In 1919, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in a letter to the America Defense Society, "In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Every year, the status quo regarding securities of illegal immigration spirals even farther down than any common, sensible American would have estimated. Our former presidents, especially the ones involved during our industrial revolution and early twentieth century, spin in their graves when they see our loss of sovereignty, high crime rates, rising likelihood of terrorist actions, a weak foreign policy towards our Latin American partners, and our nation’s economic drainage; all in due or done course, because of the parasitical harm entrenched into the US by the effects of illegal immigration. The first duty of our elected representatives, furthermore, it to protect the rights of the American people and uphold the constitution. But the sole loyalty Theodore Roosevelt pertained to in regards to the American people, is now just a hulking paradox in today’s politics when the majority of politicians have sold his/her soul to the corporations that feed, fiscally speaking, off the cheap labor of illegal immigrants.
The toll of illegal pioneering has come in more forms than just a harsh collapsing attack of the economy, but has reached other mediations with losses to the American national sovereignty and an increasing likely hood of another terrorist attack. America’s sovereignty is now just a pawn in the game of political chess, when our politicians now put his/her wallet above the welfare of the United States. Illegal immigration is putting our nation’s sovereignty at risk because of a fiscal plan in place known collectively as the North American Union or the Tri-lateral Union. The North American Union is a tri-sponsored plan with President George Bush, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, and Prime Minister Steven Harpor of Canada. Its plans are to compete with the European Union’s Markets and the ever increasing value of the Euro; and these economic workings have been progressing since 2006 with no signs of a terminus coming in the near future because of the corrupt politics in relations to the North American governments. The developments of the North American Union show themselves in the form of rising inflation rates, the development of the NAFTA superhighway, open borders, and low tariffs which encourage foreign investments of the American infrastructure.
These arrangements of the North American Union tie into the underachieving status quo of the US domestic policy towards illegal immigration. Due to a fear of worsening relations between Mexico and the US; American politicians and government officials choose not to enforce the laws of our judicial system which rigorously state that immigrants who have traveled to America illegally, are not even supposed to be on our soil and are definitely not entitled to the programs and luxuries paid by the American taxpayers. A central component of our porous borders and unlawfulness towards America’s own judicial policies is due to the politicians of the North American Union embracing the impossibility of a change to the status quo. Indirectly, the North American Union will result in worse problems within the US, not just economically and judicially; but far worse aspects: the loss of our currency, flag, national anthem, and many other national entities that protect America’s sovereignty. In conclusion of the North American Union, America’s stance regarding legal immigration, or lack thereof, results from a scare of worsening our relations with Mexico, which has made it morally and politically impossible to change the status quo of immigration.
Now in regards to terrorism within the USA, our open borders are leading to a higher risk of another attack within America. You may ask yourselves “why are our airports so secure that a 84-year old woman in a wheel chair will get a strip search to prevent another terrorist attack in the USA, and yet we leave our southern borders uncovered so that if a terrorist truly wanted to get in, he/she could sneak in from Mexico to the USA just like many of the illegal Latin Americans within the USA do already?” The answer doesn’t lie within a lack of security, but more of an ignorance of checks and balances regarding national security. Post-9/11, America established new ways to prevent another terrorist aggression with the creation of the Patriot Act, wire-tapping contracts with phone companies, the department of homeland security, and an increased usage of Naval base, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. But the paradox inserts itself when America feels defended because its citizens lose their rights entitled by the constitution in the name of security, yet according to a 2006 homeland security press-release, 650 suspected terrorists were apprehended while crossing the Texas-Mexico border.
As incongruous as it may be understood, high numbers of American victims of theft, rape, and murder along the Southwest border has not encouraged new reform of border security and judicial processing of illegal immigrants. With the inconceivable statistics concerning crime rates amongst illegal immigrants such as 95% of the warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal immigrants; the evidence for political and defensive alteration is abundant. Of the estimated 7% of the US population being illegal immigrants; 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are illegal immigrants and 30% of convicted inmates in the state and federal prisons are illegal aliens costing $3 million dollars a day. The percentages may bring shock, but the shock should not be on account of the numbers, but on the fact that the American government and law enforcement allows these blasphemies to continue reoccurrence. What most do not realize, complying with the laws already in place by the American government, state and federal, could prevent the majority of this criminal activity.
