Immigration - September 2006

If so how, and why do you feel this way?

2006-09-10 10:29:30 · 20 answers · asked by locksniffer 3

disregard the question if you already speak Spanish.

2006-09-10 10:18:55 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well, how am I racist if I came here from Mexico and family is Hispanic? Some people may contest that I was "not raised Hispanic" so I don't know the struggle of illegals. Let me tell you this... in terms of being raised "Hispanic" what does that mean? Eating burritos? Liking cumbia? Do you even realize how racist that in itself is?.... but if you mean speaking Spanish, etc. hell no. My mother insisted assimilation is the key to being successful in America. And guess what... she was right, being well spoken and versed in both English and Spanish opens doors and people like my relatives who insist on not learning English still do dead end jobs like yard work, food service etc. I really hate all those stubborn immigrants who only speak their native language and that is why people like me who wanna get ahead resent them for making us look bad, just like holding up Mexico flags in the protests. So what are your best reasons that I am supposedly racist? I will answer all in this page

2006-09-10 10:17:28 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many people say you should go back to there country to start the process of legalizing them the right way, then come back to America legally.

The problem is, the only sure way to do that is if your very wealthy because money usually talks regardless of a circumstance.

In reality, if any normal mid, to lower class person did that, they would be moving to a place were there are little to no job opportunities, so you won't make much money. You probably won't have a house, or even a car. You'll live in poverty. Job pay is very little. This is why many illegals come to America.

Also, it can take up to 15 years, or never, depending on the political circumstances to get papers legalized.

So, what would be more logical to do? Go back to their country to live a terrible life with false hopes of ever fixing papers & returning to U.S.? Or staying in the U.S. making good money, living well illegally until they make a reasonable way for the ones you love to go & become legalized?

2006-09-10 10:14:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

"The idea that the Guard is overstretched is correct," retired Army Gen. George Joulwan said in an interview. But he said its use in a supporting role can be justified, given the seriousness of the border problem. A supporting role is not what Bush presented to the American people back in May. Do you support this weak action? What about all the terrorists they said will come up through Mexico?

2006-09-10 10:01:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

And they live in another country, how long does it take for that person to get a green from you. Also what do you have to do to get them that green card.

2006-09-10 09:46:15 · 10 answers · asked by me me 3

anybody ever thought about it/applied etc?

2006-09-10 09:45:30 · 13 answers · asked by gokart121 6

Very soon I will be becoming an American citizen - it a choice I made for a better life for me and my family. I will uphold every promise I make to my new country and be proud to be a citizen here.

But somewhere deep down I still feel strongly for my natural motherland as well, India, and a great pride of belonging to it - for example some songs about Indian patriotism and it's fight for freedom and will make me emotional as no American songs/ poems can, I can identify myself more for what Gandhi stood for than any American leader (no offence meant here), and so on.

Is this a feeling that is just peculiar to me or has anyone who has been in my situation felt it? Serious answers only, please!

2006-09-10 09:39:30 · 17 answers · asked by estee06 5

Why are so many saying lately that illegal immigration is not really a problem but something that has been drudged up recently?

I am in CA and we have been living with the problem (and trying to do something about it) for YEARS. Over 10 years ago, there were propositions on the ballot to try to deal with the problem (the most famous passed in 1994). It is an issue that comes up in every election for the last 15 years at the VERY LEAST.

Now, it may be that it was not a national ISSUE until recently but the problem is not recent at all. Some of us on the border states are THRILLED at the prospect that now the rest of the country might begin to address a major concern we’ve had for years. (and NO, I don’t mean JUST the southern border states. I DO mean ALL border states. The states with sea ports have just as much a problem with illegals from elsewhere as do the states who border a country.)

