How has illegal immigration affected you personally?

Question

i know for me, i have a baby on the way and am constantly in the waiting room, while taking off from work with illegals who dont pay anything for their care. and i pay a $2500 deductible. also, my husband got laid off and they kept all the illegals because they were cheaper and now he cant find a job. a lot of jobs in construction(his field) are takedn by illegals. its not fair. i have never seen the country like this

Answer 1

I can't go to the store now-a-days without having to shove my way through a bunch of sexist non-english speaking pigs here in New Orleans. While I appreciate the help that they gave us after the storm, that is no excuse to be disrespectful to people. Learing and nasty comments transcend the language barrier

Answer 2

crime has increased (robberies, burglaries, indecent exposure, drug use, public drunkeness, urinating in public) in our small town since a contractor decided to house his illegals two blocks over from me.  And you can't walk the dog without being whistled at or hooted at.  Granted they go to work in construction, but then they come home and loiter on the streets.  One of them was three sheets to the wind and whipped out his johnson and proceeded to take a leak in front of my daughter and a bunch of other kids who were out front playing.

It's really pissing me off.

Answer 3

you must be on medicaid cause that's about the only way your gonna know that the other people in the room aren't paying for their care...either...i don't buy the $2500 deductible...maybe for the emergency room...then again I don't have to worry about the insurance...

...we have GOOD insurance...&...our doctor doesn't accept medicaid

Answer 4

That's sounds pretty awful, but I haven't been affected by illegal immigrants like that. I do, however, think something needs to be done, so that stuff like what happened to you stops.

Answer 5

10,000 people a year are killed by criminal invaders in the US every year. I got to help carry the coffin containing the body of a friends 7 year old daughter killed by one of those criminal invaders.

2 hospitals closed where I used to live due to the inability to provide free services to criminal invaders.

Taxes are up to pay for services used by illegal invaders

the list goes on....

Answer 6

It's clear that you do not do any research and you immidiatley blame illegals for your husband's laziness.

First, how do you know that the people in the waiting room are illegals? are they brown and speaking spanish?...LOL that's a good reason to assume they are illegally here. and how do you know that they do not pay anything for health care? The only service illegals can recieve is emergency service, and you're clearley in the waiting room at your doctor's appointment, not the emergency room.....so that doesn't add up.

Second, you're husband was probably not the best person for that job (he didn't work hard enough), so the job was given to the better person, and how do you know that person is illegal? Tell him to stop complaining about everything and just do his job!

Immigration and Welfare

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

"One basic flaw in the Heritage analysis is that, as a study by the Immigration Policy Center points out: "The vast majority of immigrants are not eligible to receive any of these [welfare] benefits for many years after their arrival in the United States. . . . Legal permanent residents cannot receive SSI [Supplemental Security Income], which is available only to U.S. citizens, and are not eligible for means-tested public benefits until 5 years after receiving their green cards."

Illegal immigrants are also ineligible for any kind of federal welfare benefits -- with the exception of emergency health care. Many of the Congressional proposals to legalize this population would not allow these workers to collect welfare until waiting up to eight years for a green card and five years after that.

The "welfare" charge is also refuted by the experience of the federal welfare reform passed 11 years ago."

Answer 7

They need to make the laws tougher and make sure they have ids and stuff. If they're hard working, then I don't really mind, but 90% of the homicides are by them in LA, so a lot of them are just plain bad news and dangerous.

I get pissed when I go to a store to order some food and the guy doesn't even know what "take out" means. That's sick. And no way in heck am I goign to speak spanish to them, even though I know it.

Answer 8

First I will answer your question. I was born and raised in Hobbs NM. I lived there for 53 years. minus service time in the Coast Guard. Where I lived and went to school had predominately Chicano population  so I learned Spanish early in life. Over the last 20 years there has been a real influx of Illegal Mexicans. I know they are Mexicans because I listen to their conversations in Spanish and know what they are saying! (Got that Greasy?)  The newcomers are arrogant, they will tell you they do not have to obey American law, That this is their land and they are going to run the Americans out. Since they think no "F'ing Gringo can speak Spanish"(their exact words) I have listened to them planing rape, drug deliveries, and how to steal my tools from the job site. I am a retired Electrical Contractor who worked along side the Illegals during construction projects across NM, TX, and AZ.  There were a few Guatemalans, mostly Indios, and a few non-Spanish speaking illegals but the majority were Mexican and proud of it. Arrogance to the max even when caught trying to break into my tool trailer. The 12 ga. riot gun took the starch out of their sails, so did walking naked to the police station. LOL I loved it.

Secondly: Greasy It is public record that most hospitals in the South West are talking of closing the ER's due to illegals using them for every kind of health care but emergencies. My wife worked as an admitting clerk at Lea Regional Hospital for a year. The damned Illegal Aliens mostly Mexicans(I listened to them talk every freaking weekend, so I Know they were from Mexico cause the talked about how they were s******g the Americans.) were causing losses totaling 13 million for the last half of 2006 and the hospital had told Santa Fe either the State Government was going pay for much of that or they would close the Hospital totally after 2007. Santa Fe coughed up 27 million to offset the losses for 2006-2007. The Hospitals are required to keep statistics of who they help and those statistics are public record. They tell the public if the majority of patients ar Illegal or not.

