One day you will wake up and will be living in an area that is full of illegals overcrowding your schools, not paying income taxes, and receiving government benefits.
Your kids will not be getting a quality education because most of the school is focused on bilingual education and your district has made it clear that bilingual will be the main focus of the district.
When you drive to the store you see businesses flying the Mexican flag out front, or alternating US and Mexican flags.
When your kids want to get summer jobs but have a hard time getting hired since they do not speak Spanish OR there are no jobs available since they are filled with illegals.
I could go on but you can't really get it from a post, you will have to experience it. And you will, it is only a matter of time.
I'm Already there. I've been surrounded by illegals since 1961. First migrant farmworkers. Then illegal Poles and Eastern Europeans in NW Chicago. Then by Hispanics in the city and now by Hispanics and Asians in the suburbs. 55% of new homeowners in my suburb have Hispanic last names... most who came here illegally. And that doesn't count the illegals with non-Hispanic names. Plus, of course, the illegal Asians and a couple Haitians.
overcrowding your schools, not paying income taxes, and receiving government benefits.
When my suburb was first built, 100% of homebuyers had school age children... that was why they fled the city. Now, those original buyers are empty nesters. Even though new buyers are large families, only a small percentage of homes change ownership each year. Thus, school enrollment is much less than it was 10 or 20 years ago.
You will be horrified by the next fact. The new homebuyers often have 3, 4 and even 5 working adults overcrowding the house they just bought. It's known as being pro-family. The extended family is the safety net, not the government. Section 8 and FHA/VA financing is less with these immigrant buyers than with the original citizen buyers. Conventional mortgages are up with these immigrant buyers.
When the priest preaches they must sign up for Kidcare to be good parents and good Catholics and the white nuns and deacons try to corner them as they leave mass, they successfully avoid signing up for Kidcare. Kidcare is a failure in Illinois because those eligible do not sign up for it. The only ones getting our tax money are Sister Edith, Jesse Jackson and poverty pimp citizens.
The immigrant homeowners all have income taxes and social security witheld. If they were to file 1040, most would get refunds. But they do not file and do not get refunds due to fear that their bogus SSN will be discovered or the IRS will share info with the INS.... and due to not understanding the US tax system.
Bottom line, the immigrants (legal and illegal) in my suburb pay much more in taxes than they recieve in benefit. Social Security is kept alive by them.
Historically, illegal Polish immigrants came here at age 45 and bought a social security card (and drivers license and voters card) from Congressman Rostenkowski's patronage. They retired to Poland and collected Social Security there. The Solidarily movement was financed by our Social Security benefits being shipped to Poland... and by the private money send back to Poland by immigrants.
In contrast, historically, Hispanics have never tried or been able to collect social security benefits when they retire in Mexico. But, of course, they do send massive amounts of the money they earn through hard work back to support their families.
In the immigrant culture, the extended family is the safety net. Not the government. To become Americanized is to dump obligations to the extended family; emulate Hollyweird morality and collect government benefits. That is the American way. Not the Mexican or Indian way.
When your kids ...have a hard time getting hired since they do not speak Spanish OR there are no jobs available since they are filled with illegals.
Sorry to disappoint you. My kids speak Spanish better than I do, but not as good as my wife does. At work, I have a harder time understanding illegal Indian IT workers whose first language is English with a weird accent, than I do understanding the illegal Central American Contras that clean my office building.
Both the highly paid illegal Indian IT workers and the modestly paid illegal Hispanics in Illinois are here because Americans do not want the jobs available. Where I work, they have consistently been unable to fill all the IT jobs they are trying to fill. They have 3 choices: 1) Kill the project. 2) Outsource to India. 3)Bring in immigrant workers. Are they legal? Don't ask, don't tell.
Yes there are problems with immigration. But the sky is not falling. Immigrants are not one of the four horsemen. We don't need another massive government program to solve the problem.
Immigrants who come here to work should be welcomed. They are good for us. Getting a seal of approval from big brother is too costly.
Immigrants (legal or illegal) should not come here to collect welfare (aka Kidcare or whatever name).
Immigrants (legal or illegal) should be denied welfare.
Government resources should be targeted, not towards the 98% of hardworking immigrants but toward the 2% of terrorists and criminals. That is not now being done. Known immigrant criminals are reported to the police. The executive orders of Nixon/John Mitchell's INS are still in force to prevent law enforcement from apprehending these known criminals. Their only recourse is to forward the information to the INS. The INS bureaucracy is incompetent to do anything effectively. Apprehending known criminals is low priority for the INS. Protecting their turf in bureaucratic wars is top priority for them.
Oh, BTW, my suburb has reached an all time low in crime, Traffic accidents, DUI arrests, mortgage foreclosures (due to the shift from FHA to conventional). But property values are at an all time high, which means big property tax bonanza to the schools.