Smuggling drugs by way of infiltrating the Southwest border, has proven to be, statistically speaking, the worst part of criminal enterprise economically and historically. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in 1980s, stability regarding the progress with the War on Drugs is just that; stable. Making proficient change to decelerate drug smuggling, drug usage, drug violence, drug creation, and drug dependency, has shown difficulty because of inadequate defense against the chief import of drugs, illegal alien drug smuggling. Drug smuggling across the Mexican border accounts for 80% of the heroin and 50% of cocaine in the USA; and for the cocaine at least 4.5 million pounds is smuggled across the frontier with a street value of at least $72 billion dollars. These numbers should hold undeniability that instituting more security and creating a military specified wall is the principal first step in ameliorating the progression of the war on drugs.
Contemplation referring to why many Hispanic immigrants have traveled seeking permanent or temporary residence, has usually been explained with Mexico being to poor to take care of themselves and the USA, “containing an abundance of work and resources”, will cure the unemployment and poverty of Mexican immigrants. A feeble foreign policy towards Mexico and other Latin American Countries has and will not hinder a continued illegal immigration to the USA. You may ask, “Why do we need to strengthen our foreign policy and make it harder on these countries than the present situation already has placed itself upon?” The reasons aren’t to morally, economically, and spiritually destruct Mexico because America feels a need to backlash with disdain. It is because Mexico has the resources, opportunity for work, and a fortunate location needed to uphold a middle-class economy. If an American foreign relations committee were to force Mexico to evenly distribute taxes and, moreover, spread its resources amongst it poverty-stricken citizens from its 11 billionaires (10 of whom made the 2007 Forbes list), Mexicans could function in their own country without the apparent need to come up to generous USA. Besides upholding mining resources and being the 4th richest nation in oil amongst the world, Mexico in 2001 had the highest GDP in Latin America, 22.5% ahead of Brazil. As a result of poor governmental policies within Mexico, Hispanics are financially forced to travel to the USA illegally to stay above its own poverty level and without a North American intervention, this will continue and both the citizens of Mexico and the Economy of the USA will continue to fall expectedly until the status quo concerning foreign relations is updated.
In the midst of a recession, the President and congress has devised together a bi-partisan package that MAY have capabilities of curing the housing markets and the economy in general. Well I have a solution, enforce border/ illegal immigration laws, deportation, and easier methods of citizenship (so immigrants can begin paying all taxes as soon as possible) that would stem from deportation (because with less immigrants in the country, the line for becoming a citizen would go down). This will remedy the stumbling fiscal policies, because at the lowest estimates illegal immigrants cost, according to many compiled sources of 2006, $338.3 billion dollars a year. And based upon the National Academy of Sciences, for every $1 to $10 billion dollars a year that illegal immigrants vamp America’s budgets, American taxpayers pay $15 to $20 billion dollars. The economic fall-out is broken into segments like the middle-class fissure, expensive welfare programs, dissipation of education, sending money back to Mexico, and a lack of hospital care.
A universal argument for Mexican immigrant-amnesty and permissive border protection is Hispanics will do the jobs that Americans will not do. No, Hispanics do the jobs that Americans used to do before wages were driven down because of the laborious and cheap work offered by Mexican immigrants. It wasn’t even until the last few years that developing a trade such as painter, plumber, or electrician was considered middle-class work. Now people skilled in these areas suffer from unemployment because illegal immigrants do this work for minimum wage; and minimum wage for the average American family is financially unlivable. But as stereotypes preach, Mexicans live 3 or 4 families to a house, which makes them capable of living off multiple minimum wages. And according to Bear Stearns, between 4 and 6 million jobs since 1990, have been replaced by illegal immigrants willing to do the job at much lower wages.
