Doesn't anybody feel bad for the illegal immigrants?

Question

Do you ever stop and think why there are so many illegal immigrants here from Mexico? The US Government makes it virtually impossible for most Mexicans to immigrate here legally. They have to demonstrate they have a lot of money in their bank account in order to even be issued a visa. The ones who have that much money don't WANT to move to the USA, Mexico is an awesome place. The majority who come here illegaly for the most part come out of desperation. They just want what is best for their families, as I'm sure you do.
I'm not saying all of them are good, and I'd never suggest an open border policy, that's just asking for trouble. But why not more tolerance less hate? Why don't we try to make it easier for hard working Mexicans to come here legally? Why don't we help Mexico more so that so many of their citizens DON'T want to come here?
Many Americans supported going to WAR in Iraq and spending billions to "free the Iraqi people"...whats wrong with helping your fellow man here?

Answer 1

Everyone keeps saying that immigrants are "bogging down" our school system and social services, but I could not disagree more. What is "bogging down" our school system and public social services are the massive tax cuts made in the past 6 years. When the schools don't have as much money as they should, they can't do as much to help all of their students, whether they are residents or not.

I think this question is a really valid one. Why are we so hateful and judgmental towards immigrants when 90% of the people living in this country immigrated from somewhere else?

Answer 2

Actually, the US doesn't target just Mexico with that. My ex is Peruvian, and had to prove they had the same stuff. And, it isn't for immigration, that is just to be a Resident Alien (Legal). I feel bad that they have a hard time, but nobody cared about me, when I had to use an outhouse, and get water by drawing it from a well with buckets (and I was living in the US). If people want to come here, they need to be prepared to start a whole new life, and have some resources to do so, before hand. To do otherwise is questionable, at best. If they are running in fear for their lives, then there is always assylum. There are other ways to do it, than risking life and limb to come here. Especially from a democratic nation, even if it is poor.

A good way to put the budget to work, would be to send civilians to Mexico, with US Federal backing, to assist in the planning stages of redevelopement and restructuring the nation in question, so that they become self-reliant, and an example to the rest of the world, of how staying at home, and working hard can make the homeland a great place. The US wasn't always rich, and even fell from financial graces a few times. If we can, they can, too.

Answer 3

There is a reason why the government makes it virtually impossible for people to come to the united states, I mean look at it. There are americans that are really struggling and not homeless people people with good educations and background. Those americans can barely make it. US has limited resources no matter what you think and our schools are beginning to be overpopulated how is that suppose to benefit us later we try to stop it before it gets completely out of hand and that is why we have so many laws against illegals coming over! I feel sorry that they cant not find a better life here but I also cant see how living in a ghetto with 12 other family members is a better life always hiding and trying not to get caught what kinds life is that? Right now I feel sorry for my children because if america keeps up at this pace I dont think my children will have a place to sit in class and it may even be taught by a teacher that can barley speak english trying to teach english. Man I hope it gets better

Answer 4

Actually, the reason it takes so long to legally enter America from mexico is because there are so many applicants from mexico. It is the same thing with China, there are so many people wanting in from China the wait time for paper processing is a bit to much for some. It is much harder for others to enter mexico. mexico has one of the most rigid and difficult immigration policies in the hemisphere if not the world. American IS doing things to better the life of mexicans, for one, we are hunting down and bringing to justice drug kingpins. You are wrong about people coming out of desperation, the majority of illegals were gainfully employed in mexico before their illegal act of entering America. It is out of GREED that the majority of these people are coming, and it is out of greed that the criminal employers employ them. mexicos problems are internal and can only be fixed within the borders of mexico. Every American dollar that is sent into mexico (Billions a year) serves only to devalue the peso. The mexican people are only perpetuating their own demise by leaving that country.

Answer 5

Having lived in Central America for 4 years working for the Defence Attache Office, I understand what you are referring to. However, if everyone dissatisfied with their conditions tuck tail and run, how will the system ever be fixed in their country? What about those they leave behind? What about those future generations?

In the United States, we fight to seek change for the better (i.e. Civil War, not to mention major political upheavals such as women's rights, the black vote, etc.) These immigrants need to band together in their own countries and take a stand, collectively, for the good of all of their fellow citizens and generations to come. Some things are worth fighting for.

