Please tell me if you agree with the president saying illegal immigrants work jobs americans dont want.?
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Hiring illegal immigrants is a cheap & easy way for businesses to get the help they need.  The illegals and the businesses both are taking jobs away from Americans.  If the jobs wern't available to those that cross the borders, they might think twice about risking their lives for nothing.
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it's easy to say "let them have the jobs we don't want to do" Well yea, nobody WANTS to do some of this work, but some of us HAVE to. They are making it more difficult for regular blue collar workers to make a living. My husband has been in construction all his life, used to provide really well for us but now most places won't even hire legal citizens anymore and if they do it doesn't pay anything at all, my husband has over 15 yrs experience and is lucky to find a job paying more than 9 dollars an hour. Anyone who says it is okay is obviously not being affected by it.
188675
I agree. Try to get that fat, lazy, white kid who lives next door to push a lawnmower, or pull weeds, or pick fruits and vegetables. Legal or illegal immigrants make up an enormous part of our work force. The only good idea Bush had lately was to give them work visas, and acknowledge them as an important part of our economy. \n\nAs for past immigrants, I'm native american, so I won't tell you my opinion.
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I wouldn't call your suggestion the solve all but I would call it a start.  Taking jobs away from American workers simply because they can accept a lower wage is no path to citizenship in my book either.  Fighting for a legitamate cause through our military would do much more towards gaining my resolve, yet joining our armed forces under Bush seems more like a death wish to anyone including illegals rather than a statement of loyalty.  What we need is an enforcement of existing laws and prosecutions derived therein in order to curb the existing illegal subterfuge that persists to this day.  Stay tuned..
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Yes, I think it's a common attitude. It's called ethnocentrism. One point you neglected to consider, however, is that illegal aliens are actually the ones doing the menial labor that you don't want to do and that you don't want your kids to do. If they leave, perhaps your kids will be the ones to take their place picking tomatoes in the field. Who knows?\n\nI think people have misconstrued what the protestors are trying to say. They are simply trying to raise awareness about the fact that they, too, contribute to our economy. They work at jobs most of us do not want, and they do it for pay we wouldn't accept. They may or may not pay income taxes, but they pay sales taxes on the American goods they purchase from American companies. Most of them obey the laws and mind their own business, which makes sense if you keep in mind that they have to keep their noses clean if they don't want to be caught and kicked out of the country. They're not asking for a helping hand; they're just asking for permission to continue contributing in a society that needs their work, whether we want to admit it or not.\n\nThat said, I don't think any of us wants to see illegal aliens given a free ride to citizenship. I don't have to hate Mexicans to want immigration reform. But the simple matter is that if I'm unhappy with the number of illegal immigrants in this country, then I should at the very least look at my own behavior and see if I'm contributing to the problem. If you're serious about wanting to keep illegal immigrants out, then stop wasting your time hating and start taking action. Write your state and national officials and tell them that you expect them to pass and FUND laws that will make it easier to catch illegal aliens and to fine companies and industries that hire them, and don't forget to add that you're willing to pay higher prices for your tomatoes, peaches, and clothing if that's what it takes.\n\nBest of luck.
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Myths and lies of illegal immigration \nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/art... \nBy Kathy McKee; January 4, 2004; published in The Sonoran News\n\nLie # 4. Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. \nWhat jobs won't Americans do? \nAmericans still \n--clean their own houses, \n--do their own landscaping, \n--clean hotel rooms, \n--work in restaurants and fast food places, \n--paint houses, \n--DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, \n--work in airports, etc. - \njust like we have the past 200 years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. \nThere are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers.\n\n5 Percent Of The Workforce Is ILLEGAL Aliens\n4.7 Percent Unemployment In America\n\nDo The Math
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if we didn't have illegal immigrants in this country working for such low wages, the economy would never survive. i doubt many american citizens would get down on their hands and knees to do all the dirty work that illegal immigrants do. if all of them in america decided to strike, we'd probably all go into inflation by the end of the week.
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I support Bush except for his Immigration ideas.  I also do not support the Senate Immigration Bill.  The people do not want this immigration enforced.  All the illegals are here for is a job and not to become citizens.  Because of this, they are driving the wages down in the U.S..  Congress needs to put this Immigration Bill to a vote on a National level.  Let the citizens decide if the illegals stay or go home.  I have a feeling that the people would vote for the illegals to leave and submit the proper documents to come here legally.  That is why we have laws and our Congress should obey them as well as every citizen who lives in the U.S.
