What Happens If An Illegal Immigrant Is Sued In The United States

At what point does immigration to the United States reach the point where enough is enough? There are hundreds of millions of people from around the world that would love to move here legally. How many should be allowed, and under what criteria?

In an ideal world I'd welcome each and every one of them into the country with open arms and open hearts. However the reality is that there are people who seek entry for malevolent purpose. This is why it's so important that each and every person crossing into our borders is positively identified and checked. For many immigrants this is not a problem. Those coming from France, as an example, have an ID and/or passport issued by their government which allows border agents to accurately identify the person and check their criminal history with their home country. Those coming from 3rd world countries without proper ID are going to have a harder time because it take much longer to vet them. Then there are those coming from countries whose government is openly hostile to the US, this presents an additional challenge in that any attempt to identify and background check the immigrant would be processed through an unreliable foriegn agency.

What happened to the Caravan of illegal immigrants that walked to the United States? Why is this no longer publicized through media or on the news?

What happened to the Caravan of illegal immigrants that walked to the United States? Why is this no longer publicized through media or on the news?The elections are over.The media has moved on to other, fresher, stories. They and the Democrats have pretty much chewed the flavor out of this, as it were.Even many liberals now don’t want the caravan entering the U.S. My liberal friends, to a person, don’t want the caravan to come here. “If you let them in, the next batch will be 10,000 people, then 20,000 . . . “ It’s rather humorous — they sound so Republican, and I make sure to let them know it.The story may bubble up again a little, now that a good number of people have reached Tijuana. The mayor of that city has appealed to the UN, as Tijuana does not have the resources to deal with this influx, and the mayor I’m sure knows that a) the U.S. isn’t going to open up the border for these people, and b) they aren’t going to go back south, and c) his own government, having screwed him over by allowing the caravan to reach Tijuana, isn’t going to be of much help.The story is now unsexy, because it’s becoming apparent that our policy is correct; how badly Mexico has handled this by allowing the caravan to even enter their country isn’t the kind of story most U.S. media have much interest in.

If the United States of America is better served by immigrant assimilation and the melting pot model, why are we more tolerant of Jewish over Islamic immigrants as neither seem to assimilate?

American Jews do, in fact assimilate (this is called ‘intermarriage’; statistically, most grandchildren of intermarried Jews will no longer even marginally affiliate as Jews beyond gastronomy—chicken soup and bagels-and-lox). Those Jews who are still recognizably Jewish accept American values: the rule of law, the values of the Constitution, liberty and equality… For the most part, that’s why Jews immigrated to America: equality.There are lots of American Muslims who came here—like the British, the Irish, the Italians, the Poles, etc.,—for a better life. Many people forget but Irishmen—drunken, ignorant, filthy, ‘fighting’ Irish—were the bogeyman of the 19th century. They’ve largely assimilated, along with the Eastern and Southern European hordes who inspired terror in the hearts of the ‘nativists’ (really Anglos) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today those filthy hordes are your next-door neighbors.I suspect that American Muslims who’ve been here for awhile are, if not basically secular, also well-enculturated with those same American values. You may not even recognize them as Muslims. There are lots of Muslims in America—as anywhere—who have no particular ax to grind and are not pining for the demise of the American Way of Life and the institution of sharia law: that’s mostly a bogeyman for the far right wing, that’s been given legs by some high-profile terrorists. Politicians feed it to the terrified masses who’ve probably never seen or met a Muslim. Muslims in the popular imagination look alien and ‘scary’, especially ladies who veil themselves. A lot of the fear has to do with a militant Islam that hasn’t undergone an analogue to the Western Enlightenment.But think about it: most Muslim immigrants came here from failed, impoverished, or violence-torn ‘Muslim’ states. Why would they want to re-create Syria here?

Apart of illegal immigration, what are the other major problems that The United States has?

