There were 80 of us in a small boat fashioned for 3. We came across the Atlantic Ocean. Surely, I deserve the right to stay for my bravery.
2006-09-18 03:17:09 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
We came in a similar boat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/5331608.stm
2006-09-18 03:32:34 · update #1
Har, har. There were no immigration laws when people came across the Atlantic. There are now. If you are illegal, we need to ROUND YOU UP AND SEND YOU HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-18 03:25:28 · answer #1 · answered by LoneStar 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well first of all I don't believe that you did what you said you did. I think this is fishing question to see who will bite. Well I did.
You don't have the right just as I don't have the right to keep something if I stole it. I also don't have the right to cut in line while waiting to buy a ticket at a movie theater just because I had to drive two hours to get there and had a fever of a 102. You see going thru some ordeal doesn't give me the right to break the law, cheat or cut in line. Everyone has to wait their turn and do things legally.
It's knowing the difference between right and wrong.
Also I own a boat made to hold four people and there is no way in the world 80 people could fit into that boat. So exaggeration doesn't help you either.
Should people who have waited for several years to get into this country after they did all the appropriate paperwork, deserve to wait even longer just because you got here before them? Of course they shouldn't!
Also should you get the right to obtain a job that life long citizens of the US can't get? That's right illegal citizens are taking jobs that Americans DO want. I've seen Walmart hire a bunch of Mexican workers for jobs at a particular store here in Pa. that many life long Americans applied for and didn't get. Is that fair?
I've personally gone thru hard times physically. Does that give me the right to just take things that don't belong to me just because I can't physically work long hours to get enough money to buy them? NO!
You need to learn about ethical behavior:
http://sun.menloschool.org/~sportman/ethics/definition.html
2006-09-18 10:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by ayingerweisse 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you came in a boat fashioned for 3 as you say then I want to know how did you get the other 77 off the boat so you could make it here. Not much of a fight since if you moved someone was bound to fall off the boat. The boat would have sank before it left the shore. So my point is that if you will kill your own to cross then what keeps you from hurting the people here.
By the way, I am smart enough to know a fake but with your scenario you would have had to have killed to get here, that's not bravery, that's murder.
2006-09-18 10:26:09 · answer #3 · answered by 51ain'tbad 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Get out. You don't belong in this country. This illegal immigration problem is going too far. How would you like if i went to YOUR country and took YOUR job and used YOUR tax money to support me with nothing in return to YOU. And what if I used YOUR tax money that YOU paid to pay for YOUR children to go to YOUR countries schools. Bravery? hardly. Selfishness and stupidity? Most definitely yes. Go back to your own country. And do it now, before any self-respecting American turns you in to Immigration. You're lucky if they're not pissed off enough to do something worse. REMEMBER, Ignorance of the law is no excuse. If you want to become part of this country then that's the first thing you should learn. Become a part LEGALLY. That will earn the respect and the "right to stay" of many Americans.
No illegals. No amnesty.
You are NOT brave. You are selfish.
2006-09-18 10:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should you? You say illegal or not but if you are illegal then you are not paying taxes and bringing anything to the country. Even something as small as walking on a pavement and wearing it out is being paid for other people not you. I'm sure you'd love to stay along with alot of other people but why should you? Rules are rules and if you don't like them you should find another country.
2006-09-18 10:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by claire 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You weren't invited , would you just show uo at somebody's house and move in ?
How about , I come to your house with 50 of my relatives , walk in , change the channel on the TV , take over the bedrooms , order pizza for 51 and hand you the bill ?
Would you like that ?
2006-09-18 11:11:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
quote:80 of us in a small boat fashioned for 3.
You expect me to believe that?
Across the atlantic?
Thanks for the two points.
2006-09-18 10:26:36 · answer #7 · answered by Dave 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No one asked you to risk anything,you did that on your own.Your reasons are selfish ones at best..That's not bravery you describe its an illegal act against the country.Stay in your home country,use that"bravery and courage" to make your own country better.Do not bring your problems to us,we are not the destination point of illegals from all failed countries.Stop coming to this country and trying to make it a mirror image of what you left.
No illegals,no amnesty
2006-09-18 10:25:41 · answer #8 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
thats your opinion. People have risked thier lives and fought for the right to live and live freely in a country. Just by your surviving to cross the Atlantic doesnt mean that you are wanted or needed in the country you arrived in. Who asked you to come there?
2006-09-18 10:29:00 · answer #9 · answered by gypsy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You do not deserve anything! Bravery or stupidity to do what you did to come here Illegally.
2006-09-18 10:52:08 · answer #10 · answered by mnwomen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your country needs you.
Why not stay there and make it a better place to live instead of trying to break the laws of other nations?
If you really want to be a citizen of a nation, you will follow that nation's laws.
2006-09-18 11:11:26 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