Immigration - September 2006

I just want to know where all these accusations were coming from. Please don't use knowledge passed down fromm Great, great Uncle Alberto. I always hear Mexicans say whites are racist..so prove it..or don't use it as a crutch in the pro-amnesty movement

2006-09-26 12:22:20 · 17 answers · asked by betty 1

Truely I think they are great workers but that being the case why cant they do what they do here, in Mexico? I hear first hand they build houses well, I would think thats a great market for Mexico:)

2006-09-26 12:00:29 · 17 answers · asked by hot lips 2

2006-09-26 11:57:15 · 5 answers · asked by anthemstar 1

Just curious.

2006-09-26 11:56:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

So some of you say they take all our jobs, then some of you say they expect a handout and welfare. Which is it?
If they are always working taking our jobs, how do they have time to go to a government office and apply for welfare?
Now are you telling the truth or are you just spreading hate and lies like nasty little kids?

2006-09-26 11:25:32 · 25 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5

Just wanted to know which jobs are most threatened by this.

Please give the specific Job title if you can

2006-09-26 11:24:06 · 15 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6

Preface: Im Hispanic. Our country already has too many freaking people in it; adding still MORE people will just strain systems and dilute resources that much more. Clearly we cannot allow anyone in the world who wants to come here do so. Every sane person will agree to that. But for some reason if you replace the word "anyone" with "Mexican" millions of people including almost all latinos (go figure) suddenly lose their minds and decide this country can handle any influx imaginable. Actually, *hint hint* they're not doing any analysis, they're just spouting bullshiat based on emotion and/or old-fashioned Sesame Street caliber tribalism. We don't owe non-citizens anything. I'll repeat that. We don't owe non-citizens anything. Helping out non-citizens is one of those "nice to do" things. It's not something you do if it hurts real citizens. A massive increase in competition for resources versus a much smaller increase in those resources = hurting real citizens, lower standard of living.

2006-09-26 11:23:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-26 11:23:33 · 30 answers · asked by ukresident 2

what is the name of the first town founded in the Americas by the europeans, that people still live in today

2006-09-26 11:21:50 · 5 answers · asked by DJ Amigo 1

I normally prefer the politics section of yahoo answers, but i was browing through immigration and you guys all seem to really have it in for illegals.Did youcome to this thought on your own or because thats what the government wants you to think? Are you really filled with that much hate for another human being? A human being with parents and children and people who care about them? Do you really mean to talk about them like they are worthless?

2006-09-26 11:17:57 · 17 answers · asked by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5

Seriously, it's not like illegals have a fair chance at defending themselves (too busy working, making poverty wages, not sitting at computers), it's just a forum for hate spewing, and 'yes I agree!' etc...voicing your opinion, unchecked. What purpose does it serve?

2006-09-26 11:00:39 · 28 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6

All American girl. Lived the American dream. Got married to an American, bought a house, had 5 children. Divorced the American received no child support. Married an illegal alien(hard worker) who supports in all aspects the family that the American nor appreciated nor supported. My slogan "Stop Racism....Hug an illegal alien today...He may be your stepfather tommorrow.....or you may have business or personal dealings in the near future with the children that he has supported and raised."

2006-09-26 11:00:37 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

we went to court house and the lady said because he dont have a florida id we cant marry

2006-09-26 10:52:20 · 14 answers · asked by melly82502 1

we went to court house and the lady said because he dont have a florida id we cant marry

2006-09-26 10:51:12 · 14 answers · asked by melly82502 1

we went to court house and the lady said because he dont have a florida id we cant marry

2006-09-26 10:47:13 · 23 answers · asked by melly82502 1

I don't give a damn 'bout this ******* nation if it's a racist nation

I don't give a damn about the ******* border fence if it's being built to protect such stupid and mean people.

My mother is threatening my boyfriend with deportation.She is threatening to press charges on him for statutory rape.

I'm ashamed for my country.

I'm ashamed of my family

I hope you rot in hell

2006-09-26 10:34:35 · 64 answers · asked by Jazz 1

All they do is text message on their cell phones and listen to their iPods, but all of the sudden they are experts on how the country should be run. Most of you guys live such sheltered lives that you have never even left you own state--much less left the country--and in your naive, inexperienced, immature, perspectives, you feel entitled to judge other people for trying to make a better life for themselves (like immigrants who risk their lives to work in this country), despite the judgemental fingers of upity teenagers! And then you PRETEND as though the only reason you have a problem is because they immigrated illegally--and then use that as an excuse to label them blanketly as criminals?