Answer 9

1. For English Press 1

2. Restaurant bustboys who don't speak English

3. Harder to find a job

4. Getting me extremely hacked off

Answer 10

My son in-law has been here illegally for a number of years--was court ordered by an immigration judge back in 2003 to return to Mexico but he refused to leave.

He files a tax return, has health insurance through his employer, has a driver's licence, and has recently been awarded by the American judicial system returned custody of his 4 children--2 of whom he has sexually molested--and has stated he will take them across the border.

If that happens, no court, no judge, no authority, no nothing will waste their time going after these children.

The courts have not only failed America but these innocent children. I want to strangle someone.

Answer 11

I am totally with you.  I mean, my daddy got laid off from his job because it went to Mexico.  Also, my school is filled with them.  The guys are always talking about me behind my back in perverted ways in Spanish because they think I can't understand them.  (I had my friend teach me certain pervy words so I would know)  I mean, come on.  Even my juice bottle has the nutrition facts written in English and SPANISH.  Why won't they come in legally, LEARN ENGLISH, and get a real job like normal people?!?!?!  I won't apologize to anyone who thinks I'm racist.  Deal with it.

Answer 12

I applied for low income housing in 4 different states and the waiting list is FOREVER long. In one of the states, the waiting list is 20-25 years (and I get preference due to disability) because all the housing is occupied by illegals.. I have tried to get help with electic bills, food, etc and was turned down but illegals walked in and surprise, they got help. I have gone to the ER VERY sick and I have sat there for hours.. an illegal comes in with a "toe ache' and he's seen in 5 minutes plus I have to prove I can pay or leave.. they don't.   I like 1 year of college to graduate I can't get enough financial aid to do that because illegals are getting it all and the work study, etc.. all that's left for me is Loans which I can't pay back.  Add in the times I have been driving along somewhere and have been afraid to stop because I was in fear for my life because I was afraid of them and what they would do.

add to that: the issue of Press 1 for English.. Dam N it this is America.. I should not have to press 1 for English.. Then I get someone who barely speaks any English who either screws up a food order, screws up a phone bill, screws up a..whatever.. In school, I can't help American students for the trouble caused by illegals.

Answer 13

"Exactly how many Americans are YOU willing to allow to be ripped off, infected, molested, raped, killed, and murdered to save ten cents on a head of lettuce?"

http://protectourborder.net/index1.html

Answer 14

Tell your husband to get a better job. Construction worker? that sucks. But it hasn't really affected me.

Answer 15

Well, when I came here I was surprised to see many friends of mine some of whom I haven't seen in maaaany years.

Most didn't come the way some people call here "legal"

I was surprised.

Well, about your personal experience tell that to someone who can fix it. Personally I cannot understand either why the USA, being the most developed country in the world does not provide health services to the citizens  

Don't ask me. I just live here. It is your duty to fix that and many other problems, like the war in Iraq

Bush spends 120 million or more per month in his war, but nobody says anything

That money should be used for health services

Answer 16

After reading some of the personal experiences from above I think its time to test a bomb on our southern neighbors and be done with this nonsense.

Answer 17

Yes, in my business, its hard to compete with other employers who pay illegals much less

I hire ONLY American citizens

Answer 18

Want to talk to my dad who was hit broadside by an uninsured Hispanic driver?...

Or do you want to talk to my brother who had to learn to sing songs in Spanish if he wanted to keep performing in our church's "contemporary music" group?....

Or do you want to join me DAILY for lunch, so you too can get screwed up orders in the cafeteria because none of them speak English well enough to FUNCTION in society?....

Or do you want to drive through Baltimore where there are Hispanic committing crimes and being arrested constantly?....

America is a land of immigrants..... but the ILLEGAL ones need to be treated as the criminals they are.

Answer 19

I'm not an American, as most of you seem to be, but I think the way that most of you are talking about illegal immigrants is unfair. As far as having to speak Spanish, 1 in 10 legal citizens speak it, which is sizable. If you include the illegal immigrants, that would rise quite a bit, so accept it, although you may speak English a change is happening, it would be ridiculous to try and suppress it. Here in Ireland, bank ads and various other sign ands promotions are in Polish as we have had up until recently the same 1 in 10 polish speaker legally here. You need to ask yourself who says an immigrant is illegal? It is your government. You have criminals too, America is home to every kind of criminality. What has been said here is abject racism, including the questioner. Governments greatly mismanage money, the money that you all pay in taxes, etc.

