Do you think the U.S. welcomes immigrants, if they come here legally?

Question

The history of the U.S. is riddled with hostility to various immigrant groups--though only during certain waves of immigration.

Until the post-Civil War period, the U.S. had no immigration laws. The racist Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882--passed after an industrial strike wave--was part of an attempt to craft a deliberate immigration policy of keeping out “undesirables.”

In the early 1900s, a wave of anti-Japanese violence led to a 1907 agreement barring Japanese laborers--a deal made after newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle warned of an invasion of "bumptious, disagreeable and unreliable" Japanese.

The U.S. carried out mass deportations of Mexicans during the Great Depression, and in a 1954 program actually called Operation Wettback in 1954. Today, both documented and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. face the uncertainty of random raids and deportations, the threat of separation from their families and increased exploitation on the job.

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Answer 1

In my opinion, U.S. says of welcoming legal immigrants, but from what I have seen on the roads I can't say so. A lot of U.S. citizens hate immigration, either legal or illegal, don't want foreigners coming to the country and living permanently, thus increasing the population rate etc.... Most people today fail to realize U.S. is a country built upon immigration, and the ONLY people who actually would have right to be against either legal or illegal immigration would be the Native Americans... Anyway, I did not intend to say that all U.S. citizens are the same, but the most I have seen have this kind of hidden mentality. George Bush himself is somewhat distantly related to Prince Charles of England! And you what, at the end, it's all about money, the so called legal immigrant would have to have enough money to enter the U.S. legally and I mean A LOT of money, so in other worlds, the United States welcomes anybody who is rich, so that they come to this country and make the country richer. And those who can't afford to do that are not welcome.... It's not fair but certainly life isn't.

Answer 2

Are we supposed to have guilt now, about the past? I don't feel any, I think some tired failures of countries are trying to use any sob story they can think of to 'entitle' themselves into the United States. It's not gonna work. We need like the 'Mexico Needs To Pull Its Socks Up And Start Fixing Its Own Problems Act', and we need to pass it sooner, rather than later. I'm sure Mexico actually has its' points, and the sooner the people of Mexico get about accentuating the good ones, and disabusing themselves of the bad ones, the happier Americans will be to be neighbors with Mexico. One 'point' Mexico has is that they have the material
wherewithal to support their own people. The sooner they start doing that, and stop trying to just permanently intermarry themselves for all perpetuity into the american economy, the better off we'll be as a nation. A little independence never hurt anybody, the sooner Mexico discovers theirs, the sooner we'll have a great neighbor that we'll be proud to call 'friend'. Support immigration enforcement, support good honest border controls,
and support putting guys n gals in office whose primary allegiance is to the country they're from, not the country they wanna do business with etc...NO sale, NO mas!

Answer 3

Of course, the U.S welcomes immigrants, if they come here legally. One example: ME (from germany).

Today, legal immigrants can not be deported unless they brake the law in any way, such as failing to communicate with the immigration office to extend the visa on time, faking marriage to immigrate, crime, etc..

If you are an illegal immigrant .. well .. you brake the law just by stepping your foot into this country. So they should not wonder if they get caught and deported. I don't have any sympathy for illegal immigrants. I've been through a long and complicated process to receive my visa, and several hundret dollars had to go. But that's the way it is and everyone got to follow it.

Answer 4

Not coming here legally in itself, no. They must not be on any welfare roles for them or their families, must not have their children as Americans until they are Americans, must be needed and sponsored, and if the sponsorship ends must return, and most important - THEY MUST SWEAR ALLEIGIENCE TO AMERICA AND DISSOLVE THEIR CITIZENSHIP WHITH THEIR PARENT COUNTRY AND SPEAK ENGLISH.

Just coming here legally is nothing in itself. You must want to be an American, fight for America, and oppose your parent country if it is unfair to Americans. You can be Mexican-American, but when you drop the American by declaring you don't want to be, then we have a big problem - legal or not.

Here's an example: I know Iranian-Americans. When the President of Iran started in with his BS, they thought it was so great that someone stood up to the USA. A couple days later, they changed their answer, they told me they thought about what was going on, they left that country, they are in America right now, and no matter what happens over there they will still be Americans when it's all said and done.

Those Americans, whether Iranian or Mexican, are fighting for the same thing on the same side.

These people fiercly oppose the Senate Bill, and even the site below I walk together with in spirit as Americans.

You sir, are hopelessly lost to the opposition. And your logic will never work that I have seen so far.

Answer 5

Coming here legally is not as easy as it sounds. My best friend has TWO gradutate degrees (both from U.S. schools), which easily makes him more educated than 99% of the rest of us, but has been unable to get a permanent visa because of U.S government quotas, and will have to return home in October. He is gainfully employed, pays income taxes, and pays into the social security and medicare funds, which he'll never be able to benefit from. Yet some dumb yokel with no job or education, who who just happens to have been born here has more rights. And this is what we believe is right?

Answer 6

EVERY country/group has its discriminations. Americans are not alone in their actions. Here's a pattern to consider:
The groups that are generally disliked tend to come in large waves making their presence more obvious. They are usually fleeing social/economic conditons that are unlike anything that we can understand from our own cultural perspective. When these large groups come to the US, legally or illeagally, they are usually willing to take whatever employment they can aquire. Its usually something low-paying and/or undesirable, which in itself lowers the social status in which they may be perceived. Ususally they are then accused of taking jobs away from native-born residents. (Mostly untrue since many people would not "stoop" to taking the type of work many mass immigrants will perform.) This can be said of many large immigrant groups- Chinese, Irish, Mexican, etc.

Americans are much more willing to accept immigrants who come from a socio-economic backgrounds that are not so "foreign." Somebody from England or Germany is simply exotic because they are few and far between as immigrants. They come to America not to escape social oppression or poverty. They generally arrive with assets.

Answer 7

All countries have history, I suspect yours does as well. We are talking about today. We personally welcome immigrants who are let in in accordance with a sensible immigration plan that protects our services like education and health care from undue strain.

That does not include people who break the law and ignore those limits to come here and take the services we pay for and need for our own people. That has nothing to do with not welcoming immigrants, however, it has to do with not welcoming theft.

Answer 8

ofcourse they say that they would accept them but if lets say all the people in america that are illegal here were legal they would probably still not like them and make up even more stupid excuses which is the only thing they are good at. and if some people don't like what i say then this should let you feel a little bit of what we feel when americans stereotype illegals.

Answer 9

Yet they still kept coming. What was thought to be bad here, was still better than what they left behind. Shows that this country can work through its times of trouble and continues to be even greater! Ain't she a great country!

Answer 10

YES!!! And what deportations of mexicans during the depression. Liars go to HELL in case you want to know.