Hypocrisy????

Question

Why is that everyone keeps bringing up the fact that anybody here in the US is an immigrant.... Ignorance I tell you.... We fought the native americans and won a war for this country. Or did you forget. If Hitler had won the war for Europe would the Germans had been ilegal's? Of course not. Time to wake up America and stop using and making excuses and welcome a little reality. Hispanics that cross the border without legal paperwork are called what? ILEGAL. Does nobody get that. After this forum I now realize why our country is deflating. Government don't care and apperently niether do some citizens of this country..... SAD.. isn't it?

Answer 1

That's not hypocrisy, it's dishonesty. An outright, bald-faced lie.

im·mi·grant
Pronunciation: 'i-m&-gr&nt
Function: noun
: one that immigrates : as a : a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.

You cannot be an immigrant if you /stay in the country where you were born/!


'We' did not fight native american or win the revolutionary war. Everyone who did that is long dead. We are simply citizens of the United States of America. To claim that a person born in America is an immigrant because his father, or great-grand father or distant ancesor came here from somewhere else is to judge that person by his ancestry. There is a word for that: Prejudice.

Answer 2

Anyone who uses that lame argument is an idiot. When our ancestors came here so long ago it was not a sovereign nation yet and had no immigration laws. It had no borders other than where the ocean met the land. No one with any intelligence can compare then to now.
It is now the United States with set borders and immigration laws that must be adhered to. Why people keep bringing up our ancestors is astounding. They need to be thinking about the present not about hundreds of years ago.
Come here legally and be met with open arms. Come here illegally and you're a felon.
Amnesty for no illegals, deport them all.

Answer 3

I completely agree- Every country started from somewhere... and I've said it many times.. I am not an immigrant- I am an American citizen, neither are my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents, etc...they are/were all American Citizens... my ancestors fought and died for this country so that I (their future generation) will have this great country that I live in. There was no country here before my ancestors got here, it was only a piece of land- they fought for it, they knew what they wanted and built this country with their blood, sweat, and tears.... I'm sure somewhere down the line, there were immigrants in my family tree, but I don't know about it... I was taught to love, honor, and respect my country and appreciate everything that my ancestors did and gave up for me to live here. I don't like it when people say that I was lucky to have been born here, or that I was born here by chance... I would have been born in this country regardless of what it was like (it could have been like Cuba, or somewhere like that) I am lucky that I had ancestors that cared enough to fight and die for me to live in this country- that's where I'm lucky... I think to say by chance or by luck, down plays everything they did and stood for...

Answer 4

The question isn't whether we are descended of immigrants or whether those here are immigrants. The question is whether they are ILLEGAL immigrants.

Every college, fraternity and even street gang has its rules about who can join and what they have to do to be selected. Noone who avoids that process is considered a legitimate part of the group. Countries are no different.

It is OUR choice who is allowed to come take a better life at our expense, not theirs.

Answer 5

I also live in California, near Los Angeles, and it is disgusting to see the changes. It's just sick. Start calling your Congress person. This bill must not pass!!!

Answer 6

Wow!!!! Are you Harry Turtledove? You have wrote alternate history!!!! The sadness is in you intolerance.

Answer 7

Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no "stealth-amnesty." No "change of status," marriage fraud, "exceptional leave to remain," no "Temporary Protected Status." If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population--the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at substandard wages and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America--crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but they sure know how to "work the system" to collect "free" medical care, "free" education, "free" food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services. It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of our charitable contributions. And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work "under the table" with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books "job-lets" would be "real" jobs - available to American citizen job-seekers - if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created. The ratio works out to roughly 7-10 workforce entrants per job created. If all illegal aliens depart or are deported, all legal immigration halted, and all temporary employment visas abolished, we still have a problem with more US-born workforce entrants than new jobs created. Illegal immigration damages our country and our citizens every day at every level. And not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization. Zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators! We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every single day. God Bless the U S A !

Answer 8

it is people like u who r sad..