Immigration - May 2007

I honestly would like to understand what it is that they want from the US. Is it health care? Money? What?

It just blows my mind that someone who is here illegally wants this government to do something for them. The only thing our government should do for them is put them on an un-airconditioned junky old bus and ship them back where they came from.

2007-05-01 09:50:44 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

There have been recent protests that immigrants have started in this great nation of ours. They are demanding a way to get citizenship, saying it is unfair that we don't give it to them. Does anybody else think it is strange to ask for something like citizenship, when they came into our country illegally? They broke the rules and came into our country, why should we reward them with citizenship? What do you think?

2007-05-01 09:43:51 · 30 answers · asked by Wolf 2

I have to admit, to better understand the illegal aliens here, I DID go to one of their sites. I got the very distinct feeling that they do NOT like the Jewish people. Why?

2007-05-01 09:27:58 · 8 answers · asked by hera 4

It seems very Ironic that they want rights under the AMERICAN constution while being Messican proud.

2007-05-01 09:10:31 · 15 answers · asked by David Z 2

"Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Maybe we should just remove the plaque and put in a new one that says

"America for Americans."

or how about

"No mexicans allowed."

It seems like lady liberty is soft on this whole immigration issue, maybe we ought to take down the statue of liberty. Please write your congress today!

America, created by immigrants, for immigrants; Ruined by selfish, egotistical, xenophobic, hatemongers.

2007-05-01 09:02:38 · 32 answers · asked by truthspeaker10 4

or why are people defending this issue with:

"some of the people lived in poverty, they can't afford to come here Legaly"

My question is why are these people making THAT a problem of the USA?

2007-05-01 08:49:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

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September 12, 2003

Mexico’s Rich Don’t Like To Pay Taxes – They Think You Should
By Brenda Walker

[More by Brenda Walker]

“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States" is an early example of the now-familiar annoying whine, first voiced by Mexican President Porfirio Diaz .

Pathetic loser, mooch, social basket case, criminal narco-state: these are Americans' mental pictures of Mexico.

But more than any other, the image is one of staggering poverty. Anyone who has been to a Mexican border town is immediately overwhelmed by the Third World - the oppressive dirt, decay, too many underfed children.

However, the truth is that Mexico is a very wealthy country. It is blessed with abundant natural resources and a fortunate location. Mexico is the richest nation in Latin America when measured by GDP, and by a wide margin: in 2001, Mexico's GDP was the highest in Latin America, a substantial 22.5 percent more than runner-up Brazil. When GDP per capita is the gauge, Mexico is second only behind Argentina.

Half of all Latin American billionaires, 11 out of 22, are Mexicans.

Mexico is the quintessential banana republic—a corrupt oligarchy of arrogant rich, a tiny middle class and millions of poor people, around half of whom live in poverty.

But Mexico is not poor overall. It has the resources to improve itself.

Economist Gary Hufbauer of the Institute for International Economics recently noted that Mexico has tax collections that amount to only 14 percent of the country's gross domestic profit, compared with the U.S. level of 25 to 28 percent.

Hubauer’s conclusion: "Basically the wealthy classes do not want to tax themselves, period."

Hufbauer further remarked:

"Basic social services and infrastructure are awfully lean for a country that wants to move ahead. While I'm not usually an advocate for larger government, Mexico is a country where public investment, done wisely, could pay huge dividends."

Arguably, with adequate taxation of its freeloader rich, Mexico could follow the example of the Asian tiger nations and invest its way into economic progress by building industrial infrastructure and educating its workforce. The recent loss of Mexican jobs to China was partially due to the lack of capital spending on education, ports, roads and industrial parks.

But investment would cost money. And Mexico refuses to take responsibility for the social needs of its population. It's so much easier to let the Americans care for Mexico's poor.

Indeed, the Mexican propaganda war to convince Americans of the need to support poor Mexico has been largely successful.

Washington's current degree of solicitude for the well being of Mexicans is quite astonishing, particularly at a time when Americans are suffering the highest unemployment in nine years. Congress and the President are considering various welfare packages for Mexico; such as Sen. McCain's "guest worker" plan (where the "guests" never leave).