SO, those of you who are saying it is not a problem and is a recent fabrication, can you please be more specific? It may be you were too ignorant to believe it was a problem, (and may still be), but there is NOTHING NEW about the problems of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

2006-09-10 09:17:39 · 17 answers · asked by grim reaper 5

Of course they have water already.How about flush toilets,a baby changing station,internet access,a mariachi band,voter registration booth,immigration attorneys. Any suggestions?

2006-09-10 09:14:52 · 14 answers · asked by getnabargain 2

2006-09-10 09:09:04 · 11 answers · asked by bobboe 1

I know for many of you, immigration is a law and order issue, but is there any ONE place that has this info?

At the federal, state, and local government levels, what is their dollar cost for healthcare, education, prisons, security/enforcement, lost taxes (don't double count).
(I think I saw the federal govt cost is $29 billion.)

On the non-government level, what is their cost in terms of jobs, and how much in remitances do they send out of the country?

What about the benefits to the economy they give us? Any numbers on the following?
1) They spend most of their money right here in America making our economy bigger.
2) They work cheap, helping corporate profits while keeping inflation down for rest of us
3) cheap yardguys keep marital peace. (no nagging husbands to cut the grass...counts for something don't it?)
4) cheap nannies enable wives to go out and earn more money
5) flexible workforce because real easy to fire them without threat of wrongful discharge lawsuit.

2006-09-10 08:54:05 · 11 answers · asked by Brand X 6

Where is the honest Mexican here ? More than 1,700 illegal immigrants have been caught attempting to pass fake documents at state driver's licenses offices in the first month after a tough immigration law went into effect, according to a state official.

"We're seeing evidence of individuals trying to slip through the cracks," said Michael Cooke, executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Colorado's new anti-illegal immigration laws passed by the legislature this summer set up a strict identification check meant to deny most public services to undocumented adult immigrants.

The Division of Motor Vehicles is on the front line of those checks.

As residents come into DMV offices to get state ID cards or driver's licenses, they're asked to present birth certificates and immigration papers such as passports and green cards to prove they are in the United States legally.

Those documents are then run through the federal SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification of Entitlements) system to verify the applicant's legal immigration status.

In the past month, about 2,100 applicants at DMV were told their documents needed further investigation. Of those, 177 met with investigators and were cleared as legal residents of Colorado. But more than 1,700 cases are pending.

Cooke believes DMV will never see those applicants again because they know their documents are phony.

"We're asking them to go to our investigative unit so we can look into the matter, and we're not hearing back from them," Cooke said.

The 1,700-plus names have been sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, she said.

So far, DMV offices have also caught about 150 people attempting to use fraudulent birth certificates, and that number is climbing. Most of the certificates were authentic, but the person presenting the document was not the individual named on the certificate, Cooke said.

2006-09-10 08:47:46 · 13 answers · asked by Zoe 4

2006-09-10 08:39:10 · 18 answers · asked by gokart121 6

2006-09-10 08:31:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Specifically for the single American guys. (BUT GIRLS AND ANYONE CAN ANSWER THIS)

If you met an illegal girl that you didn't know was illegal at first, who was incredibly gorgeous to you specifically, in both personallity and appearance, & you really liked her and she liked you....when she tells you she is illegal, what would you do?

Throw her away and say, "naa b*tch, get the f*ck out of my country?"

Would you just supress your natural desires to forget about it, even tho this girl is so great that it's unlikely you'll find another one like her or as great as her?

Or would you accept the truth about your feelings for her, & be real with yourself that this is probably the one girl you'd feel stupid in passing up?

Also, you're mature enough to know for a fact that this is a genuine attraction, not some strange attempt on her part to get some money or something out of you.

& American girls, what would you do if you met THE guy, & he was this?

What would you do?

2006-09-10 08:25:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

tell they are racist? to me they seem to share a certain facial expression as if their in a class of some sort of mongolism. Really stare at their faces and you will see what I see.

2006-09-10 08:03:05 · 19 answers · asked by jgmcs 1

he sure does give his own biased point of view but sure doesnt give other people the opportunity to share their own point of view with his questions. Afraid of something here fr? Or is it in your agenda to just look at thoughts that only personally benefit you?

