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Originally posted by daskakik
Originally posted by Night Star
It is a slap in the face and highly insulting that an illegal places themselves at the head of the line before an American citizen, or an immigrant who is coming here through the proper channels. They need to get off their sky high pedestal.
This is not true. Sure there are a lot of legal immigrants who are on the pedestal but many legal immigrants and anchor babies don't see border hoppers as slapping them in the face. I'm sure if you search for them you will find them then you could blast a 5 second clip all over the airwaves.
You have been exposed to a minority that scams and cheats and are saying they are all like that and they they get everything handed to them. I call BS.
Originally posted by General.Lee
My solution is to give them all amnesty, ID, a SS number and make them citizens. I know this isn't popular approach but if you remove the desirability of illegals, there is no longer an advantage in hiring them; they will be paying taxes, will have a credit report, will no longer get in-state tuition and will be treated like every other citizen. There will no advantage in hiring them. No more $5 hour tax-free labor. No more tax free day-labor.
Originally posted by Scytherius
Liberals have been saying that for YEARS. Enforce it against the employers and it will solve a multitude of issues. The problem is, the white, rich employers want their cheap labor.
Originally posted by Night Star
I learned a lot from the illegals that I knew personally. I learned more through research and from the personal experiences of others. Is it not a slap in the face to a citizen when they are turned away from a job they are perfectly qualified for while an illegal gets that job instead? Is that illegal more important than a citizen? Many illegals steal identities while a citizen has to prove the identity is theirs. Is that not a slap in the face? The women I worked with who were a two income household and lied and said they were a one income household got welfare benefits that they had no right recieving! They were well above the poverty limit! There have been things in the news of others who have done the same and got caught. We're talking thousands of dollars in fraud from just a couple of cases. Is this not a slap in the face to us?
There are countless stories from all across the USA of fraud and deciet from illegals. Billions of dollars are spent on illegals while we have many citizens making like two lousy dollars over the poverty limit and cannot afford medical or basic necessities. You can call BS all you want. You can close your eyes to your fellow suffering citizens and instead stand up for the illegals all you want. I for one, will not.
Originally posted by whaaa
reply to post by openminded2011
Without cheap immigrant labor, either legal or illegal, crops will rot in the field and prices of hand picked vegetables will sky rocket and will only be for the wealthy.
I don't think Americans will work for min. wage picking fruit or other crops.
edit on 5-6-2011 by whaaa because: pt
reply to post by YoungMind92
Heck, These guys do the jobs you guys don't even want to do
Originally posted by YoungMind92
reply to post by openminded2011
Would you want this if you was an Immigrant? Cause I sure wouldn't.
Why are people so hard on Immigrants?
All they try to achieve is a better life for their family's.
Heck, These guys do the jobs you guys don't even want to do. We shouldn't have to get rid of em.
Plenty of other ways to help Us and them, Don't forget we're all HUMAN!.
Originally posted by Night Star
No American citizen is going to allow their family to starve and will take any job available. Many of our citizens have worked on farms, have worked in factories and have worked minumum wage jobs. There are too many people and not enough jobs. We do not need millions of illegal immigrants here for any reason.
People keep ignoring how citizens quickly fill the jobs that deported illegals were doing!!!!!! Millions of illegals are displacing citizens in the workforce and it isn't just farm work that these people are doing! But just keep ignoring the facts and fight for the illegals and ignore the poor citizen who is losing his livlihood and means of support for his family. No foreigner is above a citizen of the USA. Jobs belong to the citizens. welfare and benefits go to the needy citizen, not some foreigner gaining benefits through deciet.
Why do you think so many States are trying desperatley to enforce laws against illegal immigration? Why are there so many new bills coming up to fight against illegal immigration? Because it is a huge problem and people have had enough!