Why don't we make imigration legal in America?

[Yolanda]

It's a question for my homework and I don't know what to put. Help me out? Thanks.
Sorry, I mean like illegal immigration. Like why can't they just come if they want?

[Sandstorm]

because everyone loves our country and everyone would want to come.. therefore losing our americanism..
and if it wasn't illegal.. then im sure none of them would learn english.

[Millan]

Because they take our jobs, they use our resources, they make us pay their medical bill if they go to the Emergency room, we give them shelter, clothing, food, and whatever else. It costs us money.

[hummingbird]

thousands of people from each other country, want to be american.
so, this means if they all come they will take our jobs, bringing in sickness/disease from their country, taking our money from us.


and currently, america is having issues with economy.


update;
mira, how is this question, and answers racist?

[Garrulous]

You are suggesting letting everyone come, unregulated.  Do you really want your country to be even more full of rapists, drug traffickers, child molesters, murderers, and people with contagious diseases than it already is?  That is why we try to regulate who comes in...to keep out dysentery, malaria, STDs, and criminals.
Not too mention, more people means higher prices for food, housing, and clothes...and lower wages.  Do we REALLY need that?

[curlz]

Immigration laws were created for a reason, not just in America but other nations as well.

The short answer:   Too many passengers on a ship will sink the vessel.

[federox]

For all intense and purposes it is.

Nothing is being done about it.

We even have one in th Oval Office.

[geoffrey]

because then they would have to be documented and paid fairly... you would not be able to get cheap food or services... its part of the giant machine...

[Sandstorm]

Because a country can't function if money isn't being put in to it. People who are citizens have to pay taxes, and they put money back into the economy when they buy things. Most illegal immigrants come in, not registering, or not trying to become a citizen, and take money out without putting money back in. They send money back to families in other countries, because they can get more money here for less work then they can in their own countries. And they don't have to pay taxes.


Thalia: that is a different type of imigration. That is legal. It still is that way, people do it every day. People came in, and registered as citizens, there by taking on all american responsibilities, taxes included. That is one of the basic values of american exceptionalism. Legal immigration. But when someone decides to come into the country, live here, not pay taxes, and not be a citizen, WE pay for them. It would be like if i came into your house, and took your lamp, and walked out. As apposed to knocking on your door, and nagotiating for the lamp. BIG DIFFERENCE.

[camila]

illegals don't pay taxes and make lurve to your grandmother....;-)

[camila]

It used to be. Otherwise there wouldn't be any white people in America in the first place.

Actually the largest wave of immigration were Europeans in the mid C20th, like between the two world wars, who were encouraged to move to America.

[formula1]

It All Boils Down To Money.... Not Race. Every Race Is Equal... But Our Money Is Not Sweety. And That's Why... Use Mexico For Example. $100.00 In American Money is The Equivalent Of $1000.00 In There Country. Worth Much More Than Pesos. If We Made It Legal. Our Nation Would Fail. It Would Become Over-Run With People Coming Into Our Country Working For Our Money And Then Leaving With It. So We Would Be Forced To Create More Money.... Which Would Increase Our DOW Needs... The More Money Out There, The More American's Would Be expected To Pay In..... And How Do We Do That If The Money Needed To Be Payed In By The American Tax Payers Was In Another Country? It Would Eventually Bankrupt The United States Of America. But This Is Just ONE Of The Many MAJOR Reasons We Have Immigration. I'm Sure With This Insight, The Other Reasons Are Just As Obvious. Common Sense Can Go Far Here.

[formula1]

It pisses me off to see that desperate people are turned away by our govenment. It's probably money, more helpless people, more mouths to feed. I doubt it has anything to do with ethnicity.

[Sandstorm]

well you're just not tryin at all then!  It IS legal, they WILL NOT go through the process we have in place for them to do it!

[federox]

You lot are so ignorant. Some of you are just racist.

[Melanie]

Countries are defined by their borders, and one of the purposes of a border is to regulate who is entering and leaving the country.

Without laws regarding immigration, we would have no idea who is in the country (possibly having terrorists, criminals and people with dangerously infectious diseases), and our social services such as hospitals and welfare would be overwhelmed.

[Garrulous]

Well its not about making illegal immigration legal..  it is about lifting any and all restrictions in immigration:

we have immigration laws in this country because we need to know who is coming in and we need to restrict he amount of people coming in at a time.

it has nothing to do with race or religion or with anything else.
It is a pure numbers game.  it is not fair for someone to wait for years to come in here legally and constantly have to wait because people come in illegal and "cut in front of line"

Would you find it fair if it happened to you?  should people not wait their turn to come here?


And if we were to just let anyone here anytime they want..  how do we keep tract of everyone? when do we hit the limit for too many people in here?  we do not have limitless resources...

if people come here and don't tell anyone that they are here..  how do they pay taxes? How do they pay their fair share?

we need to keep restrictions on immigration and for the people that are here now..   they need to leave.. and come back again the correct way

[geoffrey]

edya 19 wrote:"because then they would have to be documented and paid fairly... you would not be able to get cheap food or services... its part of the giant machine..."
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They're already paid "fairly".  What drives down the wages is the fact that there are SO MANY OF THEM WITH BASICALL THE SAME LACK OF SKILLS.  Even with skilled labor, numbers matter.  Workers compete with each other and when an employer has access to a virtually unlimited supply--say, most of the world, well, he really doesn't have to pay much.

[Jesse_J]

We need to limit the people coming here, or the whole world would come live here, and many more terrorist would come right in.