Do immigrants have anything to do with it?

Question

within the last ten years schools are now over crowed,

its hard to get a job without being bi-lingual, and its hard for citizens to get public assistance (and other programs). do this have anything to do with immigrants?

Answer 1

Well, imigrants have been coming here for centuries.

I don't think so

Answer 2

Yes they have alot to do with it and with the schools are suffering, many teachers are going into other lines of work because they refuse to learn spanish and because of having to deal with these illegal kids in their classrooms. How can you teach a class when your trying to explain to children who do not understand what you are saying and your wasting too much time for these children!!!! They are sucking the education system dry along with welfare and every other agency where they can get free things!!!!! And it is not immigrants doing it, it is illegal invaders. Immigrants come here legally!!

Answer 3

A lot of individuals think that immigrants (funny, we all descend from one but anyway) are the cause of these issues, but as Idunning stated, that is not necessarily so.

Speaking from personal experience, my mother is Irish and German. Her whole family was Catholic. Typically, Irish Catholics do not believe in birth control. In fact, I know a lot of non-denominational Christians who feel the same. Their outlook to having children is "if the good Lord gives them, I'll take 'em." With that said, my mother had SIX children (would have been eight if the other two had survived). Another friend of mine who is about my age (30) already has five and plans on "as many as God gives" her. Meanwhile, I tell my man two is more than anyone can afford - what is the point in having the four he wants?

As you'll notice, not a single one of these people are immigrants - legal or illegal. They are American citizens who were simply raised with a different mindset. It is today's generation that is changing. Therefore, the schools may be crowded today but that can very well change in the next 15 years or so as more and more people decide that it isn't cost effective to having large families.

The main thing we should worry about now is getting DECENT teachers, because the majority of the ones we have are horrible (just look at how many are fired for having relations with their students, hitting or cursing at children, etc.).

As for public assistance... can't get one without a SS# and MOST illegal immigrants do not have one, but work for cash under the table. Regarding being bi-lingual: that's true anywhere. Can't get a job to save your life in Canada unless you speak English AND French, although it is really only Quebec who speaks French. Same is true for most countries, and I've even seen requirements for bi-linguals speaking French, German, Italian, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese right here in the states (you can find those jobs listed on Monster or careerbuilder for the most part).

Answer 4

12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants are choking our welfare system to the max..yeah .. I would say this is going to cost Uncle Sam

now kids..just go over to Mexico and ask for the same benefits..ok? and fly the American flag above the Mexican flag..yeah..right...and you would probably be never heard of again..lol

Answer 5

Choose your elective, french, Spanish, Latin, you got it for almost a century we have allocated learning a second language. Spanish is just more popular. Derived from Latin and Greek if you know Spanish you can go to several countries and not be to lost in translation. As far as the schools and teachers go. Unless we can predict who is having a baby and when will they hit the system that's in God's hands. Space in schools fluctuates as needed. If you are looking for a free hand out change your last name to Vietnamese surname and the US will gladly help out. Where the mind is willing there goes the body, dream big, learn more and you will not have to worry about handouts.

Answer 6

When I was a kid the schools were overcrowded. I had to stand the whole school day in back with 15 other kids because the classroom were designed for 25 kids. That was because of the high birthrate after WW II. States that have the highest rates of people on public assistance and food stamps have the lowest numbers of legal and illegal immigrants.

So i don;t really think the problems you talk about, if they exist at all, are caused by immigrants other than this country was founded by immigrants.

Answer 7

12 million to 20 million...pretty rough estimate there. Also, that means that at least 10 million people are farming, gardening, sweeping, serving or cleaning up your s**t on inhumanly low wages. Those are the jobs that keep all three industry sectors alive. The US would hardly have an intensive farming industry in the South if it weren't for immigrants...and that would mean poor, starving US infants - and no food aid. A certain amount of tolerance is exercised by governments because they know that they help the economy by taking the jobs that you and I would shy away from. And with birth rates at low points in most western countries, immigration is a helping hand to population, workforce and multi-culturalism.

Answer 8

Schools are overcrowded because of the increase of children. Generation X- the one following the Boomers was much smaller than its preceding generation causing fewer schools to be built or replaced as old ones wore out.  When Generation X had children their Boomer parents also started round 2 of children. The generation after Generation X is really large compared to their parents. Add to this two things: increase in immigrant populations- which tend to have higher numbers of children than Americans. (This has almost always been true in our history) and an increasing reluctance on the part of society to spend money on things like schools.

As far as being bi-lingual yes a lot of companies require this. This would have happened even without higher immigration levels because we live in a global economy. Being bi-lingual is the norm in most countries.

Ironically it is harder for American citizens to get public assistance because of illegal immigrants but not for the reason you think. Citizenship is required for federal and most if not all state public assistance. You have to prove your citizenship which is difficult for some people to do.  For example in the South where a large number of Black people even as late as the 1950s were born at home with no birth certificate. How do they prove their citizenship. The government accepts family bibles as records of birth but the process becomes more complicated. Also a decrease in funding limits the number of people who can receive public assistance at any given time.

Answer 9

Yes,it has everything to do with illegal immigrants. They are the cause.

Answer 10

NO! where's your information from? or are you making this up? and I've never heard of jobs being difficult to get without being bi-lingual......LOL. Another excuse not to work and blame it on the illegals huh? When I drive around, I see a lot of white kids at the whites schools to, did the illegals cause that by sleeping with their bosses wife?.......LOL