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I really don't want to be a p***k. Someone else say something in response to this.

Umm I whould have an opinion to this but a certin family member of mine is currently living in the U.S. illeagly, but it was the only was she could be with her husband for some reason.

well my opnon whould be very baised, and also I'm living in Canada myself, where essentaily no immagrant is illegal, so I've never had any problems personally. I heavn't herd from my mother since she moved to the U.S. so I whouldn't have much information on what its like to be an illegal imigrant, but I'm assuming bad because she couldn't bring anything with her and hasnt contectacted me in a week.

It's funny how we coined the term "illegal" immigration, seeing as this is a country that was founded by, um...oh yeah, immigrants. It's true that once a country becomes large enough and powerful enough, it views others as negative influences and hence tends to separate itself and builds walls to protect its "rich" culture and "valuable" assests. Another term for this: xenophobia.

I think that there's a strong negative stereotype against Mexicans and Latin Americans in general. Sure, our friendly neighbors to the north are an industrious people with no real need to mooch off our productivity. However, those damn dirty Mexicans have no stable government, the live off of nothing, and all they want to do is live off our our hard-earned tax dollars. Right? That's pretty much how people view it, or at least how it's portrayed in the media. Nevermind the fact that thousands of immigrants are coming over from various Asian countries (Laos, Vietnam, etc.) and Eastern Bloc countries (Ukraine, Armenia, etc.). What defines one person as being perfectly acceptable and another as a reject? Mainly politics.

I'm not for illegal immigration, but I'm not against immigration control. I think that a set policy should be created and enforced, but one that doesn't negatively target people south of the border.

I really have to agree with L33tB4K4 on this one.

What annoys me is this: during any other time in the history of our country, when foreigners came to this country they learned our language: English. My ancestors from Sweden, Finland, Russia, Germany, etc. (you get the idea) all came over here and LEARNED THE LANGUAGE. They didn't expect everyone to bow to the fact that they spoke languages x, y, and z. They learned the languages and assimilated into the rest of the country.

Now, there's one thing about keeping your "heritage" as far as language goes, and passing it onto your kids... but to me it's another thing entirely when you refuse to learn the common language of a country and expect everyone else to bow down to your language needs. I've been disgusted to hear of schools with high percentages of immigrant students teaching classes in SPANISH instead of ENGLISH. Public schools, at that! I can't even believe our tax dollars pay for this... and of course the illegal immigrant families aren't adding a dime into that.

I'm also irritated to see how many food packages have SPANISH written all over it as (sometimes) the primary language instead of English...

Anyways.

As far as medical things go in the E.R., I actually saw a rather disturbing news clip back in high school about that. The report followed what happens to different people that go through the E.R.: a person with medicare / medicaid, a person with typical insurance, and an illegal immigrant who had no insurance. I was disgusted, quite honestly. The reason why hospitals have such insane price tags on their procedures is largely due to the fact of people coming in with no insurance expecting to be treated. By law, they CANNOT BE TURNED AWAY EVEN IF THEY HAVE NO WAY TO PAY FOR IT.

Think about this: I had surgery to remove a tumor in my stomach. The price tag of that little ordeal, plus a two week hospital stay, and medications, was about $160,000. My insurance covered most of it and we were left with $16,000 of the original cost. Now imagine an illegal immigrant going into the E.R. for stomach pains - after all the testing they find a tumor in their stomach, leading to surgery, medications, and a two week hospital stay. What do they end up paying? They actually end up paying nothing at all, since they can't afford it and have no insurance. I can guarantee you that if we didn't have this problem in our hospitals, my price tag wouldn't have been NEARLY at the amount it was. It's only that high to cover the costs for all the people that come in not able to pay...

As far as "They do jobs Americans don't want to do," that's bullshit. I live in Minnesota, and while we don't have immigrants at the numbers most southern states do, I can tell you for a fact that it took me 7 months just to find a shitty part time job to get me out of the house, simply for the fact that all the illegal immigrants are taking the hourly pay jobs here...

What I want to know about driver's licenses, is why licenses from other countries automatically transfer into allowing you to get one here? Maybe it's just me, but foreigners, no matter where they are from, should be made to take classes and testing before being allowed a license. A Somalian girl I work with told me that where she is from, people were automatically GIVEN a license at a young age without any testing even, not to mention her city did not have any driving signs, lights, or better yet... roads. And these people are automatically given a license just because they had one from another country... neutral I think you can see all the problems that arise with this... ("Hey, what are all these colored markings on the roads?! Am I supposed to drive in the middle of them?! n________n")

Okay, I'm shutting up now... that got me pretty fueled up...

There's a slight fault in your logic: if there's a boot shortage, we just buy more boots from China. No jobs are created here. Sad, but true. cry