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That's nice because your illegal husband is making more than most legals make.  You say $2800 like it's nothing.  That's a lot of money.  So if your husband becomes legal, then does that mean he will stop doing the work he is doing now?  If your arguing that illegals work hard and do jobs that U.S. citizens wont do and that this benefits the U.S., then with your logic if he got amnesty he would quit that job and then no one would do that work period, right?
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Why don't you start working instead of wasting your time on here saying your stupid opinions.  That's why the illegals are taking the jobs, because of lazy ass people like you who are not willing to work.
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He spouts out one thing out of one side of his mouth while muttering what he thinks out the other. Amnesty is exactly what he is proposing, just under a different name. He is a traitor to this country.\n\nThe illegals make up about 5 % of the work force. The unemployment rate is about 4.5%. Keep in mind that the unemployment rate does NOT represent everyone who is unemployed. It only counts those who are collecting unemployment. Everyone else's plight is ignored. The unemployment rate if everyone was counted would be tremendous. We do NOT have a shortage of labor, we have a large surplus. The more illegals that come in and take our jobs at minimum wage or less (often less) puts more and more Americans out of a job. Most of these Americans are never counted in the unemployment rate if they do not manage to get unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits are hard to receive.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits. \n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them. \n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years. \n\n"Mexico is waging war on the U.S. through mass immigration illegal and legal, through the assertion of Mexican national claims over the U.S., and through the subversion of its laws and sovereignty, all having the common end of bringing the southwestern part of the U.S. under the control of the expanding Mexican nation, and of increasing Mexico’s political and cultural influence over the U.S. as a whole. \n\n \nCultural imperialism\n\n \n\nWe experience Mexico’s assault on our country incrementally—as a series of mini-crises, each of which calls forth ever-renewed debates and perhaps some tiny change of policy. Because it has been with us so long and has become part of the cultural and political air we breathe, it is hard for us to see the deep logic behind our “immigration problem.” Focused as we are on border incursions, border enforcement, illegal alien crime, guest worker proposals, changes of government in Mexico City, and other such transient problems and events—all of them framed by the media’s obfuscation of whether or not illegal immigration’s costs outweigh its benefits and by the maudlin script of “immigrant rights”—we don’t get the Big Picture: that the Mexican government is promoting and carrying out an attack on the United States. \n\nAnother reason we miss what’s happening is that our foc
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"You know, I'm not a supporter of boycotts. I am a supporter of comprehensive immigration," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference, referring to efforts to reach an immigration deal with the US Congress.\n\nBush urged the protesters to show respect.\n\n"You know, I think it's very important for people, when they do express themselves, they continue to do so in a peaceful way, in a respectful way, respectful of ... how highly charged this debate can become," he said.\n\nImmigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants returned to Mexico and a fence built along the border.\n\nBush and others want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of the poor to the world's biggest economy.\n\nBush said "most Americans agree that we've got to enforce our border" but that a temporary guest-worker program is needed as a way to get rid of an illegal smuggling network that brings people across the border and forges documents.
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What Dr. Know Says is true except he left out one bit of fact:\n\nWe fought for it and won!  Now unless some other country wants to stand up and fight for it (say Mexico for example) like we did, then I suggest they shut the f*ck up and go back to their own country!  We made laws so that we could keep undesirables out of our perfect country.  If they can't abide by our laws and respect our rules thereby showing respect to us as a Nation then they should not be allowed to live here!\n\nAdri:  Wah, wah wha!  Here's a novel idea:  Stay in their own country and fight to make it better for there decendants instead of coming over here demanding rights they did not earn.  Those jobs you mentioned would be done by Americans for a decent wage if the low life criminals who call themselves immigrants weren't stealing those jobs just by coming over here and making themselve available for cheap labor.\n\nRicky:  That's the first intelligent thing I've read on yahoo answers today.\n\nQuack:  You are so right.  You rock!
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Do people see the "ILLEGAL" in front of immigrants? I am so tied of people saying “your ancient were immigrants" HELLO we did not have a law on illegal immigrants during those times. \n\nAnd why are you throwing that this way I'm an African American my ancient were drag over here, and their kids had to fight for rights that should have been giving to them on birth.  So when they went to the streets for Civil Rights it was because of the 13th amendment. Not because they jump over a wall. \n\n\nAnd to say that they work the jobs American don't want PLEASE TAKE THAT S%%# some where else the fact of the matter is that they work jobs for less, so that they can get them illegal. If you saw the news illegal immigrants hold waiter jobs (Americans work them), construction jobs (Americans work them), cashier (American work them), housekeeping (Americans work them), warehouse jobs (Americans work them), and etc. I can go on but the whole thing about the jobs are that illegal immigrants will work for less pay then an legal citizen will so a business will hire them first for the low pay. Many Americans who are low in education try for these jobs and are turned away because it is a bid on the lowest paid worker.\n\nBut if you don’t agree with me I don’t care because in November the Congress will feel my words, on my vote.
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Si, mi amigo, yo consento con usted. But at the same time the people that hire the illegals are sonegating taxes and taking the opportunities of those there are legal, the employers know that they can pay these people under minimum wage and they have not to pay benefits. I understand that their respective countries are not the best thing in the planet, but you know what, they are DEMANDING things(protests and isultingactions) from the government, and I am sorry it is not the U.S.' job to be the babysitter of the planet. I also agree that they wnat to better their lives, but there is a Legal way to do so, hentz  immigration laws and procedures.I had to do itthe legal way so can they!!\n\np.s.: It is unconceivable to think that in a country with 240+ million people you will not be able to fill up the jobs of those 19+ milion that right now are illegal here! \nLets use an example: 50 years ago before there were so many illegal immigrants in the country some of those jobs done by them right now had to be done by americans. And you know what? there are no reports of people complaining about the prices of vegetables , landscaping- illegals work construction- (which I may say, real state is overvalued right now, but that is a different argument).And more, the employers hire illegals so that they can maxime their marginal revenue, not because they want to charge less money from you.
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Well - gosh - I see so many "Americans" lining up to clean, cook and do yard work.  These so called jobs being taken away from Americans (ha,ha) are given to immigrants bcuz they will do them for next to nothing in pay and if YOU were to do any of these jobs you would want $50 an hour with benefits and vacations and sick time and a say in what you do and a title for your job and pay raises etc, etc. You get the drift ???????
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Funny it is all us "lazy Americans" that did all those jobs before! Hmm yea I beleive its all the LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and born Americans that created this "land of Milk and honey" that the illegals run to. \n\nBush has made sure our economy has stayed rock bottom , media lies about new jobs being created when they are merely seasonal jobs or fast food. Starve them and they will come, is and has been his tactic. So our young people are forced to join the military to fight this b.s. war and run our countries debt up more. Were else will they work? \n\nTHERE ARE NO JOBS! Illegal immagrants around here are working at Taco Bell! Gas stations, Wendy's, road construction, housing construction, cleaning services, day care! We cant get government aid for ourselves and our children when we can not find any work. We can not even get a Taco Bell job now! I have dozens of friends who have built houses all over this state all their lives, and now are lucky to work one or two months a year cause illegals have their jobs. Was it because they didn't want them? NO, as a matter of fact no one even waited to ask them if they did or not. They show up for work after the ground thraws and are told to go home. And yes for the sake our kids we would work it!!! And have been for years. The truth of the matter is there are large numbers of Americans in their 30's and 40's with hs diplomia's and many with college that cannot find work now. Job statistics are and have been manipulated (lied) about for some time.\n\nThe Illegals do not come into this country and stay on the tomatoe farms... They run to any employer who will take them, and send there women to the welfare office for government aid. Destroy a large percentage of rental properties, Sell some mexican swag on the side and do not go home after harvest time in most situations. Why should they? We hand them the keys to the city! \n\nWe spend billions on medical care, food, housing, prisons. They send all their money back to Mexico. Lower our wages and work standards and are now filling job slots we Americans need, now that all American jobs worth a damn are now "outsourced" or "sized down". How can you use someone who illegaly came over here knowing all this? They arent forced to illegaly jump our boarders and come here to work. Hell they can grow tomatoes in mexico too. And do! Most of our winter produce is now Mexican grown in Mexico. Hell they now have handbooks on how to survive in America now, it's printed by the Mexican government. Very few of their employers legally withhold taxes or SS. Most are contractor type jobs. And it's time a few of you get your heads out of the clouds, cause this whole situation has been corrupt for some time. We don't abuse and use them, corrupt employers might. The illegals think what they are being offered is great! And that is why the employers also need to be punished and fined. \n\nThey come here Illegally and expect we owe them food stamps and medical care! Do we get this when visiting their countries? Hell no! Everywhere the American goes now we have "sucker" on our forheads. We can pay for it all! Lower their import taxes into our country or remove them all together. Send them food that our government won't even give to our poor, send them weapons and training. Yea we can do it all ! Now they have the nerve to march in our streets with their country's flags! Demanding they have rights here and the right to come here by whatever means they choose and act as they choose. The problem has been let to go on so long, and catered to for so long they now seem to think they are intitialed to EVERYTHING WE HAVE INCLUDING PRESSURING OUR POLITICIANS! When was the last time you picked up a product or a set of instructions without having to search for the English text? \n\nIs this just directed towards Mexicans? NO, but what other country is flooding our boarders illegally and now marc