As for your husband, the 'illegals' did not fire him, it was his boss. He is an unscrupulous businessman/manager and should take the blame for your husbands job loss. Blame the businessmen who value a dollar over the job safety of a worker. Blame the government who support and perpetuate this unethical system and who mismanage money they take from you. Blame the governments of the world for erecting borders and having stringent immigration laws that discriminate against the poorest. And do something about it by not teaching your coming child to hate and shirk responsibility by blaming the disadvantaged.

Answer 20

Well..........since I discovered that my "ex" wife really had NO legal right to enter the U.S. under ANY form of Visa........she should be considered "illegal". Especially since she only used me as a source of income (Swindled me out of thousands), as she ran her Mail Order Bride Scam on me to gain entry to the U.S.A.

I have been trying diligently for more than TWO YEARS to have her deported for her MARRIAGE/IMMIGRATION FRAUD, but USCIS says: "Why should we go out and chase her, when she must come to us at the end of her two year Conditional Residency"? So she has been "immune" from ANY actions by USCIS so far, while she continues her various acts of FRAUD (now doing Insurance Fraud), while SCAMMING her most recent "lover" (MY BROTHER)!!!!!!

NOTE: Due to her THEFT of more than $20,000.00, I am now being "forced" into bankruptcy and losing almost EVERYTHING I ever worked for!

Answer 21

A friend of my step daughter was raped and stabbed to death in her home by her illegal neighbor,who had already been deported once. He thought he would break into her home to "get some". His defense was that he was allowed to do it because she said no.

I almost lost my best friend of 35 years when she was run down by a drunk illegal while she was out jogging. He took off and left her on the side of the road to die like a dog. She is now permanently disabled.

Answer 22

It effects me in the way that most people here are speaking about them. My husband is a good man from mexico and people assume because of his heritage and skin color that he is something he is not. He is not a criminal, would never kill, steal, deal drugs etc. My husband barely drinks (maybe 2 a year). Does not make obscene calls to young ladies walking by (neither do most of the Mexicans that we personally know). I get frustrated by the people that act that because some Mexicans do this, that they all do. I wish people would understand that there ARE good people out there in the hispanic community. I am pregnant with #2, and we have to pay my medical too. I am unemployed, and my husband tells me not to worry about finding a job. If I am thinking about it, he says, in his own words "you dont have to work." Meanwhile he goes and works 70 hours a week to make a good life for us. My husband is not a "machista," he helps me around the house (not so much now, because he works SO much and I have been trying to get him to take a weekend off). I am tired of hearing about how Mexicans dont treat their women well. Some dont, I wont deny that...but alot of them are not like that. Just like the obscene calls, I get those too. I think it makes them make all Hispanics look bad, and I dont appreciate that (neither does my husband btw, he thinks it embarrasing that some are so disgusting about how the act towards women).

Basically, you can't blame them all for how a few act. In my state, people are not as upset about illegal issues, but it hurts me to think that people are in other places. I agree with getting the criminal illegals out of here. Any illegal with a record or in a gang we would all be better off without, including the nice people that get targeted for the behavior of these bad people.

Answer 23

hmm well the laws affecting illegal immigrants have affected me personally. I've had to stand by and watch as my Boyfriend (who was brought to the us in the first grade) struggles to pay for college with no financial aid, unable to apply for almost any scholarships, and with no work visa. I get to sit there and do nothing while he tells me how he worries about his parents being deported. his parents who applied for residency 12 years ago, and have paid over 60,000 dollars to the us gov and to lawyers, and still haven't been made residents.

The problem isn't the immigrants, its the fact that the legal system makes it nearly impossible to become legalized residents.

As to the people stating illegal immigrants as a source of crime. If you look at the percent of convicted criminals in the population of illegal immigrants, it is  WAY lower than the percent of criminals in the total population. Illegal immigrants are LESS likely to commit crimes thany anyone else.

Answer 24

A number of the situations you describe are not solely on the doings of illegals. There are lots of outsourced jobs. Americans who dropped out of school. Made numerous babies by numerous fathers. All this adds to our costs, not just illegals.

Illegals take jobs. That hurts us. Outsourcing takes our jobs. That hurts us. Unreasonable union and non union labor demands takes our jobs away too. Lots of blame to go around.

Answer 25

The crackdown on Illegals has made the price of food increase.  Much of the western produce is rotting in the fields because the jobs that Mexican illegals did are not attractive to even the hungriest  Americans.

Answer 26

Its not the honest folk that come out here and work.  I blame the people for hiring them and disposing of the good honest americans.  I also hate there d**n kids who bring the gangs over to Cali.  Its those young ones I hate, they come through my town and shoot my friends.  And Im a nice guy, I know some folk round here who go out and look for them so they can settle some stuff.  Plus Most Mex's hate Blacks, gang stuff from what I know.

Answer 27

nope

doesnt effect me at all

taxes go up but i still have a house food and clothes

the only way it affects me is i get illegals as friends

Answer 28

It affects us all - higher taxes, failing infrastructure, hospital waits and closings, lower education standards, falling wages, increase of diseases, and bad food.

Welcome to third world America!