Based upon CNN transcripts, $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt began the foundations of government assistance programs, he did not intend to rehabilitate the depressed economy by giving free handouts to illegal immigrants who do not contribute to society monetarily. He was not a nativist but a financial realist, who understood the concepts of a sound pecuniary policy, and knew the impairments funding illegal immigrants, would accomplish for the job and national market and, therefore, would strongly advice against us doing the opposite of his successes, especially to prevent the appending recession. My favorite statistic, involving Illegal immigrants on welfare, sourced from the 2006 INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants, less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking crops but 43% are on food stamps. Point being, if an illegal immigrant is not paying taxes, then it is not economically feasible to subsidize the alien with government welfare if the assisted will not benefit the country.
Pressing “2” for English, a hot disdain of many native-born English speaking citizens. What about taxes paying for English-to-Spanish translators in certain public schools, mostly elementary, because some of the students may not speak English? Well if just the fact that illegals are allowed to attend public schools without the ability to interpret the native linguistics does not inspire reform in one’s own learning capabilities, then the amount of $12 Billion dollars annually, being spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally who cannot speak a word of English, should invigorate variance, for the sake of your wallet, in budgetary policies. This can be solved though, just by simply imitating a succeeding method of another county. How about Mexico’s? It does not have to suffer economic repercussions because of bi-lingual programs in the public school system. In fact it doesn’t even allow the interpretation of a foreign language with anything government related.
Well unfortunately, because of the immoral antidote of foreign remittances, Washington has had the luxury of printing money uncontrollably, which if continued, will hurt or destroy the American dollar as a result of high inflation rates. In 2006, illegal aliens sent back home to their native land, $45 billion dollars, which has masked the truth that illegal aliens are unable to curb America’s appending inflation rates. And yearly now, the Mexican markets are benefiting from the pouring of American dollars into itself, which is driving down the validity and moral integrity of our currency’s value. Of course there are trillions of dollars abroad other nation’s economies, but starting somewhere (especially with a reparation that would restore America in everything, our illegal immigration problem) would protect the sanctity of the dollar.
The most pressing problem monetarily is America’s hospitals in the Southwest that are shut down or verging a shutdown because of free healthcare given to illegal aliens due to the Emergency Room and obstetrician policy which disallows refusal for any reason except crowdings. And the ones that feel these impacts the most are the local-taxpayers of these areas, who now are sometimes refused service or forced to face the inevitability of long lines because of the flooding of illegal aliens. In Bisbee, Arizona at Copper Queen hospital, 2/3 of its operating budget is spent on uncompensated services for illegal aliens; and this statistic is common among numberless hospitals scattered across the Southwest. These numbers force shortages in staff, available rooms, and emergency care, which have sparked protest by many tax-paying citizens and the hospitals themselves, both whose efforts have reached no avail.
Anchor babies also hurt America’s hospitals (anchor babies are babies born in the USA, automatically granting citizenship) because the cost of paying for the obstetric care of the baby and service to the mother runs around an average of $5000 per birth. In 2005, an estimated 380000 anchor babies were born in the USA, and to give credit to the illegal mother and/or her family, 2.8% of the costs were covered by the illegal(s). In just Colorado alone, the state’s medical programs had to pay $30 million dollars for anchor babies. So besides illegal immigrants aggravating a loophole in American judiciaries which places the new baby in foster care, and consequently will create a larger crime threat, or with a legal family member since the “anchor” of the baby does not gain citizenship, the economy suffers tremendously. In California alone, 66% of all births are to illegal immigrants paid for by the California taxpayer, which accounts for a large portion of the medical losses in California at around $79 million dollars. These same varying percentages toll out $74 million dollars in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million dollars in New Mexico. And because of the tenacity on Capitol Hill, tax-paying Americans in California, Texas, and all between, will continue to receive poor punctuality with healthcare around their hometown or maybe no care at all.
