After the Immigration issue in the U.S., would you still want to immigrate there?(For non-americans)?

Question

Its easy to see that the ones who dont like illegal immigrants simply DO NOT LIKE IMMIGRANTS. So why bother? There are other countries who need your services so long as you register well and pay your taxes for medical insurance coverage etc.
Sure the dollar is good and buys stuff, thing is we spend the rest of our lives using our health for money and a longer part using our money for our health as we grow older.

"my question is how anyone can tell the difference between a legal and an illegal immigrant? If you see an increase in crime, how do you know that the perpetrators are in the country illegally? Do they walk up and ask to see their birth certificate, or perhaps strike up a cordial conversation about family lineage? "Of course in the real world there's no way for anyone to recognize an illegal on sight. People who are upset about illegal immigrants are actually just upset about immigration. They don't see "illegals" -- they see people with different skin color and hear them speaking a different tongue. They feel deeply threatened by different people with different cultures and different languages. No matter how much they might try to argue that it is about fairness to legal immigrants or the rule of law, it's actually completely driven by an emotional, fearful, traditionally nativist reaction to change."

Random checking of papers?? That sounds familiar to me back in the 1940s...

majority of the people in yahoo answers are...
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yep you guessed it!

Answer 1

The foundation of your question is in error. Americans do like immigrants, they are, and have been, the life blood of the country. As well as contributing to the economy, they add to the social structure. All that is asked is that they do so legally.

Answer 2

You may be right as to some, but you are trivializing the issue by fixating on the culture impacts of mass illegal immigration, which is being felt around the world, not just in the United States.

If we did not, individually, like immigrants, we would not have a culture that allowed there to be 12 to 20 million of them. Even at that level this only erupted into anger when both (1) those people marched demanding even more 'rights' and (2) our own government spoke of increasing immigration going forward in a way that abandons all pretense of protecting education and social services in this country.

Poor immigrants are limited because they cannot be taxed much and others have to pay for their education and health care. That is expensive which is why Mexico and other countries don't provide those services to their poor. Our own education is failing where illegals concentrate.

As to how we know they are illegal, I have no way of knowing that the person next to me is or isn't. Many government agencies track things however. For example, all population figures are tracked by deducting legally resident people from the total and are accordingly estimates. Under those estimates illegals make up 4% of the population and 25-30 % of our prison population. In prison they have ample opportunity to establish citizenship. Similarly, they back the number of legal first generation immigrants and their children out of the number of children requiring ESL services to come up with a number.

Beyond that, on the cultural side, one reason immigration from a single country is limited is so that our own culture grows at a pace that doesn't cause culture shock to reasonable citizens. Some types may not want a single person with foreign manners here. However, most of us like individual immigrants and think a mix of diverse backgrounds adds interest. That is different from having a single culture move in and make your city their culture rather than yours when you never moved. That is what is happening in localities not only in our country but in Western countries across the world.

Economic effects on our schools and health care, which are real and demonstrable and which are my own big problem with mass immigration OR illegal immigration (a subset) exacerbate resentment on all fronts.

I don't want immigration stopped, just balanced amongst countries and slowed to allow our schools to recover in areas where illegals concentrate. However, you are right that there are other places to go. In the end, your people will need to change your own country, however, since there are not enough spaces in the 'lifeboat countries' to take all of the world's poor.

Answer 3

"Europeans brought diseases, against which the Native Americans had no immunity. Chicken pox and measles, though common and rarely fatal among Europeans, often proved fatal to Native Americans, and more dangerous diseases such as smallpox were especially deadly to Native American populations. It is difficult to estimate the total percentage of the Native American population killed by these diseases. Epidemics often immediately followed European exploration, sometimes destroying entire villages. Some historians estimate that up to 80% of some Native populations may have died due to European diseases.[2]"....this is what you answered to my last question! now i wanna ask you something:
the europeans brought all those things to USA..maybe i wont say no but why do you people forget that the Europeans also broght that corn there,and the flowers and in the end that the Europeans and indians started all what USA is today?

All i can see as an outsider is:
-everything in the USA has to do with money( you ban illigals just bcs they don't pay your taxes, they take away your wellfare etc.)
-Everything in the USA has to do with war, it seems that you people can't live without war (again illigals,agains Iraqui people, again muslims etc)
and trust me the list could go on....
and again i don't live in the USA i don't take your money away but i also as a human beeing i will never understand how can people be so prejudice, rasist, and sometimes soooooooooo stupid!

Answer 4

Let's see, leave a country who takes pride in their ethnic diversity, move to a country that believes guns don't kill(people do), the NRA argument, move to a country that doesn't believe that fossil fuels are the main contributing factor of global warming, move to a country that searches their citizens before they can take their morning commute, move to a country that requires any children I have to register for a military draft in case oil supplies are needed, move to a country where a sickness or injury can drain your life savings or have treatment refused all together, move to a country where there are almost as many registered sex offenders as health care workers, and lastly, move to a country that executes hundreds of it's citizens each year while professing how great a "christian" nation they are. Right away. The illegal immigrants that do choose to enter the U.S. are , as a rule, trying to escape worse, and what do you do? Build higher fences, arm more border guards? One christian nation? Not the God I've read about....

Answer 5

Since when did this site become an America bashing site? All I have seen on this site recently are ignorant people shouting uneducated and negative comments about this great country. Where are you people? Wake -up!! Stop blaming this country for all of your shortcomings. We are not responsible for all the world's problems. It is so easy to blame America because it is what everyone does. So the easy thing to do is jump on the bandwagon and completely disregard your own mind and your own thinking. You people love to hate this country, but the entire world relies on us.

Answer 6

We like legal immigrants, we just don't like the illegal ones

Answer 7

Calling me a racist means NOTHING to me. You might want to get over it too. Call me anything you want, it doesn't change my attitude.

I haven't had job related health care in decades - and why would someone enter legally in another country but not here? If that's the attitude, yes please 'register' somewhere else.

Answer 8

Yeah obviously, why not? after all as you said doller is good!! and if we get money using our heath (thats in doller), then the longer part, where we get health using money, we can enjoy more and get more health (after all doller is exchanged at a higher rate in almost all countries :) )

Answer 9

HEY, im american and i resent the whole DO NOT LIKE IMMIGRANTS. i just dont like that they drive up the cost of living and lower our wages.