what are the best solutions to stop illegal immigration?
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What can we do to stop illegals?\n1. Actually enforce the immigration laws currently on the books.\n\n2. Imprison the landlords, employers and anyone giving any assistance to illegals.\n\n3. Place automated cameras and remote operated fully automatic weapons on the border.\n\n4. Deny citizenship to children of illegal aliens.\n\n5. Set up an actual hotline for people to report the presence of suspected illegal aliens in the workplace or neighborhood.\n\n6. Adopt English as the official national language making it easier to identify people that are not citizens. Even if you must use broken English, although humorous at times, it is understandable and you will get better at it if you try. If you can't speak English you obviously are not a citizen, where is your visa?\n\n7. Adopt English only for all government paperwork to help eliminate the filing for benefits by foreign nationals with the one exception of visa applications.\n\nWhy are they harming us?\n1. They want a better life. We can't blame them for that, but it is not our job to support them nor should we look the other way from the crime of illegal entry. If they wish to have the same rights as our citizens, they can apply for citizenship after they have met all of the other legal requirements.\n\nHow are they harming us?\n1. By draining billions of our tax dollars with free medical care, requiring the hiring of Spanish language teachers due to the fact that they refuse to learn English, welfare benefits for children of illegals.\n\n2. 15-20 or more people living in a single family residence creates unsanitary living conditions and lowers the values of all of the neighboring properties. If you want to live in these kinds of filthy conditions, you can do that in your own country; do not drag our neighborhoods down.\n\n3. Over crowding in the schools is making it so that our own citizens cannot get a decent education.\n\n4. Refusing to immigrate legally bypasses the required health screen and allows previously eradicated diseases back into the country.\n\n5. Illegals accepting jobs at below minimum wage suppresses the wages of our own citizens.\n\n6. Using stolen SSN and other US identification wreaks havoc for taxpayers by totally screwing up the tax bracket they are currently in, forcing people to waste hundreds of hours to even attempt to get this straightened our with the IRS.\n\n7. Illegals often support themselves with drug smuggling bringing the drugs across the border with them.
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First it is freedom.  True freedom, personal, religious, and political is the solution. With out that your country will continue as it is forrever.  No amount of international help (food, money, pats on the back) will help. Those things only keep those in power stay in power.
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I'd lock the doors... so that means shutting down the borders and not allowing travel.  It wouldn't work.  Getting smart politicians and becoming more strict is what is necessary.  Illegal aliens that have babies in the U.S -- too bad, go home with your baby in tow.
1110813
just give them your information.  they'll help you get your illegal families across the border.
743845
I think we should use technology to assist with illegal immigration. At one point in our history we had the room and need for a huge immigrant population, but those times are behind us. We need better border control for our economy and our safety.
307787
The magic number is whatever our legal population is right now. How to stop it... Close the border immediately. Remove all illegals.\n\nPlain and simple.
898108
Fence is not the proper solution to curb immigration.  The US must give aid for development of its neighboring countries so that people will improve their standard of living in their home countries and will not come to America for greener pastures.
266151
Close the borders and send their employers to jail.\n\nIt might work if those corporations weren't in bed with the politician's in charge.
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This is an easy answer, Arrest those that do the hiring of illegals. Put them in jail, fine the company's enough so it is not worth it to hire illegals at substandard wage. That fixes everything. \n\nNO JOB = NO WORK = NO MONEY = NO REASON TO COME HERE AND  NO REASON TO STAY.  Really simple.
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No, I think the solution is simple.  Give legal status only to those who apply and earn it.  Quite frankly, keeping the current laws on the books and just not enforcing them has been working as far as I'm concerned but if they are going to press the issue, we need to enforce the laws that they are knowingly breaking.  As an American who was born here, what laws do I get to break?  How about illegal aliens from Iraq, do we give them amnesty as well?
