illegal immigrants

It's an interesting topic; although I must warn you to be wary of your statements that could be percieved as racist. "Everyone is always stating, How Illegals are a problem, The only problem is the Mouths it is coming from, if everyone would just mind their own business, and leave Hispancs alone. .. this would be a better place to live" That is quite untrue, illegal immigrants increase taxes for Americans contributing to the ever growing American deficit and to American homelessness. Each year, families and individuals pay taxes to the government and receive back a wide variety of services and benefits. A fiscal deficit occurs when the benefits and services received by one group exceed the taxes paid. When such a deficit occurs, other groups must pay for the services and benefits of the group in deficit. Each year, govern-ment is involved in a large-scale transfer of resources between different social groups. (1) Here are statistics on the views of illegal immigrants on different groups (2): Almost all Americans (90 percent) say illegal immigration is a "very" serious (60 percent) or "somewhat" serious (30 percent) problem for the country today — essentially unchanged from a year ago this time. Republicans (65 percent) are somewhat more likely than Democrats (58 percent) to say illegal immigration is a "very" serious problem, and Americans over age 65 are significantly more likely than those under age 30 to think so (71 percent and 46 percent respectively). How do Americans want to deal with illegal immigrants? Large majorities favor increasing the number of border patrol agents (80 percent) and imposing fines and criminal charges against employers who hire illegals (73 percent). By eight-to-one, Americans think it is unfair to grant rights to illegal immigrants while thousands of people wait each year to come to the United States legally. Fully 86 percent of Republicans think it is unfair, as do 77 percent of Democrats. Immigration reforms (3): There are two camps in immigration reform; the enforcement camp, which worries that illegal immigration threatens the peace of the nation and its laws, and the guest-worker camp, who worry that without these immigrants our prosperity will be at risk. But in reality, the goals of the two camps are complementary, not contradictory: With a legal path to work comes secure borders, and with secure borders comes economic prosperity. To protect America from terrorism, drug trafficking and lawlessness, those in favor of an enforcement-only approach propose massive increases in funding for border control to stop the flow of illegal aliens across the U. S. -Mexico border. It is imperative, they argue, to regain control of the border, and with good reason. In 2005, Customs and Border Patrol stopped 1,189,114 people from illegally crossing the border, including more tha n 200 from Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. There are also an astounding amount of other problems caused by illegal immigrants, here are some statistics (4): Illegal immigrants in America: 21,511,415 OTM (Other than Mexico) illegal immigrants in America: 535,484 Money wired to Mexico since January 2006: $29,657,318,494 Money wired to Latin America since 2001: $262,185,629,117 Cost of Social Services for Illegal Immigrants since 1996: $397,456,108,652 Children of illegal immigrants in public schools: 4,345,861 Cost of children of illegal immigrants in K-12 since 1996: $14,188,462,809 Illegal immigrants incarcerated: 364,263 Cost of incarcerations since 2001: $1,412,188,851 Illegal Immigrant fugitives: 677,987 Anchor Babies (definition below) since 2002: 1,979,211 Skilled jobs taken by illegal immigrants: 10,488,633 An Anchor baby is a baby born of illegal immigrant parents; this is significant because babies born on United States soil are citizens (whether or not they are of illegal descent). If an automatic "path to citizenship" (i. e. , Amnesty) is offered, government leaders will quickly realize there are significantly more than 10-11 million in the country--in fact, there are more than 20 million. This would also be an offense to the millions of honest immigrants who have become citizens through the established legal process. The opportunity to live and work in America must remain an invited and controlled privilege, not to be gained by backdoor tactics. (4) "but what is going to end up happening, the illegals are going to be forced to go back, and everyone will wish they were here again. " I'd like to argue that because of the growing national deficit that it is imperative that we deport illegal immigrants; they are taking jobs and money from the United States economy, leading to an economic decline. This economic decline leads to structural violence (Due to the United States' inability to pay for our basic needs because of a budget deficit caused by illegal immigrants and the Social Security of the Baby Boomers). 18 million deaths a year are caused by structural violence compared with about 100,000 deaths per year from armed conflict. A hypothetical nuclear exchange between the U. S. and the U. S. S. R (232 million) cannot begin to compare with structural violence, which continues year after year. In other word, every fifteen years, on the average, as many people die because of relative poverty as would be killed in a nuclear war that caused 232 million deaths; and every single year, two to three times as many people die from poverty throughout the world as were killed by the Nazi genocide of the Jews. This is, in effect, the equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact accelerating, thermonuclear war, or genocide, perpetrated on the weak and poor every year of every decade, throughout the world. (5) The threat of illegal immigrants grows bigger the longer it is left untouched (As you suggested), if we were to follow through with your plan we would end up facing poverty and war. "THEY ARE HARD WORKERS, GREAT PROVIDERS FOR THEIR FAMILIES! MOST WHITE AND BLACK PEOPLE CAN'T SAY THE SAME THINGS ABOUT THEMSELVES HISPANICS TAKE THE SLACK FOR WHAT AMERICANS DON'T WANT. 50% OF AMERICANS START SOMETHING THAT 100% OF HIPANICS FINISH" Although I do agree that Hispanics are hard workers, I would like to inform you that the argument is on illegal immigrants. Although, I must remind you that illegal immigrants have taken nearly 10.5 million skilled jobs from American citizens; are you suggesting that these are unwanted jobs? Your argument on the United States' land previously being part of Mexico is irrelevant. You restate that the United States should discontinue (or never have started) their pursuit of deportation of illegal immigrants in which I must remind you of the massive amounts of debt they cause American citizens which could bring the United States' decline invariably. "I can't believe that this is happening, but I should because it is only the BIBLE fullfilling, everyone is growing weary, and becoming evil. .. ." On the above statement, I would like to introduce the amount of foreign aid America gives (much larger than most other countries) (6): The US being the wealthiest, strongest and most influential nation, it is worth seeing how their actions or inaction affect other nations. One notable area is US foreign aid. Being a major part of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and even helping to formulate the United Nations over 50 years ago, their actions can be felt around the world. The following statement is written on other country's foreign aid programs (6): Even though these targets and agendas have been set, year after year almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach their agreed obligations of the 0.7% target $100 billion. Whoops, i've run out of room! I'll cite in the commentary.