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Cufin01 wrote:

I am from Mexico, living in Mexico
I used to be against all you said about the issue but now I get you more since my fellows go there trying to find easy money. Some of them got not good intentions as you said, they just want EASY MONEY and they don't care if they get it committing crimes.
I don't know why they go to US streets to demand to make legal something ILLEGAL and specially insulting to a country where they are living. No one asked them to cross the border.

If someone calls you racist next time, let me tell you a this story. Sometimes I cross border LEGALLY with my tourist visa and I go shopping and in stores I find Mexicans, I don't know if they are legal or not , I don't care but they are more racist than real US people. They treat you like crap as they were superior to you. You know they speak spanish (clearly, OBVIOUSLY) and they pretend they don't

I find it refreshing, that not all Mexicans have negative feeling towards the U.S., I hope this person is not a " one of a kind ".

Answer 1

I think the race card is an overused piece of rhetoric, the people that use it have one purpose in mind, to incite anger and resentment.

The blunt and bitter truth of the matter is, for all their superiority attitude, Mexico's got MILES to go before they're really quite qualified in telling other countries how to live. Look at the big picture, it's not mexican companies setting up shop in america to provide jobs for americans(it's japanese companies, but that's another story).

America's a good country, and if you look at all our policies, we're BEYOND generous, in some cases just GIVING it away. We've done that for so long now, we're trillions in debt. Someday, other people in other countries will finally decide to pull their ******* socks up, and start making an honest effort to solve their own ******* problems. THAT day can't come soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. And, Mexico is at the top of THAT list, in my opinion...

Answer 2

It is nice that someone sees some other sides to things, but this answer still makes me feel that the writer may not quite yet understand how many or even most Americans often think:

I'll say "many" because I don't have statistics enough to claim "most"...

Many Americans don't care who comes from where - they just want whoever they are to come to the U.S. legally.

Many Americans don't want crime - and that is crime committed by Americans or immigrants. It doesn't matter.

Many Americans hope that when people come to the U.S. (no matter what country they come from) they will appreciate and become a part of American society (which has generally worked well most of the time) and not try to change American society so that it will become a version of the immigrant's original country.

At least some Americans do worry that if too many illegal immigrants and/or low-income workers come to the U.S. it wouldn't be long before the U.S. will not have the resources to accommodate low-income people when it comes to things like housing; and as it is, the U.S. already has low-income-neighborhoods with schools that are in serious trouble. Adding strain to such neighborhood schools is another concern.

Many Americans (and others) would see that the concerns and attitudes I've mentioned above are fair and reasonable and in no way are a matter of prejudice. They are, quite simply, about not wanting more crimes being committed (by anyone), wanting American culture and society respected, not wanting the U.S. to become so strained by having it's percentage of lower income people become higher than it can deal with, and wanting to know that people who come to the U.S. respect laws (immigration laws) rather than disregard them because they think those laws shouldn't apply to them.

People who are reasonable, civilized, fair, and intelligent enough can and will see the concerns I've discussed are fair enough and reasonable and not out of dislike for Mexican people. So, the final concern is this: If some Mexican individual cannot see that the above concerns are normal for people (of any country) who want to keep/get crime down and who want to preserve the culture and society of that country then his/her inability to understand that would make many Americans not want that individual in the U.S. (not because he/she is Mexican but because he/she is a person who is not reasonable enough to understand the motivations behind legitimate concerns).

The unpleasant truth is that there are some people (Americans or people from any other country) who are so far out of mainstream American values/culture/society that they don't contribute or go about their business without taking away from society. This type of person isn't interested in laws or in being a good citizen or visitor. People like this are fringe people, and they are the ones who tend to commit crimes. The U.S. already has its share of fringe people, so if someone (Mexican or any other nationality) is a fringe person who can't even understand the thinking of mainstream people (American or other nationality) then - no - Americans generally don't want people like that coming to the U.S.

Answer 3

I recently met a man from Mexico who is trying to immigrate LEGALLY with his family to Canada and he has the same attitude as this person. He told me that the majority of his fellow Mexicans look down on those who cross the border into the USA illegally. He told me that they feel terrible that these people who do this illegally are causing Americans to feel that ALL Mexicans are like this and that they are ashamed of these people and that they do NOT represent the majority of Mexicans. I believe him. He is a very honest, hardworking and upstanding human being and I believe there are more like him than the criminals who cross borders illegally. He said those people give the majority of the Mexican people a bad reputation and he feels very ashamed of them.

Answer 4

No he is not the only person who thinks this way, a lot of us Mexicans feel that there are some people that are giving our race a bad name. But let me make it clear that it is a small group of people doing this and because of their actions we all suffer as a whole. If you would be treated with the disrespect that that we do sometimes, and yes sadly it also comes from our own people, you would react negativly as well. I just wish that when a person makes a racist comment about anyone, Black-White-Asian-Mexican, whatever, they would put themselfes in this persons shoes and view their own struggles before issuing a comment to hurt this person. Life is filled with many people, all diffrent, and instead of learning to live together in peace we fill our hearts with hate. Think before you speak, and you might see things a little different.

Answer 5

I wish the policies have been slightly greater defining. "you may desire to ask a question" seems to me to be a sensible rule, and that i at the instant rfile rhetorical questions as a "chat or rant." i think of the kind of non-severe questions right this is a severe detriment to the community. It wastes the time of people who're are extremely attracted to questions and solutions. I infrequently rfile solutions. that's greater stable for me to discover a rule obnoxious solutions technically wreck. the only exception is obviously derogatory and insulting statements. (issues like "Christians are idiots.") I wish there became right into a rule the place shall we rfile solutions that have no longer something to do with the question. (as an occasion, the question exceedingly asks Pagans some specific concept, and somebody posts a paragraph approximately turning to God being the only thank you to eternal existence.) i do no longer rfile people who answer only for factors with the aid of fact i do no longer recognize what rule they could be breaking. Dumb solutions are not against the policies.

Answer 6

A very good answer to this constant bickering we have.It seems honest and candid. I think on here we never really get people that aren't biased in one way or another.
Thanks for posting a rational knowledgeable point of view.

Answer 7

everyone is entitled to believe what they wish to believe.more power to that person.Just like i stand firmly by what i believe.though in regards to posting the answer that someone gave in regards to a question i really don't know if i could take that seriously.I mean with all the imposters on here you really can't take everything you read as being the truth.for all i know this person who posted that answer could be one of the anti immigrants just posing under a new id.or even the poser himself using another id to answer his own question.afterall its yahoo and stranger things have been going on here.

Answer 8

I, like you, find it refreshing. It's good to actually know that there is someone from Mexico who isn't disrespectful, loud, and rude.

Answer 9

It's a good answer, I think. They've spoken rom knowledge not from things that hey 'believe' to be true.

Answer 10

It's simple reality.