Illegal immigrants do not have a “right to work” in the United States
by Hugh Holub on Aug. 13, 2011, under border issues, immigration law reform, politics
The immigration debate is tainted by a sense of entitlement from illegal aliens that they have some kind of right to illegally cross our border and work in the United States.
Having talked to many illegal immigrants over the years several arguments are made for why they crossed illegally into the US:
The primary argument is that there is no work or opportunity for them where they live, and in order to feed their families they must go “al norte”.
The second and related argument is there is “trabajo”…work…waiting for them in the US.
The third and more recent vintage argument is it is so difficult to cross and it costs so much in coyote fees that the initial illegal immigrant can’t go back and forth, and thus the family must join him or her in the US. That’s why we’ve seen a significant increase in woman and children crossing illegally in recent years.
All of these arguments are true as far as they go.
But they leave out some significant issues which Americans are responding to legitimately and with increasing anger.
On the first justification, the driver behind illegal immigration is the failure of Mexico’s economy (and other countries) to provide enough good job opportunities so folks can stay in their home countries and feed their families.
While the US may have some indirect responsibility for the failure of economies like Mexico to be able to absorb its own work force (NAFTA’s agricultural impact on Mexican subsistence farmers) the bottom line is it is not the United States of America’s responsibility to solve the unemployment problem in Mexico or anywhere else.
It is the failure of Mexico to create a vibrant economy that can fully employ its own people. Mexico is pushing people out of its country rather than solve its own problems.
Rather than directly address that problem, Mexico has been exporting that problem to the United States for decades. This is a relief valve for Mexico because if millions of poor Mexicans were stuck inside their country, they might have another revolution.
The point from our side of the border is we have no duty or responsibility to solve the problems of Mexicans or immigrants from any other country that can’t get good paying work feed their families at home. We certainly have enough problems inside our country creating jobs for our own people.
Where I believe a lot of the anger against illegal aliens comes from is this “entitlement” attitude of the immigrants that since they have problems in their own country, they can leave, illegally enter our country, and expect to have their problem solved at our expense.
The second justificati0on…that there are jobs waiting for the illegal immigrants…has been true for decades. They wouldn’t come to solve their own personal financial problems if there was not a solution waiting for them on our side of the border.
That is the “pull” side of the equation.
And, like it or not, there are a lot of jobs like farm work that American citizens will not do in sufficient numbers to keep our agribusiness functioning to capacity.
This creates a serious opportunity to exploit illegal immigrants because they have no rights like an American worker to things like a minimum wage or safe working conditions.
American businesses that hire illegal aliens benefit hugely from the cheap and unprotected labor pool.
If the illegal alien workers complain about working 12 hours a day 7 days a week, guess who calls ICE to have the troublesome workers deported?
We have a nasty form of slavery going on in the US…I call it “rent a slave”.
The third element is the effectiveness of securing our border which has made illegal entry more difficult and expensive.
The mistake in US border policy was to assume if the easy illegal entry points in border cities were choked off, the illegal immigrants would not risk their lives trying to cross through our harsh deserts and rugged mountains.
Wrong.
The economic pressures the illegal immigrants face create a desperation that does not dissuade them from trying anyway. And the real fact is if they are determined enough, they will succeed eventually. How else do you think we accumulated 5 or 6 million illegal aliens who illegally crossed out border?
Because of the increased difficulty to illegally cross and the higher coyote fees, the historic back-and-forth migration of workers changed, and now the families are moving north. At $2,000 a person, ultimately it is cheaper to import the rest of the family than go back and forth from work to home in Mexico. So our border security effort has had the counter effect of increasing the permanent resident population of illegal aliens from the south.
But that doesn’t giove the first illegal immigrant thr right to import his family to the US.
So what do we do?
On the first issue the illegal immigrants really need to lose that sense of entitlement that they can break our laws because of their personal needs.
They in effect saying “screw US sovereignty” by illegally crossing.
The “open borders” advocates agree with that entitlement claim and argue that for some reason in spite of our being a sovereign nation the folks living outside our border have some kind of “right” to come here because historically this was once part of Mexico, or because we have a land border, or whatever.
Americans are not buying the right to illegally enter our country.
Interesting Hispanic American especially don’t agree with the “open borders” advocates because all this is doing is devaluing the people who played by the rules and came here legally.
