How does illegal immigration damage the U.S.?

David Brent

We're spending billions to subsidize all the social services for them. That money could be spent on many other things, our own citizens, for example. Illegal aliens are turning the country into a toilet.

burke23chris

drains our tax dollars
Allows criminals into our country with no screening process
Takes jobs from Americans
Lowers the wages

Do I need to continue?

tj3son

we are spending and using our resources to help people who aren't americans, illegals, who most of them dont want to be come a citizen. why so they don't have to pay taxes, why so can work and send all their money back home, not to be spent here in the usa. But then again why would you want to leave if you knew could live for free off the USA?

cadaholic

their costs to us. criminals, hospitals, foods, job eliminations, education, illegal activities. 1/3 of prisons are filled with illegals in the usa.

bmjv77

Your tax dollars go towards taking care of the needs of citizens of other countries. Also, most of the money made by these criminals is being sent outside of the country, so we are losing much in the process.

Humphrey B

Mexicans are going to USA health care facilities getting FREE care knowing that by law the hospital has to treat them. They walk out having received 10000's of dollars of care but pay nothing. The hospital in return charges those of us who're insured 10x's the normal amount to make up for their losses.

Mexicans take up housing, jobs, space on highways, use up gasoline, and worst of all they're overcrowding already overburdened/overcrowded public schools.

At the present rate the schools will burst at the seams one day here in a couple of years.

How many of these "industrious" mex's have served in the US Military for the rights and freedoms REAL Americans enjoy?

Think about it.......they know it's illegal yet they break the law and come into this USA anyway. Does that tell you something about their inner value system? 60MILLIONS illegals.

lordkelvin

You mean other than the Billions of dollars strain on our infrastructure? Or the reduction in wages caused by those willing to work for pay under the table? Or the dilution of our language, customs, and lifestyle? Gee... I can't think of a thing.

scottyurb

They are a tool that Big Business uses to keep wages down because they will accept lower wages to do work, as any wage they earn here is much more than they can make in their home Country.

The Social Services angle.

Goto LouDobbs website as he is the formal authority on the existing problems--You'll see the issues backed by figures there.

quarterback

Illegal immigrants make 1$ for every 3$ they take out of our social service programs.

They are destroying our country and are taking money out of the pockets of hard working people like me and sticking it into their pockets...

Oh well, I cannot wait for them to hold another parade so they can tell me how much I need them..
GO HOME MEXICO.....and don't come back until you bring something to the table..

Oh yeah....the liberal media isn't fooling anyone in America...we DONT NEED YOU....You take more than you give...and we are done letting you take!!!!!

mikea_va

They increase crime rates,
They make Americans pay more taxes, more health care costs and more insurance (since illegals don't pay them),
They steal jobs from Americans,
They bring down property values,
etc. etc. etc

bugeyes

Not to mention the fact that they play the race card every 5 seconds. I had to laugh at the signs the idiot illegals were holding telling the Minutemen to go home. They break the law and yell racist,then every other bleeding heart group comes running with band aids.

booboo

Do you mean besides the 100 Billion they cost us every year?

Norman V

It makes a mockery of our system,sneaking into our homeland, and then DEMANDING to get our rights ?

Not to mention the strain on our health care system.

The work we don't get because they take the jobs.

The increase in crime.

It goes on and on.

jurge06

Ask all the families who have family members killed by illegals.

Give Blood

The word illegal says it all. It shows that they do not wish to obey the laws of this nation. Who wants a bunch of criminals ti invade our country?

JessicaRabbit

Education system is in the toilet. Health care system is going under because the ERs have to care for them. They bring disease with them. The anchor babies get welfare. They sponge off the taxpayer. THEY DON'T PAY TAXES. More crime and gangs follow them here. They steal jobs and identities.

Is that enough?

Mary

I'm Puerto Rican so I'm an American and I see Illegal Immigration from another side. To me, they damage our image. People in US think that because we speak Spanish like them, we are also illegals when we come from a US territory! There's also Puertoricans with low education who think they are the same as illegals because they are treated the same way. I say, if illegals leave it would give us the opportunity to shine by ourselves and not by what others, that dont have anything to do with us do. So, besides all that has been said here, this is how I see they damage US.

wisemancumth

Most answeres you hear are wrong. Most of the cost of illegal immigration is either for the cost of enforcement, (guarding the boarders, finding, trying and deporting) or social service due to the fact they cant find a decent job BECAUSE they are illegal.

On the other hand, they do take jobs from some citizens. They fill up are prisons. In some places it has been found that half of the people in local prisons are illegal. Worst of all is the potential terrorist threat that has to be guarded against.

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one word ; 'InfluX'

Stormchaser

Those who enter illegally are creating havoc with American education, social services and depleting health care. Most have not been properly vaccinated and America is seeing diseases that had once been eradicated! Not to mention Identity theft that is robbing legitimate citizens of their money and sometimes causing innocent persons to be arrested after illegals have used their names to commit them. Stealing another persons identifying information causes them problems in obtaining services, loans, ruins their credit, education and most of all employment. It creates an entire underground not befitting legal citizens.

askthetoughquestions

When illegals have children in the U.S., those kids are U.S. citizens. If the parents have more love and respect for the country they left and less for the US, it confuses the kids. They are being torn between family and country, by their illegal family members and their legal birth country. Often illegal family members show overwhelming pride for their foreign birth country and protest the U.S., the Country they are currently living in??? Meanwhile the kids are legal citizens of the US, but lumped into the illegal crowd. Their ability to assimilate and advance in the US is hindered, first because their parents are illegals, second if their parents are more proud to be from another country, rather than supporting their kids who are from the U.S.
Societal and Financial costs/damages are growing and will continue to grow if the selfish attitudes of illegals continue to corrupt the minds of the children they have in the U.S.
If you know you shouldn't be here and don't like the way things are run here, Why did you come here? You are Free to leave. Love it or leave it... Illegals aren't loving the US and they aren't leaving the US.

Thanks, and stay involved.

Crabboy4

Immigration built the US into what it is today. Whether we decide to call them illegals or declare amnesty as we did in 1986, they will still contribute to our economy and population growth.

Moody Trojans !!!

It mostly pisses off white Americans. Working illegals do not cause damage.

Puerto Rican, the hate from white Americans has always been there. I am a Mexican-American that grew up in south Texas, I have seen it with my own eyes. I also know how they think. Right now they are just using illegals as another excuse.

mild_irritant

It doesn't.

They contribute far more in services and tax revenue than they use.

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