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Originally Posted by Rekna
I married an illegal immigrant. Not all illegals are bad, there are many illegals who are good people and just want to make a better life for themselves. The problem with illegal immigration starts at our immigration laws. We need to have ways for honest hard working people to be able to come here with relative ease. It shouldn't be as difficult as it is for honest people. Once we open up our boarders to allow the good people in then I'm all for coming down with a hammer on people crossing illegally.
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My father in law married moved to Mexico. married someone from Mexico and completed the process for her to get legal immigration status. My brother in law married someone from the former USSR who also went thru the legal immigration process. Why should someone be able to jump ahead in line because the legal process is 'too difficult'? They should complete the legal immigration process just like the others did.
Nobody has the right to sneak across the border illegally because life is too hard in their own country.
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Originally Posted by dippin
The fact that there is 10% unemployment means jack shit for the specific sectors illegals work in.
There are simply no Americans willing to pick tomatoes for even minimum wage, nevermind the wages illegals make. Or busing tables. And we don't need to imagine "what if." We just need to look at tomato farms in states where there was a crack down on illegal immigration.
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So the unemployed American gets to collect unemployment for close to two years because unemployment is so high and he's too good for certain kinds of work.
The illegal immigrant now gets legal status.
Since the newly legal immigrant is most likely working a low paying job that no American would want, he now has to buy health insurance. But since his income is too low, he gets a government subsidy.
Unemployment remains around 10% and the unemployed guy gets his unemployment extended again because the job market is so bad.
And everybody lived happily ever after, except for the long suffering middle class taxpayer who sees his taxes go up again to pay for this nonsense.