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Every country has to handle the issue as their legal system dictates. This varies widely by country.

Speaking for America since that is what I know, yes, we have a problem. We have a lot of ah, undocumented immigrants. They still receive services once here which strains the infrastructure for cities all along our southern border. Speaking for the local situation, our local ER's in the Inland Empire are just swamped 24/7. It takes hours to be seen. This is in part (obviously there are multiple factors) due to the fact that even an Mexican here illegally can come in for emergency care. That gets used, a LOT.

We've got to make some good decisions soon or we're going to make living within 100 miles of the border simply unfeasible.

IMHO we've got to quit giving away all those services to those not here legally. If they don't get all sorts of freebies for coming here, the ones that will still come will be a lot more likely to be honest workers rather than shify underground types. Second, we also have to give in some by lifting all those silly quotas. Let the people in if they are willing to go through the lex soli (naturalization) process. Also we need to revisit the fee system so that it does not become as insurmountable a barrier as the quotas are. The fee should not be too much. Special consideration should be made for los migrantes, those who work in our agriculture. Since they move with the harvest seasons, they should not have to stay in one area to go through the process but should be able to fufill requirements on the road. Lastly we need to make some better efforts at getting immigrants more included in the mainstream. There are parts of Riverside where I dare not do business because I am not Hispanic and I don't speak Spanish fluently enough. You're just not welcome if you're not one of them. That goes too far for me. I don't mind them running a business-- I welcome that-- but it needs to be one where anyone can visit and buy.

I think this nation would fear 10 million Americans in the naturalization process a LOT less than 10 million immigrants who aren't including themselves in the American culture but still want to eat their cake-- i.e. benefits.

I have a lot of sympathy for immigrants. They leave their countries, and many times their families, to go into a foreign country and work. However, I recognize that illegal immigration [in the United States] is a problem.

Here's an idea. "Let's build a wall!" says the government. The idea of building a wall along our borders is absurd and unacceptable. Not only will that ruin many natural habitats, but what message does that send the rest of the world? "Stay out."

Here's another idea! "Let's collect illegal aliens and deport their asses back to Mexico", says several state-level governments. Rounding up illegal immigrants like cattle, and tearing families apart is DISGUSTING. They're human beings... honestly, the only people who deserve to be deported are violent criminals... not hardworking mothers and fathers.

The only way to fix illegal immigration is to do that "American-thing". You know... where we go into a country and decide to "fix" it... although we need a lot of repairs ourselves... We could help them with their economies, create more jobs, whatever... but since it's the government we're talking about, they wouldn't do it just to do it... Too bad Mexico drills and controls the production of their own oil. rolleyes [Note my sarcasm in this last sentence.]

Illegals do the jobs we don't want to do. If we don't keep them around you'll be picking fruit and cleaning toilets.

I believe that if you have your papers (Social Security, I.D. etc.) then you can suceed in this country, so the fact that immigrants are taking the jobs of Americans does not pass by me.

With the idea that immigrants are getting benefits, thats a lie. The only way that you're getting benifits is if you have a social security and other types of papers. Since you have such documentation, then you pay income taxes. And everybody, legal or not, pays taxes; its called sales tax.

It is difficult to obtain citizenship and it is a long process. I believe that there has to be some kind of documentation to know where illegal immigrants are. I also know that not all people who migrate are here for good intentions. I know some are just here to rip of the government and to be lazy. However, it is not fair that all should pay for those few.

You're right.

Plus, the immigration system needs to be fixed so people won't have to get here illegally.

I still disagree with you

if they are breaking the law it's illegal same as any criminal in the us that was born here.

and we don't really like Mexico and Mexico doesn't really like us so how are we supporting them?

The big corporations that are putting the small farmers out of business can afford to sell their goods cheaper then the farmers, and plus the corporations can farmer a lot faster and get more from one day of farming because they can afford large amounts of labor, and large amounts of machines to help the process. Capitalism is a horrible thing it just makes people suffer. I don't see how people besides the ones gaining from it can actually try and justify capitalism because its just so wrong in so many ways, it gives to many people an unfair advantage. all corporations should be owned by the country they're in so that all money made can be used to pay their workers living wages, and the rest of the money can go back in to the country for social services. If "amerka" wasn't so preoccupied with things like this pointless war, we could be providing services for the citizens, things like free health care, which is a basic right guaranteed to the citizens of many other countries, but no not here because all "amerka" cares about is the corporations and not the citizens.