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Quote from reg:
1. I agree - they are extremely hardworking and motivated lawbreakers. There is no denying that they broke US immigration laws and jumped ahead of the millions of legal immigrant applicants who have to wait years for their chance to come to the US.
2. I agree- but these are descendants of LEGAL immigrants. Meaning they went through the legal process. And please do not raise the race card regarding this issue. The US still has the most lenient immigration laws in the world and allows millions of people into the country regardless of race, color, sex, or religion.
In fact, the greatest number of legal immigrants in this country are Hispanics.
3. I would rather pay more for my strawberries and restaurant meals than subsidize the education and medical bills of illegal immigrants. Not to mention the cost of incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals.
4. Cheap labor comes at the expense of providing free education to the children of these illegal immigrants and free medical care to the illegal immigrants and their families. This makes the term "cheap labor" a paradox. I personally feel we should do away with these and pay just wages to local born or legal residents.
The issue is not about race or the industriousness of the illegal immigrants - it is about following and respecting the laws of this country.
Quote from NasdaqTrader:
If a child is born in the U.S. to an illegal alien, I assume that the child is automatically a US citizen?
My question is what happens to the illegal parents if they get caught and what happens with the child that is a US citizen?
Quote from saxon22:
I echo your sentiments 100%. It is a myth that illegal immigration is beneficial to the US. Maybe to some businesses which do not want to pay their workers fair wages, but have no problem charging full price for their products as if it was produced by unionized workers. In the long run we as a society pay a heavy price for having illegal immigrants in the US. From Schools, through health care and prisons, the illegals are very well represented in all 3 categories (as recipients of course), each one costing a pretty penny to maintain.
Naturally, there is a very simple solution for the illegal immigration - fines. Employing an illegal immigrant - $100,000 per worker payable to INS by the employer. I guarantee you nobody would hire them. As for illegal workers, crossing the border illegally - $1000 fine, repeat offenders - 30 days jail time + the fine.
Another myth about illegals is that they are hard working decent people. The truth, most of hem are uneducated losers who could not make it in their own country and have no choice but to come to the US to do menial jobs for peanuts. Many are illiterate, or functional illiterates (and I am talking in their own native language not English), without any kind of traditions of reading to their kids or developing skills necessary to receive a sound upbringing. So they make several kids, apply for every social program to feed those kids, apply for free health care benefits, send their kids to school where they get free meals and free education. However, because in the house all that is done is watching soap operas and listening to loud music all day long, school becomes a place to find girlfriends and sharpen one's macho skills. Of course out of 100, 1 gets lucky and is smart enough to go to college and this is the one who is given as an example of how it s possible to become somebody coming from a family of illiterate peasants. Nobody really talks about the other 99 who want the American Dream but have no skills whatsoever to achieve it. This is where drugs, gangs, stealing and all kinds of criminal dealing take shape. One look at many of American immigrant hoods will confirm all of the above.
Quote from Knyyt:
#1- Yes
#2 http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters4608
Usually nothing happens because the child when he/she/it turns 21 he/she/it will apply for their parents, ( hence the term, Anchor baby) which based on family provides immediate perm resident status, no waiting.
Regards,
Quote from risktaker:
Do you know why there is so much "contracting" and "subcontracting" in this country?
Major reasons:
Big business subcontracts out work which they deem "risky" to others because by doing so they can 99% of the time then claim to any investigative body that, well, "we didn't know", they're subcontractors! Of course they know!
$Millions, pehaps $Billions saved in liabilities/taxes since the small subcontractors usually cut costs, hire illegals, doesn't pay taxes here or there, goes bankrupt, etc, etc.
Big business welcomes the opportunity to serve illegals! And big business makes the rules. Not some bs govnmnt "law". You want changes? then quit supporting those big businesses which do not follow your ethics.
As for today's legal/illegal immigrant and their earnest desire to work hard and succeed? Well, I kind of agree with you there. They're not as hard-working/honest as those who came over 1-2-3-4 generations ago!