Why can't people tell the difference between Illegal and legal immigration?
552958
Cause people only hear what they want to hear . It's called selective hearing .
530608
Oh for heaven's sake, you can't determine if someone is here illegally by looking at them.  Just let them enjoy their day and mind your own business.
509947
I think so, if i commited a crime, i should be punished, why are they different\n\nIsaque - I am not only talking of Latin immigrants, I am speaking of ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Key word Illegal. Illegal  = Crime. unless i am just wrong on that on, but as far as i know if someone tells me something is illegal and i go and do i just commited a crime.
1060530
Why Oh Why! do so many people come up with these asinine, inane, and totally ludicrous scenarios to justify illegal immigration. You are making a comparison where there is absolutely no correlation between the two situations. Remember it is ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION that this country has a problem with.
373440
answer, look up legal and illegal immigrants. can you see why now?
1056825
Illegal immigrants make up a huge chunk of the base of the work force, pay taxes (both on their pay and in sales taxes, etc), keep money moving around the system just like anyone who lives here (by buying groceries, gas, clothes, etc), and actually receive less in social services than legal immigrants because they're not able to get many social services without paperwork (despite what certain right-wing lies you might hear).
872098
There is a vast difference between legal immigrants and illegal aliens. This country has some of the softest rules about applying for citizenship or temporary status compared to other countries. When someone comes here and does the right thing they are in a different group as the people who come here illegally and break the law. They should NOT be on the same line, they should get precedence and the illegals should be rounded up as they get on line for their green card, put on a bus or plane and sent home.
723116
are you asking immigrants or illegal immigrants, there is a HUGE difference.
417126
People make that assumption because they are the largest group of incoming illegal immigrants.  They aren't the only people who come to this country and stay without legal citizenship, but Mexicans do come and stay illegally in larger numbers than immigrants from any other single country.
506374
ILLEGAL immigration is the issue at hand. Prefixes before words change the meaning of the word. LEGAL immigration is a whole different subject, one I support. \n\nI think the ILLEGAL immigration situation is out of control.
674598
Apples and oranges.  Black people were brought forcibly to this country and enslaved.  Illegals sneak in and take advantage of our services.  Black people are legal citizens and entitled to all the services and rights our country has to offer.  Obviously, illegals are not.  It's ridiculous to compare the two.\n\nAs far as illegals being discriminated against, why shouldn't they be? They have NO legal rights here. If they're legal and being discriminated against, that's entirely different, and the people doing the discriminating should be held accountable.
379934
A crime is a crime. Do the crime, do the time!  They are called ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS for a reason!
684261
Not ALL people from another country are illegal . Just the people who come here without permission to do so and stay here and don't pay taxes.  Yeah, that's pretty illegal.  On the other hand, if someone comes here with a green card or something legal like that; it's all good.
127086
Legal immigration is moving to this country by filling out the proper paperwork and being given permission to live here. Illegal immigration means entering or staying in the country illegally.\n\nNow, with regards to the economic impact. Illegal immigrants DO do work that Americans refuse to do. And that is because of the wages. Say Americans picked oranges and had to be paid $15 per hour plus medical plus benefits. Americans would be lined up outside the door to get those jobs, right? Are you willing to pay $10 or $15 for a quart of orange juice to cover those wages and benefits? I think I know the answer to that one. So, to keep your quart of orange juice at $3, orange growers have to pay illegals 2 or 3 bucks an hour to do the work.\n\nHaving "fair pay that allows economic participation home,food,clothing,auto,health care,checking and savings accounts etc" sounds all well and good, and I think MOST Americans would be in favor of that if it were feasible. You wanna pay $15 for your McDonald's combo meal? No? Then guess what, people get paid minimum wage. You wanna pay $20 for a pound of meat? No? That's why stockers and tellers get around minimum wage.\n\nMOST of the people in those jobs (tellers, fast food, etc.) tend to be teens and people in their early 20s. Do you know why? Because they don't have any experience doing anything else! Why SHOULD they have everything handed to them on a silver platter? They are unproven as employees. After a couple of years, most move on to a little better jobs with a little better pay. They prove themselves there and move on to something bigger and better.\n\nGuess what? That is the way of the world ... always has and always will. Some people don't make a decent living because they do not prepare themselves to be able to earn a decent living.\n\nWhen I got married in 1989, I worked full time and netted $110 per week. $440 per year. $5280 per year. And I worked my a$$ off for it. I chose not to go to college, but I spent ten years in the military getting skills. I never made more than $25,000 in any year. I got off of active duty and was offered a job making over a hundred grand per year almost immediately. I had sh!tty pay for a decade, but there was a payoff - and that is right now.\n\nDon't be angry at the "cheap bastards trying to play capitolist" (and it is captilalist, not capitolist). Capitalism is all about the law of supply and demand. If the supply (the workers) will work for minimum wage (the demand) why SHOULD they be paid any more? If they don't like it, they should prepare themselves for a better job.
789912
Illegals are ILLEGAL.  Those folks came into the country illegally.  They're breaking the law by being here.  What's hard to understand about that?'
381425
how about a traitor?  i was an immigrant but came here legally. i became a us citizen after 5 years of continuous stay in the us. i applied for citizenship and was granted. there are legal ways and process to migrate. illegal is illegal, plain and simple. it is a criminal act. it must be punishable by law. these illegal immigrants know this as a fact and yet they justify this act. i am so against illegal immigration and some call me a traitor.
644726
There isn't any difference.  Was that in any doubt? \n\nWhat that has to do with immigration, I don't know.