I feel as a nation, we SHOULD tighten our borders, but we should also work on our policies to strengthen civil rights and economic opportunities for neighboring countries. Tie Mexican import rates, for example, to their fair minimum wage. If they cannot offer their people higher wages, we tighten control on their imports. We have to address the issue from more than one angle if we want to guarantee success!

Answer 6

We must first look after our own people.In order to survive as a nation.
The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states nearly $12 billion annually, and when the children born here to illegal aliens are added, the costs more than double to $28.6 billion.
This enormous expenditure of the taxpayers’ hard-earned contributions does not, however, represent the total costs. Special programs for non-English speakers are an additional fiscal burden as well as a hindrance to the overall learning environment. A recent study found that dual language programs represent an additional expense of $290 to $879 per pupil depending on the size of the class.In addition, because these children of illegal aliens come from families that are most often living in poverty, there is also a major expenditure for them on supplemental feeding programs in the schools.
We must take care of our own .

Answer 7

Did you no if you want to become a Mexican citizen, you must have a least 40 thousand dollars in your bank account, they do not want poor people either, people that are poor become a drain on society, that is why every country has a limit on people coming to their country, and Mexico is no different, that is why they deport all the poor illegals that come to their country, and they don't even have social services for their poor, and that is why Mexico wants open borders here so they can get rid of their poor and push them off on us, they even provide maps for their poor to come here so they won't have to deal with them, So Mexico has this shame not the U.S. People should be protesting in Mexico not here, protesting against a government that hates their own people enough not to build a society with all the natural resources they have. The rich in Mexico have theirs, and they don't care about their poor. We have enough of our own to worry about. Plus we are getting a lot of Mexican criminals here and that is from just letting people come across the border with out checking them, they will destroy our way of life, if this continues.

Answer 8

Um, you need to see what the federal budget is like. The US spends boatloads of money on the locals and the locals are seeing that the illegals are standing in line with their hands out from time to time (I've always wondered by INS doesn't just audit school student enrollments and camp out in hospital emergency rooms). It is not a this OR that thing that is running all the red ink in Washington, it is all of the this AND that stuff going on.

Several years ago we did several programs for exactly what you asked--helping Mexico. We greased the wheels of agricultural work programs then we promoted factories (remember Ross Perot, "The giant sucking sound" of jobs going out of the US?) Well it was so good that jobs not only went to Mexico but pretty soon businesses were looking for even better deals still further away--then there was this giant sucking sound of jobs flying off to Asia, most to China and some to India and Indonesia, etc. That globalization that is hurting us, also hurt Mexico. Now Mexicans are coming here to scavange the jobs that we no longer have, causing distress to old locals and the new unacculturated ones. There are piles of factories shuttered in Mexico as well as here.

As for the tolerance--consider that our government, despite the "Equal Protection" clause in the Constitution, gives preferential treatment to illegals. If I looked like one of them and wanted to get the utilities turned on in a rental house, it would happen, but not looking like them and speaking english with a local accent, I have to provide multiple items of identification. My identification had better be correct or I will be visited by police or FBI, but if I have five sets of identification in my pocket because someone arranged for them or I lied to get them, that is okay. For me to do that means some serious prison time. If I go deep into Mexico and can't speak spanish, my money talks but you ought to hear the extra words they throw in to the conversation. Of course the US government makes if virtually impossible for them to legally get here--we've got almost 10 percent of the Mexican population here already, we're full already.

Answer 9

The same immigration rules apply to everyone. Mexicans are not singled out. I do feel sorry for those who come here illegally, though, because they can't make it in their own country because of levels of poverty we know nothing about in the US. These people come here to try to make a better life for themselves and for their children. And I should add that they work their butts off. I would be a good idea to have some kind of guest worker program so that people can come here to work legally, but have to return to their home country after a certain period of time. Illegals do the jobs that us nicey-nice whities aren't interested in doing because, well, white people don't pick crops in the blazing summer sun and we certainly are not up for cleaning all those toilets in public buildings.

Answer 10

I feel bad that their government is failing them... but that is not the problem of the US. Our government is failing us as well... and I don't see any other country concerned about that.

In today's world, we have to know who is here and monitor who is coming into this country for our own protection. We have groups of people saying the world should be rid of the USA and all other NON ISLAM country.

The USA has the most lenient immigration policy... and we cannot continue to permit this.