On July 10, the Senate passed a bill to provide $100 million in microloans for the poorest regions of Mexico. It's stunning that Congress would vote to provide financial aid to wealthy Mexico when 47 U.S. states have severe budget deficits and federal red ink is the highest ever.

Central to Mexican strategy is maintaining the billions of dollars in remittance money flowing south, thereby keeping a lid on social unrest among the masses. In that way, the oligarchy preserves its enormous power and riches.

The immigration scam is very successful: the rulers export their unemployment to the United States and get back billions in remittance cash annually— 2003 is on track to rack up a record $11 billion.

Talk about easy money: the worse the oligarchy run the country, the more people leave and send back money.

Furthermore, every social service for illegal aliens and legal immigrants financed by the American taxpayer—medical care, K-12 education, college tuition breaks, housing vouchers and food stamps—frees up more money for remittances.

Recent surveys show half of Latino immigrants send money home, with a monthly average amount of $250.

Mexico's propaganda effort is helped enormously by the annual carnage of unprepared walkers who die in the desert as they illegally cross into the U.S. Predictably, the May death of 19 people in an unventilated truck in Texas incited anti-borders extremists to pile blame on American immigration law.

Mexico would prefer that all its excess workers could cross an unenforced border to keep remittance dollars flowing.

Washington is currently focused on building democracy in Iraq at a cost of $4 billion per month. But should this effort really be at the top of our national priorities?

A much smaller investment could bring our southern border under control and would lower the threat of terrorists entering there. The expanding power of lawless elements in Mexican society, e.g. narco-traffickers, must be recognized as a security threat - particularly with recent reports of connections between Mexican drug cartels and terrorists, including al Qaeda. Border control is now critical to national security.

There's no reason why Mexico cannot evolve from being a parasite state into an adult nation. Washington was optimistic when opposition party candidate Vicente Fox won the presidency.

But the Fox administration has only displayed more of the same tiresome dependence.

Apparently the current system is just too easy and profitable for the insatiable ruling class.

Tough immigration enforcement from the United States is the only way to force Mexico to get its act together.

If Mr. Bush still thinks of Vicente Fox as his good friend, the President will help wean his pal from the distasteful immigration addiction that keeps Mexico mired in the Third World.

Tough love - border and interior enforcement – is the true expression of caring.

Faced with the unavoidable necessity of fixing their country, Mexicans would have to insist that the country be run for the benefit of all - not for the gluttonous few.

Brenda Walker [email her] is a writer living in California. She publishes two websites, LimitsToGrowth.org and www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She recently advanced the ingenious suggestion that remittances be taxed in order to pay for illegal immigrant healthcare costs borne by border hospitals.

2007-05-01 08:45:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It got into my computer some years ago; it came in a file named “Mayflower”. It looked useful and user friendly at that time, but slowly started attacking and killing my “native” software. Soon it took over all my software and now is totally controlling my whole network. It got to the point that now is trying to delete the few pieces of original data by making any participation in my system ILLEGAL, this bad virus is now in the process of building a wall around itself. I think it will end up destroying my whole system, Help!

2007-05-01 08:39:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

They say we are all traceable to Lucy the monkey, so that means from now on I can claim to be African-American. Now where do I sign up for all the set asides, quotas and free stuff? I'm tired of working for a living. Cough it up honkey bois!

2007-05-01 08:28:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

We were all immigrants at one point. People hated the Irish in the 1840's, the Chinese in the 1860's, the Itialians in the 1900's - basically every major immigrant group. This is just the next one. I'm from a border region - these immigrants do jobs like pick onions for $2 or $3 an hour, the crappiest construction jobs, or clean houses. I worked fast food as a kid, but I would never have stooped to those jobs. After 2 or so generations, the kids go to college, speak english and little or no spanish. Basically, they become regular Americans like the rest of us. So why do people complain so much?

2007-05-01 08:26:54 · 38 answers · asked by redguard572001 2

We have the policy listed here http://www.amiillegal.com

2007-05-01 08:21:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

why cant we send all of the illegal aliens back? they cant honestly work, what else will they do dishonestly? murder? rape? burglarly? not to mention illegal drugs! lets put them on a bus back to the border.

