I answer this question on a regular basis in my prison classroom; they believe like you that the Mexicans are the only ones being singled out. It is funny to hear the same thing in the "free world."
My answer is always the same... it is not an issue of singling out a specific group; but is it an issue of a common border with many opportunities to sneak across.
The "anti-illegal bunch", as you refer to, only want a "LEGAL" and orderly immigration policy. For a compare and contrast, look at France, they have an open border policy and the French people are (were) demonstrating in the streets over jobs being lost and the loss of guaranteed jobs due to over-immigration. Look at California, many of the government services are over-wrought due to illegal immigration....health services are taking a huge hit in the bottom line due to "unpaid services rendered" and social services are scraping the bottom of their budgets, too.
Is this truly what people want....do we want to open our borders to all and expect nothing in return? I personally, do not have a problem with immigration....we are a country that was formed on immigration and our culture has totally benefited from this; BUT, I also believe in everyone paying their fair share....come to this country legally, make a living LEGALLY, and pay your taxes. Learn to speak English....if I were to move to Mexico City....I would be expected to learn Spanish...that is only common sense.
So to recap...no, the anti-illegal bunch is not stupid, we really don't care if the rest of the world thinks that we are a joke...this does not stop them from asking for financial aid or military help, and lastly, there are more than just Mexicans that are coming into this country illegally....it just so happens that they are the ones that share a border with the US that are coming across in droves. Canadians don't seem to be coming across in droves.
Stop playing the RACE CARD....
2006-07-09 05:21:15
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answered by Anonymous
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That isn't at all 'all you hear'. That is just all you say you hear when you want to try to characterize as 'racism' concern over failing education and health care services never designed to subsidize an additional 12 to 20 million poor people.
It is a fact that the majority of our illegal immigrants are from Mexico and that one problem is that the huge numbers of people from a single country is leading to balkanization rather than assimilation. However, the vast majority of people opposed to illegal immigration on this site have repeatedly pointed out that their issue is with illegal immigrants of whatever nationality.
We have limits for a reason: to protect our education and other services.
We need to have these limits enforced.
If this was born of racism, we would never have let the numbers slide until there were so many.
We can't afford this.
2006-07-09 05:20:00
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answered by DAR 7
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1. The majority are Mexicans
2. You are correct, that many others are here illegal from other countries.
3. See if Black illegals say from Haiti get the same deal as being proposed by the gov't.
4. Why is it so wrong for us to want to protect our borders? If an American was shot trying to sneak into say North Korea, people would say well that would be expected. If we shot people illegally sneaking in to our country (God know for what), everyone would be outraged. We are a soverign nation, and have the right to defend our borders.
5. Immigration is good, but must be controlled for economic reasons, and out of fairness for those that worked legally to get here.
6.t is a fact that over half of money earned by illegals is sent out of the country while social services are provided.
7. Legal immigrants spend most of their income in the US
2006-07-09 04:59:44
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answered by Anonymous
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I hear mostly about law breakers too. And I have hear some legal Mexican people talk against the Illegals-do you read much? Plenty of posts by them. Go back and read them sometimes .
And I think I have heard from both sides -some name calling. Are you bias by chance?
I would say your very foolish to make a comment like that when you didn't know the facts or don't want to face them.
And most impostors are the pros-how low is that?
2006-07-09 04:58:00
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answered by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7
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If you morons weren't so stupid, ignorant, and bigoted, you would know this: these people who are coming here illegally are doing the only thing that they can do to put food in their children's mouths! Do you REALLY think that they would be doing it if they had a choice, knowing the possible consequences?! And if you sit there and tell me that you wouldn't do the SAME EFFING THING to feed YOUR family, given the SAME set of circumstances, then you're not only MORONS, but LIARS AS WELL! The intelligence joke is on YOU, you poor brain deprived hypocrites!! At least TRY to open up your shallow minds!!!
2006-07-13 19:46:51
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answered by Rebooted 5
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Well, a perfect example of this would be yourself and you don't appear to have a lot of intelligence at all. Where did you graduate? From the academy of berry picker university?
You post a question and when someone answers, if you don't like the answer, the first thing you do is call names and behave like a thug from the gutter. Don't ask a question if you can't handle the truth.
Do you realize what a joke you are period?
2006-07-09 13:48:29
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answered by Anonymous
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Watch it! This is the war zone of Yahoo answers! Everything goes. You become a qualified Mexican with a bleeding heart, an illegal needing deportation, a subhuman who sucks up social services belonging to the lazy bright whites on Jerry Springer, a neanderthal, a criminal who rapes puppies, when you dare to disagree with the established clique who slam dunks people here! Stick around, the hardcore elites here never heard of mainstream America!
PS: If it's brown, speaks other than English, it's a Mexican! Ha! I don't know, Julie's Avatar bothers me!
2006-07-09 05:25:59
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answered by Stomp 3
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Eh? Intelligence? I gotta see this....if people are so smart, why don't they fix their own countries? As far as I'm concerned, the whole immigration thing is One Big Racket. How 'smart' is it for voters to tolerate systematic law-breaking? How 'smart' is it to stand by and watch our cities/city officials to be co-opted by all this pro-hispanic stuff? I'll admit, some of the people I've met from mexico are downright brilliant. But, since they're also breaking the LAW in many ways, that's US laws as they apply to most of what goes on in our country, that still doesn't make it right. Also, if that brilliance was applied to things like starting companies and creating jobs in their country, and promoting things like birth control, they wouldn't have as many social problems, and that'd just be amazingly smart. Instead, you're seeing all this collective intelligence applied to systematically
sneaking into our country etc. I don't know what you call that, but some of it really starts to seem like hostile intent to me, and that's why I want to see Congress to take a good hard look at the whole mess, and I want to see the borders enforced.
2006-07-09 05:02:54
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answered by gokart121 6
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Well, most people don't, but if they did, I would assume it was because they represent 90% of the people entering our country illegally.
We have two countries who are on borders. The canadians are not sneaking over by the masses, but mexicans are.
It has nothing to do with the color of their skin, so stop playing the race card.
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I guess someone with such a high intelligence quotient such as yourself couldn't figure that out on their own.
2006-07-09 04:41:39
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answered by Anonymous
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Well See How Much Longer
Your Reign Of Terror Lasts
Kubrickian
We Will Have The Last Laugh
You Will Be Gone Soon
And When You Are
Everyone Will Know WHO Destroyed YOU
And WHY I Did It
Enjoy Your Last Few Moments Of "Glory" @$$#OLE
2006-07-11 11:27:22
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answered by Anonymous
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