Have you really suffered or is it just an inborn territorial instinct that makes you against immigration?Also, you hear a lot of old people saying"you would have been talking German if it wasn't for the likes of me"Well I hear everyone where I live talking foreign languages that I dont understand but I believe in live and let live etc. So do people get annoyed hearing others speaking non english in their english speaking country?(U.S. & Britain)
2006-08-30 13:36:37 · 28 answers · asked by karlos 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
In the USA
1. how immigration has affected me.
Well, my family are all immigrants except my great grandma who is native american. Now are you talking about ILLEGAL immigrants? Well, I drive by them standing on the corners. Our schools are now doing half days in spanish...which is wrong!
2. Foreign languages
You would have been talking Germans means without us you would have lost the war...nothing to do with language itself. Americans love their diversity. Any big city or tourist site has people from all over the world and no one gets up in their face. We love it. You are misinterpreting what people mean.
fyi...I'm part Hispanic. I don't blame illegals since our government won't inforce the border laws already in place. BUT they shouldn't get a free ride. Welfare, medical treatment....gimmie a break. I don't get that and I'm a citizen. Something needs to change. We have 50 mexicans living in three houses on corners over here. It's not right or safe. All immigrants should have to go through the process my family had to go through. No free ride!
2006-08-30 13:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jasmine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alberto is right I have tried to stop the ignorance some of these people have towards immigrants and I have learned most of the time it just comes down to racism by the way missingora I feel sorry about your friend but you have to understand their are killers and criminals everywhere not just immigrants and most immigrants are nice hard working people who come to the U.S. in search of a better life for them and their family that's why my family came to the U.S. and I can surely tell you we aren't criminals my dad works extremely hard harder than any American I have seen and by the way the thing about immigrants not paying taxes huge lie I have been in the U.S. since I was 7 I'm 13 at the moment and my dad has paid his taxes everyone of those years so I don't see why people treat us like trash.
2006-08-30 14:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by loot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what type of immigrates you are talking about. Where I live life had changed a lot. It has turned to a predominately spanish city. Not many people speak english anymore and the property values have dropped. The streets are covered in trash and the houses in the area are falling apart and remain unkempt. It's okay to want to leave a third world country... but don't bring it here.
2006-08-30 13:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by asdfjkl; 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe every American has suffered either Directly or Indirectly from Illegals. Due in part to Higher Crime rates, Higher cost for Health care, Lower wages. We've Lost ER's due to them being forced to close. Hospitals have closed. And Yes I do get annoyed when I hear people speaking in Foreign languages rather than English. It's happening More and More as of late.
2006-08-30 13:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Immigration it self does not bother me. What bothers me is illegal immigration. This bothers me because the illegal immigrants steal SS numbers and forge green cards to get jobs and then take these jobs for extremely low wages. Now here I am looking for work and I can't find a job that will pay enough for me to live on. I live in Texas and we have too many illegals here. The illegals need to go back wherever they came from and do things the right way. This would bring wages up for me AND for them.
2006-08-30 13:49:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a property manager and it affected me alot. I had to deal with it on a daily basis and had to always bring in someone to translate for me because I wasn't raised with Mexicans to learn the language. They constantly disobeyed the rules of the property, peed in front of anyway in the parking lot, one took a dump and laughed when maintenance had to clean it up. They ruined the apartments by moving in 12 more into it when it was leased to 2 people. You never knew who the original person that rented it was so when it came time to do anything about renewing a lease I would have to make them move because the original lea see was nowhere to be found. I have had my 6 year old grandchild endangered because one got mad at me and said he could kill him and get away because he would go back to Mexico for awhile because I had to evict on LEGAL grounds. I have suffered alot because I had to change jobs because I was afraid for my family. I could go on and on but the answer is yes. I don't care what language they use with each other but when they are coming to me for something they need(like an apartment) then speak to me in a language I can understand.
2006-08-30 13:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by 51ain'tbad 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
With the exception of 'how do you feel about illegal immigration', this has got to be the most asked question in the history of Yahoo questions.
Answer #2,582,784 coming...
When my kids have to be taught in classrooms with two, sometimes three languages being spoken (lots of Russian immigrants, too) it affects the quality of their education.
When I take my wife to the emergency room with a broken arm, and we have to wait because there are five Mexican families getting their kids treated for a cold, it affects me. The fact that my wife couldn't sit down because all the seats were taken up didn't please me either. One kid has a cold so you have to bring all twenty seven kids to the ER with you? My God! I thought I was at Chuck E Cheese.
I work daily with seniors and their health insurance. It galls me when a senior who was born in the country and has lived here for 80 years can't get government support, but some damn Mexican comes across the border and shits out a kid and is instantly entitled to welfare, food stamps, free citizenship, etc.
It makes me so damn mad I want to go out and buy a frapping uzi and ventilate a few roach coaches.
2006-08-30 13:49:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Crime rates are at an all time high due to immigration...LEGAL OR NOT! The monetary system of this government is being taken advantage of by LEGALS AND ILLEGALS ALIKE! Thanks to their general lack of respect for our laws their is a 127 billion dollar tax hike going into effect to keep them the hell out because they are coming in the droves...a 32 billion dollar tax hike for legals and illegals...and who pays for all of this??? Tax payers! Hello!
Yes, it is directly effecting me. And let me add as well...not only are they raising crime rates and hogging up money they are trashing the place! Have you walked down a local city block lately?? They sit on their porches all day playing their tambourine music while they should be cutting their ankle high grass and pulling their waist size weeds as well as maybe picking up some of the trash collecting on the side walk. And who put the trash there to begin with?
Their is just no respect at all...not for our laws, not for the immigration policies, not for our money and not even for their own property's. Its disgusting.
2006-08-30 13:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
TAXES. Health care costs. The cost of ballots printed in 120 languages when proficiency in english is supposed to be a prerequisite for citizenship. Prisons overflowing with foreigners (ie: Calilfornia). Gangs like MS13. Drugs. I have no intention of pressing "1" for english.
2006-08-30 13:47:55 · answer #9 · answered by OzobTheMerciless 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There was a bank robbed the other day and it didn't affect me directly but I still want the criminals caught and prosecuted.
Why would I want anything other than the law being enforced?
If we had to wait to be directly affected to enforce a law we would be back in the ages where everyone carried a gun and took the law into their own hands.
Illegal aliens are criminals and there is no justification for their breaking and disrespecting our laws.
2006-08-30 14:46:29 · answer #10 · answered by remmo16 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