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August 5th, 2008

18 with a Bullet
Poll: Should the U.S. send criminals who are illegal immigrants back to their home countries?

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Max -- August 15th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Criminals yes, but not average joes in general as there are plenty of jobs they can do in the states, if there are enough of them the usa can stop importing all their crap from communist china and just go back into manufacturing again and have the illegals working in a useful way. I support that idea way more then importing stuff from communist chinese so we can fund their genocidal psychotic communist government.

mirna -- October 30th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

I do not believe the U.S. should send criminals who are illegal immigrants back to their home countries. That will not solve any problems, rather they will go back and spread crime and attempt to come back; it will be a repetitive cycle. Criminals might as well be kept under more supervised/controlled watch here than in their home countries.

In response to Max, I’d like to say that comment is very narrow-minded. Illegal immigrants should not be replaced by those working unjustly in Asian countries (NOT just China). Just because there are numerous amounts of illegal immigrants in the U.S. does not mean that they have to be subjected to unequal work. It is already difficult enough for illegal immigrants, let alone legal immigrants to find work here, and to find work where they will be fairly compensated is even more challenging. To state that the U.S. should not look to outsource labor in other countries, rather look within this country is ridiculous. According to that comment, the only difference between not having to outsource labor is WHO will actually be doing the manual labor. The situation does not matter, because people, (the minority), will be exploited. The only difference will be that corporate America and the companies that outsource will feel better about themselves for not going abroad for labor to make a profit. What about using the resources we already have here, the majority of the population is White/Caucasian. There seems to plenty of ‘them,’ so why not use them for labor?

cholla -- November 26th, 2008 at 2:29 am

I would prefer that my tax dollars go to keep them locked up here, in the country that they so desperately came to take advantage of. We need to impose a system that takes advantage of them, as opposed to the other way around. These thugs need to be doing hard time, when incarcerated. Put them to work for society. They should have no idle time on there hands.

Jason -- May 12th, 2009 at 5:41 am

If they killed any U.S. citizen they need to die. Otherwise I agree with comment #3. I want them to get hard labor but not at anything that they can screw up. No sitting around watching TV on my dollar. When the time they serve is up. Send em’ back to the country they came from. If they get caught again they should serve even more time. Those who employ illegals should go to jail with them.

LEO -- October 17th, 2009 at 2:25 am

Yes they should be deported! Let them be there country of origin’s problem. It may not solve the problem, but it keeps the problem out of the back yards of my country. I don’t care if it’s “pc”. I’m sick of the people blaming America for all of their problems whilst trying to work the system in their favor.

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