Much like NFC football having to change its offensive playbook because of inadequate results over the last few years, America needs to change its foreign, criminal, political and economic playbook with illegal immigration and the illegal aliens spinning the wheels. Reform knocks at the US government from its bold and patriotic citizens and a liberal movement is moving itself with a conservative agenda. I’m going to throw my plan into this melting pot of ideas which the disposition of adopting all of Mexico’s immigration methods. As I have preached the deficits of the American immigration policy, I tabulated the retributions and consequences of Mexico’s policies and see the scale soaring in favor of ratification. The policies: you must speak the Native Language, no unskilled workers are allowed, no bilingual programs in the government, Foreigners cannot vote or hold political office, if you are here, you must invest 400 times the min wage, no waterfront land (if you buy land), no rights of protest, no foreign flags, no slander of the President or his policies, if you are here illegally, you automatically go to jail.
This leads me to end with a quote that the presumptuous Rush Limbaugh once said on his talk show regarding Mexico’s policies towards immigrants, “That’s how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country, yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets. How do you say Double Standard in Spanish? How about: No mas.”
*Note that the topics of the facts are not in alphabetical order
Economy- Education
-$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English.
-$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
Economy- Sending money back home
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
Economy- Sending $ home
-Sixty-one per cent of those surveyed send remittances overseas at least once a month. A typical remittance is between $150 and $250.
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
Economy/crimes- Jailing
-$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
-30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
Economy- Hospitals/ anchor babies
380,000 Plus "ANCHOR BABIES" were born in the U.S. in 2005 to ILLEGAL ALIEN PARENTS; making 380,000 babies automatically U.S. Citizens 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid for by American taxpayers.
66 % OF all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid by taxpayers
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Economy- hospitals/ anchor babies
- In a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers - average of $5,000 per baby. Those 6,000 births to illegal aliens represent 40% of the births paid for by Medicaid in Colorado. Those 6,000 babies immediately became U.S. citizens and qualified for full Medicaid services, with a cost yet to be tabulated.
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
Economy- Hospitals
Medical service for Americans in affected communities is being severely damaged as hospitals absorb more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs. Some emergency rooms have shut down because they cannot afford to stay open. Local tax-paying Americans are either denied medical care or have to wait in long lines for service as the illegals flood the facilities. In California, the losses are calculated to be about $79 million, with $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico.
Economy- Hospitals
These costs are staggering. The Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends as much as 30 percent of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens.3 The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, has spent $200,000 in uncompensated services out of a net operating budget of $300,000.3 The University Medical Center in Tucson may lose as much as $10 million and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, also in Tucson, has lost $1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002.3
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
Economy- Hospitals
Last year's Medicare reform law set aside $1 billion over five years to help compensate hospitals that treat illegal immigrants in their emergency departments.
Modern Healthcare 34.23 (June 7, 2004): p.14. (663 words) From General Reference Center Gold.
Economy- Middle class
-Between 4 and 6 million jobs have shifted to the underground economy since 1990. These are not "jobs Americans won't do, but rather jobs Americans used to do.
The Underground Labor Force is Rising to the Surface - Bear Stearns
Economy- Middle-class/ welfare (for Americans)
-Between 40 and 50 percent of wage-loss among low-skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low-skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition. An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration; the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
Economy- Welfare programs
-$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as
food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
-$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
Economy- Welfare Programs
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
Economy- Welfare
43 % of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens
41 % of all Unemployment Checks in the United States are to illegal aliens
58 % of all Welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens
Less than 2 % of illegal aliens are picking crops but 41 % are on welfare
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Economy-welfare programs/ taxes
- There are approximately 5 million illegal workers who are collecting wages on a cash basis and are avoiding both income and FICA taxes.
The Underground Labor Force is Rising to the Surface - Bear Stearns
Economy- general/ taxes
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average illegal alien is $55,000 cost to the American taxpayer in a 5-year span. You personally pay $11,000 every year to illegal aliens.
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Economy- General
- The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers.
