What harm are the illegals to this country? Why should we deport them? Is it fair?

Jeremy E

I agree with what you're saying. We are a nation, above everything else, of laws, and the people in this country must abide by them.

That said, when our nation creates laws and fails to enforce them, that is just as much a failure of the concept of law as a violation is. Our failure to enforce immigration laws has created our problem. If we had been punishing (deporting) illegal immigrants all of this time, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in. We have to look inside to see the problem, and to truly see what we can do about it.

McCain '08â„¢

i completely agree.

hardwoodrods

Bravo, I am humbled in your mere presence.

John P

From an email I received. I even ran it through the spell checker and no mistakes.

HARSH YOU SAY?

There will be no special bilingual programs
in the schools, no special ballots for elections,
all government business will be conducted
in our language.

Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote
no matter how long they are here.

Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold
political office.

Foreigners will not be a burden to the
taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps,
no health care, or any government
assistance programs.

Foreigners can invest in this country,
but it must be an amount equal to
40,000 times the daily minimum
wage.

If foreigners do come and want to buy
land that will be okay, BUT options will
be restricted.
You are not allowed waterfront property.
That is reserved for citizens naturally
born into this country.

Foreigners may not protest; no
demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag,
no political organizing, no bad-mouthing
our president or his policies, if you do you
will be sent home.

If you do come to this country illegally,
you will be hunted down and sent straight
to jail.
Harsh, you say?

These are the immigration laws of
" MEXICO."

susi

(clapping ceases...) Please send this exact post to every op-ed of every major newspaper in this country NOW! You color the situation perfectly, you offer up sane alternatives and you're so-o-o right on with this!!!!!!!

lonewolf1

Bag em, and tag em,,,,and deport em,,,,,,,,also right before deporting them, implant a chip that whenever they get close to our border,,we get a signal,,,,

cyclops

I need to buy a Hammer, you drove the point Home.

Hillary J

The raid on Swift Eckrich plants proves that Americans will take the same jobs as the illegals, we just expect to be properly compensated for it. The NEXT day after the raid there was a line down the block with Americans who wanted those very jobs that just opened up. People just want to be able to take care of their families and are willing to do what is necessary to do it.

Illegals do take jobs from Americans who want them, they are a drain on our economy and do monopolize the prison population as well as commit a large number of violent crimes. However illegal immigration is down as the Border Patrol is beefing up it's ranks. We do need to remember that they are human beings as well, so they must be treated with compassion, but they should not be allowed to stay.

SeÃ¡n_18

Illegals should also be branded before they are deported back to their third world hellholes.

What a pain this problem is. Kick their asses out.

cj_sez

We should deport all illegals...actually we should NEVER have let them in.
It is FAIR to preserve our heritage and defend our flag from desecration by illegals/protestors.
It is FAIR to apply punitive measures to illegals, just as they are applied to any other group of LAWBREAKERS.
It is FAIR to demand a secure border.
It is NOT FAIR for our Senate to even contemplate any sort of reward for illegals.
Wish I could give 5 stars to this question.

chuck_junior

Agree 100%.
Well said.

Micky

Bravo!

Anne

no amnesty

dan m

We need to kick that monkey face bush the hell out of here.We need to deport him back to Mexico.

c00kies

Cyclops: Home Depot has hammers for sale...or did you mean Hummer?

jen.

Honestly i see it as if the americans want the immirgrants out, then they should stop importing products from china that are usuallly made by immirgrants who come to live here to stop making it since they get bad only cents. then they should also stop importing gas because it's not ours. i honeslty think if american wants all the illegal immirgrants out then they should stop buying products out of the united states and start making their own stuff then we will see how many hands will go up to bring them back.....

wickedlooks

2 things wrong with your theory: 1.Use welfare recipients to work the jobs.Several things wrong with this.One is there are jobs that people on welfare could get but some choose not to work them obviously or they wouldn't be on welfare.When one of my daughters whined to me there weren't any jobs in our area I did my own checking and applied to several places.Blew her butt away when I got called back on 4 of 5 applications.I didn't list any of my degrees other than a High School diploma.The jobs are there they are just choosy.Like they think it's below them or something.Gimme a break.Teens today too have a very poor work ethic I won't even start on that one.I'm a mother of teens.
2, Tanks? I hope you're joking.Most of these are unarmed women and children.How barbaric.Do I think we need better borders?Yes but not killing unarmed PEOPLE.

Pepe

yes i agree with you that we need to stop illegal immigration but we have to treat everyone like HUMAN BEINGS NOT ANIMALS where you can have tanks blow them up like you are implying that also MOST ILLEGALS DO PAY TAXES and never get anything back that is what most people dont get but besides that yes we have to find a way to prevent future problems like this

ricmon87

how is someone being 'illegal" even close to harming you. they don't. you only hate the fact that they did something illegal. what about all those Americans sitting in prision for doing far worse crimes like murder, rapes, those are the real criminals in this country. Hate them.

Bellatres

No. Illegal were all immigrants from other countries and to state that people on welfare would pick crop or work for under minimum wage your crazy. And if you would do it you wouldn't work for $4.00 hour plus the government would'nt allow you to and would require the employer to pay you the minimum wage which would mean you would pay $10.00 per lb instead of $3.00

stop being ignorant. its the Employers who need to stop employing immigrants - which would NEVER happen.

Petey

JC can I guarantee that you dont have a source for you information?

Nike_dude we dont need radical islamists to fight over there when we have you around

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