Why is Mexican immigration such a big problem?
962229
It's not! As long as it is legal! \n Hey! Are you asking about the illegal alien criminals that violate America's immigration laws? Now there's a problem!
656268
I agree with you. I must say that I'm Mexican and I find it ridiculous that the Mexican Government and other people around here complasion because they are complaining about the US building a wall to prevent (or at least try to) more illegal immigrants get to the US.\n\nI think they should be more concerned about creating more jobs and giving Mexican citizens a better standard of life.
963119
True but I think people are focusing on the Mexican illegals because they are more of a majority. I work in construction. We have whites working for us, a few blacks and a whole lot of mexicans.\n\nNot to mention the fact that when the immigration issues came up this past year who made the most noise? Mexicans. Their country is right below us so the influx of Mexicans will be greater than other countries because it's easier for them to get into the US than it is for other illegal immigrants.\n\nThat would be my opinion at any rate.
1143627
It's mainly Mexicans. Due to the fact we share a large border with Mexico, there are constantly people crossing legally and illegally. The problem is that the coyotes have ways of getting them across, they probably have connections with border patrol.
584004
Amen!  It's NOT a MEXICAN ISSUE..it's not just an IMMIGRATION ISSUE...it's an ILLEGAL ISSUE.  NO OTHER COUNTRY WOULD ALLOW IT EITHER...no, not even Mexico.  I have NO problem with anyone who comes here legally.\n\nThere is a process to get here legally.  Yes, this may be a long process, but it's LEGAL and you won't LOSE YOUR LIFE if you do it the way that's LEGAL.  \n\nI really think it's a shame that the protests yesterday really put all of the immigrants in one category..but it was their own fault.
804694
At least 95%. And the pro side is just as guilty of it as anyone else here, even though they deny it. "Oh, but Mexicans are such hard workers, have such strong family values," etc. Well, what about the 43% that ISN'T Mexican? It is easier though, to associate Mexicans with illegal immigration because they are the majority, because of the marches and the outspokeness of those who are Mexican or represent mostly Mexican people. Also because it's very easy for most to assume that if you speak Spanish, you must be a Mexican.
676513
Illegal immigration. A very serious problem right now. We are being invaded, and for some reason we aren't stopping it. These illegal aliens are draining away at all of the public services that WE PAY TAXES FOR! The citizens of the U.S. pay the taxes, whilst these invaders do not. They are like leeches - and we are doing nothing to peel them off.\n\n1. They get free medical care from American hospitals.\n2. They get free food from various charities!\n\n\nBut, of course, the things that they get are not really free. Maybe for them they are, but someone is paying for them. Someone is paying for these unlawful citizens to abuse the system. The people paying for these undeserving illegal immigrants are the citizens of the United States.\n\nAnother thing - it's absolute idiocy that these invaders are calling the lawful citizens of America racists. Since when does standing up for your country make you a racist? It makes you a patriotic person!  But, in this case, it seems that some mindless sympathizers have fallen for the illegals nonsensical argument. They are actually convinced that they are racists for not supporting these people! But the very people they are supporting are draining away our culture and destroying our economy! It seems that the sympathizers want to kill our country! At the current rate of immigration, the states near the border will become majorly Mexican and will probably start demanding to join a state like Texas or California back into Mexico! If these invaders keep on coming, It will no longer be the United States of America.\n\nIt's absurd that some of the Mexicans believe that this is their country. They say that it has been their homeland for 40,000 years. They say that they are not illegal if it is their land. They tell the law-abiding people to read the history books and find out that it is their land. My history book says that we won Texas and other states from Mexico in a war. It is ours.\n\nHeres another argument that although seems reasonable, has many flaws. Some people believe that illegals are helping our economy by providing cheap labor for employers. This is true, but the money they make is not circulated back into the economic system. It's going back to Mexico. And, as the illegals pay no taxes, they aren't helping much there either. These illegals are not benefiting the system - they are destroying it.\n\n\nHere are my solutions to the problem:\n\n1. Deport illegal aliens as soon as they are found.\n2. Build a wall. The Great Wall helped the Chinese against the Mongolians. The wall that we have to build will help us with the criminal invaders that are the Mexican illegal immigrants.\n3. Talk to Vincente Fox and demand that he stops giving his people pamphlets on how to get in the U.S.A. illegally. It is happening, and it is a huge problem. Vincente Fox is a terrorist!\n4. Punish companies that hire illegal immigrants severely. If the illegals have no incentive to come, they won't come. Simple as that.\n\n\n\nEducation: $22.5 billion\nBilingual Education: $3.3 billion\nAFDC: $2.4 billion\nSSI: $2.9 billion\nSocial Security: $24.8 billion\nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion\nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion\nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion\nOther Programs: $51.4 billion\nFood Stamps: $7 billion\nHealth Care: $1.4 billion\n$131.7 billion annually. More than the War in Iraq has cost us annually. In fact, about twice as much. We've been in Iraq for 3 years. It has cost us about 277,000,000,000. Illegal immigrants have cost us 131,700,000,000 a year. And, that number will rise at the current rate of illegal immigration.\nWar protestors are always complaining that we've spent too much on the war - well, look at how much we've spent on illegal immigrants.