One of these days the Repuiblican Party will figure out that instead of voices like Russell Pearce or Joe Arpaio ranting about illegal aliens, this needs to be turned into a public safety issue for legal Hispanic residents of the country whose quality of life is degraded by illegal aliens.
It is not a race issue. It is who plays by the rules and who does not issue.
The voice for cracking down on illegal entry and securing our border should come from Hispanic Republicans. And I believe it will.
We’re getting our backs up because this is an invasion and we absolutely have the sovereign right to decide who can enter our country and on what terms and conditions.
Until and unless both the illegal immigrant community and their allies in the US understand that there is absolutely no right to illegally enter our country because it serves the illegal immigrants’ goals, the debate about immigration reform will remain stuck.
That is one of the core issues of the “no amnesty” position many take in the US.
If you broke our laws by illegally entering our country, that’s one big strike against you to gain some kind of right to stay.
That’s why all immigration reform proposals have elements of existing illegal immigrants having to admit to the crime of illegal entry, pay a fine, go to the back of the line, etc. before gaining legal status.
Interestingly I do not see immigrant rights groups accepting that the first step to legalize anyone is going to have to be a punitive element.
And we absolutely have the right to deport every single on of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country now.
Our problem is this is enormously expensive and impractical.
But to the degree that illegal aliens soak up welfare benefits, create costs for local governments, and fuel a crime wave in Hispanic neighborhoods, it may be just a question of time before some illegal alien commits an outrageous enough crime to push the country over the edge.
SB 1070 was fueled by the death of Douglas rancher Bob Krentz, and the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry south of Tucson by an illegal alien has just added fuel to the fire to seal our border and deport the illegal aliens already here.
Immigrant rights advocates need to understand and appreciate that we must gain control and secure our border and stop the flow of illegal aliens and drug smuggling criminal aliens into the US. Period.
We must be able to decide who can come in and who cannot.
Right now illegal alien criminals have just as much opportunity to get into the US and wreak havoc on us and especially Hispanic communities as illegal workers. We can’t sort them out. Maybe the solution is throw them all out.
But first we must stop the flow before getting to the rest of the issues.
Until immigrant rights advocates accept securing the border to the maximum extent we’re not going anywhere.
Maybe we’re not talking about moats and alligators but we sure as hell are talking about opening up federal lands next to the border to secure it and not put protecting lizards ahead of securing our border.
A message to immigrant rights advocates…the environmentalists who oppose securing the border to protect the lizards are your worst enemy because if we cannot fully secure our border, there is nothing to talk about regarding immigration reform.
Turning to the next issue…the job magnet drawing illegal immigrants: Arizona did the right thing in cracking down on employers and the US Supreme Court said we can do this.
The more we can impose penalties on hiring illegal alien workers the better.
Sure the farmers in California and elsewhere will have a problem in the near term…all the more reason to support getting access to the border on federal lands to shut down the flow of illegal aliens and then work up some kind of guest worker visa program that will be effective.
The farmers dependent on illegal aliens need to support the efforts to secure our border. Not whine about how many peaches are going to rot this season because there aren’t enough workers on their farms. Not whine about E-Verify without putting a better alternative onb the table.
We get to another dimension of the problem…the US government has no credibility in being able to sort out the 11 million illegal aliens already inside the country to decide who gets legal status and who gets “removed”.
The 1986 “amnesty” was an “amnesty” because a huge percentage of the applicants for legal status used fraudulent paper to get in, and the US government knowingly looked the other way.
That’s why I have suggested the processing of illegal aliens be delegated to the states and funded from fees charged to illegal alien applicants for legal status. The states will do a lot better job than the feds will.
Finally, we do need a guest worker visa program to allow unskilled labor into the country…provided that labor pool does not gain resident of citizenship opportunity status as a result. Come here and work and go home.
Labor unions have been a big obstacle in creating a guest worker visa program.
Somehow they think if they can cut off the immigrant worker supply, they will protect their union members. That is what comes out the back end of a horse.
Labor unions need to get out of the way and concentrate on their own problems which are numerous and resulting in the decline of the labor movement in this country.
Again we have a massive administration issue with a guest worker visa program. Remember INS “lost” 5 or 6 million legal entrants who overstayed their visas.
Allowing workers to come in on worker visas just exacerbates the problem if no one can keep track of them and make sure they went home after their work visa expired.
I have yet to see a serious proposal that addresses the failure of the federal government to manage its existing visa program and propose an alternative that will work, without costing us taxpayers any more money.