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
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Crime- general
The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and
a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their
children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the United States.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
Crime- general
53 % Plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas
are perpetrated by ILLEGAL ALIENS
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Crime- sex crimes
* Illegal aliens commit between 700,000 to 1,289,000 or more crimes per year.
* Illegal alien sexual predators commit an estimated 130,909 sexual crimes each year.
* There may be as many as 240,000 illegal alien sex offenders circulating throughout America. Based on studies, they will commit an average of 8 sex crimes per perpetrator before being caught.
www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime_summary.html
Crime- Drug smuggling
At least 4.5 million pounds of cocaine with a street value of at least $72 billion is smuggled across the southern border every year.
www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime_summary.html
Crime- drug smuggling
-80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals.
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
Crime- Warrants
95 % of Warrants in LOS ANGELES are for ILLEGAL ALIENS
83 % of Warrants for MURDER in Phoenix Arizona are FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
86 % of Warrants for MURDER in Albuquerque New Mexico are for ILLEGAL ALIENS
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Crime- gangs
50 % Plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are ILLEGAL ALIENS
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Crime- Jailing percentages
24.9 % OF ALL INMATES in California detention centers are Mexican Nationals here ILLEGALLY
40.1 % of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican Nationals here ILLEGALLY
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
Crime- most wanted
75 % of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque are ILLEGAL ALIENS
http://bordersense.com/legal_immigration_numbers.asp
ILLEGAL ALIEN "CONTRIBUTIONS" TO THE U.S.
2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants
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Deportation- cost
The National Policy Institute "estimated that the total cost of mass
deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of
between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
Mexico can take care of itself
Mexico is the 4th Richest Oil
Nation in the World.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/a
Mexico can take care of itself
11 of 22 Latin American billionaires are Mexican and 10 made Forbes 2007 list
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html
http://www.vdare.com/walker/mexico_the_rich.html
Mexican Immigrant policies
-Must speak the Native Language
-No unskilled workers allowed
-No bilingual programs in the government
-Foreigners cannot vote or hold political office
-If you are here, you must invest 400 times the min wage
-No waterfront land (if you buy land)
-No rights of protest, no foreign flags, no slander of the President or his policies
-If you are here illegally, you automatically go to jail
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14632
http://www.mexicanlaws.com/newsletter_june_2006.htm
http://www.mexperience.com/liveandwork/immigration.htm
http://www.vdare.com/awall/070516_memo.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHPm_TEQ0PA
Quotes- Mexico’s immigration policy
“That’s how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country, yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets. How do you say Double Standard in Spanish? How about: No mas.” –Rush Limbaugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHPm_TEQ0PA
Quotes- Native Americans were here first argument
“Borders are real. National Sovereignty is real. You don't seem to understand the meaning of the word "ILLEGAL" People violating established laws of a SOVEREIGN nation are committing illegal acts. That makes them criminals. Once America established her SOVEREIGNTY any offenses committed against those whose territory was marginalized became moot points. If you don't like it try to re-conquer us and see where it gets you.”
Blog- Astrochronic
Quotes- Economy
"Take your pick: schools, hospitals, parks, roads, urban sprawl, police force, judicial system, water and sanitation systems, among others. Anything that more people impact, illegal aliens impact and often to a far greater degree, since they generally aren't paying for any of it."
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_american_infrastructure.html
Quotes
"To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty." Instead, he recommended that we gradually draw newcomers into American life, "to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a philosophy, at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs." –Alexander Hamilton
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3574762.html
Quotes
"Illegal aliens are not just picking lettuce and digging ditches any more. It wasn't that long ago that being a dry-waller, brick-layer, house framer, painter, roofer, carpet layer, plumber, or electrician was a decently compensated, middle class trade. Now it is increasingly becoming the work for illegal aliens at far less than the free market rate. While illegal alien workers are only a small portion of many of those job categories their willingness to work at dramatically lower rates artificially drags down the compensation for all workers."
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_jobs.html
