Why is illegal immigration such a hot issue now when people have been crossing the border illegally for the?

Daisy

Illegal immigrants, themselves, brought this issue to the forefront when they marched and protested and demanded rights and waved their flags in our streets last May. THEY BROUGHT THEMSELVES to the attention of the citizens of the USA! Suddenly, people started noticing the closure of hospitals due to being inundated with illegal immigrants who do NOT pay for their medical treatment. Suddenly, people started looking around and seeing the devastation of their towns and neighbourhoods with illegal immigrants over-housing residences and overburdening schools and causing the education of their own children to be degraded and their neighborhoods to become unsafe and squalid due to over-housing - 10 or more people in a residence meant for a family of 4? This causes safety hazards for purposes of fire and overburdens the sewer systems, garbage removal, parking on the streets, and lowers the property values of the homes in the neighborhoods, etc. Suddenly, people realized that the reason they weren't able to find work in occupations they used to be able to earn a decent living in, such as construction and manufacturing, etc. was because of illegal immigrants who were willing to work for far less and usually "under the table" for cash, which illegal immigrants are willing to do because then they don't pay taxes on their income. An American cannot work for that cheap, because they DO have to pay income taxes!

This is a hot issue right now because of the huge number of illegal immigrants in the country now and the fact that they are pouring in at greater and greater numbers daily. Previously, mostly only border states and towns were more aware of the illegal immigrants, but now they are starting to move further north and more and more states and towns are finding themselves negatively affected to a level that they can no longer turn a blind eye to it. Illegal immigration is DEVASTATING our great country and the time has come to put a stop to it, however we have to do it. The citizens of the USA have had ENOUGH and are no longer able to support the poorest of the poor from all the other countries of the world because we are needing to look after our own poor, first.

Stâ™¥rmy Skye

The government should have followed their law all of these years, and we would not be in this mess.

Studbolt Slickrock

Finally reached critical mass; border state issue spread to middle-america.

andy

ask the American govt. they are the ones who woke America up on this. they are tired of the illegals. if they was not they would of not started it. it's about time we did something.

jake

We have had it with the law breaking illegal immigrants. They have no respect for our laws, going as far as to call them out dated, or even silly. They think they can march in our streets ( that is what woke up most of us ). They wave the Mexican flag on tv for the whole country to see. They are crossing our border at a rate of 2880 per 24 hours. They even get on tv, and say, we are here, we are not going to stop coming, and you can not do anything about it. They come here, popping out baby after baby, like candy from a Pez dispenser. And then want to know, why are we mad.

angelinamaddox3

because now they are crossing over in record numbers. If it were just one or two a year, then no one would care much, but its one or two every ten minutes or some crazy number like that. So that is why. But thankfully a wall stretching the whole southern border will dramatically lower that number. And then when we are allowed to take our guns down there and protect our borders, that will end it once and for all.

dakota29575

Actually until I moved to Mn. I was never effected in a bad way, I may have known illegals before and didn't know they were illegal.
In S.C. I new a lot of immigrants and they were very respectful, prided themselves on learning our language and worked harder then anyone I knew. Since moving here, I have to pay extra high emergency room bills to off set the illegals that gave false info and never paid their bill. The illegals are the most disrespectful and violent of our community, they usually only work in the spring and summer and get welfare and food stamps in the winter illegally. Mn. Dems love illegals some families are given $10,000 to buy homes. So maybe I am late, but I have a legitimate gripe.

Christina

because there are too many of them here now.

americansrule4ever

I have ALWAYS been sick of illegals, but it is out of hand. Time to take control!!!

Ethan

well these days the flow of the illegals is getting out of control.

tylergrl

It's gotten ridiculous now. How many must we support before we say enough is enough... Don't you get it, or are you just some kid who still gets child support from a parent & don't know the meaning of paying someone elses way???

Josh

politics

Corey C

because there has been a spike in the amount of aliens crossing the boarder......and because they have practically taken over california......

gokart121

Study your demographics. How many people were there in the world in 1960? 1970? Today? How many in america? Study and read about trends etc. The facts are out there, avail yourself of them...

wellarmedlamb

Somebody left the flood gates open. It has been an issue in border states for some time. It's about time somebody is finally paying attention. I thought Bush would never do anything about it. That was one of the key things I disagreed with.

Now all of the sudden people well away from the border are paying attention and wondering what happened. Hello? Where have you been?

pincushion

it's become such an issue recently because of the amount that have come in illegally. with more companies leaveing the country makeing there less jobs to be had. more illegal immigrants(any origin) come in get their fake documents allowing them to get jobs and that makes it harder for national citizens to find work. there is more compitition now in the job market even for menial jobs that it pushes the immagration issue farther to the front.

Chaoi

Because the government wants to act like it is doing something right and draw attention away from the war. The immigration issue, although I do believe it should be solved and the sooner the better, was brought in as a red herring. This issue is being used as a scapegoat for all of the problems in this country.

ALWAYS GOTTA KNOW

I know you know the answer and that your bimbo act here is just that. But for the others who are too young to comprehend, I will just say that when the number got close to 10 million a few of us looked around and saw what was happening. Those people who live relatively free of illegal aliens don't know what they are in store for.
What is most shocking is how seriously young people take the baiting questions from nut cases like Alberto. They actually answer the question! People, you are supposed to make fun of him and his kind. He "gets off" on your "straight" answers. Sad that that is the only way he can "get off," but don't answer seriously. Pleeeeeeze.

La Gueta Micaela

Just now Todays American does not want to share the pie...... just want to eat it all by themselves....

cork

WHO KNOWS...
GOV DON'T...

Pamela

Because there's enough of them here now to actually put their stamp on our society. The White people don't like the changing face of their schools, their neighborhoods or their shopping centers. The Whites have it just like they want it. How dare anyone come uninvited (like the Pilgrims did) and try to change it now! And how DARE they offer options in Spanish! How could we possibly tolerate that?! I mean, just because they are spending their money on the same things I am and contributing to our economy why should they be offered a way to pay their bills? or order over the phone in their native language? I mean, we had to learn the language of the Native Americans when we immigrated here, right? Oops! My bad. Bad example.

Tammy C

Actually I personally think the Bush administration made it an issue just before this last election time in a failed attempt to sway people into voting republican. Of chourse thats just what I think that it was all a political strategy. What I want to know is why the Bush administration pays people from the middle East to move over here and become US citizens and start buisinesses?

TrainerMan

Because it's not politically correct to hate black people anymore.

Chudogg

People just want to blame somthing, or someone for the political problems.

The country is struggling with a lot of issues right now, and the media is making a killing off it. The more controversies, the more money they get so they will push this issue until people get bored with it, then they will move on to something else. Yes illegal immigration has been going on for some time but it is just now being glorified by the media and that is the sole reason it is such a heated topic.

orsmoz

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tink

it's an election year and it splits focus from the terrorists and the war! it's the old bait and switch campaign-people will feed kids starving around the world and let american children starve !we are a fix everybody elses mess and deny we need help or have a problem!!!!

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