Those who need immigrant workers really need to dig into this issue and come up with a program…I suggest administered again by states…that will make sure only non-criminal aliens get work visas and that they go home when their visas expire.
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An immigrant’s story …my family comes to America
Migrants or mules? by Katie Micik….from The Progressive Farmer
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Where is the border with Mexico? At the official border or 100 miles inland?
Recycling illegal aliens so they can commit more crimes in the United States
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Cybercoyotes guiding illegal aliens around the Border Patrol with cell phones
An open letter to Obama about the border
Legalizing 11 million illegal aliens does not mean 11 million Democrat votes
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August 13th, 2011 on 11:21 am
Hugh, all you did was rejurgitate the same talking points and rhectoric for comprehension immigration reform, a.k.a. amnesty. You, like all the bleeding heart liberals and the unpatriotic business community, are still struck on some sort amnesty to solve the plm.
Let me teach you how a “real American” sees the issues. First, we look at our country for the last 10 to 20 years and recognize the influence factors that are degrading our life, culture and heritage. We look at our landscape and recognize a growing population that are not our own, but a foreign culture that doesn’t embrace what it means to be an American.
That is when our patriotism rise to an all-time high, you understand? We don’t sit back like the likes of you and irresponsibly give in to the demand of a foreign population that doesn’t respect our country good enough to be American citizens, especially considering their entitlement-state-of-mind.
True Americans are not going to “half-heart” any solutions to keep our country the way it should be. If every illegal alien must leave then so be it: every illegal alien must leave.
One thing we don’t do is have this, passive-thinking that all is lost and doom therfore we have to cede some things the opposition wants. That’s YOU and the liberals. That’s not me and my fellow patriotic Americans.
Go sit down and learn what that means, sir.
August 15th, 2011 on 6:23 am
With a few word changes here and there, this could be straight out of 1930′s Germany. Extreme nationalism and scapegoating all wrapped up in the flag.
The precursor to the “Final Solution” was an effort to deport the Jews of Germany. You and your friends will deny this, but you are only a few radio talk shows away from fascsim.
August 15th, 2011 on 3:44 pm
Ah, good ol’ laughably ridiculous poster “leftfield.” The human personification of Godwin’s Law. If there’s a comment against illegal immigration that doesn’t immediately send him screaming “Holocaust” or “fascism” or “1930′s Germany,” like Chicken Little, folks, we haven’t seen it!
August 22nd, 2011 on 9:59 am
He does the same on one of Hughs other articles. Calls Americans Nazi’s and now KKK members. The one who still loves Trotsky and Lenin and Stalin et al. Just because we dont want illegal Mexicans.
August 22nd, 2011 on 10:28 am
Not a big fan of Joe Stalin, fraser.
Anyway, as a student of history you should be aware that Adolf started out with a plan to deport the jews of Germany before he got around to killing them. He also spent a lot of time and energy trying to convince people that the jews were responsible for all of Germany’s ills – crime, cultural degradation, the collapse of the German economy, spending on social services, etc. Sound familiar? It should.
So, I compare the nativists to the Nazi’s of the 30′s and I think the shoe fits. You probably think you will stop the persecution if you can deport 12 million or so people, but realistically you can’t. So, if you ratchet up the hatred a notch or two and eliminate those who would stand in your way, I could see armed vigilantes having their own little “Crystal Night” right here in the old US of A.
August 22nd, 2011 on 10:36 am
“…Godwin’s Law”
I have my own little law; one that came to me through another poster on this site. It’s called “The Law of the Conservation of Bigotry”. Based on the laws of Thermodynamics, the Law of the Conservation of Bigotry states that bigotry is neither created nor destroyed, only the target of the bigotry changes.
August 22nd, 2011 on 11:05 am
You’re doing a bang up job demonstrating that law in action.
August 22nd, 2011 on 9:45 am
Oh wow. Can’t even believe you went there. That is a big stretch. Drop your white guilt and read way more. The folks are here because things are bad in their country. They cross into this country illegally, stepping on all of the heads of the good folks trying to get in here legally, of which there are many ways. Exploit the hell out of that system until it gets shut down. Do not illegally come over here, no matter what nationality you are. What would you expect to happen if you were to illegally cross over Mexico if the Federales didn’t accept your initial bribe and the local drug lord didn’t want to pack your rear cavity with drugs to mule or your parents couldn’t wire the ransom money for your kidnapped behind? It would suck because you would be stuck there without the internet and Netflix to keep you busy with marrying houseplants and eating free range dirt and running your car on obese america’s heart grease. Sound crazy? So is comparing sending illegal immigrants back to their countries of origin to lining them up for gassing. Godwintrollroflcopterwambulancestrawmancopypastameme.
