Why don't people like immigration?

Question

Ok I am an anglo, 14, and if I was president, I would loosen the borders a lot, especially with Latin America. I used to hate immigrants, and want the borders to be closed.. I have changed lol!

why are people so intolerant of immigrants? Now yes, I hate that some don't like America, but that's only a few immigrants. Most immigrants really don't care about what country they are in, as long as that nation offers great schools, is a free country, and so forth.

so why do we hate immigrants so much? people especially hate the ppl from mexico. WHY? seriously now..

the religious right especially hate the immigrants from mexico.. at least most immigrants are religious christians.

so why the hate? who is with me on loosening the borders?

well to rid the illegal immigration problem, oru government needs to allow more legal immigrants. yet any time a bill is proposed, it is all over websites and people are like "oppose it. it's bad." and all racist nasty comments.

maybe if the people would vote for legislation that would allow more LEGAL immigrants, illegal immigration wouldn't be the problem.

or if we offered amnesty.. the people would have to pay the taxes now and such. Hello! lol

Answer 1

Its not immigration that people don't like; its people who enter the country illegally, work without contributing to the taxes, and still expect government services. I am all for legal immigration. (btw I'm married to an immigrant.)

Answer 2

1. You're fourteen. Don't even bother with politics till you are much much older...

2. If you're fourteen now, how have you changed a lot?
What are you saying, you were a radical right winger at the age of ten?

3. People are intolerant of ILLEGAL immigration because it destroys the economy, it upsets the population and causes communial issues.

4. Actually, over 80% of immigrants dislike many things about America and especially it's capitalism; yet they have no problem taking the free handouts we give them for being 'immigrants.'

5. Most immigrants DO care what country they are in. Great schools? Can't be achieved when the money that would goto schools is being spread all over different programs that have to help immigrants. Free country, sorry no such thing exists. Everything has a price.

6. Mexico is disliked the most? Probably because they are the largest contributer to immigration since the Europeans in the early 20th century. Even worse over 90% of them are ILLEGAL.

7. You talk of the religious right? Did you ever noticed that the nut cases on the left are religious too? Liberalism has become a religion, and ironically enough, it's even more intolerant of other people's beliefs than those of your 'religious right.' Most immigrants are NOT Christians; Latin people are Catholic. Please don't ever make that mistake again.

8. You want to know who's with you on loosening the borders? Whacko liberals, the ACLU and mexico. Because the more immigrants that come into America, the better chance they have of getting rid of that oh so nasty 'religious right.'

Answer 3

I have found that MOST but not all illegal immigrants are very hard working people and very nice. But the problem I have with them is this- I have worked in construction all my life. The illegal immigrants are willing to work for so cheap that it is difficult to make any money in the construction industry. I had a contractors license in California and I lost many job contracts to illegal immigrants, because they are willing to work so cheap. They make it difficult for a small company to get anywhere. When I was a laborer 20 yrs ago, I made $8 an hr. Now a laborer only makes $6 an hr. I was told by an illegal immigrant that $50 in america is like having $5000 in Mexico. That is why they work so cheap. And on top of that, they don't pay their taxes. I am an equipment operator for a company now, and I make $10 more a week than my Mexican laborer because he claims the maximum dependants(he has no children yet) so not much tax comes out of his check. I could do the same thing but at the end of the year when I file my taxes , I would either have to show proof or make up for the tax money that should have came out of my check. My laborer simply does not file his taxes. He has fake social security number. I have a commercial drivers license and operate a trackhoe and I make $10 more a week than a guy that operates nothing but a shovel. Also the illegal immigrants get american women pregnant(I know several who have) and refuse to pay the child support because it is too much money. So people like me get stuck paying for it. I have many more issues these are just a few. In all honesty I have found that illegal immigrants are very good people and I don't hate them, but they are a big problem .

Answer 4

Hey Kyle, See I don't think it is the immigration that is the problem but the illegal part. The reason we have the immigration laws are so that we don't take on so many people that our economy can't handle it. I am all about loosening the borders but upstairs has to figure our a way to accommodate it, more jobs more housing, and more room. Some people hate the immigrants because of racial reasons which is just ridiculous. There are many different reasons but I think you should look into following the line of becoming a politician. With a little heart you may be the key to fixing the immigration problem.

Answer 5

OK Son, I'll try to give you an old man's perspective since you state you're only 14. By the way 14 is a great age. You're beginning to reason with abstract thoughts and question the world around you. I can tell by your question that you already have a social conciousness.

So, am I with you in loosening immigration laws, particularly for Mexicans? Answer: yes and no. Yes, if Mexico reciprocates to the extent that Americans are permitted the same rights as native mexicans. Including the right to own property and not just lease it, and to gain mexican citizenship in full, not just partially.

No, in the sense that those who come here without skills go on welfare and SSI, eventhough they have never contributed a dime to social security, medicare or any other social safety nets our taxes pay for. No other country in the world opens it's welfare system carte blanche to foreigners.

You see Young Man, we are one of the few nations in the world that has to put up fences, not to keep our own people in, but keep millions of foreigners out. And of course our border patrol agents are fighting a losing battle. Those people really are modern day heroes in my humble opinion.

If you are refering to hatred of immigrants base on racial bias then I am definitely with you. Mexicans are wonderfully warm and good natured people. You won't find a harder worker or a better employee or supervisor than the typical mexican worker. But our social infrastructure is straining near to the breaking point. And we are running out of space. When I was your age we did not even have 2 hundred million people in America. This Sept. they say we will surpass 3 hundred million. That's one hundred million in only one generation! So, By the time you are my age, 59, you can expect to be sharing this beautiful country with atleast 6 hundred million to a billion people. Where will you put them, in high rises?

