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Originally Posted by notabook
Most illegals are not here to get on welfare. Most are here to provide income for their families, either directly here, or by sending money back to their country of origin.
This means you have two options:
Option A. Work vigorously to improve their country of origin through economic means and getting their standard of living equivocal to the country they are flocking to. This option, though noble, hasn?t worked well in the past and in most cases simply can?t work.
Or
Option B. Impose heavy fines along with prison sentences for those who are hiring illegal immigrants, thus preventing them and others from hiring illegal immigrants period, thus taking away the primary reason that illegal immigrants flocked to the country to begin with.
There are really no other options available.
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I agree with most of what you say here, but there is one problem. Most of them do come here to better their lives and get money for their families. But many of them end up in the system. Go to a free medical clinic in your area. Most of the people that are sitting in the waiting rooms don't speak English. To a lesser degree the same goes for public hospitals. They have no health insurance so they get their medical cares taken care of at the emergency room.
Many of these people come here and realize they can't get a very good playing job if they are illegal so they end up working for shit wages and somehow still get food stamps and in some cases housing assistance and other welfare programs. Also many of the schools where I live now teach half of their classes in Spanish because they are flooded with kids that can't speak English. That's not to count the amount of drivers that are around that have no license or insurance.
Finally, is it in the countries best interest to let workers in that are just going to send the majority of what they make back to Mexico instead of spending it here and reinvesting it in our country? IMO it's not a good idea at all.
I think most of these illegals mean well. They want to better their lives and get a new start, but they go about it the wrong way and in the end many of them become a burden on the system. There are things we can do about it, but our government clearly wants them here so they are unwilling to act and it's pretty sad.