Immigration - October 2006

" At the beginning of every school year, bad news comes from Mexican heartland states such as Zacatecas and Queretaro: Local authorities are closing hundreds of schools because so many families have moved north to the United States.

Mexicans feel helpless before the migrant exodus, and talk about it the same way they talk about the weather. Everyone complains about it, but there's not much you can do about it.

On Friday night, the U.S. Senate approved a 700-mile-long border wall in a bid to stop the immigrant flow. The decision has left many Mexicans wondering whether the open door to the north may slowly be closing.

Some Mexicans saw the vote as a collective slap in the face that highlighted the failure of their country's leaders to give Mexicans a reason to stay home.

Latin Americans see the congressional initiative as a rejection of the cultural changes brought forth by Latinos in the United States. In angry editorials and speeches, Mexican writers and politicians have compared the border fence project with the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China.

2006-10-01 04:07:21 · 14 answers · asked by DAR 7

2006-10-01 03:52:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

A funnel type corridor, that will funnel illegals right on into Canada?

We could even employ some out of work americans to clean the trash left behind.

2006-10-01 03:50:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

"This morning, the 38-year-old Everett woman will don a yellow armband, load up a cell phone, a two-way radio and binoculars, and stand watch on the border with Canada, looking for anyone trying to sneak into this country.

"I will be there to bring attention to Americans that our borders are wide open and we need to secure them," said Forde, the media director and organizer of the Washington chapter of the Minuteman Project.

She won't be alone in looking. She said several hundred members from Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho will take part in the operation scheduled to run through October. The goal is to provide 24-hour surveillance at up to 15 outposts in Whatcom County and points east along the Washington-Canada border.

This operation marks the one-year anniversary of Minuteman activities in Whatcom County."

What do you think?

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/10/01/100loc_a1border001.cfm

2006-10-01 03:47:56 · 10 answers · asked by DAR 7

It's not like living in this offensive, imperialist government country, after all.
Let them go there and demand to be taught in Arabic.

2006-10-01 03:43:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a daugther petitioned last 2 years ago...

2006-10-01 03:33:52 · 3 answers · asked by j2fer 1

This is a country build on immagrants and christianity which states be kind to your fellow man. I understand there is low intelligence user on this site that don't think before they speak.

2006-10-01 03:22:16 · 18 answers · asked by PsychoTony 2

Mexican President Vincente Fox declared the bill passed to erect a fence along the U.S./Mexico border shamefulf, and compared it to the Berlin wall that separated Germany in halves until the late 1990's.
Does President Fox not realize that the United States and Mexico are not, say, North United States and South United States? Personally, without the people to man the border, unless the fence goes 20 ft underground and is electrified, it won't do any thing but give illegal immigrants one more thing to climb. Below is a small portion of the Article from the U.P.

What real affect on illegal immigration will the fence have in your opinion?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Congress has ordered construction of 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexican border in a move Mexico says will hurt relations between the two countries.

The Senate voted 80-19, with 26 Democrats joining 54 Republicans in support.......

2006-10-01 03:17:04 · 10 answers · asked by detecting_it 3

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ended the year's bill-signing period Saturday by vetoing a handful of key Democratic bills, including measures that would have allowed illegal immigrants to receive financial aid for college ..."

From his open letter last week saying that illegals shouldn't expect the state to pay for their college education when many legal Californians can't afford to send their own children to college, I kind of expected this. (They already get in state tuition in CA.) However, he has been bending so far left lately, I couldn't count on it.

What do you think?

2006-10-01 03:11:47 · 10 answers · asked by DAR 7

What do you think the world be like if migration wasnt possible and you could only stay in the country you were born in?

Would America still be the No1 superpower?,Would arab countrys still have massive infighting etc etc.

2006-10-01 02:10:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is Saudi Arabia a strict country? I know that they follow according to the Shari'ah law by Prophet Muhammad ,SalAlahu Alayhi Wasalam, (peace be upon him). But I don't think they might it in a right way, No equal rights for women, women cannot drive, no movie theaters, lots of Muttawahs, women cannot work publicly (at least wearing her abayah will do). I'm not against Saudi Arabia, but at least there should be some adjustments. I just leave this matter to Allah subhana wa talaa. As Salamalykum (May the peace be with you)

2006-10-01 00:12:28 · 9 answers · asked by easterner 1