So something must be done. Perhaps your generation will be able to fix what mine has so miserably failed to do. Good luck, study hard, and become President of these United States someday!

Answer 6

You are more than entitiled to your opinion. When you grow up and start working for your depressed wages, get as many illegal immigrants as you can fit - 80-100 if you can do it - and let them stay there, financially support them, and take care of their children.

I am not with you. 85% of America is not with you.

Someday you may grow up to understand. Now, saying things like intolerants and knowing what illegals feel shows you may be lying about your age.

DEPORT EN MASSE ALL ILLEGALS UPON DISCOVERY.

The economics are in -
Deport them - 250 billion once
Keep them here - 1/2 trillion dollars and rising
Freedom - priceless.


Save a Country - Deport an Illegal

English as National Language

Don't be fooled. They are not here for a better life. The better life and future they want is YOURS. Illegals depress your wages 200 billion a year alone not including what your paying for them in taxes.

One other note. I've never met any 14 year old that ever referred to himself as Anglo, let alone what that actually means.

Your parents lied to you. What you are proposing is another war for independance from Mexico and that's what all these amnesties are going to add up to. Are you that stupid enough to think just make them legal and there is no more problem?

Apparantly so.

We send our troops everywhere in the world to defend freedom, we sure as hell can defend our own borders. Now you can stop believing the lies and face the truth.

Answer 7

It isn't this one or that one, it is the vast numbers of them. And it isn't what ethnic group they are, it is how poor they are, and that they don't speak English.

The reason our country and every other country in the world that subsidizes services like education limits the number of poor people who can come is because poor people cost much more in education and services than their taxes cover. Not only do we end up paying for them, they drain the funds needed for education and health care, etc., for our own people.

We do let in some poor immigrants, unlike countries like Mexico, which don't legally let in any, other than family. However, that number needs to be limited. We can not pay to educate and give health care to all of the poor of the world. Our schools are failing our children, my children, in our border states and areas where illegal immigrants concentrate.

For legal immigrants that come under a limited immigration system designed to protect our schools and services, them I have no problem with. Immigration has been good for this country, but that is in big part because our laws over the last 80 years have been slanted to bringing in the skilled workers we need, rather than the poorest unskilled workers who tend to be the ones who come illegally.

You have a good heart. However, if you view this country as a lifeboat to the world's poor, remember that if too many get in and it sinks, it will save no one.

My point is that even if poor people pay taxes they don't make enough money to pay much of anything towards their education and other costs. We pay for them. Otherwise we would just let them all in and tax them. It doesn't work that way.

Answer 8

People think that immigrants are going to "steal" their jobs by working for lower wages etc, when truth be told most "white" people are too proud to take the kind of jobs these immigrants take (like cleaners etc), they would rather live in their little hovels and be on unemployment than get the asses out into the world and work.

When your life is miserable you need someone to blame because most people wont take responibility for it themselves, that is why people hate immigrants.

To those replies having a go about sending money home to their *country* think about you family living in abject poverty in high crime with little to no medical and on the verge of starvation - you make it to a country where you can make more cash then you would have had the oppourtunity *back home* and see if you don't send some to your family. You people have so much and you begrudge others what little they can scratch together to survive, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Answer 9

Most people deny it, or are unaware of it, but there has always been racism from mainstream america towards the mexican people. We had wars with Mexico a long time ago, which probably helped bring about that racism, just like war with Japan helped cause a lot of hate towards the Japanese spread throughout the US, which still persists (think of words like Jap, nip, ****). Similarly for Mexicans we have all kinds of words.

Republicans lie and say that they aren't against immigration, when in fact they are against it. They aren't just against "illegal immigration" they are against legal and illegal immigration. They are for laws that restrict the amount of immigrants who can come here. Those laws (and support of those laws) are based on racism.

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"


If you add, "unless they are Mexican" (or anything else in place of Mexican) you are racist.





Also, I read one guy's argument above. He was saying that illegal immigrants have brought down wages in construction jobs. That's not true. The truth is: Employers who hire illegal immigrants have brought down wages in constructions jobs. Those employers are breaking the law. His anger should be directed at those employers (who were his competitors) who break the law, not at Mexicans. Mexicans would not come here illegally if they couldn't find someone to give them a job. The problem is that people here in America don't want to admit that Americans are responsible for this part of the problem. Americans who employ illegal aliens are much more to blame than illegal aliens.

Answer 10

People hate immigrants because they don't sound, talk, or act like we Americans! All Americans should just remember what their people before them went through! White people first took the land and basically wiped out the natives of the land. Then they bring black people a.k.a slaves.

Now here comes the hating on immigrants! More white people come on boats and the white people that were born here hate the new white people! Of course everyone still hates on blacks. But you have what are called "house ******" and they are hating on the other slaves coming in. Many years later here comes Asians, Middle Eastern, and Latinos coming into the United States of America. Now the whites and blacks have someone to hate on together although they are still acting like they are mortal enemies.

Fast forward to today and all the people that are true "haters" of every race hate on the people of the same or different race because they don't look, talk, sound, or act like they are from America. Just think Canadians come in no problem because they blend right into America, they have no problem.

So the end of this rant about "why people hate immigrants" is that none of us (talking about our ancestors) are from this land except the native people of this land ancestors. We have to remember where we came from and where the new people of this land coming from. We have to be able to accepts our differences and share this country. Remember that none of our ancestors are not from here!

Answer 11

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