A survey to better understand the people in the Immigration forum of Yahoo Answers.?

Question

As you might have noticed, there are a lot of people from around the world that go to this forum to express their views on Immigration. But I want to conduct a survey to better understand how there personal background could affect their views on immigration. Please answer the following question as truthfully as you can, and please try not to post anything that might be offensive to other people.

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1. What are your views on illegal immigration?
2. What country are you from?
3. What country are your ancestors from?
4. What factors around you, made you decide your views on Illegal immigration? (media, location, personal experiences, etc.)
5. The people that surround you and are close to you, what are their views on illegal immigration?

Answer 1

these people who r against "illegal"immigration..notice how their ancestors all came 4rm another country,and if it wasnt 4 their ancestors immigrating here they wouldnt even BE in the U.S. n for them 2 be against it is just plain ignorancy

Answer 2

A lot of these people will do anything to live here. Some risk their lives to get here. Don't people realize there are so many illegal Europeans here-UK, ireland, Scotland, and the Philippines too. I say if they want to work its better than the lazy Americans on welfare and food stamps. why don't any of them take the jobs illegals do? Why should we pay their way when there are jobs and they think they are too good for it. then they just sit around having more kids. Illegals are usually paid cash, have no benefits, but at least they work and try. Maybe we should have more illegals and ship the lazy welfare and system abusers out of the U.S.

U.S.

England, Ireland, Germany

Personal experience, working in immigration law (employment based), seeing these people work, meeting illegals from England, etc., moving to california from a conservative town back east and seeing what the real world is like.

I don't really think most people get immigration or even wonder about the people's job status/immigration status. They just see the news and

Answer 3

1. Immigration laws should be enforce. There is no such thing as "illegal immigration". There are 'legal immigrants' and those that break the law and are thus 'illegal'.

2. I live in the United States.

3. My ancestors are from Ireland.

4. Living in a border state and having to come face to face with the reality and effect of the problems that illegals have brought to this country.

5. I know of no one that supports illegals. Again, there is no such thing as "illegal immigration". Those that immigrate follow the guidelines set by the country that they are attempting to enter.

Those that don't are breaking the law.

There is no comparison between the two.



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Answer 4

My views on illegal immigration are this, it's illegal so don't do it. There are legal ways of attaining residency and citizenship to what ever country you choose. Each country has it's rules for attaining entry,residency, and citizenship as they should. If caught the person who is in the country illegally should be punished as perscribed by the country's laws that they have infringed.
I'm from the U.S.A. My ancestors are from Europe, specifically Spain and France. My mother is Guatemalan by birth. My mother immigrated to this country legally in the early 1960's.
The opinion of those around me differ. Some relatives who currently live in Guatemala think we should have a more lax border policy. While those who waited patiently think that we should have controls of who is allowed to enter this country. My mother thinks that you should follow the rules of the country that you are in and breaking a law to get in isn't a good start.

Answer 5

1. I am strictly against illegal immigration. I think our immigration laws need to be enforce and I don't think they are entitled to American legal rights.

2. I was born in America.

3. My ancestors come from America and Africa.

4. I grew up in Los Angeles, where I had countless problems personally with illegals, including getting my social security number stolen.

5. My best friends have the same views as me.

Answer 6

1. People should be granted amnesty based on the merit of their character ( for example if they have committed no felonies,are willing to learn the language,are working or have a good work history)

2. Acapulco, Mexico

3. Mexico and strangely enough great great great grandfather was from Ireland. (don't nkow if that is true or not but do have family members with red hair and light colored eyes)

4.Personal experience (parents arrived as illegal as well as myself before we became citizens through amnesty),the media (though depending what media you see you can get distorted views),people that I have talked to and been around with.

5. It varies,some of my friends and family members are anti immigrant while others are pro. They believed what they do for whatever reasons and most of the time try not to bring up the topic of immigration.

