What do you expect to happen to the U.S. when 15 million Mexican peasants become U.S. citizens?

Answer 1

Statistically, voter rolls would go up by a little over 12 million new Democrats, and a bit under 3 million new Republicans - if they all regestered.

Answer 2

Maybe they will stop sending money home and spend it here! The hardest working people I have ever had the pleasure to labor beside were Mexicans. When my wife had a flat on the way home, about three hundred Anglos passed her by and the one that stopped to help her was a Mexican! By the way, when those 15 million Mexicans become citizens, their children will all go to school, most of them will hopefully continue into college, and they will discover the amazing talent they seem to have for engineering! If you are trying to scare me, you are probably forgetting that I am the great great grandson of Immigrants and our people had to come up through the ranks the same way these people are trying to do. The fact that you seem unwilling to give them the same opportunity says more about your weakness of character than theirs. After all, just in case you haven't read your history books, (They were here first and we took the land away from them, not the other way around) they used to come across the Rio Grande all the time before we put a fence up. They have relatives up here (the ones who didn't go south that winter) and they happen to be Americans - Central Americans! By the way, do you feel the same way about the Canadians or do appreciate all the rock stars and comedians we import from the Great White North?

Answer 3

I'd like to hear more about the scientific experiments. Someone on a previous post had a comment about the use of catapults which I thought was rather ingenious.
By the time they become citizens there will be another 15 million of them since they breed like rabbits and run the border like an army of ants, so my answer would be that America will become even more like Mexico, a large cess-pit.
And to the person who said that Mexicans involuntarily became American citizens .... I doubt it.

Answer 4

They will be afforded to be able to recieve pay that is equal to what normal Americans and the peasants, as you call them, may be able to actually improve their lives. It will also affect the US economy as this would increase the prices we pay for certain comodities. Mexicans are not the only peasants here in this country and you are racist in asking a race specific question in this matter.

Answer 5

You're not making the distiction between legal and illegal. I wouldn't have that big of an issue with 15 million LEGAL mexican peasants if our immigration policy allowed it and we had the labor market to absorb that much low skilled labor. They'd be paying taxes legally, doing work, opening businesses, etc., etc.

Much of our historic immigration has been by peasants from all sorts of countries-- remember this???

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Of course it does have its impact-- more crime, more welfare, more poor to deal with, more people w/out health insurance, greater burden on public services, etc.

Answer 6

No one is proposing to make every illegal immigrant a legal U.S. citizen.

Not one person.

Questions like this only create fear and distrust, and do not move the issue forward.

Answer 7

Stricter rules for getting of Federal programs. Those programs being dried up.
Will they still help our economy when employers start paying minimum wage?

Answer 8

eventhough i come from a mexican backgrounf i think that the u.s. is gonna be even more ****** up..i mean the united sates needs help already we cannot stop the war and the econimoc is horrible i think with or with out the mexicans the u.s. is plenty ****** up...

Answer 9

I think that less jobs will be open for people and the Mexican people will have a hard time getting good jobs but also we will be more squished in the US. There is also a good side too, we should also be open to anyone because we are a free country.

Answer 10

A lot of politicians will retire early.