What other country would let you walk in with out a passport or visa and stay for an undetermined amount of time and work? I also live in the southwest and I also see the problems that this illegal migration brings. You got to understand that the ones who make it possible to bring these people in, do it with a very high a price. The price it measured in money that the family willing to pay and in so many cases they pay with their own lives when they are dumped the the desert and left to fend for themselves in the hot summer heat.
Immigration w/o a passport is considered ILLEGAL; therefore, they are called illegal immigrants. No other country allows this because it doesn't exist. Hmmmm, didn't the American revolutionaries that fought the British forces want to die for it too? Rhetoric aside, it's only of value if you are willing to die for it... is their decision less worthy than our judgment? When was the last time you were willing to die for something and actually go through with it?
To the taxpayers: go to any emergency room after 5:00 pm and it will be packed. (which I had to do one time at took 6 hours for them to get to me)This is the only way that they can get medical attention and they can not be turned away. There have been several smaller hospitals in southern Arizona that have gone under because they could not keep giving free healthcare. And yes, those cost are passed along to the rest of us who have insurance and are able to pay. Which impacts your insurance fees and hopital fees.
Ummm, emergency room... 6 hours later. Contradiction & oxymoron? Trust me, I've experienced the emergency room here at SF General Hospital too... I saw a man with an eyeball hanging out... hanging, hanging, and hanging; kinda put the three stitch gash above my eyelid in perspective. How does waiting six hours for emergency care = exploiting the system? Gawd forbid an illegal immigrant have a heartattack. You know that the insurance industry is a scam right? Any insurance of any kind is tied to the litigation system. I thought people worked for their money in this country, not leech it off of others.
They can become unwilling victims by people of their own race. In some cases the "coyotes" (the people who bring them in) will put them to work to pay off what they owe, by selling drugs and other illegal activities. So your local crime rate goes up.
They said the same thing about blacks moving into the neighborhood. Asians too, and Italians, and Greeks, and Irish, and Spanish... and anyone else who isn't Anglo-Saxon.
These are only a few of the problems. If you want to come into this country, I have no objection, just sign the guest book on the way in. Millions of others have.