August 13th, 2011 on 12:08 pm
Building the fence. Not sure this would really work as these illegal aliens do climb the fence and it would be very costly to complete the fence, especially now that we are broke.
I do believe a very stiff fine for entering this country illegally should be passed. How about a $2,500 fine and one year in Federal prison? Once this law was passed, give the illegal aliens in this country 30 days to leave this country or face the same fine. Maybe we could save a lot of money on the fence, which is not working all that well. It’s is time to crack down on these illegal aliens. Look at all the anchor babies (illegal children) that are born in this country and are given a U.S. birth certificate like it was candy…and we pay for this! The illegal aliens who do not have our jobs are using this country as a welfare country. Let’s put an end to this insanity and get these illegal aliens back to their own country where they belong.
Illegal immigration is a cancer, it has to be eradicated not tolerated.
August 13th, 2011 on 12:59 pm
My impression of the author’s analysis is two-fold:
1) It is a reasonably accurate “snapshot” of the problem
2) It is baloney, wishful thinking, a Polyanna point of view, and brushes over the real problem – capitalistic greed to the degree of bone cancer
First, the statement “ The voice for cracking down on illegal entry and securing our border should come from Hispanic Republicans. And I believe it will”.
Well in fact, it already has. Look at New Mexico Republican governor Susana Martinez, battling the NM Democrat-controlled state legislature to end driver’s licenses for illegal aliens – the Hispanic-leaning members defeated her. Look at Colorado Republican state representative Robert Ramirez, who was the deciding vote DEFEATING the Colorado Dream Act. Mr. Ramirez was blasted by emails and phone calls castrating him for not “voting Mexican” – as he actually told the press.
Look at Mexico’s point man Arizona dist 7 congressman Raul Grijalva, who called for a boycott of HIS OWN STATE over SB 1070. This push cart vendor should have been easily defeated in 2010, but because his district is majority Mexican, he squeaked out re-election.
Look at Senate majority leader Harry Reid. All reports indicated that he was toast, but after pledging the passage of amnesty before the 2010 election, published reports told of a Hispanic surge at the polls and he squeaked out re-election.
The concept that Mexicans will be the voice that stops illegal immigration is absurd. The majority (60-70%) of Mexicans who vote vote Mexican. (Prop 200, 2004, 40% in favor, 60% opposed)
There are numerous visa and guest worker programs already in place which have worked as desired in the past. But it’s a new day, and as the author points out, a sense of “entitlement.” Mexican workers no longer come here with a visa or green card, work and earn money, and then go home. They now stay, flop in on American relatives, and wait for some dirtbag to declare AMNESTY by proclamation – for a cornucopa of free-ride benefits. We have George W. Filth to thank for that.
The author’s argument that they stay because of difficulty crossing the border is horse hockey. If you have a visa or green card – what the hell is the problem crossing back over the border?
And finally, the greed factor. As long as business can make windfall profits from CHEAP LABOR and CHEAP CONSUMERS, public office holders will be the “girlfriend” of business organizations like the criminals and traitors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This means double talk, stalling, lip service, and 100 lawsuits per day will continue until my granddaughter draws here Social Security.
It is no coincidence that the nine Republican criminals in the Arizona state senate (Nancy Barto, Rich Crandall, Adam Driggs, Linda Gray, John McComish, John Nelson, Michele Reagan, Steve Pierce, and Steve Yarbrough) killed 5 illegal immigration bills AFTER receiving a manifesto from the filth at the Arizona Chamber of Commerce (including Cindy McCain) that demanded they stand down. Want proof that it WAS the manifesto that triggered the slimeballs to kill these bills? Before it was received – ALL 5 BILLS HAD PASSED THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
My solution: take down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it’s country-wide affilitates, and the pro-illegal (we suck our advertisers) media – by ANY means possible! THEY ARE THE POISON IN POLITICS that created MFs like George W. Filth and John McCain.
Until the junkie lies stiff in rigamortis, public office holders will be bought and sold like $2 Van Buren street whores. We’ll vote them out, and wait for the next round of corruptees. This is the circle of criminality that has exploded the illegal alien population in America, and this is why they are marching in our streets, flashing their rear ends, and flipping off our sovereignty as a big joke. KILL THE BEA$$$T!