Answer 7

1. Very against but also against criminals of any kind.
2. Good old USA
3. Poland and Sweden. BUT they came legally and were registered at Ellis Island and have worked all their lives and never lived off the taxpayers and welfare.
4.Personal experiences. I does make me mad to be behind a Mexican family in Wal Mart and they pay with $100 bills for everything.
5.Everyone I associate with have voiced the same concerns and are against it. Do it right, go through the channels and do it correctly. We would be arrested if we did the same sort of immigration invasion to Mexico.
Think about it, its not good for our natural resources here in America. Think about what will be left for our children. Politicians do not think but Americans should.

Answer 8

1. I am totally against illegal immigration.
2. I was born in Los Angeles, CA.
3. Italy
4. I work for a non profit and see illegals on a daily basis useing up badly needed resources for legal residents.
5. 100% are anti illegal immigration.

Answer 9

1. I believe that only lawful, (no criminal background) people from ANY country who go through all the legal channels, especially learning to speak English, are welcome to come and live in the USA. 2.USA 3.France/Germany 4. I grew up in a small town in Ohio where there were Mexican migrants EVERY summer, and they didn't bother me in the least, except for the fact that they always spoke in Spanish when you walked by and laughed or said "Si, Si", and it always made me and my girlfriends very nervous, lol Also over time, my same small hometown has seen alot of violence, drunk driving incidents from the immigrant community. 5. Pretty much the same as mine.

Answer 10

1/ I think illegal immegration is wrong and unfortunate but i also think it is massively caused by the U.S. immigration system itself: It is completely inefficient and immoral.

2/ I am originally from Benin a little country in West Africa.

3/ My ancestors are from Benin and Nigeria.

4/Personal experience. My husband is an immigrant from Russia. We have met here in the U.S. We have fell in love and eventually married. I was then an international student. When I finished my studies and we eventually filed for a green card we realized it required me to wait approximately five years in my country which meant away from my husband while they processed it. After going to a number of attorneys everywhere, he decided to enroll in the army just so he could keep his family with him. But i still had to leave and wait away with our child for about a year and a half (the time for him to get expedited citizenship and get me a visa #) before i could come back. Our son didn't even recognize him and wouldn't call him "Papa". I felt so hurt that the system would let people come in this country that they don't even know about (talking about green card lottery) and who may hate America and Americans guts rather than allow honest people making a honest living and are ready to lay their lives for this country stay and live in peace with their families.

4/ Most people did not even know about the immigration system even the Americans. and all of them were in disbelief and shocked that i was required to leave the country and considered illegal if i stayed.

Answer 11

1. They are selectively enforced, usually against the individual undocumented immigrant, and not against the business that hired him or her. In addition, not all undocumented immigrants are of Hispanic origin, although that is the group mainly sought by the ICE raids. I live in California, which has had illegal immigration for decades now. I see them as a positive, because without their labor, the economy would suffer. In addition, they do much of the work that many Americans won't do. Much has been said that if illegal aliens had to go home, the employers would have to raise wages to pay legal aliens. More likely than not, those firms that can will invest in human labor saving technology so that no new hires exist. Those that rely on human labor may hire more.

2. The U.S.

3. France, Great Britain

4. My views are formed by personal experience. As a lifelong Californian, I have seen both the good and negative effects of illegal immigration. I think that most people against undocumented aliens do not have a clue on how difficult it is for people who wish to emigrate to the U.S. to do so. Some groups, such as those sponsored by Christian churches, and Cubans, can emigrate easily. Others from any country who have skills have a fairly easy time. Low skilled laborers, particularly from Mexico and Central American, have an exceedingly difficult time. Those who cite the law as a reason for not supporting illegal immigration are racists. If indeed we wanted to be lawful and all, let's move the date for proper immigrant status to 1620. Then we can tell all the illegal aliens to go home and apply for citizenship. This may sound like I am being facetious, but that is my opinion. The issue of illegal aliens became big two or three years ago when the Bush Administration, which has demonstrated it wants moderate reform of the immigration laws, went hard line to demonstrate to the American people that it can play hardball with illegals. But a country cannot have reform and deport a few thousand without having comprehensive reform

5. The person closest to me is Native American. He thinks the whole issue is fairly ridiculous. He says he would like to see them go back and apply for citizenship but doesn't like the proposal to charge each alien $10,000 each.