Why are we helping Immigrants or Aliens if they now want them not here? I am hispanic and I am in insurance fi
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If your friends and family just want a better life here in America help them get Visa's and enter this country legally. \nWanting a better life is not a justification for circumventing the law. Illegal aliens forfeited any rights they ever sought in this country the second they broke the law to enter our country.
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Because our benefits system is totally messed up. I read somewhere yesterday that there was some homeless woman who could not be housed or helped because she was not a priority case. How homeless do you need to be? Immigrants are a cheap source of labour, and the government is all too happy to take them in - more £££ for them you see?\n\nThis whole situation is out of control now, and it's way way too late to do anything about it.
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I think the questioner was simply trying to get us to think about how much we pay out each year to have medical insurance, and car insurance, and whatever other kind of insurance because we are responsible citizens, while illegal aliens by their very illegal status don't have any insurance, and WE the tax paying, insurance holding citizens MUST pay for them when they use any " free" health service. Yes it's free to them, but it's we the legal tax payers who end up paying for it.
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Round 'em up and ship 'em out... back to their own countries!\nThey are draining, (no, bankrupting!), our country through our school system; our emergency care facilities, (and hospitals), our already over-crowded highways, (and most driving without insurance, thereby causing our rates to go up with all the payouts!); depressing home values in some areas where they have congregated; not paying into our tax base for wages earned in cash under the table; sending a large portion of what they do earn back to their families in whatever country they're from, (thereby draining our economy and growing theirs!); They're swelling our welfare roles - signing up for and receiving money they haven't paid into or aren't even eligible for; destroying public and private property where they're coming into our country through; demanding rights which they don't have and waving their country's flag in our faces; swelling an already bulging population with more children being born to them, (per family), than the average American family is!\nGEEEEEZ! What else do you need to know? How is it that this is even an issue being debated in this country when it should be a no-brainer? Are their really that many "STUPID" Americans here, or is it possible that the press and the rest of the media are falsly reporting the issues? And this argument about them doing jobs that Americans won't do... BULLSHIT!! There are so many options here that I'm not even going to dignify this propaganda with a response!\nHey... just because these "poor" people want a better life for themselves and their families is NO excuse for running the fenceline into our country illegally! Their poor life is NOT our problem! It's theirs and their country of origin! If they don't like the way their country is being run, "THEY" need to change it!!! Why should "THEY" be rewarded for crossing our borders illegally, instead of following our country's immigration laws and processes that all others must comply with for gaining entry into the U.S. legally? I have heard no one make a valid argument for these illegals... NOT ONE!!!\n\nThere now... I got that off my chest!\n(I feel much better now, thank you!)
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This is a very interesting question, and of course have more than just common sense involved on this.  I understand good and bad feelings, but just let me tell you a little bit about me, then probably you can change maybe not all your feelings but at least you can know the human part of one of that "illegal immigrants".\nI came in here to California in 1994 and since I came, I have been discovered how hard is to get a good lifestyle because the language barrier, also the culture and laws and why not, the racism but not from americans, racism from the people who came from other countrys who have some good economic position.  Is like when the salmon goes back to have their eggs agains the water flow.  After few years I decided to learn English for myself, and also to give something back to my "host-country" then because I really like the emergency services I got involved into the American Red Cross as a Disaster Services Volunteer (I have to respond to shelters or places like that when is needed), also I'm a communications volunteer for the Los Angeles Fire Department, I'm volunteer for a Search and Rescue team who help LAPD and LAFD assisting in medical stand by and search for elders and/or kids who get lost and recently I went to the school to have my Emergency Medical Technician certificate just to assist any person in case of an emergency.  In the last months I found a kidnapped girl, I assisted in 3 traffic collisions helping the victims to keep breathing and avoid shock.  My personal vehicle looks like an ambulance, I have emergency lights, all my first aid kit, whatever needed for first response and also I'm trained to help my neighbors in case of an earthquake.  In my professional life, I work in a company as a Graphic Designer and I'm starting my own company.  I'm reporting my income tax every year, I keep my money here in the country, my kids are on the Honor Roll on their schools ("I'm a proud parent of.." stickers are in my car's bumper next to the Fire Department sticker is) and also all the time do my best to be friendly with everybody.  But... I'm an illegal immigrant.  That's true; for administrative reasons, I cannot reach any protection status here.  But, I don't care, I'm living here and I have to serve to this country like my own one because this country make possible for me to have a decent life style to grow my kids and to be a good person. Like my batallion coordinator on the fire department say: "you do more than others, who are americans, do for this country".  Do you still have bad feelings agains ALL illegals? or I can be at least the possibility for you to think a little bit about what other immigrants do for this country?
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Why ? If you are an American then you are an immigrant. If you are not FOR immigration then you better hand it over to original Indians. Just because you got comfy comfy so you want to deny it to others?
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They don't give a crap about us. Latin leaders just want to send the poor people of their countries here so they can't be burden with them anymore. We should ignore and threaten them until they support the border. Our country has for long been soft on illegal immigration and we have to be tough.