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someonecanbme is correct, the question is how can we stop it.\n\nEvery person for illegal immigration needs to compensate these innocent people who have had their social security numbers and identities stolen by these illegals who invade our country with no care who they hurt. They should have to not only compensate the money lost from their social security accounts after they are zeroed out once the fraud is detected, but every last cent the victims had to pay taking time off work, every cent that went into photocopying documentation, every cent that went towards lawyers and gas driving somewhere to get this mess taken care of, and any other financial expenditure the victim had to cough up. They should also be forced to compensate the victims for the emotional hardships endured. They should have to compensate for the money and time spent trying to straighten out their credit ratings after these illegals have ruined them. They should be forced to compensate these victims for every single hardship related to what these illegals have inflicted upon these people. Currently, the system does not provide any compensation at all and a lot of people are never restored to previctimization status. Oh but these pro-illegals claim that illegal immigration is a victimless crime that hurts no one and that we are whining when we complain. \n\nYou think these illegals care that they are hurting innocent lives? Their loyalty is to Mexico. They proved that during one of the first rallies when they took down the American flag, hung up the Mexican flag, and then hung the American flag upside down underneath it. THAT is how they feel about America. \n\nhttp://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm\n\n\nThen the people who want to appease them pull out the excuses about how people who are not even alive now, and haven't been for hundreds of years, 'stole' the land from the American Indians. Even American politicians are carrying out this traitorous attack on our sovereignty! If this keeps up, the United States of America will become a 3rd world country, just like Mexico! Mexico's problems are not the fault of Americans, but they are becoming our problems because the Mexicans are invading us and bringing their problems with them.\n\nThe illegals make up about 5 % of the work force. The unemployment rate is about 4.5%. Keep in mind that the unemployment rate does NOT represent everyone who is unemployed. It only counts those who are collecting unemployment. Everyone else's plight is ignored. The unemployment rate if everyone was counted would be tremendous. We do NOT have a shortage of labor, we have a large surplus. The more illegals that come in and take our jobs at minimum wage or less (often less) puts more and more Americans out of a job. Most of these Americans are never counted in the unemployment rate if they do not manage to get unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits are hard to receive.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits. \n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American
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Yes, and the answer to getting rid of them was simple.\nCall Immigration.  They love it when you give them an actual physical address and you let them use your home for surveilance.  \nI actually became really good friends with one of the Immigration officials and now run a neighborhood watch for illegals in about a 10 block radius.  We have had at least 25-30 deported.  Most of the time there were guns and drugs found there in the homes too, and it has really cut down on our crime problem here.  The funniest thing was that just because of our "task force" I guess you could call it, my daughters class size has dropped approx 20% and she is doing much better in school.  During parent teacher conferences I asked my daughters teacher why the class was shrinking and she stated that a lot of the non-english speaking children had just not come back to school.  (I sat and smiled at this but did not let the cat out of the bag)  \nWhat a deal huh?  By my taking a stand, my daughter has a much better chance of success because the teacher is not having to teach illegal non-english speaking kids how to say "cat" "dog" or "ball."  I suggest that everyone take a look aound your immediate neighborhood and call immigration also.  It will do wonders for your children, as well as your property value.
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How to resolve the illegal immigration problem. But explore the option of criminalizing employers of illegal immigrants and not the immigrants. Those are the ones the that need to be fined and jailed, not the immigrants or their countries blamed. Employers are greedy and are not willing to pay social, medical or taxes. As long as there are jobs in the US for illegal immigrants, they will continue coming.
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wow are you angry some illegal alien took your crop picking job? \n\nthe fact is that people will go where it's easier to make money.. it happened when the brits were colonizing, it happened when they discovered america, it happened when people moved out of the farms into cities.. thats just the way people migration works, and it wont stop until there is no more difference.. \n\nSo.. you want to stop "illegal" immigration, you might want to help the Mexican economy go up, instead of the American economy going down
485153
Get out of Iraq.\nSend the illegals home.\nBan offshoring of labor.\nInstitute fair trade policies so that everything isn't made in china.\nBan importation of foreign labor to replace Americans.
1180009
try construction, they will even hire illegal immigrants, gota hire you
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You should call your Federal, State & local politicians and let them know that if they can't do their jobs.  Americans will vote them out of office and put someone in their place that can to the job!\n\nAs for your neighbor next door.  Change your locks so his anchor babies can't get in.  Give them a rude awakening that the FREE RIDES are over and that they'll be going on a deportation vacation.