How do other countries deal with immigration?

stacymomof2 the question was how do other countries deal with immigration.... I was answering that... no where did I say we should emulate them.

But, we do have to do something. Personally I have no problems with immigrants.... it's when they are ILLEGAL I have an issue. Why do we, legal citizens, have to obey all the laws but ILLEGAL immigrants don't have to follow immigration laws?? Wouldn't it be nice if we could pick an choose the laws we want to obey as well. 

It was my understanding that we were leaders...
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It was my understanding that we were the USA, a nation of immigrants. There would be no US without immigrants, illegal or otherwise.

Japan - arrest and deportation, prohibited social services (health insurance, etc) Undocumented children subject to deportation at majority
UK - employing an illegal is a civil and criminal offense
Costa Rica - transporting illegals is a 6 year prison term and employing them is a fine of about $4000 per employee
Australia - Deportation, fines up to $66k and 2 years in prison for employing illegals or telling them where to find employment
Israel - imprisonment of a year or more

Probably, Do we want to be other countries?

 Aren't we supposed to be that "beacon"?

It was my understanding that we were leaders...

Also, in my criminal justice class we were learning about some other countries' laws. In Singapore, you can be fined up to $1000 if you do not flush a public bathroom. You will be executed if you bring drugs into their country. I was curious about their illegal immigration so I looked it up and here is what I found- If convicted, they can be jailed up to 6 months, liable to caning, or fined up to $6,000.

I don't know, I'm only answering so I can find this later because it's a great question!

No, we are not. When I lived in Germany from 2002-2005, there was a big influx of immigrants from Turkey. A lot of them caused crime in the cities late at night. Most were on some sort of student visas but because of the problems that they were having, Germany was considering tightening the requirements for the visas. Not sure if they did do anything or not, but since many other countries citizen's can stay/live in Germany for 90 days it is hard to deal with the ones that were there "illegally"- meaning that they had been there fore more than 30 days.

oops, meant to end that last sentence with 90 days not 30.

I don't have a problem being the ones with a conscience.