Well, My coffee cup is empty… That’s better. The population of the US as of yesterday was 327,842,037, and probably if you asked each one, you’d get 327,842,037 answers, but let’s get real:The problems that you hear about in the US are nearly all of our own making, and to another family in the US, not a “Major Problem” at all. The media and the “Excite-ables” breathlessly vent their homemade misery and complain about their “Subject du jour” ..while talking on $900 cell phones, in their fancy cars, on the way from their well furnished, warm and cozy apartments & homes. They drink bottled vitamin water, nosh on junk food, (throw their wrappers on the ground) and stand on the street corner telling the rest of us how we should be working, thinking, living, and who we should “Hate” today.Life is sooo bad here that people from other countries not only hate us & find fault with our every action, but risk everything, including their lives just for an opportunity to get here. Indeed, 750,000 people each year become proud new US citizens.Do we have problems? Sure we have. We have Veterans homeless and suffering who cannot get medical treatment. We have children going to bed at night with empty stomachs because their mothers spent the only money they could get on drugs, and we have senior citizens who can’t afford their prescribed medications, repairs, or heat for their homes. Name a country that doesn’t have problems.Currently, nearly everybody is over-emotionally invested in politics. Every school kid, church pianist, Kmart worker, and drug user believes he/she knows what’s going on in the nation’s capital, what “should be done” and how to fix it all. Meanwhile, out in the countryside, families are busy going to work, spending time with family & friends, and going deer hunting.What “ARE” the major problems in the United States? People who have never lived anywhere else, never been without Freedom, and don’t know what they are talking about, who are willing to give up all that our forefathers have built, give away their freedoms, trying to bully the rest of us into their ignorant “New way” of thinking, dreaming, and hope. ( Graciously indoctrinated by Liberal educators who do not have the nation’s best interests at heart. )

Why do so many immigrants enter the country illegally? Wouldn't it be in their best interests to become legal immigrants?

This flow chart shows the processes pre-Trump:If you are a well-educated middle-class professional from a reasonably affluent country, you can come in legally.If you are a well-educated middle-class professional from a less-affluent country like India, Mexico or China, the legal path goes through a 20-year waiting list, but you may be able to get a non-immigrant work visa sooner (H1-B).If you have close family members already in the US, you may be able to come in in 2 or 3 years.If you are a working class person, there is a long waiting list - decades for many countries.If you are born in Mexico, you may not even be allowed to come in as a tourist, unless you have enough money to post a bond, or you own property in Mexico that demonstrate that you need to go back at the end of the trip.The system is crazy, but it has stayed that way because there is a strong and powerful business interest that want to have a low-end workforce of illegal immigrants that can be threatened with deportation if they ask for a living wage or otherwise stand up for their rights.I was born in Denmark, was a computer programmer working in embedded and data communications systems when I came in on an H1 visa in 1980. Actually, at the time the system was already screwed up badly enough by then, that it took 2 years to process an application for a 6-month work permit, so I came in on a B1/B2 multiple entry visa (visit for business or pleasure) on a number of back-to-back business trips (i.e. I had to go back to Denmark for 2 weeks every 6 months) with the full knowledge and blessing of the US Consular Service. As soon as my H1 visa came through, I applied - with legal help from my employer - for adjustment of status to permanent residence.It took me 35 years after that to feel a need to become a citizen in order to vote in the 2016 elections.

Should the children of illegal immigrants be granted American citizenship, if they are born in the United States?