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i'm sorry, SHOW3696, but the U.S is not out to help mexicans. Mexicans are only allowed in this country because they are (for the most part) hard working people who are willing to do all the shi tty jobs that no one else will do.  Other than that they get deported back to their country like animals. And the U.S. is talking about closing the border to mexico as well. So, no I dont think we 'help' them at all, at least not as much as they help us. \nI think our gov. should be worried about the REAL terrorists, not the honest hard working people from many countries, not just Mexico, who come here to make better lives. \n\nI know this doesn't answer the question, but still.
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We have so many problems with immigration because our system is terrible.  We let anyone in at will, papers or not.  Then we try to deport the people who should be allowed to stay.  Now the government wants to drop the price of immigration.  I'm not against someone trying to make a better life for themself, but shouldn't we be trying to help them in their own countries?  That is, make life better back home.  Where are all the jobs for these people?  Some of them, and this has been documented, end up on our welfare rolls.  So I get to support my family plus someone else's who never worked to build our country.
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I am sorry you feel the way you do, but I think you are being narrow minded and intolerant. I was once an illegal alien in this country but I always paid my taxes and respected the laws. My brother and I even went to a private school because we where not allowed to attend public school, and my parents had to jump thru hoops if one of us got sick in order to pay for the doctor's visit and medicine. \nLegal and illegal immigrants are what have made this country great. Unless you are a NATIVE AMERICAN, you are of immigrant descent.  Too bad the American Indians did not have tougher immigration laws back in the days of COLONIZATION. Did you know that there are Americans who have migrated to other countries because their Social Security retirement payments would not be enough to cover their basic expenses here in the U.S.? What if they where persecuted and prosecuted for the crime of living where they where not born. The world has changed a lot since your parents migrated, and so has this country, for good or bad. It's time we all pull together instead of finding ways to divide.\nAnd may I suggest you stop listening to the racist zealots that call themselves patriots and get to know us. I promise you we are not as BAD as the say we are.\nGod Bless!!!!
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those damn aliens!!! \n\nkidding. no, i'm not scared. why? if an illegal immigrant or any social security card holding member can steal my job, then obviously i can't do my job well enough.  \n\nif you want it, come and try to take it, baby!\n\nbut what jobs are they stealing?\nmowing lawns?\nworking in kitchens?\nasking me if i want 'fries with that'?\n\nplease.\n\nif you're an adult and that's your source of income and you're afraid, you better be. it is time to better yourself and do something else - these jobs just bring this country down, either you need to start doing something real, or you need to get out to make room for people who will do your job better and for half the amount.
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I so agree with you on this subject. The government is allowing the immagrants to live better than our parents and grandparents who founded and bulit this country. They also let all of these deadbeats get on medicaid and not pay a thing for it and make the elderly pay for their health insurance. Whats up with that.
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I think they should be tried, sentanced and put in jail. You people don't seem to see the big picture here. You think they're helping mexican immigrants. But as we increase the amount of people in this country who A.) don't vote, B.) Don't register C.) Don't pay taxes because they don't want to register for a social security number D.) Don't want to learn english because the bleeding hearts of this country want to help them.....this country will have to lean more and more on those of us who ARE legal. ARE paying taxes ARE keeping the money we earn at our jobs INSIDE this country. Taxes will have to go up to compensate. And who do you think are taxing our medical systems for care because they don't pay medical insurance? And good luck paying for your bleeding heart through your pocket.
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It was not our choice for them to come here, so why should it be our responsibility to accomodate them because they do not speak english. If you come to the US knowing that English is the primary language you should be prepared to learn it.
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Honey, you are barking up the wrong tree by trying to rationalise this problem with those who are willingly crossing our borders and breaking our laws.  Why SHOULD they change this behaviour?  Why SHOULD they fix their own country's system?  They can come here, illegally, but no one seems to mind.. they can work for cash and pay no taxes and take that money back to Mexico.. AND they can apply for and RECIEVE public assistance..INCLUDING welfare CHECKS.. and all of THAT money goes back to Mexico as well.  WE are funding their country and their government only has to tell them HOW.   Don't think for a minute that this is fantasy.. I worked for the department of Social Services in California and I was REQUIRED to give them the benefits even though they were illegal.. and I was FORBIDDEN to even SAY the words 'green card' to them. why?  because it might OFFEND them!!  Needless to say, I didn't stay long.. but I did take the time to talk to many of my clients.. yes, the illegal ones [after all, they made up 90%!! of my case load] and they explained the entire process to me.. all the time LAUGHING at how STUPID we Americans are to ALLOW them to do it.  So, I know what I'm talking about.
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We need to control who enters our country. Illegal immigration results in a lack of control. Though some would like to help as many people out as possible there are limits to the help we can provide. We need to reasonable and sensible with our resources. Via illegal immigration, criminals or terrorists can access our country without our knowledge. In addition, we must insure that people who enter our country are inocculated and have not contracted any infectious diseases. We want to mantain our infrastucture of economics, medical and education needs. With a lack of knowledge of how many people are here and who they are, how can we plan and budget for our needs?\nThink of it like a rescue boat, only so many people can fit before we begin to sink. Plus who would you want in your boat, the murderer or a child?
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We have gone way too far in helping other people coming in. We offer every kind of help at the expense of the working peoples tax dollars and it just keeps going on and on.  The nation was built on Immigrants who worked hard for what they had, now it's the opposite.