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How should the US deal with Illegal Immigration?

399 Votes
  • Start Date:
    10-18-2007
  • Last Vote:
    10-9-2009

Issue:

New York Plans to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants; Virginia County Votes to Deny Services to Illegal Immigrants.  Our administration is trying to get at one of America's favorite instances of tolerated lawbreaking: our de facto guest-worker program, created by the nonenforcement of immigration laws. 

 

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How do you think the US should handle illegal immigration?

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My wife is a legal immigrant. Immigrants are great, if they are legal. Ship the illegals back to wherever they come from.
My great ,great grandfather,was a legal immigrant,from germany,he was proud to be an american,but people should respectfully and legally immigrant here if they want to live here. ,Canada, and the U.S.has to respect and obey,China, Japan's ,England's,,Iraq's, Italy's,India's,laws,we would be in alot of trouble, if we tryed to get over there illegally,so thats what I think should happen here,one country is not better than the other,were all people in gods eyes and should respect one another that way;The government needs to make harsher laws so this does not continue,also over population is happening due to the government not doing their job!!!!
K.I.S.S - Don't allow Students to Enroll into School without showing they're parents last years Tax Forms or a SS# that would be checked out. Mexicans are good Parents and they would leave on their own if they couldn't get free education.
Not only a free education but anything else they can get for free. They are depleting our welfare system and they don't even pay anything into it. Everyone that checks out at a store in front of you can't speak English and uses their little food stamp card. Enough already.
Deportation is the answer. Surely deporting the illegal Aliens will cost less than supporting them with medical, educational and other services. We need those funds to help our citizens, those people who already are and want to continue to be Americans. Truth be known, the illegal Aliens do not want to become Americans they just want the money to support their family, build a nest egg and then go back to their own country. We conservative Americans do not want to support that liberal platform and should let the politicians know that we can and will vote them out of office. The majority MUST organize. Remember: an organized minority will always rule an unorganized majority. Let's roll!!

All illegal immigrants should be deported just as President Hoover did in the past. America is for legal citizens. America's jobs are for legal citizens. The country is in a huge mess right now and Americans are losing their jobs, homes and pensions. If there were jobs for them, which they have a right to over an illegal alien, then they should get the position. Unfortunately our government seems to think it is more important to have the illegal vote for most politicians. Isn't that sad; greedy and self-serving. What is more important: politicians and getting the illegals vote or Americans who have built this country on hard work?

Go Back from which you came ILLEGAL immigrants!

Deport them all.

I have the best solution to this problem, kill them.
simple as that. there is no middle ground on this opinion. they are f***ing up our country. they are illegal=they are dead to me.
Signed,
The Great Wolverine

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Shoot on sight.

some of you may find this harsh. well im tired of this deportation crap. its not working. start killing them when the hop the border and that will stop them.
well more then are being stopped now.

Hello people the only people who would be left if we send them all back where there came from would be Indians, cause guess what, they were here first.

Send them back to where they came from!! We need to take back America - be the America we use to be!

There should be nothing available for someone that comes into the country illegally. We should get hold of our priorities that real american people our elderly and those that are working to get their pensions, retirement and social security get it and not the ones who sit on their butts and claim they are poor, refugees, or non speaking....
Do not liberally make welfare bigger like Obama wants to do...... If the case in point that he made on the amount of money people should be earning currently 250,000 equals middle class then I am way down on the poverty chain here and AMerica has been invaded by aliens, high outrageous unwarranted taxes and unemployment......
In other words do not shoot at those who are running south of the toward the border..... Open season on anyone who is not legal. Let them go back to their country and live like we need to do here..... TAKE BACK AMERICA

You cant enter other countries illegally without heavy consequnce, so why why should we be so accomidating!!!!!
BOOT EM!!!!

As hard workers as the immigrants may be they should still be deported due to the fact that they are taking jobs from our own people. There are so many bussiness owners out there willing to hire these immigrants not for the hard work that they do but for the money they will save by paying them below minimum wages. These bussiness owners should be deported along with them if and when they are caught!!!!!!!!!!

hey it is a pointless topic now i hear since the markets and every thing is so bad they are all sneaking back home

Some of these people have been here for years. If we deport all of the mexicans who will be the ones to go to the fields and do all the hard labor that the sorry and lazy americans will not do? Go ahead send them all home and see what happens to our farms and such. I am sorry but we are all immigrants to an extent. we may have been born here but some of them have too. Only the true native ameicans should be able to vote on this. the white man took this land by force and still wants to force people out. If they deport the mexicans then they need to deport the indians from india the japanese and all these people who are buying up our minit markets and hotels. They get to come over here live tax free and get rich off of us. atleast the poorer mexicans are atleast doing the work that lazy people wont do, instead of getting rich.

I really don't care what country they're from. If they're illegal, send them home. Take a look at the states with the highest mortgage failures and you'll find the highest numbers of illegals in those homes.

laura b, you need to take your rose colored glasses off! where all you getting you info from?
.Americans were doing all the work you say they won't do anymore and you know why they won't? because the illegals took over by doing it for less! besides we have all those able bodies on welfare that can do it, how about all the crowded jails and prisons that have non violent affenders they have what is called a chain gang. believe me this country won't fall apart if the illegals and their anchor kids are sent back. we need to implement what President Eisenhower did and that was called 'Operation Wetback' deport illegal migrants so people here could get work.

Stop making long time green card holders pay over $10,000 dollars in fees, legal and otherwise, to become citizens, putting it financially out of the reach of most who would become citizens. These costs are continuing to rise. This system makes illegals out of legals. We are creating this problem from within.

There should be a combination of all of the above. Amnesty for some with childrren who have completed their intire education in the US and are citizens & taxpayers themselves.

Deportation or foreign criminals and any convicted of felonies here.

A guest worker program would definitely reduce the total numbers of illegals and allow for better tracking of foreigners to prevent terrorizm. And, many prefer thier home countries but cannot brave crossing back and forth as they would like. Most of these workers do work in line with digging ditches that no one else will do. And their work in the Ag fields keeps the price of food down for the manual labor component.

Lets compromise and get something done before it all gets much much worse and South & Central America, our neighbors, become more and more cozy with Middle East terrorists because we continue to ignore our own hemisphere.

Joe Jonas Lover THE US SHOULD GIVE THE IMMIGRANTS A PRETTY GOOD LIFE!!!! THATS WHAT!!

The illigals have had there warning in my opion. So my answer to this is let's play "cowboys and mexians".
Give all the men with horses and ropes here in texas on week of free rain on illigals!!!! This would put a major dent and then the rest would figure out we ain't joking GO AWAY!!!! excuse the spelling

lol, Americans have to do what Americans have to do that is what the second amendment is for.

ok you round up the indians too and sell all of their minit markets and hotels and make us rich

laura b, I've read stupid comments but yours takes the cake.

Illegal immigrants get more help from the government than legal immigrants do. I know what it takes to get here legally, stacks of paperwork, interviews at the American Embassy. I have a green card and I am proud to be here LEGALLY.

We have laws on the books to deal with the problems we are now experiencing. Write your senator and congressman.If that doesn't get results.Vote out those in power and put better ones in. WRITE RIGHT NOW! I'm your next door neighbor. jsloan1950.

I feel that congress as a start should do away with income taxes and then raise sales taxes so there will be more government revenue to deport the illigal immigrants

The laws are already passed... enforce them.

I velieve immigrants should have a amnesty, i velieve they are verry hard workers they come here to work hard and become someone in life.

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