I believe that the 14th amendment of the COTUS should be removed. We have arrived at a point in US history when the pro-immigrant policies that built our nation have become obsolete. We can no longer accept immigrants at anywhere close to the numbers we once did for many reasons.Immigration policy must now be guided by one principal alone; by what benefits the USA. No other consideration other than whether or not the US actually needs immigrants should inform and be applied to immigration policy. If the US needs physicists, farm workers or plumbers, immigrants with those qualifications should be allowed to apply and then go through a vetting process to decide whether or not they will be welcome.Resources spent supporting indigent immigrants should instead be invested in disadvantaged citizens and their communities. The US has plenty of work to do; crumbling and inadequate infrastructure, schools, entire neighborhoods in many parts of the nation are blighted and almost abandoned while there is dire need for affordable housing. Industries and jobs that have been exported to cheap labor markets overseas should be repatriated and the un-and-underemployed in America’s depressed and underprivileged communities should be put to work earning wages and rebuilding tax bases.The US does NOT need more low-wage/unskilled workers. If low-wage labor was in short supply, the minimum wage would have risen with the cost of living and labor unions would not be losing political influence. More low-wage workers will continue to keep wages low and labor unions weak.However, I believe that the children of illegal immigrants, whether they have been born here or not should be able to become citizens because most of these children have been supported and educated by the US taxpayer. The US should benefit from our investment in the children of the illegal immigrants, not some other nation.All arguments about immigration policy are, however, irrelevant at this time because the US has inadequate control over our borders. Until border control is achieved rants and opinions and even discussions about immigration policy are moot.

An illegal immigrant women got hurt climbing the USA southern border wall, who is at fault?

The US has a number of personal injury lawyers who would probably pick up hey case if it was private property and claim the property owners were liable.There was actually a case not long ago where a burglar was caught climbing in a window, was injured, and had the gall to sue the owners for the injury. I don't know who was worse in that case, the plantiff or their lawyer. But it was tossed as soon as it got before a judge.There are some aspects of law I'm well versed in, this is not one of them. So my understanding is not much more than opinion. Keep that in mind.But I don't see how the US could possibly be liable. She wasn't even misusing property, she was violating the law when she scaled the fence. Her unlawful actions were directly responsible for her injuries. And regardless of whether she fell in Mexico or the United States, she's responsible. The fence obviously wasn't defective. It served it's purpose. She wasn't supposed to be able to climb it and get over unharmed.It's similar to someone breaking into a property and being attacked by a guard dog after ignoring signs all over that said “no trespassing” and “beware of dog”.I'm very sympathic to the plight of these people. But other than I don't want more people lacking common sense entering the country, I would be outraged if the US was ordered to pay her anything. If she was shot by a live round fired by US troops, I think that would be a different story. Contested, but it might. Someone bringing their children over rather than drugs or weapons doesn't quite fit the description of what most people would consider an invader.

Do people who want unlimited immigration to America know that America does actually have finite space and resources? I can understand wanting to reform the quotas, but not simply abolishing ICE and letting undocumented immigrants vote and drive.

You would be hard pressed to find very many real people who consistently hold this view. No one wants undocumented immigrants voting. Just a side note every case of non-citizens voting who we have been able to find and prosecute were registered republicans, who were found by and prosecuted by republicans.As to your drivers license question yes we want everyone who drives to be a qualified driver and get insurance on their car. You can’t do the latter without a license. We can’t stop people from driving, even birth citizens do that without a license way too often. It makes sense to give them the license if they qualify as then they are more likely to get insurance and that makes everyone safer and more protected. The states have an interest in doing this.ICE needs to go, they are being used as an American Gestapo. They run roughshod over state and local authority and have huge numbers of complaints filed against them by citizens. The even irritate border patrol and customs agents. I have witnessed them harass a Hispanic woman I was traveling with from Tijuana to San Diego. They detained this woman whose great grandparents were all born in the US. She was a second generation Minnesotan and sounded like it. Why did they pull her aside and detain her for 12 hours with no food, water, or access to a toilet? They wouldn’t tell her. They finally admitted to her attorney uncle she wasn’t speaking English and her birthplace was listed as Panama. Well duh we were practicing our German, our next destination and both of her parents were US Army Officers stationed in Panama, but both Hispanics from Minneapolis. Her father was a major and a staff officer on the base and her mother was a captain and nurse in the hospital. Her mother eventually retired as a brigadier general.