August 13th, 2011 on 1:20 pm
Americans do not have the right to sell weapons bound for mexico. Arizonan do not have the right to violate the Constitution.
August 14th, 2011 on 1:06 pm
Pointing at one wrong to excuse another is the act of a 5 year old..you Fail Rudy,now get beck to Mexico!!
August 13th, 2011 on 1:53 pm
There are 25 million Americans looking for work. Farmers can’t find their workers they need from among those 25 millions Americans? Mexicans need to stand up and have the courage to fight and change THEIR country – so they can have a Mexican Dream in MEXICO.
August 13th, 2011 on 2:20 pm
Yawn, same old scripted talking points. To address the title though – American citizens don’t have a right to work either so what’s your point?
August 13th, 2011 on 6:14 pm
Immediately stop all funding to Mexico and all the countries who send their people for us to take care of. They are called “illegal” for a reason. They.Do.Not.Belong.Here!
Stop all benefits at once, eliminate birthright citizenship, make E-verify madatory for all businesses. They will self deport. Bring our military home for these useless wars (they will be stll fighting long after we’re gone), and put them on the border. Then, tell Mexico to go to h—!
August 13th, 2011 on 7:56 pm
“But to the degree that illegal aliens soak up welfare benefits, create costs for local governments, and fuel a crime wave in Hispanic neighborhoods, it may be just a question of time before some illegal alien commits an outrageous enough crime to push the country over the edge.”
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the writer’s meaning, but just how do “illegal aliens” soak up welfare benefits? Anyone who has applied for welfare in the last several years knows very well (I work in that system and I know what I’m talking about) has to have documents proving they are US citizens before they can even apply for benefits.
August 13th, 2011 on 8:42 pm
Can or can not illegal parents with anchor babies get nutrition assistance? The Supreme Court mandates free healthcare (AHCCCS) for ALL of them. Illegal aliens file state tax returns (mostly with zero withholding) and the AZDOR is (or was) sending them refunds via the Arizona Family Tax Credit. If they have 2 or 38 kids, rack up $10,000 per pop per year in K-12 education – yes I know isn’t this ”welfare”, just taxpayer dollars. (Can you deny benefits to someone who DOES qualify, but has an illegal mother, father, sister, brother, niece, nephew, etc., in the household?)
Anyway, for ALL of this, they pay sales tax on the money they spend, not including what they send back to Mexico. I’d say the “soaking” part refers to citizens and legal residents providing the funding.
August 14th, 2011 on 3:19 am
baby U.S. citizen has this proof.
August 13th, 2011 on 9:53 pm
I do believe the xenophobes truly are destined for them premature cardiac arrests worrying about things which have no solutions, in 1930′s a very famous president rounded up millions of brown skinned folks, most illegal but many legally here in fact some native born citizens who just happened to have browns skin and no papers on them at the time they were rounded up, put on trains and shipped south, but the joke then was by lunch time most were back across the border! In 1980′s the darling of the right wing Reagan gave millions amnesty, claiming it would fix the issue, guess he is rolling in his grave to have been proven wrong! You folks with them skin tone issues keep on worrying yourselves into them early graves, I for one will not worry about issues that do not affect my life in one single way, someone picking lettuce, working at minimum wage fast food jobs, land scaping don’t intimidate me, worry me one bit!:-)
August 13th, 2011 on 11:13 pm
I would imagine your biggest worry in life is that people will smell your flatuents – when you speak.
August 13th, 2011 on 11:13 pm
There’s so much wrong with that, I’m going to just ignore it.
August 14th, 2011 on 1:11 pm
What a retard..RH there are families that need those low pay jobs as second jobs for other family members to make house payments,or feed their children.So dont worry your little head about the issue.America WILL deport Illegals everyday you take a breath,and nothing you say will stop it!
August 13th, 2011 on 11:16 pm
Good points Hugh, although a real American President could allow access to border regions on national security grounds by executive order. Good luck finding one of those these days.
August 14th, 2011 on 5:40 am
Hugh,
You have illustrated the many angles to this issue exceptionally well. Many of the detractors who commented here either did not carefully read what you actually said or are blinded by their own unwillingness to try to understand any analysis that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker or within their own inflexible, narrow minded viewpoints on either side.
Your comments about honest, hard working Hispanics here legally feeling indignant about being lumped together socially in people’s minds with the MS-13 types and illegal aliens who live here specifically for the welfare benefits reminds me of a couple decades ago when I was installing and managing water vending kiosks in Tucson. One morning I arrived to find graffiti painted all over a new one close to a busy intersection in an older, nearly 100% Hispanic neighborhood. I remember that several of the neighbors walking by each stopped to vent their anger that this crime gave a black eye to the reputation of the entire neighborhood.
I’m personally of the persuasion that there’s at least enough voter fraud in Pima County to tip a close election regardless of how the majority of legal Hispanics vote. That is a key issue that needs to be fixed before we can have a secure border or any kind of beneficial immigration reform.
Another issue this country seriously needs to crack down on is importing and trafficking of young women and children for sex slavery and other slavery within the USA. The mainstream news media doesn’t make nearly enough effort to expose it. I encourage Christians to remember these slaves in their prayers.
August 14th, 2011 on 9:36 am
The illegal alien invasion cannot be justfied or equivocated on any basis. Illegal aliens must be deported immediately once identified. They are sneaky! The orginal U.S. Law Title 8.0 USC, was designed to protect American citizens. It must be enforced vigorously! Any country who permits illegal aliens to enter the United States should have all funds and U.S. aid cut off. United States citizens and their security and welfare is first and fundamental.
August 14th, 2011 on 6:42 pm
American citizens own the USA and their economic engine. The US Fed and participating foreign powers (where their illegal aliens come from) have yet to pay the owners (American citizens) for illegal use of the land.
Per tort law American citizens did not break the law and are not at fault and should not pay any and all of those costs related to illegal aliens. Per tort law illegal aliens and their foreign power are at fault and should pay all costs related to illegal aliens.
August 14th, 2011 on 7:49 pm
xenophobes with potty mouths, angry at the world, worried some poverty stricken illegal is stealing some work from them? I doubt anyone is too worried about them burger king, mcdonalds, taco bell, land scaping, lettece picking jobs on this site, obviously your either retired as I am, or unemployed or under employed since before I retired I had no time for such trivia as reading and posting comments on line, I worked 12 to 16 hour days and sleep and dinner called me as my priority!:-) Now if one is working and spending time on the net they are a slacker at work, since am sure them employers are not paying them to troll the net and vent their anger at the woes of america and society!:-) I do love the vulgar, innuendo crowd, they tend to vent their true intellect when faced with comments they have no capicity to comprehend or simply it flys over their heads! I am reminded of a old child hood saying about the childish name calling folks one always see in this world, “sticks and stones might break my bones, bullets might kill me {added this one as a adult}, but words will never hurt m! So for all you angry right wing snake oil drinking addicts, its no skin off my nose what you believe, and I surely am not going to get fat off what you eat!:-)
August 14th, 2011 on 7:54 pm
In 1930′s a massive round up ordered by a US president did nothing to solve this ever lasting issue, in 1980′s a right wing darling, icon gave amnesty to millions swearing it would solve the problem! Now here it is 81 years later, and we still have the thing every nation has illegal border crossers, no country solves this issue, as authoritarian as china is they have their starving, poverty stricken illegals comng from North Korea! Any half wit knows one can beat ones head against a brick wall and the brick wall will not feel a thing! I do love the xenophobes, I still say they are premature cardiac arrests merely looking for a time and place to occur! I intelligent, wise person knows not all lifes woes have solutions, and to think other wise is truly living in delusions of grandeur!
August 14th, 2011 on 10:28 pm
everybody is so ignorant i dont see why we keep say saying immigrants are taking are jobs?? hellooo obviosly they work in the jobs we dont wanna do their not gonna be working at a good paying job all they want is a better life they come here and waste thousands of money just so they can be legal kids who go to college pay three times more than us but they still pay and work on watever something we dont! when have u seen a white person working at a farm?? umm never! so stop bitching cuz they do more than us cuz we are so damn lazy unlike them. why dont u guys talk about ur ancestors who were immigrants they were the same thing came here illegally.
August 16th, 2011 on 3:45 pm
People may have a legitimate reason for crossing the border, and just because they do, that doesn’t mean that they have a right to work as illegal aliens. However, the effort should be to curb the companies that hire these illegals because 1) they are braking the law 2) they are creating a burden on other taxpayers and employers 3) they are enjoying all the benefits and none of the responsibilities. If you know of an illegal or the company that hires them, report them. Go to this website for more information: reportanillegalalien . com.