2006-09-26 10:31:56 · 15 answers · asked by retorik75 5

Only corrupt agricultural and livestock giants like tyson and natural foods will use thier labor as a way to increase profits to the big men..CEOs etc.. In reality there are plenty of legal immigrants whom need work and even without the legal immigrants there are agricultural machines that could do most of the work if not all. They don't utilize them becasue it is cheaper to hire an illegal if they can get away with it...as corrupt as that is.Poor Illegal aliens are not the backbone of America,,they don't do the jobs that American's won't..they do the jobs that Americans CAN'T get hired to do because they are a citizen...there is a difference. illegal immigration is decaying the economy and social services of this nation...enough is enough..no more pity for illegals

2006-09-26 10:27:10 · 16 answers · asked by MILFseducer M 1

License for illegal aliens?

2006-09-26 10:07:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Stop trying to sound smart or hard it's not working if you wish to insult me please be more creative and stop trying to teach me grammer it's pathetic, it doesn't matter how i write in here trying to be too perfect in yahoo answers, Cmon people!!

2006-09-26 09:55:10 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Why are the majority of people who think this Latino?

2. Why is it supposedly an act of a bigot to not support an illegal act?

3. I came here with my family from Mexico legally, but unlike some I was raised to assimilate and take pride in my new country, by speaking its language and working to make it better, so why do people think just because of my background I should support open borders?

4. Why do people always bring up "but this country was founded on immigrants..." yeah, that was 200 years ago when we actually needed citizens, now this country is suffering massive wage cuts, tax increases, lower standard of living, more diseases like TB, larger classrooms, and higher crime due to illegal immigration, so your outdated reference is nonsense.

5. Why do people always bring up "This country was originally blahblah's then you stole it?" Look throughout history, most major countries were stolen! Stop living in the past and get a real argument.

2006-09-26 09:47:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

you post something and they totally roate it to a dumb matter gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!! i am NOT pro illegals i just think people should stop talking about them like they are CR@P because if they are i guess we all are i haven't met anybody who looks any different than a sack of bones and skin so we are all the same mess the only difference is that some of us use our brains

2006-09-26 09:42:01 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Illegals fill jail that Metro plan is based on
Federal authorities can't process N.C. detainees fast enough

By CHRISTIAN BOTTORFF
Staff Writer


Illegal immigrants facing criminal charges are crowding a North Carolina jail that serves as the model for Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall's plan to hold such immigrants here for deportation hearings.

The Charlotte, N.C., jail is full because federal authorities can't pick up inmates facing deportation hearings quickly enough, the Mecklenburg County sheriff said in a congressional hearing last month.
Also, a 1,500-inmate facility in Georgia has been approved to house immigration detainees beginning in October, and Pendergraph said he is hopeful that will relieve the crowding further.

The demand for capacity to house illegal immigrants also has prompted federal officials to consider building a federal detention center in the Charlotte area, the sheriff said.
The jail is overflowing with inmates as a result of a new program that puts deportation holds on people who are identified as illegal immigrants when they pass through the county lockup.

Nashville has applied for computer hardware, training and other support that would help local jailers do the same.

But in testimony Aug. 25 before Congress, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph said the federal government has been overwhelmed by the demand for pickups and transfers of illegal immigrants to federal facilities.

"So many illegal immigrant criminals have been identified through my ... program, it is causing me a jail space problem," Pendergraph said.

"(The) Removal and Detention Division of (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is overwhelmed by the numbers we are generating for removal in Mecklenberg County alone."

Still, Pendergraph said, "I'd recommend (this program) to every sheriff in the U.S."

"It is getting people out of our community who are committing crimes who had no business being here anyway.

"We certainly don't need any more lawbreakers in our community, especially among people who are in the country illegally."

Since May, Pendergraph said, federal officials have removed 550 people for deportation proceedings, many of whom would not otherwise have been identified.

Under the program, federal immigration computers and a full-time immigration officer are placed at local jails, allowing specially trained deputies to check the immigration status of every prisoner.

Hall sent a letter Aug. 15 to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seeking to bring the program to the Metro Jail.

