Would someone, anyone, please attempt to answer my simple question on immigration as asked in Details?

Question

Patrick Buchanan is narrating a nightvision recording of Mexican people crossing the border with a dire warning that Mexicans will destroy America by 2050. I thought give us your tired, your weak, your poor... How can an "illegal immigrant" even exist!? Is that not Oxy-moronic? I thought people were supposed to immigrate to this great melting pot. Or was that all grade school bulls*it?

Some people are suggesting the undaunted immigration allows murderers, sex offenders, etc... into this country. That is a cheap cop out as such a cut of immigrants make up far less than 1% of immigrants. That proves some people are so agressively racsist, they'll latch onto anything to keep minorities out of America.

Answer 1

Pat Buchanan is an extremist, and like Anne Coulter uses the media as a marketing tool for his latest book. When he ran for President, no one in mainstream American considered him a viable candidate. He is racisim personified.

Answer 2

There is nothing simple about the topic of immigration; it is an emotionally charged issue that has pitted wealthy and impoverished nations against one another for centuries.

Immigration laws are designed to regulate how many new people each year are allowed to come to the US to live and work. The numbers are based on many different criteria, but ultimately one concern is that the numbers should not overwhelm the existing infrastructure that provides for a relatively elevated standard of living.

People who are concerned about illegal immigration are worried, among other things, that too many people will come in, above and beyond those legally entitled to enter, and that the ensuing demands on the system will cause the system to fail. Essentially, the Third World will reduce the US to being a Third World country by simply overwhelming it with sheer numbers.

Note: Around the world, no matter how poor a country is, if there is a neighboring country that is poorer, the migration flow (legal and illegal) will move to the more developed country. Practically every country in the world is concerned about illegal migration and the strain it puts on the more developed county's resources.

Answer 3

You're right, actually, the correct term is 'illegal alien', meaning someone that's entered our country that is a citizen of another country and they've done so illegally. Just being an illegal alien by itself is a crime, has been for years, but enforcement's always been really weak. I think in the future that's going to change, though, a lot of people want to see the borders enforced these days due to all of the problems that've occurred, especially in the last 10 years or so. Time to enforce the laws, and end the hyperbole.

'Give me your tired...' is part of the slogan on the statue of liberty, but that slogan was penned LONG before we hit todays global population of 6.6 billion. That's right, in 100 short years, the global population's increased 6 times over. That's a pretty incredible growth rate. As a consequence of that, the number of people trying to just walk into the United States has also ballooned. It's kind of getting to be decision time, in my view, and I sincerely hope that people sit down and really puzzle out what life in america might be like with 1/2 billion people in it, and tens of millions that nobody knows who they are, even.

Bottom line is, other countries need to figure out how to support their own people. And, we need to have our borders enforced. Flowery rhetoric is not a good substitute for good common-sense policy, and all the tearful entreaties in the world will not make up for the fact that nobody's had the intestinal fortitude to really take issue with this and plainly and simply say 'no'.

One reason that america's got a couple coins in its' pockets compared to some other countries is because we have SCHOOL, where people are taught to be at least 1/2way responsible, and not do things like have kids they can't support.
'American dream', sure, but let's have some 'American realism' while we're at it, and the aforementioned common sense, and
some fair and just enforcement...dry-eyed, well-informed, sound, properly implemented, and publicly supported policy goes a long way toward preventing problems from becoming bigger. I assume from your question that you support illegal immigration, and I'd encourage you to take some time to explore your viewpoint, why you think and feel that way, and if maybe there's not a better way to help other countries besides just letting them move in en masse.

Answer 4

The poem enscribed on the Statue of Liberty is "class exclusive;" just like the Constitution.

During the 18th century, there were slaves and indentured servants; the Constitution did not apply to them.

Today, we have quota systems regulating the number of immigrants to be admitted in this country, with the quota for Mexicans and other Latin American countries filled for the next ten years.

Also, when the poem was written, we had far less people in th US, and we needed more people to increase the work force.

Presently, many places are not hiring workers, but downsizing; thus, no need for more people.

Unfortunately, the good intentions of the Emma Lazarus poem is a relic of the past.

Answer 5

Melting pot is a fine concept when the immigrants want to embrace American culture. We have a group coming in that refuses to learn English. Instead they demand that we learn their language.
There is a difference between legal and illegal. Ask anyone from California, your kids can't get a decent education because the schools are going broke because 1/3 of the kids sitting in the classroom can't speak a lick of English, and their parents are working under the table illegally not paying taxes. The health care costs are skyrocketing, because Mexicans are showing up in droves in the emergency rooms with no ability to pay. People are coming across the Mexican border without being screened for health problems and giving our kids tuberculosis. The people are fed up, and rightly so. We welcome immigrants, as long as they arrive here lawfully and follow the proper procedures that were designed to protect the rest of us.

Answer 6

Your logic is...Illogical and completely foolish. For generations America has been suffering from a Mexican state sponsored Invasion...They are not even Illegal Immigrants, but soldiers, criminals participating in what is by all rights an act of war against America by a foreign government.
You like numbers try these. The U.S. government estimates 12 million Mexican illegals in America (I suspect the number is actually twice that), out of 300 plus million people. Of those convicted of felony's in American courts and incarcerated, 38% are Hispanic, of that number 96% are of Mexican descent. Crunch those numbers and your made up pie in the sky 1% goes bye bye!

Answer 7

America needed immigrants in the early 1900's to populate the U.S. We still need skilled legal immigrants but we don't need illegal ones.
A melting pot means the new legal immigrants come here to become citizens, learn English, pay taxes, learn our history and culture and become loyal Americans.

Illegals come here for the MONEY which they send back to their home country. They're not interested in becoming citizens or learn the language or pay taxes or become loyal Americans. Buchanan is talking about ILLEGAL aliens not immigrants. Illegals don't get quarantined at the border if they have horrible communicable diseases.

I don't understand why you are confused about the issue. Illegals have no right to be in the USA.

Answer 8

cello, try some research. Illegal immigrants are about 4% of our population and between 25 to 30% of our prison population. Whatever your feelings on amnesty, screening is a key necessity.

And no people are not supposed to come here if it is against the law. That is why there is a law - to protect education and other services that are being destroyed.

Answer 9

Prior to World War I -- before passports came into general use -- few countries had immigration restrictions, or laws. There were various health regulations, and Britian passed a law over 3 days in 1905 to keep out a flood of Russian Jews facing pogroms.

But increasingly after WW I -- and especially after WW II -- all target countries for migrants imposed restrictions.

The Statue of Liberty, and Emma Lazarus's (herself born in Russia) great poem, date from an earlier era.

Mexicans -- except those who qualify as professionals or senior business personnel under NAFTA -- have no instrinsic right to migrate to the USA. They do so in part because US agricultural subsidies and NAFTA/WTO "globalization" of agricultural trade have wiped out farmers' livelihood there, especially for corn.

Answer 10

There is a difference between a migrant, and an immigrant, people dont get that, and it kills me, immigrants cross the border "breaking" the law, how can you just let anyone in? including murderers, sexual molestors, etc. and not even care and want to know why they are here, migrants came here through legal means......people who want illegals here, want them because they can take advantage of them, and pay them lower wages, and not have to pay taxes, basically trying to build a peasant class, so they can take advantage of them for their own benefit...

Answer 11

Grade school bullshit, The Great American West about 150 years ago was a time when immigrants were usually just Americans cultivating the uninhabited parts of the great country and all foreign immigrants were brought in for cheap labour. So when they say its the land of opportunity. They mean its for their own people. Not everyone else.