Do you have a personal stake in the immigration debate?

Question

Are you/is a family member of yours in the US illegally? I asked this one about a month ago, I think, got a few responses...

Answer 1

You asked if I had a personal stake. First of all, there isn't one U.S. citizen who doesn't have a personal stake, starting with Native American Indians (who by the way had terrible immigration policies) right down to the high school graduate who refuses to work for minimum wage in the fields or change sheets in a motel or work hard enough to learn how to frame a new home.

We live in the desert, about a mile off the highway. A high voltage powerline runs parralell to the highway about 800 yards from our house. I drag the roadway that runs under the powerline by pulling a 6x8 foot piece of chainlink fencing behind my ATV. About every other day, this "smoothed out" pathway is full of human tracks of all sizes. Periodically, I find tire tracks as well, and huge piles of clothing, shoes and backpacks discarded by the coyotes who transported the undocumented Mexicans to this area. From here, they arrange for different transportation, or some of them walk to the nearest big cities etc. I'm convinced that it is only my two large outside dogs that keeps us from having regular visitors. And yes, we have given aid -- water on several occasions and once bandaged up a young girls feet and gave her a pair of my wife's tennis shoes. I always tell them that I am calling the border patrol so they can give themselves up if they want to. And I do call. Usually from my cell phone right on the spot. Sometimes the border patrol comes, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the starving and thirsty people wait right there for the border patrol. Sometimes they continue walking. This is a very serious issue on all levels.

As long as our civic leaders and elected officials defend the wealthy businessmen and farmers who employ these hard working people, we can never stop them at the border. One of the answerers suggested that the problem is a GOP conspiracy. Maybe it is. But for sure, economics are at the root. As long as the mega corporations make huge profits by outsourcing their manufacturing, and as long as U.S. located companies can increase their profits with the use of cheap labor, we will have an "immigration problem."

This is a matter of international politics at its highest level, and economics 101 at the base. There are also racial issues (meaning rascist attitudes) that interfere with real long term solutions. When the English first arrived, they referred to our American natives as savages and tried to keep out the Shanty Irish, then the Bohunks, then the Waps, then the Jews, then . . .

So, yes, I have a personal stake in the immigration issue. And so do you.

Answer 2

We all as Americans have a personal stake in the illegal immigration debate.

Answer 3

Yes. I was planning on hiring a live in housekeeper. Will not be able to afford one now. I am not kidding. I used to go through Catholic charities for my hiring. They provided good workers. I would pay them $500.00 a month plus room and board. It was a good deal all around. They had no living expenses, so all the money was theirs to keep (not a lot of us have that much money left over after paying all our living expenses). But, now that I won't be able to hire immigrants, I will be unable to afford one, which will mean more work for me and less family time. Kind of sucks, but I understand. I prefer that laws be enforced, but I guess I was kind of hypocritical in that one. I found the Mexican ladies to be the best. Hired one form Honduras once, and she was lazy (sorry if this sounds harsh).

Answer 4

as an American who cares about the survival of the country and its
right to enforce ALL its laws
I feel as though I have as personal stake in this struggle as anyone.
Illegal immigration should be stopped, enough is enough
If you know anything about history, you will understand one thing
And that is that countries that have not kept their borders secure
have soon been overrun and been changed forever by invading masses of people.
That's the plain and simple truth.

Answer 5

Nope...

Sheesh, I hate illegal immigrants. Wth do they think they're doing? Why can't they just get in without any concerns like that. And if they can't, why not work towards it or get help? x.x



This is the USA...LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH OR GO HOME!!!!


I AGREE. I came from another country but I knew english before.

Answer 6

HI Kart.....good way to spark some interesting debate eh?! As a proud citizen of this country I think we all have a personal stake in this matter because it can, and has become an issue in our well-beings, and our livelyhoods.....

Answer 7

No and No. The illegal immigration "problem" is a facade put on by the GOP to turn heads away from the real problem of outsourcing!! IGNORANCE IS BLISS, AND THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON THE BACKS OF IMMIGRANTS!!

Answer 8

I think that all illegals should be bused back across the border...get your friggin papers, learn English and then come back...Nothing pisses me off more than working with or having to listen to a bunch of people who do not or will not speak English...This is the USA...LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH OR GO HOME!!!!

Answer 9

i remember the question u asked!!!! i dont want my friend to get deported or nothing like that! i been best friends with him for half my life! he's lived in this country longer than i have!!! he actually helped me learn english!!! (which is kinda weird cuz everyone thinks illegals dont know english) i think nobody should deport him. we should keep him.

Answer 10

NOT ME!!!!!!! If any of my family members were here ILLEGALLY, i would report them MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To "mrjpro" This ILLEGAL "imigration thing' HAS been a major problem here in Arizona for over TWENTY years now!!!!!!!!!!!!! The REST of the country is just now getting a taste of what WE have put up with for YEARS now!!!!!!!!!