The request came after several high-profile crimes in the Midstate this year involving illegal immigrants. In several cases, the illegal immigrants had been arrested several times — and not deported — before going on to commit more serious crimes.

Nashville now sends notice to federal authorities in Vermont each time a foreign-born person is booked. Federal authorities are supposed to research the inmate's immigration status and request that a hold be placed, ensuring that the prisoner remains in custody until he can be turned over to immigration officers.

But those holds are being requested in only a fraction of cases, those in which the inmate's crime is at least an aggravated felony, Hall has said.

Thus, in the majority of arrests involving illegal immigrants, no hold is placed and the inmates are released from custody despite their immigration status.

By putting immigration computers and a full-time immigration officer in the Metro Jail, local deputies would have the ability to check every prisoner's immigration status during booking and place holds on those in the country illegally.

Those prisoners would then be held in the Metro Jail until they could be picked up by immigration officers for deportation proceedings.

But it remains unclear whether federal authorities will be able to sufficiently increase their capacity to pick up illegal immigrants from Nashville. During the past fiscal year, immigration holds were placed on 151 inmates, jail officials said. Under the new program, sheriff's officials estimate roughly 3,000 inmates will be identified for deportation each year.

Hall said there are 400 available jail beds in Davidson County, so he doesn't believe that keeping illegal immigrants in the county system longer would lead to crowding in the near term.

And the sheriff said local officials have little choice but to find a way to keep illegal immigrants who commit crimes off the streets.

"I'm not concerned about them being removed in a timely way, given that we have 400 beds," Hall said, adding, "We have to cross all that when we get there."

Local officials also hope that the increased immigration enforcement will act as a deterrent, reducing the number of illegal immigrants who pass through Nashville's lockup, Hall said.

In an interview last week, Pendergraph, the Mecklenburg County sheriff, said the crowding in Charlotte has begun to ease a bit after the federal government increased the number of bus trips taking inmates to deportation hearings from once to twice a week.

2006-09-26 09:34:03 · 19 answers · asked by Zoe 4

I know MANY people who have tried to enter our country LEGALLY and for NO REAON AT ALL INS Denies them. Im not making excues for illegal entry - but does it matter to you at all that people are trying to enter the USA Legally?

2006-09-26 09:32:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do not understand why all the hate, i am married to a mexican, i understand the issuues with illegals but even though my husband is a citizen i feel bad about how you people talk trash about the mexicans who are poor enough to risk their lives to come here i do not approve of illegal entry here but you people do not know how life is in 3rd world countries here you are literally handed everything, that is a luxury that little people know, my brother is in dominican republic and his life is a living hell they always arrest people overthere to collect money and he cannot even work to feed his baby because there are no jobs, they dont have electricity or water he lives with the money i sent whenever i can and the only reason why he is going through all of that is because he is waiting for his papers so that he can come here legally and he has been waiting for 15 years so don't talk about illegals like they just decide to come here and screw everything up

2006-09-26 09:30:23 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am in agreement with most that we must control our borders. It is a national security issue & druglords freely pass drugs into the US. Okay, but we have problems on both sides of the "fence". The "fence" will not stop the corruption of US Officials who allow these drugs to be passed. These officials will have a key to open that "fence" to admit drug lords but will not permit the passage of poor illegal immigrants that come to clean up buildings instead of blowing them up. Why do so many drugs come into the US? The answer- supply & demand. We need these immigrants to work the jobs that our drug addicted nation will not fill. WE NEED COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM. We cannot patch repair the levy it must be rebuilt. DON'T let these politicians keep you ignorant....The border fence is just a ploy to get them relected. These same politicians know that we need this "illegal" work force as much as they need us. The "illegal alien" did not mastermind 911 so why treat him with disdain?!

2006-09-26 09:28:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is the Mexican government so strongly opposed to Congress' proposal for the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border?

2006-09-26 09:22:08 · 8 answers · asked by Student 3

Someone told me they heard this on the news a few weeks ago. Has anyone else heard this???
I mean, if you think about it, it would be very EASY for someone to do that.
I was just wondering if that is really true??

2006-09-26 09:14:09 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

If ya are so worried about mexicans stealing then WHO bombed the TWIN TOWERS were the mexicans no??? So what do ya say to that??? They were Islamic people--

2006-09-26 09:12:08 · 23 answers · asked by mexican4u77 2

2006-09-26 09:12:04 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous