What ramifications those the USA face, if 11 million people are given legal status?
442427
The same 11 million reasons we pay out of the+_)(*&^%$#@!\nIf they're illegal,send'em back where they came from,and\nmake whoever take care of all of them,and see what !@#$%^&*\nthe U.S. has to put up with!.
521967
WELL CONGRESS KNOWS THAT YOU CAN NOT SEND 12 MILLION PEOPLE BACK TO THERE OWN COUNTRY. SOOOOO THEY ARE WORKING OUT A SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE AND SEE WHO STAYS AND WHO DON'T STAY
591567
Well, think of the consequences if they did. We'd be down to 49 states. We'd have to change our flag, our maps, our globes. There are tons of memorials that have 50 of a particular item to represent the 50 States. Plus, there's the issue of the Senators. Each state gets 2 Senators, so which two get to stay? Then there are the differences in state laws and all the residents, granted, neither is a heavily populated state, but they'd all have to get new licenses and new tags for their cars and voter registration...it would be a beauracratic nightmare. Don't even go there with North/South Carolina and West Virginia and regular Virginia...
774992
This is all news to me.  Considering the population of America has now reached the 300 million mark, they better be prepared for the majority.\n\nTake Care
331736
The logistics of deporting 11 Million people would be near impossible even if the Army wasn't stuck in Iraq.  You need to gather them all up in every community in the US and then set up camps everywhere in the US for their eventual deportation.  Each of these camps would need guards, electricity, food and water and would have to be built from scratch to house these 11 million illegals.  You would then have to determine where each of these illegals came from so you could properly deport them (since you can't say, ship a Filipino to Mexico, because Mexico would say, no, we aren't taking him).  You would then have to fly the illegals back to their home countries (since I doubt Mexico for example would like trains full of Guatemalans running through their rail links.  So if you think the deficit is huge now...\n\nYou would then have to build a wall or rather a series of walls on every border (even in Alaska) and then some sort of magical force field would have to protect ocean and air access and deploy a few million troops and a few thousand ships to guard the walls/force fields.  \n\nAnd to be safe, you'd have to RFID every US citizen so that if you weren't, a little buzzer could go off and Homeland Security could deport you.  \n\nThat might be enough to keep say, half the illegals out, maybe three quarters if you were lucky and there weren't too many corrupt people taking bribes/kickbacks.
401018
Yes ... I Think It Will Have An Impact- AND I SUPPORT It\n\n1-People Will Lose Their Jobs And Be Replaced By Citizens\n\n2-There Is CERTAIN To Be At Least ONE Incident Of Violence\nPrompting Washington To Realize The DANGER In Keeping The ILLEGALs Here And Ensuring The Full Endorsement Of HR4437\nWith NO AMNESTY\n\n3-There Will Be Less Traffic That Day
1121310
They know- but choose to ignore it.\n\n\nAnd it is not that hard to get in--millions have legally.
363148
Problem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n \n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.\n\n\nthanks cherokee rose i put my signature on  petition you rock
959712
Amnesty for 30 million illegals making it possible for 120 million more of their family members to come here. All accepting jobs at the new minimum wage, which will in turn cause price adjustments across the board, businesses will fold or not be able to hire, and we will be stuck with them all on welfare.(One example)
849933
It would create a huge underclass in the US.  This would in turn be a huge burden for the American tax payer.  The country would probably collapse.  Many educated Americans would move out of the country to protect their money.  I know I would.\n\nCheck out WWW.Numbersusa.com
620629
ILLEGAI IMMIGRATION I SUPPOSE ,CONSIDERING THAT MILLIONS AMONG THE WORKFORCE ARE ILLEGAL.IF THEY SUDDENLY STOPPED WORK THIS WOULD IMPACT NEGATIVELY ON THE US ECONOMY BEARING IN MIND THEY ARE DOING ALL THE MEANIAL JOBS.
914917
We need a law regulating the issuance of citizenship to NO MORE than 200,000 people per year. This would keep our country from growing into a population we cannot sustain on our natural resources. More than that number will be disastrous to our infrastructure and environment. The USA today allows approximately 1,000,000 people to immigrate here annually. We need to enforce the law we already have on the books on ILLEGAL immigration. That abuse needs to be totally stopped!!
