Difference with modern illegal immigrants?
919002
Historic immigration is irrelevant because there was no welfare state and subsidized services.  The Native American bit was conquest as they got the territories from each other, to begin with.\n\nWe can't pay to educate the world's poor and still take care of our own.  Schools are failing and hospitals are closing.  We ignored a few hundred thousand, and gave amnesty to a few million, only to find many of them became 'bases' to bring in more illegal friends and relatives.  Now there are 11 to 20 million and it is a major crises in areas where they concentrate.\n\nIt isn't just 'entry' although I think we have every right to say that we want to maintain our own culture, as well, because we like it that way.  It is SUBSIDY of education at the expense of our children and health care at the expense of our sick.\n\nTheir better life is at our expense.
528131
There are actually legal and illegal immigrants.  The terem illegal immigrant refers to someone who has entered a country without going through the proper legal processes to become a citizen of that country.  This usually occurs when the person does not have any skills that the country they are trying to enter wants and are instead denied entry to that country.
765605
This was before the Americas were civilized, times change.\nDon't try to use some back in the day nonsense to justify illegal immigrants.\n\nMy paternal grandparents came here legally. Not everyone can trace their relatives from the first settlers, those people are rare.
107729
The correct term and description is ILLEGAL Immigrant. The option to enter any country is always opened and available.But for some reasons best known to these people, they always seek for illegal ways to enter the country they desire. If u refer to them as UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTs, u make it look as if the government is relunctant, or inefficient at documenting immigrants.The Posts are there for them to be checked and documented but they always avoid the legal means. That makes both the act, and the actor ILLEGAL. For example, a visitor has the privilege to knock at your door and seek for entry, and you can allow him if he has  genuine reasons, but if he choses to come in through the window, then he is a burglar, and NEVER an undocumented visitor.
523874
I dont think either should be illegal. If people want to come to this country for a better life why try and stop them?
419807
I found the following definition of illegal immigrant in:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=define%3Aillegal+immigrant\n\nIllegal immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently, in violation of the law or without documents permitting an immigrant to settle in that country. ...\n\nBased on the above, I think it's about time! But I'm only referring to the ones who have not committed any crimes.\n\nMany of these immigrants have been working for 5 years, earning less than minimum wage and have not committed any crimes. They should become citizens.\n\nBelieve me, some people who are citizens just because they were born in the US, cause more trouble than some of these illegal immigrants.\n\nLook at the Welfare system. Can you honestly say that all of them were illegal immigrants at one time?  How many Americans are on Welfare?  How many drug dealers are American born?  \n\nI must stop now.
9269
Legal immigrants: Welcome to America.  Illegal Immigrants: welcome to jail and deportation.  \n\nFor a society to exist therule of law needs to be in place, other wise you have anarchy, which leads to tyrany
944034
Wherever the word CITIZEN appears.\n\nThere is a difference between a CITIZEN and an ILLEGAL ALIEN..\n\nMany MUSH-HEADS try to say it makes no difference, but even the LAW says so.
630273
The Illegal Immigrants.
383411
I have not seen anything on the Internet yet. It seems to me that the ones supporting illegals being in this country are being more racist then the ones trying to kick them out. People need to grow up and answer a question without having to go the racist route in their answers
540821
I agree with your point of view on illegal immigrants. My parents came to Canada 15 years ago, and to this day, only my mother is a citizen. When they first came to Canada they had to work in low-paying jobs even though they had both completed post-secondary education back in their country. Currently, through years of saving, they were able to buy a home and lead a middle-class life, but compared to the types of jobs they would have had back home, their jobs don't even compare. \n\nMy parents didn't come here to sell drugs or commit illicit activities, they came here to leave a country which was changing from communism to capitalism, and in the process having many problems. I believe that illegal immigrants such as drug dealers should be punished for their crimes and most certainly not allowed into another country. However, many illegal immigrants are trying to get away from persecution, war or other problems in their country. Also, it is hard enough for immigrants to start a new life, and we should try to be more open-minded towards them because they are not horrible people. As for illegal immigrants taking jobs, I believe that most of the jobs these people are taking are so under-payed that a citizen shouldn't even be thinking of it. Furthermore, if an employer feels that an immigrant is better suited for a job than a citizen then it is up to the employer to chose who they would like to hire. Everyone has a right to a better life.
733891
When the German, Irish, Italians came in the 19th the native blame them for stealing jobs. Mexicans being accused is no different.  The difference now is that we have immigration rules, and laws back then thier was none.
226656
As it stands right now,illegals are here in this country and no one knows their whereabouts or who they are,in places like Chicago some with criminal records have taken over the street gangs,they are used as shooters against other gangs and as enforcers for extortion against small buisnesses,since there is no record who or where they are the law in many cases can't find them since most will flee back to mexico for awhile till things die down,an identification would at least show who is in this country criminal or otherwise.
437421
For. I'm married to a "legal" alien, who became naturalized, and am a stauch advocate of immigration. But the laws pertaining to illegals have got to be revamped and most of all, enforced. That's the biggest problem. Little or no enforcement of the laws we have. So my question would be who's going to enforce this new one?
378815
Oh I see you decided to speak English again. Good for you. \n\nTo answer your question: I think this illegal immigrant situation became a monster slowly. In other words, at first only a few hundred people were sneaking across the border daily. But over time, it has progressed, kind of inconspicuously, into a few thousand or more per day. It is one of those things that most people don't notice until one day we wake up and see that our world has totally changed and we didn't see it coming because it happened so slowly over time.\n\nBut once it was brought to our attention, we found that we needed to do something about it. No double morality here.\nIllegal is illegal,whether it be drugs, underage drinking, or a parking ticket. If it is illegal, then I am having a problem understanding what the big misunderstanding is.
635676
interesting, isn't it?  A land once owned by Mexico and very ruthlessly stolen from them in war is now being called a land that they should stay out of.  You shouldn't see your friends as 'illegal' aliens.  Really, the original people who came to this country immigrated without permission.  They killed the people who were already here.  And yet, somehow, they determined that they had more of a right to be here than the people who already were... Stand up for your friends.
923542
it doesnt to me, illegal refers to anyone that isnt here legally, since most of the people that are here illegally are mexicans, then they are easily combined