594433
This is a great question, and this is a great idea, as well. Besides, it's been done already, but there are lots of work that can be solved in that form yet. And of course it would reduce the immigration (not all of the immigration) but a part of it. \n\nMany of the immigration, either legal and illegal, is for people on the IT business, that's why some of the big IT companies in the USA, have asked to increase the visas for that specialized people.\n\nBut this idea involves a lot of work that must be done, by American clients, and Mexican Business as well. What do i mean. In Mexico, there are not a lot of solid companies that can provide TI outsourcing to that broad range of posible clients. We need to encourage the creation of that kind of business, and we have to focus the education on the analisis and design skills, and the use of the analysis and desing tools. \n\nIn Mexico, as providers, we are not used to use that kind of tools in order to comunicate with the client, or with the users, or with the business analyst. That make us that kind of work dificult.\n\nBesides, there must be done some efforts to increase the medium wages, so, the developers would have that as a good reason to stay here, instead of getting a job in the USA.
363148
Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.\n\n\nthanks cherokee rose i put my signature on  petition you rock
968059
How about that we are trying to fix the syptoms and not going to the true source of the problem. WE can spend billions for ever and ever and the problem will still be there. Wouldn`t it be smarter and cheaper to go straight to the FACT of why are these people coming here ?? ANSWER:: they are not happy and able to provide a good living for there families in Mexico (lets tell the truth about 99% of the people we are talking about ) Why don`t we HELP Mexico give their people a better chance to make a good living (and not by moving our jobs there)I`m sure if given a choice their people wouldn`t want to leave their families and come here if they could prosper in their own country... It might cost us some money at first for many years even but it would be better than FOREVER battling this problem that will never truely be fixed othrewise.Then the problems with the other illegals would be(dealing in a much smaller group of people) easier to deal with and could be more of an organized prosses.Instead of having to keep track of 3 million people it might could be 3 thousand.
482232
Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.
908150
The illegals being here in itself is not that big of a problem.  What makes it so bad is that they are depressing wages and therefore lowering the standard of living for everyone else.  Think about it --American workers used to be able to make a living wage performing construction and manufacturing jobs.   Now illegals take those jobs for less money than a American worker can work for.  The reason is because the illegals live 6 - 10 people in one house and are just used to a lower standard of living.  The real problem is those people who hire the illegals.  If they stopped hiring them, they would stop coming.  Ask any worker in the US and they will tell you that their expenses have increased way faster than their wages have over the last 10 years.  I know this is a long and complicated answer but illegal immigration is mostly an economic problem, not so much a crime or social problem.  I like Mexicans I just get sick of them taking Americans jobs away!  Americans cannot afford to work for $5 an hour -- not unless we move 10 people into a small apartment like the Mexicans.
1050816
Look around you; who "runs" this country?  Mexicans clean, they build, they repair, they cook, they serve, they do the gardening, they pick up the trash, they work in the factories - they are an integral part of our society whether you want to admit it or not.\nThe thing is, like one other person stated, it is an "immigration" thing not Mexican....what about all the South Americans, all the Asians, all the Canadians, Russions, Iranians, Indians, that are here with expired work permits, getting free or low interest business loans to own their own business, have a better opportunity than some of us citizens to drive around in Mercedes, Porches, Bentley,s, etc.  \nIn essence, we need to concentrate on ALL illegals, close ALL the borders til we can get some of this mess straigtened out.
315707
This isn't really a racists issue, it's an economical issue.One third of Mexico's GNP is from money sent back from Mexicans working in the U.S. This is untaxed money leaving the country that is slowing our economy.
947319
Easy... can be summed up in two reasons\n\n #1.) Illegals form a significant flow of money to the Mexican economy (or politicans' pockets, same thing). \nThis is the thing that should dispel those lies that illegals are good for the USA, because if it were a good thing those illegals would at least keep all the money in the USA, but instead all those dollars are sent to Mexico.\n\n#2.) The more poor and dissatisfied that remain in Mexico, the more likely revolution or reform will take place as they eventually realize that they need to wake up and that their easy ticket is not easy anymore.\nI do not need to tell you that this would be bad for the current crop of corrupt imbeciles running Mexico.
1128667
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...
988528
The problem with Mexico is how much they waste their resources. The contractors that pave the roads will use the cheapest materials and inexperienced labor but charge the government extremely high prices. The government officials accept this because they get a big bribe from contractors. The corruption is what is keeping the people poor in Mexico, there are warehouses full of food spoiling at this very minute, bought by the party candidates to buy votes, but since a new law of the  Federal Electorate Institute forbides to use food for votes, its all wasting away. I read Spanish Internet newspapers to get info, so that is where my sources come from.  Just to open a private business in Mexico, involves bribes so unbelievable that only the the wealthy can afford. The people are fleeing from poverty, its hard to fight against a government so corrupt within.  Recently, Flower vendors that stood up against the government were arrested, severely beaten and killed. Mexico is rich for the rich, and only poverty awaits for the poor and underprivileged. Fox's wife, instead of purchasing towels for 400 dlls each for her personal use, costing the the taxpayer, should invest in buying wheelchairs for her people. All her and Fox's clothing is payed by the taxpayer purchased in NY or France. And the woman never wears a dress twice. She put her hand me downs on auction, and not even the elite women bought them, appalled by the asking price. All this is what makes Mexico a Third World country despite it's wealth.