Laelia wrote:
What is it about illegal immigration that makes it so much more important than all the other laws people break casually every day?
Since you live in Ontario, and have no clue about living day to day with the impact of illegal immigrants on your life and your city, the importance lies in the burden these people place on citizens. What if you couldn't get health care, or other social services, or had to wait terribly long for them? What if your local taxes increased dramatically? What if jobs became scarce, and the wages for available jobs dropped? What if crime and drugs in your city increased? What if your local police were overwhelmed? What if traffic increased dramatically, and unlicensed/uninsured drivers were a threat to you? What if the schools your children attend had to stop providing some classes in order to offer illegal immigrants lessons in language? What if your property values plummeted?
I guarantee you'd see what was so important then. I laughed at this article from a couple years ago...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/21refugees.html "as many as 7,000 Mexican might be seeking refugee status in the coming week." 7,000!!! Holy shit! There are around 1.4 MILLION illegal immigrants in Texas alone. If you can see how officials in Ontario shit in their pants over 7,000 illegal Mexican immigrants, maybe you can understand how the problems in the southern U.S. might be just a little out of control. You see the difference now between 1.4 million illegal immigrants destroying our lifestyles in Texas and some of our citizens speeding in their car? I sure hope it's obvious.