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I see another solution. Encourage those who want to immigrate to America to do it legally, and just offer English as a second language in cities with large immigration records. Much easier than spending the TAX money to patrol the borders. What would also help is if we were sure that there isn't a cost to immigrate to America. Their cost can be covered by a little extra tax for non-citizens. (Must be in America for 7 years to become a citizen)

we shouldn't get involved in other peoples affair the U.S have their own problems to take care of. and helping another country is not cheap. It will interfere with taxes. before the united states even think about helping other countries they have to fix the poverty in the U.S and also im against illegal immigrants they should just send all that don't belong back even if it sounds cold because this country is already over populated. and the reason that a lot of immigrants come illegally is because they can't afford to come here legally. and if the united states go to other countries and try to fix their goverment we are just jumping into another war. something that we don't want.

Thereis a reason why it costs money to try and get into the US Legally and there's a reason why we have immigration laws. I'll give you an example by relating this to nature. let's say you have a grassy plain that can only support one hundred deer. Wolves are needed to keep the deer population in check. In this case the laws are the wolves. If the population is allowed to grow unchecked, although the number of deer increase, the amount of land does not. The deer get sick, disease spreads, and the entire herd eventually dies out completely.

In other words, we are already populated enough as it is. In fact we are overpopulated in a great many areas of the US. If we allow every Tom, d**k and Jose` to move in, eventually we will run out of land and our people will suffer as they already are now because jobs are being taken from legal citizens because companies don't want to pay minimum wage to someone when they can pay a few bucks or less an hour to someone who lives here illegally. Now I understand there are problems with poverty and such over the boarder, but we can't allow people to just freely ove in and take away so much from us, leaving us with scraps to live on and leaving many people unemployed and homeless.

Indeed. We should fix our own government first. Have you heard how much money Bush approved to send for global food aid? HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS!!! scream

World to politicians: We should fix our government first! Working families have to pay for that crap! Why can't YOU? America needs to aid its own struggling citizens first of all. We can't afford to sell out our money and resources; if we do, it'll be a third world country.

@Itchyboobers: That was just an example. It's true, but just an example.

@Dearest Sweetheart: I like your idea, but patrolling the border IS necessary too. There is a lot of violence where illegals are smuggled.

Oh, so you want all of those poor African children to die of malnutrition. get a heart.

I'm not saying I want them to starve. I'm saying, why should America have to do it? Why can't some other country help with this?

Why? Because no matter how you put it, America is compassionate. Not perfect of course, just compassionate. Can't America be more efficient in spending? I'm not saying we shouldn't give, I'm saying we shouldn't give too much.