Just read an article in USA Today, concerning amnesty for illegal immigrants. illegals may work hard, may fill jobs americans do not want, but one fact overlooked: they violated federal law. is there an argument here?
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Not in my opinion. I think the bad seeds can be controlled better if they have less tape to waddle through.
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Yes! I am sure there are people here in America who would give anything to have the jobs and pay that the Illegals are taking away from us.
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There's definitely an argument there. In the UK illegal immigrants are also a huge problem...and I don't think it necessarily puts a person in a great light if they're breaking the law from the very moment they put foot in a country. However...if I was from a less prosperous country and my family was at risk, there's no telling what I'd do. I try to imagine what must drive a person to put themselves at such risk before I judge them.
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I totally agree. If someone wants to be a citizen or resident of the USA they need to follow our laws. If they come illegally they are law breakers, and granting amnesty is unfair to the people who did come here lawfully. Having said that, I certainly don't fault people for wanting to move to the USA. It is a land of opportunity. But they need to come here legally first. Side note, I get tired of hearing the term "undocumented workers" instead of "illegal immigrants". If I go rob a bank, am I making an "undocumented withdrawl"? No! I'm a bank robber and breaking the law! Same thing with illegal immigrants...
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They have proven they have no respect for the laws of this country. We spent a LONG time and a LOT of effort enacting labor laws to require employers to treat their employees well, and to better the lives of Americans. We created unions. We have a minimum wage. An illegal workforce enables employers to again abuse their employees with no ramifications. They can require long hours for little pay in dreadful conditions. They can take us back to the ages when children were forced into labor. We will become a back-alley sweatshop country full of illiterate, uneducated adults who cannot get anywhere by themselves any more than they could in their old country. Let them come in more easily legally, and let them help enforce our labor laws as well as our immigration laws, and I, for one, will be happy to have them. But breaking the immigration laws makes the labor laws almost unenforceable, and will drag this country down until they are no better off than they were before.
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There is no argument that Federal law violation is their first act in arriving here. Add to that the fact that for every hard working and "honest" one that comes here there are handfuls of them that go on to break considerably more laws. Also each one adds handfuls of non-contributers that drain our welfare system and overtax our legal system.
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I think there are some who come across wanting to better themselves and the future of their family and I feel for them. Those are the people who should be granted immigration rights (legally) but I think they have become exception rather than the rule. I think a lot of the traffic coming across these days are more likely to become involved in gangs, drug trafficking, and/or welfare. Most of them will have a net drain on the U.S. economy, not a positive influence.
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The illegal immigrants have neither high education nor the money to follow the legalities. The Indians entering USA as illegal immigrants is extremely rare. For a moment, forget that you are a citizen of a great nation. You are a house holder and some one came to your house for begging. Will you punish him for intruding into your land premises? Citizens of a great nation should have a great mind to understand people. Why don't you understand them from humanitarian point of view? Did any religion preach punishments to illegal immigrants? Is this the outcome of all that you have learned? Where else you would use your wisdom? Those persons who have the inclinations for gangs and drug traffic will be active irrespective of whether they entered as legal immigrants or illegal immigrants.
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My arguement is that my friends, who are from Pakistan, India, and Iran, had to get top marks all through school, attend college, learn to speak fluent English, obtain a school and working visa to enter America, marry and live here for 18+ years, THEN begin the process to become a naturalized citizen. Whereas Pedro Lopez can hop a fence, steal a hardworking American's work for less money, and we tell the hardworking American to "press one for English" so Mr. Lopez won't be inconvenienced to learn the language, and STILL there are arguements over whether we're doing enough to help these people.
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Round em up and throw em out. Forcefully if necessary.
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