What is the US doing to stop illegal immigration?
Plenty of towns, counties, and states across the US are implementing procedures to deter the hiring, housing, and employment of illegal immigrants. Places such as Prince WIlliam County, VA, and most recently the entire state of Oklahoma have imposed laws deputizing police officers as immigration officials, which gives them the authority to question anybody who appears to be "illegal." The federal government failed to act on immigration reform in June, and now our communities will suffer because of it. Everybody is against illegal immigration, including illegal immigrants. Nobody wants to come here and have no rights, no identity. The only reason people do it is because when they apply for visas in their home countries, they are denied because these countries conduct investigations to see that the person has a house, has cars, has a good deal of money in the bank. We need a guest worker program that allows people to come here for a short amount of time and save money. This wall along the Mexican border is arbitrary as well as alienating to our North American neighbors. We are sending the message that we can dump our excess agricultural products on their markets making it impossible for their already poor farmers to make any kind of a living, while at the same time blocking off our border forcing people to cross in the most dangerous areas. This has resulted in the doubling of border crossing deaths since 1995. Some people may say that this is cause for celebration and that it will serve as a deterrent. The fact is that it will not. When you experience the kind of poverty that is so prevalent in developing countries, death is a risk that immigrants are willing to take. That is why a comprehensive immigration reform is the only solution.
Using the deep history of the USA, why is illegal immigration such a big deal?
By “using the deep history of the USA” are you implying that illegal immigration has always been acceptable? That is an incorrect assumption, the first immigration law was passed just two years after the US Constitution was ratified. In 1798 stringent immigration laws, a more difficult naturalization and power to enforce the law and deport illegals passed. So immigration law has been part of our government from the beginning. The laws have been changed several times since then, but they have generally always existed to protect the country from unbridled immigration.The reason for immigration law has always been, and continues to be to protect the United States, to assure that we have a consistent process for accepting and including immigrants, and dealing consistently with visitors to our country. Prior to the last century illegal immigration was not much of a problem because transportation to the US was both difficult and expensive, and because of continuous westward expansion we had a great capacity to absorb new people.People who visit or immigrate the US must not have certain diseases, must be inoculated for certain diseases, must be free of parasites and vermin, cannot be criminals, cannot be hostile toward our government, must agree to follow our laws, cannot be employed without approval, and must be able to demonstrate a means of supporting themselves.So when they come into the country illegally, all of those reasonable requirements are ignored, exposing our citizens to the possibility of disease and pestilence, additional crime, seditious activity, anti-American politics, terrorism, unfair employment competition, and additional demand and costs on our infrastructure and cost to taxpayers. At the same time it exposes the illegal immigrant to the possibility of criminal victimization, economic exploitation, and other such problems that come with living outside the law.So all immigration law is essentially to protect the United States and those aliens who come into our country for any legal activity. It is a very big deal.
How would you solve the ILLEGAL Immigration dilemma ?
Put into effect an effort to stop providing work for them. There is current legislation that mandates that employers use a ID system that is Fed. Gov. based to confirm the legal status of all they hire. Apparently this system is quite accurate. Sure there will be errors but the security/well being of our nation is at hand. The fence idea based on a WALL kinda thing seems foolish perhaps in a few isolated areas. The idea of techno gadgets that screen and monitor makes more sense to me. The idea of putting Illegals into the army, I don't particularly like. Mainly because you train these people in the use of OUR weapons. I have heard currently of fears that there are actually LARGE numbers of Hispanics (non Americans) in our services now and as they are ranked up, they could be put in a position to create a cue or to turn our army ranks against us. I would prefer to see Illegals put to work in work camps. If you get caught and want to be set free quicker, you work your way out. Building roads etc. IF not, you sit on a bench, drink water and eat bread (not tortillas). No TV, weights etc. This is hard time or work time. Do only a few guys like this and the rest would stop coming.
What is the law called that prohibits illegal immigration?
Its the Immigration and Nationality Act
Should America force illegal immigrants to leave the country?
its a double edged sword. Yes, in the sence they broke the law to get to the states. But they are mostly comming to find jobs to support their families . Is that ready wrong ? No , because the immigrants work in labour industry and the state of the economy would colapse without them. Shoudl they also punish the americans that hire them that pays them under the table?
Why is illegal immigration a "tricky topic" for politicians?
Two reasons.1) It is an election year. Anything a politician votes on now will be used for or against them this Fall. This election is going to be contentious and many politicians do not want to be giving ammunition to the other side.2) Because there is no agreement on an approach. The GOP want to address the issue in a piece-by-piece fashion because there is no trust that the current or a future administration will enforce the law as passed. See "1986 Amnesty" for an example. The Democrats want "comprehensive immigration reform" which includes some path to legal status. They won't consider separate bills addressing specific issues. Hence the impasse.It's a tricky topic because it has a history. A nearly 30 year history. And it goes to the core of a basic concept of American life: respect for the rule of law. By granting illegal immigrants legal status because it is too inconvenient to do the right thing, you send the message that violate the law long and loudly enough, we'll let you and your family stay to shut you up. Never mind the insult to those who follow the rules and endure the process. If you get here by any means, we'll give in to you.This offends the basic American concept of equality under the law and simple justice.That's why it is a tricky topic.
What are the negative impacts of illegal immigration?
Most of the things people typically cite as negatives just aren’t reality:Few if any jobs Americans actually are willing to do are lost to undocumented immigrants - especially compared to how many are lost to automation, and especially compared to how many entire classes of jobs would otherwise go completely overseas if the labor provided by the undocumented wasn’t here to do them.Since immigrants of all sorts start businesses at a much higher rate than citizens, they in fact create an enormous number of jobs (see: The Economic Case for Welcoming Immigrant Entrepreneurs).An enormous number of undocumented immigrants actually do pay income taxes, which fund many benefits they’ll never be eligible to receive absent some legal path to valid status (see http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/19/... and http://www.politifact.com/pundit...).All are paying sales taxes through items purchased, and property taxes through rent - thus contributing their share to funding local and state services (see https://www.theatlantic.com/busi...).Immigrants, documented or not, are far less likely to commit crimes and be a burden on the law enforcement service their taxes are supporting (see Criminal Immigrants: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin)The biggest negative impact really comes more from the legal and regulatory framework being so out of sync with the reality of cross-border mobility and the attitudes of most people, rather than from the fact of people being here without authorization/legal status.The biggest negative impact is the decrease in respect for the rule of law where the law just doesn’t match reality. Only when the law is reformed to allow a path to legal status for those who don’t now have it - the opposite direction from where we’re headed.The best analogy is really Prohibition - where the law was completely out of sync with the reality of demand and with attitudes, people ignored the law wholesale.Eventually, people acknowledged that prohibition had failed - leading to more reasonable restrictions on alcohol that are for the most part possible to enforce - and enormous tax income for regulating government agencies.
What is the big deal about Illegal immigrants?
I thin you really have a point. Another thing is that people don't like to see others breaking the law, but are more lenient with themselves when they do it (running a stoplight, for example) and people don't always realize the huge economic and social dilemma that illegal immigrants face, both in their home countries and here.