What is your honest opinion on undocumented immigrants?

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Anonymous wrote:Deport them. They're breaking the law. Make them come in legally like my parents did. It's a privilege not a right

How about we create a deportation fund AND ANYONE who wants il-legal immigrants to be deported pay into it and absorb ALL THE COSTs(direct and indirect) of deportation.

You do realize that “illegal” is not hyphenated?

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Anonymous wrote:People who cheat on immigration make it much harder for people who are trying to immigrate using legal methods. What kind of character does it show to enter a country illegally, work here illegally, get benefits you are not entitled to, and just basically be a burden to the country? As for refugees, by definition, they are undocumented -- they are fleeing a war. So easy to join in and get through the gate. Its a wide open pathway -- you can't blame a terrorist for walking through it. Its like leaving the keys in the car.

Show me one credible source that shows they are a burden on this country. The biggest burden to this country are the US Citizens who are uneducated, Racists who spew hate to anyone thats not like them, are into drugs, cant find jobs and get on welfare and abuse medicaid. Where do you intend to send them?

Wow, lovely attitude to your fellow Americans. I think the palpable disdain like yours will motivate a lot of trump supporters.

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Anonymous wrote:Their kids born here are NOT automatic US citizens, period.
They can stay jf they apply for residency by some set deadline, it may or may not be granted.
If they don't apply and are caught they and their children and family are deported.

That's not correct.

https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship

USCIS wrote:"If you meet certain requirements, you may become a U.S. citizen either at birth or after birth.

To become a citizen at birth, you must:

Have been born in the United States or certain territories or outlying possessions of the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; OR
had a parent or parents who were citizens at the time of your birth (if you were born abroad) and meet other requirements"

You misunderstood/ I wasn't clear. That's my thought on how it should be, not what the rules or laws are currently.

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Anonymous wrote:People who have never gone through the legal process to immigrate to America do not appreciate the trouble legal immigrants have to go through just to get student or work visas and eventually permanent status. Many of us who did things legally are baffled at why it is okay for some people to break the rules and expect to be rewarded for it.
Many of us also come from countries with less than ideal living situations.
Either maintain the same rules for everyone or abolish the USCIS and throw America's doors wide open to everyone.

Big freaking deal. My parents immigrated here legally on student visas and have always paid taxes. Being a poor student with the opportunity to earn a professional degree in the us is so different than people risking everything to come here. You can still feel compassion for them. If my dad had not been allowed to come here we would have been fine back in our country. He could actually have made more money back home.

I don't begrudge illegals because if faced with the same choices I would do the same thing.


That said this country should change the ability for all people being granted citizenship for merely being born here. You should have 1 parent who is a citizen for it to apply.

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I don't feel any ind of way. I am not doing those jobs.

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The US cannot survive if 40% is one ethnic group because they will set all the policies due to politicians kissing their asses and others resenting them.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, way to stereotype all illegal immigrants. I know a few illegal immigrants and all of them pay taxes, have health insurance or pay for their medical bills, none of them are criminals or do drugs. They are hard working people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and would love to be legalized.

YES, they are criminals!
They entered the country illegally. They broke the law. They are in fact criminals.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp absolutely right. You cannot have Mexico come to the us to paint houses and cut the grass. Who is going to do the real
Work

There are actually work visas where you can come and legally work a seasonal job here (such as painting) for x number of months and then you go home.

On paper, yes but it's unavailable to most people who've come here illegally. If this process actually worked, they wouldn't be coming here illegally. The visa program is broken and needs to be fixed.

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how do you feel about people sneaking into your country, not paying taxes, using the healthcare system for free,their children getting ESL, free meals and other Amazing programs in public schools, committing crimes against Americans, drug running, babies of undocumented immigrants getting citizenship, etc,etc. I think it is a serious problem. I just visited Yakima WA, and the city is under HUGE strain because of the influx not of legal immigrants, but illegal, undocumented immigrants

Sneaking into any country to work and live is illegal. Therefore, they are not "undocmented immigrants" they are illegal aliens. They are law breakers. LAWLESS, just like the corrupt and filthy countries they come from mainly the Latin-speaking mosquito-infested cesspools south of Texas.

My thinking is if these people will break immigration laws they are likely to break other laws too like running stop signs (a friend of mine was terribly injured because an illegal alien paid no attention/did not understand our traffic laws) or steal whatever they feel necessary to fake it or make it like they do in their own filthy country. People who have to break the law to sneak into the country are desparate or they are criminals and want to sneak in to commit their crimes undetected.

I am all for giving people a hand to help. but such people should do so through proper legal channels which is why we have --drumroll please, embassies in about every country in the world where people can petition to be let in.

Naturally, if such people are illiterate, evil, or diseased and cannot or will not go through the process then I do not want people like that in my country, certainly not in my neighborhood and not in my school system where teacher
resources are already overextendend and now they have to coddle these people with teaching them in their own language. WHAT THE HELL? If I moved to another country and demanded they teach my children in my language I would
expect to be treated with the greatest of disdain at being so vile and offensive to the host country. I see illegal aliens as vile scammers and spammers not to be trusted. Not all of them of course, you cannot paint them
all with the same brush, but the majority of them are this way, coming in and expecting handouts and getting benefits they did not earn and do not deserve. To reiterate: i am talking about illegal immigrants, not immigrants who used proper, legal channels to enter this country.

