Illegal immigration is America's biggest problem!

Yes, if we did not have it our country would be on it's knees in despair. They do all the things we won't and if they stop doing it we couldn't afford to live here and we would have to move to Mexico. Bill

What the "masses" are slow to realize is that the "idea" beginning with the Reagan era is to contract out government work. That morphed into jobs being sent to other country's (when was the "accent" of the last help desk you called?).

We are rapidly becoming a 2 class society. The illegals are here because somebody wants them here. I'll leave that for you to guess who. Work is not the same as it was 30, 20 or even 10 years ago. Humans are successively shaped to serve the corporate machine at lower wages with more requirements.: Drug tests, personality tests, sales quotas for store clerks, admonishments or even firings for not kowtowing to an abusive customer, lie detector tests (even for volunteers).

I speak to illegals (in their own language) pretty regularly. The ones who abuse them most are those of their own nationality. The "sleeping masses" do not realize that one day (maybe soon) they will be in the same boat as the illegals. My wife is here legally from Russia. She speaks English with an accent. Nearly every day somebody tells her "I want to speak to somebody who speaks English".Her English is good. But, she DOES have an accent.

Just keep waving those flags, sporting those ribbons and everything will be " Honkey Dorey" until the day people wake up to find out they are not quite as free as they thought. The illegals I have known have a "work ethic". I have not see as many US citizens work as hard as the illegals they bitch about.

According to the latest CNN poll forty six percent believe in ghosts but only twenty five percent approve of the actions of our government.

Since more believe in what most of us can't see and most of us don't want to believe what we do see I'm not sure illegal immigration is a problem at all.

The current administration is America's biggest problem. They haven't got a clue on what to do about illegals. "Illegal" means it's against the law, yet there's talk about possibly offering monetary assistance to these criminals from programs that we law-abiding citizens are paying for. The administration also has our young people fighting a war that can't be won. What a mess!!

whitemanitou, you mentioned how so called Real Americans demand an English speaking person instead of your wife.

I knew a woman that worked at an assisted living facility. Many of her co-workers were Fillippinos and legally in this country. But one day this elderly white narrow minded resident asked this woman when she was going to get her citizenship. Just assuming that she was here illegally.

The caregiver was a Native American Indian.

I asked her if she told the elderly woman to get out of HER country.

I agree with happydays comment: The current administration is America's biggest problem

it'd be great if that were true. heh, no greater problem than people coming here to work their butts off while maintaining momentum of the national economy. we can only dream.

no, the nation's biggest problem is corporate accelerated willful ignorance. that whole mess of , um, willfully juvenile entertainment labeled as "news". and "information". not disguised as. merely labeled. 'cos all that extra effort to make things sound rational, sensible, thoughtful, real, aren't necessary when the audience is, ah, willfully engaged in the mass disinformation movement.

hah. much later. i wrote a buncha words, then deleted them because, though i believe them to be relevant and accurate. i couldn't see them adding anything good to the dialogue. but i chose to include the willful ignorance paragraph because ... ..well, because it's a way important concern. and if you read it and think i was talking about you, think again. i was tryin' to talk *to* you. this dialogue thing ain't all that simple. takes practice sometimes, and trial and error stuff.

sort of back to the point. short question, short answer. america's biggest problem is fear. somebody gave a warning about that, few years back now.

Cheap labor from south of the border is an American resource the same as Arizona copper or Florida oranges.(Why are your crops rotting in the fields Colorado?).

I've worked in restaurants here in the south west for 20 years and I can promise you every immigrant is the parent or grandparent of a mainstream all-American.

I understand that immigration has different effects in different parts of the country and in different industries but demonizing illegals is wrong. It's a political trick, "blame the blanks" works every time.