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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
Your analysis may be correct. However i wonder if in reality what bothers people most is the failure of the authorities to enforce the law, and the decision of those who decide for a better life to violate the law to achieve their goal. Personally, like many other issues that often have excuse after excuse by those on both sides, i'm just tired of the hipocracy of them all.  |
Definitely. There is tremendous frustration on both sides of the issue. It is a dirty secret that nobody really wants to face. Specifically, the thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants working in factories, construction, hotels, agriculture, etc. There's so much talk about these people yet nobody really wants to do anything about it perhaps knowing that our economy would take a big hit.
On the other side of things, there is frustration and anger about having to support illegal immigrants for uninsured and unpaid medical services and the strain that they put on the education system. Illegal immigrants have children here and they attend our schools to compete for resources. Like it or not, illegal immigration does cost us a ton of money even before considering the costs to enforce the immigration laws.
There absolutely needs to be major reforms but there still have to be strict controls on immigration. It's not going to be easy but I still think that eliminating the citizenship-by-birth would be a good start.