How is it possible for Julie or anyone of you to know what is it like to be an immigrant?

Question

Any one of you here immigrants? Anyone of you here know what is it like to work for your life when you are 13?

I mean you personally not your friend, relatives or wife or husband. And I don't see you answering those offensive uestions, the guy with a wife from a refugee camp.

The question is relevant because people say that illegal immigrants are milking the system, not all of them are, people still pay taxes or a low income and don't get anything back. It is harder for them to find a job and then on a low wage they have to pay taxes because the employer says that he would fire them.

I am 22 years old I have a husband and a daughter. I wazs brought to this country legally with a visitors visa when I was 13 years old and left heret o survive because my mother thought it would be better for me. Now I am illegal in this country and what do you expect me to do? By the way my husband is Russian too and he is legal. We can't oficially get married because I cannot prove who I am.
Julie I believe that my english is better then some of the people in this country and I learned it on my own.

Answer 1

no on the immigrant part but i do know hard work i grew up on a farm and then by 15 had a job cleaning motel rooms to help my family. so i hate the presumption all Americans are lazy or have college degrees or want a degree there are a lot of hard working Americans .

Answer 2

First of all you are not an immigrant you are a non immigrant. An immigrant is someone who already has their green card and can live and work here for the rest of their life. A non immigrant is someone who is allowed to stay here for a certain amount of time, meaning they were all given an I-94 which is an arrival departure stamp or paper, which was attached in their passport. an illegal immigrant is someone who has decided not to renew his or her I-94 and not to return to his or her country after their stay in the US is up. An illegal immigrant is also someone who has bypassed getting permission to enter the US. I understand that this is tramatic, however that still does not excuse breaking the law. There are alot of other people who started working at the age of 7 in other countries but choses to obey the laws and come into this country legally. This might take them a long time or cost them a lot of money or both. What about those people who have been waiting for years to get their green card, and went through hell trying to get a visa. Life is hard for everyone, you just have to make the best of it until you can do better for yourself. My grandmother started working at 7 years old, to help her mother. She applied for a visa and it took 10 years for her to get it. After she came into the US she then worked with someone for another 10 years to get her Green Card, and just became a citizen last year. She learned about this country and learned to speak English. It was hard, it was painful, it was long, however she did not take the easy way out. Think about it......

Answer 3

You don't have to have been an immigrant, yourself, to know of the hardships of being poor in the USA or anywhere else in the world. This is the age of information and everyone has news and we know more about the world than any generations before now did, and up-to-the-minute. Even poor have access to news all over the world. I am an immigrant - my family immigrated from the USA to Canada and we went through the proper legal process to do so. Many poor people have jumped through the hoops and waited and paid their fees. If it is something you want badly enough, it is worth waiting for and doing it right. No one has the right to jump ahead of others in the line. If you are waiting in the check-out line at the grocery store, are you okay with everyone else cutting in ahead of you to pay for their groceries because they think their time is more important than yours is and they have more important things to be doing, so they don't think they should have to get in the back of the line? No, I don't think so! So, like Ricky here always says, "Boohoohoo, cry me a river!" We have millions of our own American born poor in the USA and we need to take care of them first, before we take care of the poor of other countries - that is the responsibility of those countries, too - take care of their own!

Answer 4

Why is that question relevant?

There are many in Dafur who don't live to be 13.

We feel badly for them but we can't support the poor of the world. We have to make sure the education systems and health care systems we pay for educate and take care of our own people, which they no longer do in our border states.

If we let in everyone who would be better off if they came here our own economy and standard of living would level off to theirs. Our immigration laws have to be formed to best serve the needs of this country and its citizens.

Yeah, but we subsidize the bulk of costs of education and other services for poor immigrants, even if they are legal immigrants and pay all taxes. That is why we limit how many poor immigrants can come under our law.

Answer 5

That has no bearing on the fact that illegals are breaking many laws to be here and think they are above the law. Why should we bend the law for them when numerous others have been able to come here legally from all countries? If they want to be here then they must do so legally or get out. It's as simple as that. What part of illegal do you not understand?

DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS

ENGLISH ONLY IN AMERICA

Answer 6

My husband is a LEGAL Immigrant from Australia. He has had no problems because he did everything LEGALLY and is college educated. He didn't come here to milk the system. And no, neither of us had to work at 13, we were in school, where we should be.

Answer 7

I think that for legal immigrants, this country is a great place. How do you think Americans feel about illegal immigrants who disregard and disrespect our laws? If we go to your country and did not assimilate to local customs, social structure and followed the LAWS, what would that make us. Flip the question and you may see how most Americans feel right now about illegals..

Answer 8

My husband is an immigrant and her illegally I love him and respect him so much more then any of my other "legal white boyfriends" He is a hard worker and a great husband. Yes Julie does not understand. What alot of people do not realize is that they are being selfish. It is always ME ME ME ME ME. Like I emailed Julie who says she is anti abortion anti-gays and anti illegals I said what is she going to do when He daughter gets an abortion then marries an illegal lesbian. Irony. You laugh in someones face and you better expect the spit to come flying back.

Answer 9

I worked with poor people a good portion of my life. We have plenty here-more than we need. Get off the fact that immigrants are the poorest and need more. Poor is poor no mater who you are.
And we owe it to take care of those who belong here. We can't feed the world-as nice as that sounds. I will not feed the neighbors kids and let mine starve-even if I like them. How cruel is that? Let us take care of ours first than maybe we can help.
They die everyday in hospitals everywhere and many can not afford their medicine. Ask any hospital anywhere if someone is there who could not afford their Medicine. And more people are not helping that situation.
And show me one report from a hospital - that said Mexican people were starving--just one!

And why can't you get legal I believe there is a national hall of records for birth-ever try?

Answer 10

Angel ... we are talking about ILLEGAL aliens ... who came here KNOWING that they were breaking this country's laws ... what do you want us to say? It sucks to work when you're 13 ... sure ... but people have to do that in a lot of countries ... so what do you suggest? That everyone who is hard up should just cross our borders illegally? Because we have what they want? And to hell with laws and border security and the Americans? And in any case ... if you're 13, and in the U.S ... there ARE labor laws you know that regulate working hours and working ages ... and if you're here ILLEGALLY, you shouldn't work, no matter what age you are ....

Answer 11

There are multitudes of millions of people in this country that know that feeling. I've worked since I was 13. I have a friend who remembers picking cotton at the age of 5 years old because his parents were sharecroppers. So yes, we are not talking from our asses or ivory towers when we say "NO ILLEGALS"