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 Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:35 am
Whether you're from the United States or across the oceans, you most likely have some opinons when it comes to immigration. This thread is for sharing those opinions.
How do you feel about the rate of immigration, whether legal or not, in your country?
Do you believe there are imperfections in the immigrantion process? How would you fix them?
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:52 pm
Immigration is good, who else will work at my neighborhood McDonald's? smile
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:26 pm
*raises hand* I work at McDonald's.
Anyway, immigration is definately a necessity for us. However, I believe the current immigration rate may be too much. I really don't want the United States to end up with a larger population than it can support with the current resources.
There are people who complain about immigrants taking jobs away from Americans while we have an unemployment rate of 4.5 (ish) %. The thing is (as Obsidian Halo pointed out), most immigrants take the less desirable jobs of working at fast food, helping out on farms, road construction, etc. However, employers should make sure the immigrant is legal before hiring them. There are specific reasons we have immigration laws. If employers actually made sure the immigrants they were hiring were legal, there would be fewer illegal immigrants coming over because they wouldn't have jobs waiting here.
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:10 am
"Melissa doesn't mind the fact that illegal immigrants take the s**t jobs of the country, however it does annoy Melissa that they get free medical care. They go to the emergancy room, get take care of, then leave and do not have to pay because they have no way of finding them to bill them. It is rather irksome."
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:20 pm
The medical system in general sucks. It's only because of insurance companies that the cost of health care is so high in the first place.
There's a simple way to get rid of all the illegal immigrants at once. Make them all legal.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:31 pm
^ Yeah, that's a great plan; reward the people who break the country's laws by giving them citizenship, instead of giving the same to the millions of other legal immigrants vying for citizenship. >.>
The reason no country has a fully open-door policy is because every country realizes the dangers of letting in millions of undocumented people. It strains the economy, it strains natural resources, it strains social tensions and foreign policy...you can't expect a country to live for too long if it lets just anyone come in. Limiting immigration isn't caused by xenophobia; it's caused by common sense. You can't add a million undocumented people to a population of roughly 300 million every year and expect everything to stay perfectly fine; the economy will suffer, the country's environment will suffer, and a host of other problems will arise.
So basically my stance is, legal immigrants are more than welcome, but we don't have the resources to waste on illegal immigrants; they need to go.
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:14 pm
I think that immigration laws definitely need to change- I am all for immingration, after all without immigration most of us would not be here. I think that in moderation it is good though as far as the Health Care issue (which is best left for another thread) Socializing medicine would benefit the greater good.
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