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Originally Posted by JC
Why? Do we really have a problem? They provide cheap labor for jobs that most Americans don't want to do. If you ask me there are real problems that the government needs to be worried about before some BS political pandering to trailer park rednecks about immigration. How about some health care reform? Maybe deal with our deficit? The poor state of education? Seems like there are lots of important things taking a backseat to something that's not even a problem.
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That's a good point, but I still believe in time this could become a much worse problem. Just 6 years ago there were 7 million illegal immigrants. Today there are 11 million (INS and Census Bureau estimations). There are only more and more coming, the majority of which are from Mexico.
Also, we may not have a problem with the illegal immigrants who come here to live, but there are people who don't like the U.S. and have the power to destroy this country, in one form or another. So not having secure borders poses a threat for national security, which could also become another problem.