, many jobs are lost to Americans because they must also speak Hispanic to accommodate the illegals.  They do not want to contribute in the defense of our Country, their allegence is still with Mexico.\n   llegal immigrants add nothing positive to this country.  \n   Our government's loyalty must be with it's own citizens.
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I think many mexicans realize their home country has problems, they just don't know what to do about it, and fleeing the scene to the United States is the 'easy out' answer. \n\nThey're supposed to be having an election in Mexico, hopefully it will yield some positive results. But, if it doesn't, ultimately it will be up to the american voter to make themselves widely heard on the issue in the spirit of giving Mexico a helping hand by limiting their escape options. It's kind of like with a kid that doesn't want to do their homework, you gotta box em in 'til they finally knuckle under and take care of it...
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.
322328
Mexico wants to get rid of their poor. They personally don't care where they go just as long as they leave and send money back. These are very uneducated people and a major a drain on the Mexican society as they are on ours. Americans are very misinformed if they think our government, corporate America and small businesses like these people. Mexican serve a purpose and caring about them has nothing to do with it.
365863
Because many of them have been working in the USA for decades picking oranges, limes and lemons. They basically keep the landlords in business, however when it comes to apply for citizenship, they are considered to be foreigners.\nThey fly the Mex. flag to identify themselves from other nationalities who claim to be refugees and seem to get priority.
450526
There is a way to stop it but Americans are too lazy to do it.  Look at how effective the united protests by the Mexicans were?  Americans have a propensity to just sit on their butts and complain without taking any action.  If millions gathered throughout the U.S. to protest illegal immigration, our politicians would take notice and do something fast.  Remember, there is an election coming, and politicians care more about votes than anything else.
1005311
They became the focus when they became demanding, protested by waving their flag  (the MEXICAN flag)  and generally UNCIVILIZED! When they abused our welfare systems, brought in filthy diseases, gangs, criminals, pedophiles, drug dealers, sucked our economy of BILLIONS ANNUALLY and sent money OUT of the USA (lost revenue that the USA will NEVER get back). When they protested for rights they DON'T have nor are qualified for, flew their county's flag ABOVE ours, disrespect our laws, our leaders, our citizens, call us names, claim land that is NOT theirs, ...and MORE!! Americans need to get their heads out of THEIR BUTTS (YOU INCLUDED) and PAY ATTENTION!! The problem IS partly our government, but those ILLEGAL immigrants KNEW they were breaking our laws, they have to be held accountable for their own actions. Ignorance of the law is NO EXCUSE!! They need to go back across the border in a Southern direction and take all their 30 relative s with them and not let the border gates hit them in the A$$ on their way OUT!!\n \nYou don't see illegal Irish, German, Asians, Italians acting so demanding and uncivilized!! We can tolerate their intelligence and civility better. They are just as guilty of breaking the law and should get legal or go home just the same.\n\nreal_sweetheart_76....  You cannot justify the illegal immigrants breaking our laws by comparing it to 9/11!! They are totally different issues!! Both are illegal, the illegal immigrants are still ILLEGAL!!!!  Irrelevant issues, duh.\n\n♪♥bored♣♫ They are very intolerant of those who come into Mexico from their southern border. They shoot them!! Yet, WE are expected to tolerate those who come to the USA ILLEGALLY across OUR borders?!!! And then give them all our country has on a silver platter!! I DON'T THINK SO!!!
304198
Because entering the US illegally is... ILLEGAL!
556352
They (ok we) don't want them out. We want illegals to be documented and enter this country legally.  As it stands now their are too many draw backs to being here illegally. No car insurance, drain on health care resources and lack of paying their fair share of taxes, and crime are just a few of the issues.
800908
I don't want to take ANYthing from ANYbody. What I'd REALLY like to see everybody do is roll back down to Mexico, take what they've learned in OUR country, and apply it. Mexico's SOOOO close to being able to stand up and do the Right Thing, here, and take care of their own. They mainly just have to decide that they've GOT to do it, and get it done. There's no reason on god's green earth that they couldn't just get home, set up, and MAKE a lot of good things happen, just I don't think they really want to leave. If they'd do that, then they'd really and honestly be helping all the poor people that come running in every year, and that's how we end up at chapter 432 of a very boring, very predictable soap opera called The History Of The US/Mexico Border.\nI support helping Mexico, but helping Mexico to Do Right, which is to get their own economy going, to get their own infrastructure built, to take their own initative, and to do that instead of everybody just bolting for the United States. \n\nPeople commit crimes mainly because they've run out of other options. Some truly are maniacs, and incorrigibles, and they deserve a seat in the Big House. But, if people could make it on their own, likely they'd never get involved in all this garbage to begin with. Unfortunately, a lot of people have gotten involved in crime, because it DOES pay, at least it does the way we've been maintaining our borders these last 20 years. So, you tune up the borders, make em right, and I think you'll see a lot of stuff go away that was happening before. I think we also need to localize manufacturing. It's more efficient if you're not shipping stuff 1/2way around the world etc. You get americans producing goods for americans IN america, mexicans producing goods for mexicans IN mexico, so forth, and so on. Import raw materials etc., but other than that localize your manufacturing so as to lessen transport costs, fuel usage, and so forth. In an efficient economy, in theory at least, there wouldn't be all that much imports etc., because you'd be making what you need/use locally.\nWhat we have now is inefficient, imagine in the case of the illegal aliens if your 'commute' was 700 miles or more.\n\nMexico's GOT a 1 trillion dollar economy. That's very positive.\nBut, they need to figure out how to BOOST it, legally, to the point where they can really start investing in the things that'll support all their people.  \n\nThere's a lot of problems with today's status quo, the best fix for the ones between our country and mexico and canada would be to fix the borders. Do that, and I think a lot of other things will straighten themselves out, too.\n\nI'm against illegal immigration, period. If you're in the country illegally, that's criminal trespass, right there. But, as long as businesses keep hiring people in violation of the law, people will come seeking jobs. So, stop the illegal hiring, make it really really hard to get into the country illegally to begin with, and you'll have fixed some things. \n\nThe world isn't perfect, and there's no magic wand to wave over other people's problems, or our own for that matter. Comma. There are some fundamental basic principles that can be successfully observed and applied, and one of those is that spending 1/2 your energy just getting to work is pretty wasteful.\n\nI support helping Mexico, but in much more structured ways, \nthey have a big cement company, cement can pour foundations for homes, they have many people seeking work, they've got money, like I say what I think is lacking is the will to do it. \nThe border fence kind of has one purpose, to help them find the will to do for themselves, and not have every one of their problems have the common answer of 'get it from the United States'. Mexico's even got minerals etc. They really CAN do it for themselves. \n\nI hope
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They are going to accomplish two things:  Prove exactly how irrelevant and insignificant illegal immigration is to our society and to the economy, and will wake up the slipping giant that is middle America.  This is a hugely ill-conceived idea.  The leaders of LULAC/MeCHA/Aztlan should be jailed just for ill-serving the ignorant poor people they are hurting.\n\nMy plans?  Work, my friend.  Someone's got to pay the taxes that give illegal immigrants free education, healthcare, school lunches, food stamps, subsidized housing, college tuition, oh, and I almost forgot, the ability to help them free up some cash to Moneygram back to Mexico.
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Just send them back to where ever they came from.  Here are some reasons to take that approach:\n\nArizona is the temporary home of 500,000 illegal aliens. They cost Arizona taxpayers over $1 billion annually in services for schools, medical care, welfare anchor babies, loss of tax base and prisons. Illegals use those vehicles for smuggling more people and drugs from around the world into our country. When the vehicles are recovered, they are smashed-up wrecks in the desert. If not found, they have new owners south of the border as thieves drive the cars through the desert and into Mexico as easily as you drive your kids to soccer practice. \n\nIllegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars last year according to Harvard Professor George Borjas. American citizens: College and high school kids cannot find a summer job in yard care, landscape, fast food or service jobs. Why? Illegal aliens work them at a third the wage and often, under the table. \n\nNot only do young American not have jobs; their parents are paying taxes for illegal aliens who are not paying taxes. \n\nAnnually, 75 percent of drugs arrive from Mexico at a net cost of $120 billion hard currency that leaves our country for good. In addition, our tax dollars pay $80 billion for the War on Drugs each year. It is a war that hasn’t been won in the past 30 years and drugs are as available today to your teenager as they were in 1970. \n\n***When an alien criminal gets caught for rape, murder or drug distribution, you pay $1.6 billion annually in prison costs to house, feed and clothe those filling 30 percent of our federal and state prisons—not to mention TV, movies, weight rooms and other entertainment—they enjoy while being incarcerated.*** \n\nOver 300,000 women annually arrive pregnant and drop them on U.S. soil. The American taxpayer pays for food, housing, medical and schooling for them to age 18 PLUS their mother. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, average annual cost per child K-12 is $7,161.00 and exceeds $109 billion annually per cycle of anchor babies. \n\nThe average head of household illegal alien costs you $2,700.00 in welfare money over and above any taxes he or she pays in their meager paying jobs. With 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in the USA, that figures exceeds $20 billion of your tax dollars. (Source: Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004) \n\nHow about the $56 billion in pure cash illegal migrants sent to their home countries last year and every year? That’s after their kids enjoyed free education, free lunches and free medical care paid for by you. \n\nMexico receives $15 billion annually from its worker drones. No wonder Vicente Fox sent us 9.2 million illegal alien Mexicans so far. \n\nThe lifetime net fiscal drain—taxes paid minus services used—for an adult immigrant is $55,200.00 according to Carrying Capacity Network. \n\nWith a minimum of 15 million illegal aliens in our country, these figures are the tip of the iceberg. Average bilingual education is $1,200.00 per illegal alien student. Get this! We educate 1.1 million illegal alien children each year. The American public has paid $27 billion to provide forms, ballots, interpreters and brochures for languages other than English in 2003. \n\nAn estimated one-third to one-half illegal aliens work off the books. It costs $200 million to provide for emergency health care for illegal aliens in the Border States annually. California with over three million illegals paid $79 million, and four of their major LA hospitals bankrupted and shut their doors in 2004. Texas with 1.5 million illegal aliens paid $74 million in hospital care. Georgia ran a $63 million deficit for 64,000 unpaid doctor visits to their Grady Health Care system in 2002. Georgia taxpayers paid $27 million for 11,188 anchor baby hospital births. Georgia taxpayers paid a whopping $242 million for educating illegal alien kids in 2003. \n\nWhat are the conseque
800549
I agree.  I can understand the desperation of their situation, but if they want to be here, they have a responsibility to follow our laws, just as Americans who go to Mexico have a responsibility to follow their laws.  Personally, I think part of the problem is NAFTA; it has caused unemployment in all three countries involved, especially Mexico.  A bad decision on the part of the government has helped to put them in this situation.  But if they want better lives, how good can those lives be if the "goodness" was achieved through dishonesty and deception?  It's still not right for them to break our laws because they would be sending us back to the U.S. if we broke one of theirs.  That's what makes sense to me.