kane

It is not that simple. I live in a small town that has a pretty high population of migrant workers and Mexicans. Many of these people are legal and have green cards, but many of them are not. I am good friends with many of the local police officers and this is what they tell me:

If they stop someone for any reason (say the pull them over for running a stop sign) and the person has no ID and they suspect they are illegal they can arrest them and hold them for a short time while they contact the feds to see what they want to do. Most of the time the Feds have them fingerprint the person and if the fingerprints come back as showing them not being wanted for a crime or having a criminal record the just tell them to let them go, but take down whatever information they can get from them. The feds are so over-extended that they would have to hire a ton of people just to keep up with the current demand and for the the most part they aren't even actively going after these people so most of the time they don't bother with them as long as they aren't committing crimes. However, there are places in this country that simply deport illegals if they do commit crimes. So they are free to steal a car or whatever because they will just get sent back to Mexico and they can sneak back across the border again.

I will ride around with one of these friends of mine and they can point out the illegals as they walk down the street. The schools here are full of the children of illegals and almost none of these kids can speak English. They are now teaching K-3rd grade classes half in Spanish and half in English. If your kid is in one of those classes they are going to sit there half the day trying to learn Spanish while the rest of the kids in other schools are learning other things. Sure, your kid will end up speaking Spanish decently, but at what cost? Not too mention you go to the urgent care center and it is filled with illegals who don't pay the bill for their treatment and many of them work under the table so they pay little or no income tax. Many of these people are a burden to the system.

The feds simply don't have the knowledge or manpower to deal with it all. If they simply funded the locals and let them handle things on a local level it could take a huge step forward in helping get rid of illegals.

I am not a racists, nor am I against people wanting to come to this country to make a better life for themselves. I think we need to make it easier for those who want to come here legally to do so, but for now we need to do something about how it is working because basically we have millions of people living off the grid and taking from the system when they put next to nothing back into it.