Is there really an argument against opening wider immigration quotas from Mexico?

Question

The most obvious way to curb the tide of illegal immigration is to widen the ridiculously thin illegal immigration quotas currently in place because of the racism of the popular majority earlier this century.

Is there really any argument against this other than "I don't like Mexicans?" Is there anyway to justify it without simply using racism?

Let me respond to some of the more blatant falsehoods that have been hurled my direction:

Sir Shaggy: No, there's no one that works cheaper than illegals, since there's no reason employers feel compelled to pay them above the minimum wage. That's a big part of the reason we need to widen quotas- because they can demand a minimum wage, immigrants will WANT to legalize and become citizens. Special treatment? Hardly.

Gary J: Um... why? It stands to reason Mexico has a higher number than other countries, they're third-world and we're first-world, right next door. You want to talk percentages? How about the percentages of people who want to get in that actually manage to? You can be sure that number's a whole heck of a lot lower for Mexico than any other country.

crazy: See my answer to Gary J above.

Answer 1

Well, I was 46 years old, a Quality Manager for an Engineering Company, run over by an "illegal" while riding my Harley one weekend. 21 days in intensive care, he was caught due to his License plate sticking to my bike. He posted the $ 1,000 bail and hasn't been seen since. I'm 53 now unemployed on disability since my brain doesn't function properly. My life is different I make a whopping $ 1,397. a month considerably less than when working. The illegal Mexican is still at large enjoying his life while I rebuild mine. You know, I don't qualify for Medicaid or food stamps, free medical, but you can bet your *** he and his entire illegal family do! By the way, if you know a Will F. Orrego age around 52, the Houston Police have a felony warrant for him.

I think this is reason enough to narrow the gap considering how many more lives these illegals have to ruin before the liberals Wake-up and ship em back. Birthing here should not make an illegals children legal!

Answer 2

Illegal immigrants, the way things stand currently, would NOT want to become citizens. They may not be paid minumum wage, but their money goes a lot farther because they aren't paying the IRS like (I'm assuming) you and me. This means that they keep a lot more of their money. They can get indigent healthcare, etc.

I think your proposal on making a greater quota for immigration from Mexico is a good idea however, as many people might try to come legally. In all honesty, my only REAL beef with illegal immigrants, is that they don't contribute tax money. People talk about how the economy would fail if all immigrants left, but that is simply not true. So much money would be saved by having *less* social-program-leeches.

To read more on my thoughts concerning illegal immigrants, check out: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/119024/toys_r_us_welcomes_illegal_immigrants.html

Answer 3

Do you know why we have a cap on how many from any one country. Its all about numbers, its not about race. So many came from mexico, that the % of Mexicans here got way out of hand. When this country was founded, they wanted a mix from all over, thus the term melting pot. So do a web search, take a look at numbers, see what the % coming from Mexico is, we can not keep having Mexico out number any other country by that far.

Answer 4

Yes, and if you read other questions and answers other than just the racist ones in order to hold up your flimsy point you would have seen that. This is about a sudden influx of millions of foreigners who have already driven down wages, march in the streets, bad mouth our language, races, cultures, etc. They are not "just here to work" moron. And what entitles them to our jobs? What entitles them to our services? Are you really arguing that foreigners are entitled to what's ours? Can I come over to your house and take your stuff because I want it? Get a clue. You clearly don't live in the southwest, on the border, nor are you one of the majority (poor and working and destroyed lower middle class) because if you were you'd already know this. EVEN IF WE WERE ALL THE SAME RACE this is a problem (read INVASION).

Answer 5

Of course there is, it has nothing to do with racism.

There were reasons for the limits on immigration to begin with, particularly of poor people who can't earn enough to pay enough taxes to cover the $10,000 per child per year it costs to educate children in CA, much less for other services poor people and their children born here use. A common requirement for sponsoring people is that you have to show you have 125% enough income to pay for their needs without going on any aid program, there is a reason for that, as well.

Our education funds are being stretched to cover millions who shouldn't be here and are in the hardest 'new English learner' demographic to educate. They disproportionately get the funds and disproportionately DON'T pay the taxes the funds are drawn from. We subsidize our own poor but are not willing to let our own children's educations continue to be ruined by those coming illegally who think their children's education is more important than that of our children.

The 1965 expansion of immigration was far too great and needs to be repealed. It also allows illegals to bootstrap themselves into residence by having children here while here illegally. This has had terrible consequences in drawing more here who have children they cannot afford whose services are taken from programs intended to serve our own poor.

Racism isn't the issue. Numbers and poverty is the issue. Our own children's upward mobility through quality education which has been stolen from them is the issue.

There is no 'right' to come here.

Answer 6

Let me say this as nice as i can, because i'm trying to get my wife of 6 years, legal to be here with me, and i'm american she is mexican,we tryed to work with the american consulet in mexico to let her come home with me after the american company in mexico i was working for went belly up, they would not even try to help us, so we came ilegal lived in the states until we got a real birth document for her like the law firms said we needed, called INS, they said she must go back to mexico first in order to start the process, OK now she has been their one year and the INS tells me she must stay out of the USA for 10 years now because she returned on her own to mexico, BUT they told us to do that, NOW I cant get any information from them on how to fix the waver document they say we need to get around the 10 year bar, and they told me i have to prove i need my wife----WHAT?--- i have to go to a head shrink to get them to make a document that says i need my wife, or they will not aprove this so called- waver-they say i need, mean while i sent in all other documents and was approved monthes ago on all items, income/ back ground checks/ on both of us everthing was approved, but also they say it by no means gives us the right to a visa, but they never fail to send a new bill for our next document of the month they say we need, $380.00 more today they get, but still no clear answer about how to fix the 10 year bar the put on us, MY POINT IS-- until they remove their hitler ways of doing things, illegal aliens will always be part of our world, because a persons life span is just not long enough to deal with such people playing with the life of others, if the united states public knew the things immigration has done to american people, some big changes would be made over night ,,,,,really its that bad.

Answer 7

yes there is a argument ! we have the right as does every country including mexico its self to know who comes in , how many. i heard on tv today that there are estimated 240,000 illegal sex offenders here . also illegals depress wages . cost us billions of dollars not to mention the billions we are giving mexico enough is enough !

Answer 8

i believe we could find someone to do the work cheaper then Mexicans?
sound like you want special treatment for Mexicans to enter United States

Answer 9

I believe it is time to build an enormous concrete wall! Out with the mexicans!!!

Answer 10

we are actually racist against European imigrants,,,we take more Mexicans per capita, that is why this argument is not valid,,we actually bend over backwards for Mexicans and Mexico