How many people here ACTUALLY realize how bad people have it in other countries?

Question

If you really did, I'd think you would understand why some people don't have 7 years to wait to come legally. So they come illegally. I know that doesn't make it right, but sometimes it's the only choice. Some illegals honestly come here for a better life and put some food on the table, we should cut them a little slack I think.

Actually I didn't watch 30 days. I heard about that show though.

For those who are saying, "If their country's so bad, why don't they fix it?" It's not that easy. Look at yourselves, you want to change the whole immigration rule and you can't even do that. What makes you think these people can change the whole goverment's way of thinking?

JD, I wasn't really talking about Mexico, I was talking about all countries who have illegal immigrants that come here.

Answer 1

I wish that these people on here that are so dead set against immigrants would take a walk in their shoes. I have been on 2 missionary trips to Mexico, and we have it so good here that we don't even realize it. I lived and worked as they did, and it was rough. I was in a part of Mexico you don't see on vacation brochures, down in the Yucatan, there are families sleeping in hammocks with their babies, walking on dirt floors with no shoes on their feet. These people were the most gracious and loving people I have ever come across. They appreciated the smallest things. We built a church for these people so they could worship and rejoice just being alive. How many of us Americans do that? If it came down to me having to chose a better life for my family or stay in a mud house you better bet your butt I would do whatever it took to provide for my family. I really wish more Americans could be as family oriented as some of these immigrants are that they would risk life and limb to try and make it in a whole new place without any one to turn to. How many Americans would actually survive. If anyone ever gets the chance to do missionary work, please do it. You will appreciate life and where your from like never before.

Answer 2

Yes. I do. My husband comes from one of the poorest countries in the world. His people don't have the option of sneaking across the border because they live in West Africa. They can't even sneak across the border into Spain because they don't even have enough money to make it that far north, so they have to wait until jobs open up and the immigration policy loosens. That will never happen until those who "can't" wait keep sneaking across the border or overstaying their visas and taking those jobs that would otherwise need to be filled by LEGAL immigrants. So don't think you are the one being sympathetic to the cause of poor people around the world who want to come to America. You are thumbing your nose at them and telling them. "Tough sh*t that you come from Africa and Asia. If only you came from South or Central America or from Mexico, you could sneak across the border and take those jobs illegally. We have geographical advantage over you so your woes aren't as important as ours. You are too stupid to figure out a way to break the law and get to America illegally, and therefore you don't deserve to immigrate." Get off your high horse and consider the other point of view. You don't hold any monopoly on sympathy and illegals don't hold any monopoly on sorrow. They just hold the monopoly on unskilled labor in the US so that those applying for legal immigration will never have the chance. Illegal immigration is the CAUSE of the screwed up immigration policy. The SOLUTION is to deport all illegal immigrants and import LEGAL immigrants to take those jobs, get paid a legal wage, pay appropriate taxes, and have protection under the law. Be honest, have you EVER thought about the legals who are being screwed by the illegals? You have not or you wouldn't post this sort of sob story.

Answer 3

I know where your coming from. My husband was raised in California since he was 3 months old. And has made it finally to Mexico for the first time. He was deported. We have 6 kids all together. In Mexico he works 6days a week, 13-14hrs. a day, and he only gets $120 a week. They deported him for being here illegally. It's not like he walked himself over here. But because he was deported. that means that me and my 6 children have to find a way down there just to suffer so that we can be together as a family again. Or stay up here and get on state assistance, and possibly loosing their dad because the type of work down there can literally kill you over night. this is why people come to the land of the free. this why Mexicans will work for 5 and 6 dollars an hour. because they are getting more than what they would get over there. they are not trying to still jobs. they are just trying to survive like we are trying to do. Some people just have to understand that there is only one judge in this world, and it's not me, you, nor the president. Please tell me if you know one person that would be willing to live the life that me and my children are facing now and is getting ready to face. Sorry if I offended anyone but every ones lives are different,and you would have to know someone who is going through it to just understand it a little bit.

Answer 4

If their country is so bad, why don't they change it? Do you think we just happened to have all of the things here in the good ol' USofA? It took decades of scraping, fighting, and creative thinking to get what we have. I think if they put their minds to it, they could do the same.

If the illegals are here simply to "put some food on the table", then they won't mind getting a visa to work here. . .

I will cut them "a little slack" when they pitch in for the programs they end up using when they come here with nothing, and continue to have nothing. Just coming over the border doesn't get you a better life. That is what a lot of them think.

Answer 5

I agree with you. I understand that there are people out there that do not have the money or even the luxury of coming to America legally. I have no problem with people illegally immigrating to the US to work. I do have a problem giving them free medical benefits when our own impoverished citizens don't recieve that benefit. If illegal immigrants come here and work for a better life... then go for it. I think that those who come here and work their butt off to send money home to their families should have a right to be here. They are also the people who work hard to learn English so they can communicate with people around them. I have a problem with those who refuse to learn the language of the country of which they are immigrating to.

Answer 6

There Are People In The World That Have It
10X WORSE Than The Mexican People Ever IMAGINED
By Your Reasoning
The Mexican People Should Be LAST IN LINE
To Get In Our Nation

No Slack For Nobody
DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS UPON DISCOVERY

Answer 7

No slack, WE have Homeless people without food, that they could have if it wasn't for taking care of the sorry ****s that come here for a hand out. They love this country so much, why the disrespect with us. LEARN ENGLISH. Go to SCHOOL and get a legalize JOB with a legalize VISA. Then have them go to their OWN country, kick out the scum that hates their own people, and BUILD it up, like the other Nations do.
I keep forgetting half of you don't speak English.

Answer 8

Good points, but it is not the people that need to make their country, it is the government that needs to step up. The U.S.should hold the Mexican government responsible for their own people. We should not have to spend the time or money getting these people to go back but I am willing to spend some to get them educated on the American way. Too bad we don't have even the proper funding for our own education. It is lose lose no matter what the good citizens of America get.

Answer 9

There are people here in America that have it bad too...some (most) of which have a legitimate need for government assistance. America isn't a grab bag full of goodies..it is a sovereign nation with laws and hungry people too. America is already the world leader in financial, medical,and hunger aid. America doesn't what it can for the world and asks little more than that people abide by and respect her laws and her people who created such a wealthy and prosperous land.

Answer 10

I know where your coming from. I am against people breaking our laws but at the same time I feel for the little old lady housekeeper who is supporting her family (illegally). A lot of illegal aliens are very decent and deserving people. Its just sad some are joining gangs, breaking even more laws etc., really ruining it for their own people. The Americans who hide the fact that they hire them for their own personal gain are worse.

Answer 11

The fact remains we can't afford them. When it was hundreds of thousands, we covered their costs. When it was a few million we covered their costs, although the areas where they concentrated started to lose quality education and services. 12 to 20 million are ruining our schools in areas where they concentrate.

There are many poor in the world. Dafur is much worse off than Latin America. We can't take in all the poor and the damage from those who are here has become too great. It isn't just a matter of 'we don't want you here, we don't like you' it is a matter of having to pay tens of billions of dollars for them per year, and having their presence ruin education for our children.

I feel sorry for them. However, my children come first.