Are the pampered blue collar workers afraid of losing their luxurious lifestyle if immigration is allowed?
448820
Are we Afraid Hell NO ! You people want more than what we're giving you and the price of freedom isn't cheap. OUr poor fathers worked hard to make this Country work for business men like myself, and We are not going to set back and watch you destroy what we have in order to make you any happier here. you start at the bottom and work your way up or you can all go back to where you all came from. It's that easy There will be hell to pay the day they open the gates and just allow you free passage into this country, because I'm not alone on this one !!!
527469
I am a real liberal rather than the usual anti-conservative and I am completely against illegal immigration.\n\nPeople are coming across the border (not just from Mexico and Latin America, but from Asia and Eastern Europe; not just in sweat shops but in sex industry as well) illegally because they are being recruited by unscrupulous employers to circumvent the idea of free market economics. If the demand for workers is greater than the willingness of the indigenous labor supply to settle for the money offered then wages are supposed to go up. Instead, a black market worker is smuggled into the country, often at great physical peril, and then is kept at a job which would be illegal because the hours are too long and the environment is too unsafe by the threat of deportation or physical intimidation and the worker cannot seek redress because he must remain secretive. This is BAD for America.\n\nHowever, and I am sure you will not like this, I fear that if the War in Iraq were going better we would not be debating this issue right now. The economy has been in the tank for almost five years, and illegal immigration has been a non-issue until six months before a major election when the party in power is seen as being weak. Maybe that is a smoke screen, maybe it's just a coincidence.
306672
By all accounts, we are putting them to work.  And that's fine with most people, especially the people who hire them.  So there is no problem.\n\nBut problems were made.  Because they became more numerous, they became more visible, and so they got more notice.  Eeek!  An immigrant!  Two, three, a dozen, right over there!\n\nNow we have to sort out frightened people's "concerns" against the economic benefits of having them here to do our crop picking, lawn care, babysitting and other low-end jobs.
629216
Yes, so long as they are willing to follow the steps required. Unlike most people, I don't blame them for coming in here any way they could. And no, they are not a burden to society and they do not drain the economy. Not all work under the table. They DO pay taxes and have Social Security taken out which they will not be able to collect. I do agree they work for low wages but that all would change if they were given work permits. And yes if people do not want to go through the process and learn English and adapt, then yes, they should not be in this country.\n"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". Remember these words? I do.
1178117
A tan will not steel jobs, or mug you. It will not play bad ethnic music loudly, or drain the economy. Yet a tan can not mow my lawn for 3 cents, so I guess immigrants are necessary.
62063
You need a work Visa.
984049
It's relatively new since controlled immigration and the concept of legalising immigration is also relatively new.  Were we worried about this fifty years ago?  No, because immigrants did not want to emigrate here as badly.  Now, with labour becoming increasingly less expensive in other countries, we called in more immigrant workers to help boost the economy in the U.S. (yes, people, it was actually originally produced to boost immigration so that in the long run, the economy would boost), and it actually worked.  The only problem now is that corporations are now moving overseas to find cheap labor, or hiring ILLEGAL immigrants for cheap labour, and that's hurting the economy.  It's not immigration that's the problem - they have the same expectations and are legally bound to same rule that Americans are bound to when it comes to employment.  It's the problem of labour allocation (moving to other "cheaper" countries like China and boosting its economy, instead of our own) and hiring ILLEGAL immigrants.  I think we need to stop judging the legal immigrants - they came here for the same reason the original "Americans" came here, to make a better life for themselves and to work for fair wages.  Start blaming the employers of illegal immigrants and the corporations that are investing in underdeveloped countries.
957054
you should not come here and work.  i am sure that your country needs plenty of wonderful architects.  stay there!
509912
I believe it is a guest worker program that allows working immigrants that have been here for 5 or more years to stay as a "visitor". Im not exactly sure though.
651552
No..they are strict about ILLEGAL immigrants being here and with due reason.
816088
Yes its true. They are very much needed no matter how much those legal citizens deny it. They might find out only if those migrant workers go on mass leave.
600601
In NJ there is a huge problem with technical people coming here legally on H1-B visas and driving down the pay for many people.  There are so many people with technical Masters degrees that are now driving limos and selling furniture because lower paying H1-B visa people have taken their jobs.\nThe Senate bill, which just passed has a huge increase in the number of H1-B visas allowed into this country.  These are all legal jobs that help corporation pay low wages to highly technical people and put middle class Americans out of work.
1165661
not if you are an immigration officer,\notherwise it's no one else's business
197962
I've heard similar.\n\nI heard that they're looking to allow professionals to emigrate, but make it harder for others.\n\nIn other words they only want to let in people that are gonna improve their economy, or their health service, etc...
1160083
The guest worker programand visas  would work on another world. Here on earth people are not honest and do not follow the laws put in places.
78780
It allows employers access to those with a wonderful work ethic and affords the worker's peace of mind while living and working openly and legally.
920039
heak no i wouldn't i can get a better job with benefits at the same price. but anyways, i don't think this is what the question is about. most people would say that immigrants are taking their jobs away but is it true. i think not they are doing jobs that we don't want. do you know have they are treated in the feilds.... there is a saying.... you don't know a person until you been in there shoes. personally i haven't but i have heard stories from my family that had to go through that to get to where they are.