If the roles were reversed would you consider migrating illegaly? Seriously.?

Question

If the roles were reversed and you were impoverished, living on a few dollars a day next to the richest, most prosperous country in the world, would you not risk your life to go and live there? Even if it meant commiting a felony and living in the shadows as undocumented?

Answer 1

No one, of course, can answer this question as merely possessing a computer indicates less than crushing poverty. I see your point and I suppose if I were crushingly poor, not kowing where my next meal was going to come from, I might well consider attempting illegal entry.

That does not make it right. Good question though. Made me stop and think (not bad for 7am on a Sunday)

Answer 2

What the F reason ought to everybody opt to scouse borrow in the course of the border in the useless on evening to Mexico except on the run from law enforcement officials Roles ought to under no circumstances be reversed as Mexico will continuously be a corrupt 0.33 international spit-hollow

Answer 3

Seriously, I don't think so. I'm so rule abiding it hurts. Did you know that according to a study only 56% of latin American immigrants here (legal and illegal) pay taxes properly according to a study? We are really really law abiding here, and highly offended when we think we are being taken advantage of by those who aren't. I have been playing with the idea that it is due to our largely Protestant / Puritan culture which in the reformation days figured you were either damned or you were of the elect, and your actions on this planet merely demonstrated which of those categories you fell into. The idea in the beginning was sheer predestination. You had no ability to change which class you were in, you were either born with the spark of God or you weren't and only if God pulled the devil out of the saddle and turned you around himself would you be saved.

I haven't thought about that premise since University, however, it is the original base of most of our religion and while not widely believed in that form today, the rule of law is considered to be what good people follow. I see a major disconnect in discussions on the point of the rule of law, on this board. People will say things like 'well, have YOU ever cheated on your taxes, if so who are you to judge' and we'll be shocked and say 'No, of COURSE we never cheated on our taxes....'

Catholicism was always more forgiving if there were repentance. Protestantism is too, now, but it is supposed to be a sort of once in a lifetime lapse, not a constant 'confession on Wednesday will cure this' sort of thing.

I'm not cutting down Catholicism, I think forgiveness for genuine repentance is a good thing. I note that Hispanic groups have said that 1/3 of the illegals in the US are relatives of those given amnesty in 1986, however, and they say that is why foreign family has to be 'given amnesty' too. That isn't what we take from it, particularly when our schools are failing under the burden already.

If it is ok for them to break the law in their minds now, what would stop them, once legalized, from bringing family illegally just as those from 1986 did? This is a real problem for many of us.
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another point in response to some above is that if we did break the law, we would expect to pay the consequences not be able to stay and continue to take funded education and other services for our family (including children) that we only got by coming illegally. Every other country enforces immigration law, yet people are trying to say it is shameful if we do. It simply doesn't compute.

Answer 4

The problem should not be the responsibility of the US citizens. With all the 'Homeland Sec' hype isn't it funny ANYONE can jump the border. Why is everyone pretending this air-line inconvenience is worth doing?
Also, if you were here by LA and the number of criminals was growing and then you find out someone is hinting at taking away your Social Sec you've been looking forward to-beside the security factor, it wouldn't phase you? Why can't govt's honor their people and God and be good authorities instead of running with it?

Answer 5

No way. I would stay and be a real proud citizen and try to change things in my own country instead of being a coward and run away from the problem and then complain about the country I entered illegally.

Answer 6

I wouldn't but I live a spartan lifestyle. Anything nice I have I got it for my parents. The only luxery I bought for myself is the computer. I would probably be one of those conservative Mexicans complaining about all the illegal immigrants coming back, addicted to drugs and treating females like objects. That the US changed them for the worse and that they are responsible for the increase in crime and that they are no longer real Mexicans. THis is the imagery I imagine based on a LA times article.

Answer 7

What a great question!
I have traveled around the world a bit and seen that in many ways the grass is even more greener in these so called countries which people are running away from. Just look at how Asia especially China how it has been booming. Even Russia today has more millionaires than many countries in the world.
In the end I believe you can make it anywhere in any country as long as you are in peace and not in danger of loosing your life. Even then I think countries should take refugees only for a short time and when it is safe to return then send them back to continue with the building of their own Nation.

Answer 8

They aren't migrating ,they are entering this nation via illegal means and that makes them illegal aliens.
No I would fight in my own country to make it a better place to live . Just as we Americans fought against the British and gained our Independence and freedom from oppression. We didn't buckle under to the rule of the rich,we fought back and became this great nation. Why cant the illegal aliens do the same thing?. Or is it just too easy to do it illegally . Strange I don't see many illegals in the shadows . I see them marching in the streets ,desecrating our flag and yelling their hate for this country and its legal citizens . While demanding "rights " that have no right to have.

Answer 9

Not after seeing illegals first hand after they make the trek, there is not one thing about their experience that I can find myself repeating.

Furthermore, many of them are in their impoverished positions because they don't value education, and they have children like money grows on trees. It's amazing what an education and birth control can do for someone's station in life.

If you weigh yourself down with mouths to feed, you will either have to starve yourself or steal from others to feed them. If you deny yourself an education, your choices on what to do with your life will be very limited.

If I had been born in Mexico, I would have excelled in school (again), worked three-four jobs (again) to put myself through college in Mexico. The only time I would have done something that would risk my life would be an abortion, because more than likely I would have been sexually harrassed and/or raped in such a misogynic society.

Answer 10

Definitely they would. But why do you bother to ask this? Don't you see this is the country of double standards? Discussing this with these people is useless.

They become stark raving mad when foreigners speak poor or no English, but the few Americans who bother traveling overseas expect everything to be written in English for them. That's just one example of their double standards.

Katsulover - when the U.S. fought for independence, they were not a poor colony. One of the reasons why they fought the British for independence is because they felt they had the resources to support themselves.