592584
It's not so much the South American countries pressure that is pushing the issue. It's the fact that we have allowed a situation where we have several million people in this county undocumented. \n9/11 brought to light the security danger this presents. Reforming immigration should allow us to know who is in this country if the reform is done correctly. \nAlso, the pressure is coming more so from the millions of legal immigrants and the Hispanic-Americans native to the US.
198126
In certain states of the USA it is pending to get rasied. I believe California and Florida are asking for more, I'm not sure though, only because there is so many more immigrants nowadays.
401632
It will eventually subside after the government decides and announces what their plans are for immigration.  Yes, there are a lot of very important issues today, but this is one of them.  This issue needs to be settled in a fair and just way and the laws of the land, whatever they be, must be strictly enforced.  Giving the illegals amnesty can only encourage more illegals to come to the USA because they will see that as a tacit okay to them coming illegally and it will be encouraging to them by saying, "If you come illegally and stick it out - eventually you will get rewarded for it, just like those before you."
250336
the answer is definately ignorance and a lack of political will to resolve once and for all to do anything serious about this, there is only one answer to this problem.. AMNESTY FOR ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...you think not? do you how much it would cost to deport over 11 million people??? at least if we make them all legal they'll pay taxes, they will have their rights, they wont have to be left at the mercy of any abusive employers, they'll be free to seach for another job if they wish, they wont have to live in fear...that's the whole point of America, when u get down to it, America is about "freedom from fear" and yes, these people will LOVE AMERICA and this grand union that it is, and the second thing that needs to be done  is a new "great wave" of immigrants, lets stir this grand melting pot a bit more and inject some new and fresh blood into this great people, the population is aging and if we set out a program to double the population in say 40 years, what a grand and mighty union this America this will be!! imagine 600 million Americans! innovating, young, vibrant and alive!! God Bless America!!
309532
This was an answer left by "Hayleylov" on a question I had posted regarding President Theodore Roosevelt's thoughts on immigration back in 1907.  \nHayleylov....answered it all!!\n\nProblem #1: Population \n\nThe first problem I see with the current state of the immigration laws is the significant rise in population that has, and will, continue to occur over the next fifty years. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an estimated 1.1 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, enter the United States every year. 700,000 of these are legal immigrants; 120,000 are refugees, and between 250,000 to 300,000 are undocumented or illegal “aliens” ( Baldwin, 1995). The United States population at the moment is roughly 288 million people. If this trend of aliens is not decreased, the population will reach 400 million by 2050. How many people can America hold? \n\nProblem #2: Benefits Illegal Aliens Recieve \n\nCurrently, under federal law, undocumented foreign citizens are eligible for emergency healthcare, free schooling from kindergarten through high school, and W.I.C. or Woman, Infants, and Children nutritional program ( Baldwin, 1995). This is important to note because there are currently between eight and ten million aliens currently living illegally in the United States. An estimated 2.5 million of these illegal aliens currently reside in the state of California alone, due to the agricultural jobs that are readily available for cheap labor (Kadetsky, 102). It should not be surprising then that the residents of California were outraged over the amount of money that they were being forced to spend, and the amount of resources that were being used to support aliens that are not “allowed” to be in the United States in the first place. \n\n\n\nProblem #3: Homeland Security\n\nIn the Fiscal year of 2002, which runs October 1 through September 30, the United States Coast Guard, which is the country’s primary maritime, or sea going, law enforcement agency, intercepted 4104 immigrants from various South American countries (USCG, Para 2). Since then, the numbers of immigrants intercepted by the Coast Guard, has continued to climb at an alarming rate; jumping to almost 11,000 in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, and currently with less than two months into the 2006 physical year, there have already been 1,000 migrants accounted for and processed through the Coast Guard (USCG, Para 1). Illegal immigration can potentially cost American tax payers billions of dollars a year. The United States Coast Guard, whose primary obligation is to prevent the loss of life at sea, can not stop this problem by its self, it is mearly the first line of defense. It is up to the rest of America to join the fight and help put an end to this awful practice.\ni couldnt agree more they should learn our language