so where are you guys from??

Question

I think that you're beliefs may be different according to your location geographically.. ...

I live in Long Beach, (LA county) California, so I live in a city with all races... maybe that's why I'm open-minded about different cultures.
I've seen the good side of hard-working immigrants and that's why I would like them to have the chance to apply for residence or citizenship..

I do agree with you DAR but I think drop-out rate in LA is not do to illegal immigration, it's due to Ghetto's and bad neighborhoods due to lack of law enforcement.. I learned fine and I know that if you drop-out, it's not because of lack of pencils and teachers, it's because of what goes on in your life...

Go Kart, i don't think that if Mexico's problems were healed, illegal immigration would end... Some people here had ideas that it would be good to make Mexico a US state. Illegal immigration would be worse because now the border would be closer to countries with harsher poverty. Central American economy is far worse than the Mexican economy.

Everybody from central america and South america would come.. Many central and south americans don't come as often because they have to cross 2-3 borders while Mexicans only cross one.


Kubrickian,, where r u? fantasy land? haha o my bad,, cyberspace...

Answer 1

I live in cyberspace with a princess, but she went poof!

Sly...lookie, i'm here, up, down, all around, everywhere! reaching out to touch someone!

Answer 2

I live in Chicago. My neighborhood is primarily White- particularly Polish, German, and Italian people- and there are a few Japanese people too. It is very safe compared to most of the city, and everyone tries to keep the area clean. However, my school has a majority of Hispanic/illegal immigrant students (not neighborhood kids)- they ruin things, constantly use vulgarities to feel important, and have the average IQ of a box of rocks. Their parents take a long time to pay the tuition (they pay it in monthly payments and do so late), most pay reduced tuition and work school affairs, most get financial aid, and most are lazy. Also, in some surrounding areas (especially those that have a lot of busy streets and liquor stores) there are tons of illegals- all of which turned those neighborhoods into cesspools of drugs, crime, and illegitimacy. Ghetto areas- which are not too close to my neighborhood but can be reached in about 25 minutes- are worse then the busy streets. They have even more crime, drugs, and illegitimate babies and also have two or three large families in a single house. (Or, they have their extended families with them.) This is just one example of why I don’t doubt statistics like this- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49965 - and why I believe in deporting the illegals.

Answer 3

Grew up in the Bay area, Oakland, California.......Moved to San Antonio, Texas. I am also open minded about different cultures, but I still believe that the American laws should be obeyed, not just because you come here illegally from another country should you be exempt from the laws of this land. That's just plain wrong!

Answer 4

I'm not dissing hard-working immigrants, but I make a deliniation between legal, and illegal. They can come to work all day long in america, as long as it's all legal, and above board, and they understand that they're guests, and we lose a lot of this rhetoric, it's all good. But, while we're out in the streets, burning flags, having attitudes, and generally being really ignorant about the whole business, then some regulation and 'free' trips home are in order.

There's ppl in the pro-illegal group that've shat the bed pretty righteously, and they need to step forward and apologize for it,
and do all that energetic campaigning instead to reform Mexico.

Long-term, nothing's going to help the mexican people nearly as much as rolling up their sleeves and fixing their own country.
They can demonize the US all day long, it still doesn't make up for their 'bad'. Mexico's got problems, the kind 'hard working' people can fix, but at the end of the day, it's all rhetoric to try and get more out of the US. If Mexico would do something novel, like start engaging in trade with other countries, and cleaning corruption out of their government, they'd really have something there, and it'd be right and proper then for our country to help em. But, until they get started on the right road, we shouldn't give em a penny, in the spirit of not throwing good money after bad.

I fully support the border fence, and once that's all built, then start talking guest worker programs, and stuff like that. But first, let's see Mexico build about 5 hospitals, 10 schools, a couple more jails, and maybe even their side of the border fence, make it a mutual partnership project. 10 years from now, when everything's rolling along smoothly in their country, and it's not just a place for drug dealers to hide from US law enforcement etc., then we can talk about easing back on the border bit. But, until they do all their dirty laundry, no mas, por favor. Legal immigration/work ONLY, and nothing past that.

Answer 5

I live in Los Angeles and have children in the Los Angeles Unified School District. That is why I think limiting immigration to protect our schools and services is vital.

However, I would also be living surrounded by the pain of deportation. While I don't know who around me is illegal, I am statistically certain I know people who are here illegally. If we really got the problem solved and dismantled the employment and benefits magnets drawing illegals here, I would be OK with screened amnesty for those already here, NOT to bring in family currently absent and quadruple their numbers as the Senate Bill would do, however, and NOT with 400x increases in going forward immigration as the Senate Bill would have (or anything even remotely approaching that). Our schools and services really are failing, and if you live in Long Beach, you know that.

The Pence bill is NOT a solution, however. The wrong people (big business interests) are drafting the bills.

Gokart, 10 schools won't BEGIN to touch their problem. Start with a thousand, and build up from there.

Kubrickian - LOL

sly - who is talking about drop out rates? My kids aren't going to drop out of anywhere.

Look at test scores and facilities and how much money is spent on ESL vs any other special education such as (dare I whisper it?) gifted and highly gifted classes. The funds are disproportionately spent on those who not only economically contribute the least, they aren't even legally here.

I really know this subject, and it is not simple. However it only becomes MORE apparent how much of the impact is due to illegal immigration the more closely you study it.

Whatever, we are where we are, and I couldn't live with myself to send these kids here back home. But I'll fight with everything I have to stop the problem going forward. Nothing is more important to me than my children.

Answer 6

I live in the San Fernando Valley, California so I see a lot of immigrants as well. I have to disagree with you though. Hospital waits, overcrowded schools, and increased rental prices because of overpopulation is what the results are.
I don't have a problem with immigration, but it has to be regulated because the results are biting us in the a**.

Answer 7

Wisconsin...... they say that the city im from is the most segregated in all the US maybe but im pretty open minded about all races......yeah we are divided a lot....the south side is were a lot of the hispanics are, the north side is were all the blacks are, the west side i think is were theres a lot of asians and whites and the east side is also were the whites are.......

Answer 8

Brisbane, Australia. Still a bit backwards, and a bit racist, resistant to change, slowly starting to accept immigrants as equals, will take a long time though.

I'm far more left leaning than my genes or location would suggest.

Answer 9

Kansas

Answer 10

Texas, and I totally hate the way spanish is everywhere. now they are forcing us to learn spanish. it is very upsetting. I used to live in Louisiana, but my parents decided to move to this wastland called Texas, that is being overrun by illegals. my family originated in France, and came to America during WWI and were among the higher class, and then my family lost a lot during the depression, but we are slowly working ourselves back up.

Answer 11

I'm in a secret underground branch of the minutemen here in Mexico city taking care of the Mexicans down here...

OH GROW UP.

I'm all over and Mexico and I have an agreement: I never go there and they never want me there, it's bliss.