2006-09-10 07:59:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-10 07:52:12 · 21 answers · asked by Mortimer Pratchett 1

Some one compared my dislike of illegals to the cross burnings of hate groups.............ALL we are asking is they enter legally and quit being a burden on society.......not exactly a cross burning.

2006-09-10 07:51:59 · 14 answers · asked by darkvale 3

2006-09-10 07:49:44 · 13 answers · asked by Mortimer Pratchett 1

Doesnt matter your race, if your illegal your the ones not welcome . Quit trying to say Americans are racist when we aren't .

2006-09-10 07:37:33 · 25 answers · asked by darkvale 3

why are the only people who use the immigration category broken down rednecks who live in trailer parks? i know YALL AINT into the learnin stuff so im suprised YALL even know how to use them thar computers.

2006-09-10 07:31:32 · 11 answers · asked by Miguel C 4

relates to having illegal immigrants in public school classrooms

2006-09-10 07:30:16 · 20 answers · asked by gokart121 6

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/national/19ranch.html?ei=5090&en=d9c2a3cd4e97d231&ex=1282104000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

2006-09-10 07:30:10 · 11 answers · asked by jgmcs 1

Ranchers against Illegal immigrants?

In other words is there any known Mexican militias clashing physically with these White Racist Militias comprised of white supremascist, KKK, and the Racist Ring Leader Glenn Spencer of American Patrol.

2006-09-10 06:54:11 · 5 answers · asked by jgmcs 1

Figures for 1999 State Criminal Alien Assistance Program compensation show claims of $1.5 billion in documented costs incurred by state corrections and local jails for covered aliens. County governments face a special burden, a 2001 report by 24 Southwestern border counties calculated. They spent, from general funds, $894 million on law enforcement and criminal justice in fiscal year 1999. Many of the costs that criminal aliens impose on all state, county, and municipal jurisdictions are not represented in such figures. To cite just one California example, San Diego now spends $50 million a year to handle illegal criminal aliens.

2006-09-10 06:53:54 · 15 answers · asked by NoBama For Me 2

While anyone who decries illegal immigration is required to distinguish it from legal immigration, the effects of legal immigration should first be noted. Robert Samuelson recently wrote in his Washington Post column that "Hispanics account for most of the increase in poverty" since 1990. "Compared with 1990, there were actually 700,000 fewer non-Hispanic whites in poverty last year . . . . Meanwhile, the number of poor Hispanics is up by 3 million since 1990. The health insurance story is similar. Last year 13 million Hispanics lacked insurance. They're 60 percent of the rise since 1990." And of course a growing proportion of the Hispanic population is immigrants poorer than their predecessors. Samuelson remarks that the black poverty rate in this period has actually dropped, from 32 to 24 percent.

2006-09-10 06:52:24 · 9 answers · asked by NoBama For Me 2

The current high rate of sustained, mass immigration—more than one million legal immigrants plus half a million illegal aliens every year—forces many states and localities into turmoil. The illegals certainly live outside the obligations that those who live under the "consent of the governed" owe to each other: While the principles of the Declaration of Independence guarantee all human beings certain natural and unalienable rights, only parties who have consented to our government deserve the full rights of citizenship. Illegal immigrants are not part of the social contract giving legitimacy to this government. American citizens have not given their consent to higher taxes, crowded schools, jammed emergency rooms, clogged roads, unlawful turning of single-family homes into hotels or apartments into tenements, forced multicultural amenities such as bilingual education and multilingual ballots, or welfare and other services subsidizing poverty-prone immigrants. Above all, they never consented to higher crime rates.

2006-09-10 06:51:34 · 5 answers · asked by NoBama For Me 2

Is it hard or not to bad?

2006-09-10 06:51:13 · 2 answers · asked by schlongy1969 2