Illegals are there affecting your style of life?

linlyons

yes and no.
i expect many of the gardeners around here might fall into that category.
few if any are in our school.

it would appear that the dumber you are, the more they bother you.
they're not taking any rocket science jobs.
they are taking ditch digging jobs.
it would seem that you cannot keep up with them.
sorry.

loretta

yes, they are affecting my kids education. they can't speak English so more time has to be spent with them. all the while the American English speaking kids are suffering. can't speak English and wont learn then they need to leave, if they are illegal they need to leave.

Krasus

Go join the illegals if you so sympathize with them. Hell you probably ARE an illegal. Go back were came from and come back the legal way.

Pdaddy

They are definitly lowering my quality of life. I cant shop in my neighborhood any longer since the crowds and when you go into a store everything is on the floor now. I have been hit by uninsured drivers 3 times in the last 5 years, I drive an old car because of this. When I need to go to the imergancy room I have to drive 30 miles away if I dont want to sit for 2 to 3 hrs before being seen. My street is an open air market every weekend I live in a swapmeet. My nieghbors continualy blast mariachi music in my neighborhood. very few people speak english on my street. I cant park my car on the street because so many people live in each house the street is lined with cars. My nieghbor is stealing cable tv, I called and complained but nothing was done. My other neighbor was stealing electricity but he forgot to use a circuit breaker and took down 4 blocks of power for two days. 4 houses have burnded to the ground in the last 5 years, one had a garage full of illeagal fireworks, one had several people living in the garage and they lit a matress on fire and another burned from a faulty wiring job the owner had done without permits.

So yes my standard of living has been in decline for the last 10 years or so

H B

They affect my life in almost every category. They affect children from getting into college because the colleges are encouraging them with special programs that ordinary students are not able to obtain.
I do not like the crime they bring,the devaluation of neighborhoods,the drain on the services that citizens should have and not get because of them.
For all of the above reasons..I don't like them

Blue Steel & Lace

They are job security.
They negatively affect the quality of life in my city.
They are criminals, plain & simple.

FireBug

They are costing us lots. We have one (illegal) here that got stabbed by his buddy (another illegal). He ended up in the hospital with no insurance at the cost of $5,000 a day. Who pays for that? Not them. His buddy is in our jail. Who pays for that? Not them. BTW ~ his buddy was the drug dealer and he was the druggie. What's the cost to them? Nothing! I am decedent of immigrants (legal ones) and I hate that the illegals come here and do this and We are racist. No, if they like it here so much, they need to learn English ~ fly the AMERICAN flag (not the mexican one) ~ and pay their bills. I'm getting sick of them.

Rabid Frog

They slow our children down in school, our children that now must compete on a global playing field when they grow up. Money is needed to teach the children of illegals, special teachers, books, desks, food, special attention, medical attention, the list goes on and on and that is only in the area of education .

If you are in an area that has a large population of illegals drop into your local hospital and ask the emergency room (IF they still have one) the cost that they are absorbing due to illegals. Do some research.

Jim J

Bravo peanut bravo!!!!!!!
"keep in mind there taking jobs you Americans are too lazy to do"
This is a Brown educated person speaking? Nice grammar for a college edumacated man. It's "they are" or they're"
And us Americans aren't too lazy to do those jobs, we're just smart enough to not do them for $3 an hour.

â™¥ Mel

Because they are illegals and live off of our taxes.I lived among them for 10 years for goodness sake.The few jobs they had was drug smuggling.If they want to live here do it legally.Look at what would happen to you if you went to Mexico without permission.Really bad.If they do not like their country take it over and re make it.There are a heck of allot more peasants than nationals.They need to fight for their country and grow a spine.Stop having kids till they are free and can afford to their dollar not mine.

Mr_E

Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

pickme_american

If you came to this forum to make yourself look special,you failed,you did however make a special point to bring in the race card,whos paying you to do that? The pro-illegals that want you to vote for them? Or the Mexican government that wants to get rid of you?Or the corporations that want cheap labor? Doesent really matter to me,I do a job Americans wont do,I PAY FOR ILLEGALS TO GET FREE MEDICAL WHILE THEY BURN MY FLAG,I send my kids to war in Iraq while their own country is being invaded by terrorist,How long do you honestly think Americans will deal with your arrogance?And before you answer,remember I may be hispanic.

Linda L

Pdaddy, you must live in California.

I'm just going to ask the OP to live in Los Angeles for 3 months.

hayleylov

yes they are effecting our lives we pay taxes we pay car insurance our taxes pay for their schools and hospital stays , welfare etc etc , they get to play by a different set of rules like fake documents , not getting in line over people trying to come legal . and my sisters kid has a mangled leg because of illegals and no car insurance my son almost lost his house due to a illegal using his SS number . i also drove by a area my sister used to live a few years ago and i didn't even recognize this area it was like a tijuana ghetto and people yelling at you while you drive through. the school in that area is full of children that cant speak English so much so that school went year round no more summer vacation you walk in and everyone speaks spanish its crazy now the legal Americans still stuck in that area who send their children to that school say its a problem because most of their time is devoted to teaching these kids English and slowing down regular class time.

lonewolf1

They are job security,,,,,,,

papimoi

Right like when my kids finish college he is going to compete for that job as an engineer at Lockheed or NASA.With an illegal Fuc#ing Idi#ts.Bunch of redneck racist up in this column.

Ivan S

When shopping or doing laundry I am more combative!

Kitty G

aren't the people who abuse the government aide system like welfare, unemployment, etc. affecting us more. We pay a lot of taxes so scammers collect from the government. I know not all are scammers, but lets look at a lot of these people who could work, but just don't want to. At least "illegals" are trying to better themselves, but what are these scammers doing? Nothing but getting money, having tons of kids, and show no desire of improving their lives. I'd rather have my tax dollars help an illegal who strives than some loser who thinks s/he is owed money for nothing.

Nazrat

I'm not sure my IQ is higher than 50, but not long ago a few illegals kept me from being laid up with a torn up back by lifting my heavy furniture when i was moving with my super hot latina fiance. So, they have affected me, but also affected my chiropractor by me not having to go get my back worked on. Is that a bad thing? They didn't even complain and they just kept lifting, carrying, and were happy with the $20 i gave them.

xcongoneout

No that isn't what affects rotten kids. It's their "high cost of low living" for being addicted to Oxycontin (opiate prescription) for the Pansies that they are. That led them to get "cut off" by street OPIATE suppliers. For having been such wimps trying to play the gangster field. Now holding unto resentments! Especially since it is going to be dooms day for all who are dependent and barred.

Anyone ever seen the reality show Intervention?
How shocking huh to see so many middle class druggies these days?!

hotshot313

Legal or illegal, i don't care. They are here to seek an opportunity, there's nothing wrong with that. At least they are willing to work. Here in the U.S. there's opportunities around every corner. Those who sit on their butts and complain about these immigrants taking all their jobs are considered a pile of poop, lazy asses, I could go on all day. They are not willing to get up a look for jobs. You could at least go to school, get a degree and get a good job, who's going to stop you. How, well borrow money and pay them back once you get a job. Never say there's no more jobs. A strong country like the U.S. will always have jobs. And who ever said there's no more jobs, for example, look at the hospitals there are lacking nurses and doctors. Let me guess, the lazy asses are going to complain that it's too hard to become a doctor. Well look at the immigrants, especially the Asians, I'm not saying I like the Asians but look, they're doctors, engineers, lawyers, and they could barely speak English, they even open their own nail and hair salons for heavens sake, how did they achieve this goal, humm.. let me think, DETERMINATION and integrity. They don't sit around and collect a monthly welfare check from the government. Think twice before you talk and three times before you act.

Psi Chi member

They are not affecting me. I live and let live.

People need to relax and really think if who they are blaming (for whatever reason) is really to blame.

Kasey

I go to the farmers market twice a week. The illegals pick most of the fruit that I purchase there. So they are positively affecting my life in that way.

came

PLEASE I'M SICK AND TIRED OF LETTING ALL OF YOU KNOW THAT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HAVE OR CAN GET AN "ITN NUMBER" FOR THE TAX THING. YOU ARE THE ONES LIVING OF THE TAXES I PAY AND FOR WHICH I NEVER GET A RETURN..

polishmnmz

yeah yeah yeah bs...everyone who said they are affecting their kids education are misinformed bigots. I know a few illegal immigrants(not mexican either) and they speak english perfectly, and require no special attention in school. And if they take your child's spot in college, oh well I guess your child shouldve studied harder.

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