Where immigration is permitted, it is typically selective. priority is usually given to the educated, skilled, and wealthy. Less privileged individuals, including the mass of poor people in low-income countries, can not avail of these immigration opportunities. and thats why they come illegally, I criticise this inequality, because one of the main things a democratic system should have is equal opportunity.
2006-09-06 23:23:58 · 18 answers · asked by jrod 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Apparently nobody understand my point as always ... but hey ... Its yahoo answers what can you expect !!
2006-09-06 23:53:11 · update #1
I totally agree with you
2006-09-06 23:25:47 · answer #1 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Equal opportunity under the law. But you have to be here legally. What do some of these folks have to offer the country, except a financial and social burden? what has happened to the Billions that was poured into their home countries by the US? Why don't they value education in Latin america the way they do in Asia minor and the far East? It has been their way out of poverty.
You own a company that does work of an ever increasing technical nature. Are you really out looking for diverse skill & education levels in your hiring practive?
Don't you want the best and the brightest, because YOUR future and YOUR money is at stake? The US no longer needs unlimited supplies of uneducated & unskilled people.
Most folks who advocate the US becoming the world's one stop Social Services shop, most likely have no personal financial stake in making this country run. They probably are not being crushed by taxes, and do not have much capital at risk in the marketplace. In other words, you want to save the world with My money and MY effort. I do my part, but you can only pick up so many survivors before you swamp the lifeboat.
2006-09-06 23:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by electricpole 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Equal opportunity to all CITIZENS. You seem to have missed a key word there. We are not responsible for the poor of other countries, those countries are.
Poor people take much more out in services like education than they pay in taxes, even if they pay all of their taxes. The rest of us have to cover the rest of the cost. That is why we limit the number of poor people who can come. Those with skills have more to offer the economy and are more likely to make a contribution. Therefore it is easier for them to get in.
Our laws are to benefit this country, not foreigners who want us to pay for their children's education when their own governments think that is too expensive to pay for in thier own countries.
In particular countries like Mexico have the money to do it, but the rich there don't want to pay for universal education for their poor as we pay for it for our poor. Coming here illegally has been 'easier' than changing Mexico - up to this point.
You don't have a right to 'equal opportunity' to have us pay for you and your family.
Patois, we all have areas where we would want to spend money differently than our government does. However, education funds and health care funds being drained degrades those services for our own people and impacts a lot more than our fractional pocketbook share, if it is our child or our sick family member who can't get what they need.
Racism is an easy insult to throw around, but we are quite comfortable that it doesn't fit the issues.
2006-09-07 03:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Equal opportunites never did exist. It was the ideal, not the reality.
There are two lines of thought you are mixing in your statement.
You are mixing the issue of Equal Opportunity and the issue of Immigration. Those are two separate issues.
Equal Opportunity was never meant to be given to those who were not yet citizens. Equal Opportunity was not intended to be given to legal residents even -- if those legal residents are not citizens, but merely being allowed to reside here, they do not automatically have the right to work here. (That would require them to have a work permit, which is very different from a green card.) Such things are meant to be given ONLY AFTER a person is a legal citizen.
2006-09-07 00:15:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
it's there but you are being blind to it. I know for a fact that some legal latino have green card and they went through the equal way of getting it too. Also when I went to college there was legal latino that was there and the US government pay there way there. It's just that illegal should not get a darn thing.
2006-09-07 04:01:03 · answer #5 · answered by actionsinglemale 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really? When my grandfather came here about 60 years ago he had about 2 bucks in his pocket and knew a little english. He got citizenship worked hard with that oportunity and madea good life for himself and family. Have the laws changed since then? I'll have to check. But I'm pretty sure if you follow the laws of legal immigration you will not be turned down because you are poor.
2006-09-06 23:33:16 · answer #6 · answered by crusinthru 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
You will not get many rational answers to questions related to immigration. For example, people are blaming Mexican workers when, actually, the blame belongs to the people in the U.S. who illegally HIRE illegals. And, how can we expect reason out of people who, on one hand, violently oppose undocumented workers being here without going through our laws and customs, and without our welcome. Yet, on the other hand, and at the same time, the U.S. is sending Israel approximately $30,000 every year for every man, woman and child . . . for every Jew who illegally immigrated to a certain Middle Eastern land without going through the proper laws and processes of that land, and certainly without the welcome of the people of that land. Ah, such is the feeble-minded nature of racism, magical-thinking and good 'ole boys.
2006-09-07 02:21:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We let in educated immigrants to fill job positions that we cannot fill with Americans. Blame the government schools for that one. We have plenty of uneducated Americans that can fill the manual labor jobs, just check out the welfare roles.
2006-09-06 23:27:23 · answer #8 · answered by Are_You_Stupid? 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There are reasons that they are selective. Its kind of like interviewing someone for a position. Do you you see the effects on crime, property values and the monetary system that illegal aliens and legal aliens are making? I think they are not being selective enough.
2006-09-07 00:37:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How many more poor do you think we need? They come here illegally because they don't care about America. They are a out for them self and the h-ll with the country. Let them fight for their Rights in their own country and stop ruining ours.
2006-09-07 00:54:55 · answer #10 · answered by jackie 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A person has to be qualified for the job. A person should not be given employment just because he/she is black, Hispanic or whatever. I feel jobs should be given to the most qualified no matter what the color, race etc.
Look at the top end to make the point: Would you want to work for a company that has an uneducated, unskilled, poor person as a company C.E.O. or president?
Would you want an uneducated, unskilled, person performing surgery on your or your family members?
That's my opinion... think what you may.
2006-09-06 23:37:16 · answer #11 · answered by pappy 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