Personally, I think immigration is great: more immigrants means more people buying food, shelter, clothing increasing demand thus stimulating the economy to produce more supply, and America has huge swaths of land virtually uninhabited.
Why, we could fit all the population of El Salavador in Wyoming, and all the people of Guatamala in the swamps of Louisiana if we wanted to. There is plenty room for more people, room for a billion more. Just think of a billion
new citizens all buying cars, and clothes, and computers, our economy would be forced to expand to accomodate them.

But they need to get here lawfully and not be a drain on the safety net which is for emergency situations, not a substitute for employment.

WTF? Swamps of Louisiana? Did we not just see water in SW/CA, overbuilding and flooding results in swamps of Houston? Wyoming as route 7? Let people work and develope their own countries.

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Anonymous wrote:Enforce existing law that makes it illegal for any business or person to hire an illegal. Really make it painful. Do nothing else. Wait five years. Now address the issue with the greatly reduced numbers.

When your ancestors came if the native Americans had done what you suggest, we need not discuss this issue now. Maybe we should have done what you suggest when the Irish came here due to potato famine and sent them back to hunger and eath. Maybe the Italians running away from war should have been sent back to war and death. Before 1924, if you are white and if you land on the US shores you were given residency, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Do you know had that not been done, many of the ancestors of people like you wouldn't have come here and this would have been a better place. Such in-sensitivity to human suffering. Go and live for 1 week in places where these people come from. You sit in a comfortable chair and talk as if you are god AND YOU KNOW what to do.

Do you know that there could be kids who are young and going to school, there could be families who have nothing to go back to where they came from? There could be families that have sick kids who will lose their lives if they go back to a place with less or no access to medical care. There are MANY thousands of WAR Veterans who fought for the USA. There are students who could be the next Sergei Brin(if you know who he is), the next Steve Jobs(Lebanese by birth) etc etc.

You've convinced me. Lets just have open borders. It will solve all those problems.

Nobody is suggesting open borders, not even democrats. There is no way to deport so many without consequences. So strengthen the borders, implement E-verify going forward. Give legal status without citizenship for those who are already here. Those in government have limitations and responsibilities that include political, financial etc. You are a free agent and your words AND ACTIONS have ZERO IMPACT or CONSEQUENCES.

Legal status will just encourage more. ie Reagan.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Enforce existing law that makes it illegal for any business or person to hire an illegal. Really make it painful. Do nothing else. Wait five years. Now address the issue with the greatly reduced numbers.

When your ancestors came if the native Americans had done what you suggest, we need not discuss this issue now. Maybe we should have done what you suggest when the Irish came here due to potato famine and sent them back to hunger and eath. Maybe the Italians running away from war should have been sent back to war and death. Before 1924, if you are white and if you land on the US shores you were given residency, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Do you know had that not been done, many of the ancestors of people like you wouldn't have come here and this would have been a better place. Such in-sensitivity to human suffering. Go and live for 1 week in places where these people come from. You sit in a comfortable chair and talk as if you are god AND YOU KNOW what to do.

Do you know that there could be kids who are young and going to school, there could be families who have nothing to go back to where they came from? There could be families that have sick kids who will lose their lives if they go back to a place with less or no access to medical care. There are MANY thousands of WAR Veterans who fought for the USA. There are students who could be the next Sergei Brin(if you know who he is), the next Steve Jobs(Lebanese by birth) etc etc.

You've convinced me. Lets just have open borders. It will solve all those problems.

Nobody is suggesting open borders, not even democrats. There is no way to deport so many without consequences. So strengthen the borders, implement E-verify going forward. Give legal status without citizenship for those who are already here. Those in government have limitations and responsibilities that include political, financial etc. You are a free agent and your words AND ACTIONS have ZERO IMPACT or CONSEQUENCES.

Legal status will just encourage more. ie Reagan.

Visa program tied to employers and employment. No job? You go back.

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Anyone here illegally should be deported. Period. I voted for Obama twice but feel so strongly about immigration that I just might vote for Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Ever seen the movie "A Day without a Mexican"? I think illegal immigrants to a large extent, and recent immigrants legal or otherwise, are the foundation of our way of life. They build our homes, prepare and serve our food, deliver our goods, install and fix our appliances, babysit our children and clean up after us everywhere we go.

Without them, we would want to immigrate somewhere else.

Nah, all those things got taken care of before immigrants and all those things will be done if they left. Life goes on - mexicans or no mexicans

Can you tell me about a time in US history when there weren't immigrants to take on heavy labor jobs? Or are Latin American immigrants the only ones you have a problem with?

Slavery.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone here illegally should be deported. Period. I voted for Obama twice but feel so strongly about immigration that I just might vote for Trump.

I feel the same.
If you feel strongly about illegal immigration, do not vote for Clinton.
She plans not to deport any illegals here already.
That will only open our floodgates further.

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They are breaking the laws of the US. Contrary to popular liberal belief, the US is no longer the melting pot It was 100 years ago. Those immigrants assimilated, learned English and became Americans in every respect. Today the illegals do nothing to assimilate, expect everything to be given to them. I am sick of them.

Stop discounting Trump. If he promised to make ENGLISH our national language and to deport anyone who has been in the country for more than two years and not fluent in English, he would win in a landslide. He may still win in a landslide by just promising to build the wall.