2007-05-01 08:08:38 · 31 answers · asked by hasdad62 6

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070501_1__Animm17382

What do you think?

2007-05-01 07:43:32 · 12 answers · asked by DAR 7

On May Day 2007, National Immigrant Solidarity Network is calling for a multi-ethnic, decentralized, multi-topic and multi-tactic national day of mobilization to support immigrant workers rights.

Our ten points of unity (based on our Jan 29, 2007 open letter to the Congress):

1) No to anti-immigrant legislation, and the criminalization of the immigrant communities.

2) No to militarization of the border.

3) No to the immigrant detention and deportation.

4) No to the guest worker program.

5) No to employer sanction and "no match" letters.

6) Yes to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

7) Yes to speedy family reunification.

8) Yes to civil rights and humane immigration law.

9) Yes to labor rights and living wages for all workers.

10) Yes to the education and LGBT immigrant legislation.

Question: Why don't we just turn the country over to them by giving them all of our homes, cars, life savings, wives, etc...

2007-05-01 07:34:30 · 16 answers · asked by Bam Bam Obama 3

For example: you're Chinese American. your parents are immigrants and gained citizenship but speak no English and do everything culturally Chinese. If China invaded our land with their huge numbers and you could grab a gun and fight, who would you be aiming at?

2007-05-01 07:31:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Majority of Americans and immigrants who are against illegal immigrants to the shock and surprise of mainstream media and immigrations study groups.

What surprised most in both arenas is the rapid movement growth numbers of young Americans 15-28 who have become very anti illegal immigration and against immigrant themselves everyday.

What do you think caused the wake up of the young Americans to realize there is a problem?
What do you think this year will hold with this growing movement against illegals immigrants after this demonstration by illegals and their supporters of illegal immigration?

2007-05-01 07:29:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-01 07:08:26 · 25 answers · asked by Foxtrot 2

I thought that only citizens could vote. Does anyone else find it disquieting that we have some state governments that want to allow illegal persons to vote on ideas and initiatives that will affect US, natural citizens. I am all for someone leaving their country and coming here, but I want them to do it LEGALLY. Nothing should be given to illegals for free- if they are here then they should pay at higher rates- I am meaning schools, medical care, everything should be higher.

2007-05-01 07:01:15 · 16 answers · asked by Mark S 6

Just tell the third world we're tired of being the dumping ground for all the people they can't support.

2007-05-01 07:01:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-01 06:59:29 · 3 answers · asked by lone wolfe 3

2007-05-01 06:46:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was in USA in 1997 and had filed for my son's immigrant visa, but i do not have a valid green-card any more. Just recently we received the letter from National Visa Center for Affidavit of Support fee bill. What can be done now? I reside in another country. My daughter is in USA. Please help.

2007-05-01 06:46:04 · 3 answers · asked by tablelamp 2

true google it you will be shocked and pizzed

2007-05-01 06:43:50 · 12 answers · asked by windyctlvr 2

I am.

I think an individual fax, email or letter is better than a mass produced one, but they will send a fax for free at Numbersusa

Did you know that?

2007-05-01 06:42:25 · 17 answers · asked by DAR 7

2007-05-01 06:42:07 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

They're so stupid they don't realize they already have one. It's called obey the law and register! Not slither across our borders and demand health care, education, welfare, etc.

2007-05-01 06:28:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

IF you came into this county legally... more power to you

if you came here illegaly .... get out.

How hard is that?

2007-05-01 06:22:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It would seem to me that the illegal immigrants demanding rights and such are belittling the hardships that the immigrants that are now actual US citizens had to endure.


Hey, I know you have to save up the money and went thru the same crap I did, but I didn't, I snuck in so we should have the rights.

I have no problem with people from other countries wanting to live in America. I just think that everyone should have to follow the same rules.

Seems ignorant to demand what others had to work for. Am I the only one that feels this way?

2007-05-01 06:20:36 · 9 answers · asked by Melissa E 4

2007-05-01 06:16:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION!

2007-05-01 06:04:47 · 8 answers · asked by Wolfgang92 4