What happened to America...the melting pot of the world?

Question

When America was founded, a great poet called, America, "the melting pot of the world." Where everyone can come and make a living and be themselves. Now they're trying to take that away. Who else thinks that them trying to do the immigration bill is wrong? I mean, when did we change from "the melting-pot of the world" to "Keep Out!!!"?

Answer 1

I'm all for immigration, but illegal immigration is, well... illegal. The immigration bill is wrong in a lot of ways, but trying to keep tabs on who comes into the country is an important venture, especially in our day - when people want to blow up planes, buildings, airports, etc. If we allow them to come in without first checking to see if they are likely to harm you and me, we can't be upset that they were even here like we were when the towers were hit.

For example, nobody would leave their house's front door open all the time. Neither should America. We need somewhere where we can make the decision of whether to let the person(s) on the other side of the door come into our home or not.

Answer 2

America has a long history of mistreating immigrants from various parts of the world. In the 1800's it was the Chinese who were brought over to work on the railroads. In the 1940s it was the Japanese who were stuck in internment camps. It's also happened to Italians and other groups.

What goes unsaid in this current immigration battle is that the target is mainly Mexicans and people from other Latin America countries.

While I don't have an issue with trying to make our borders more secure, I don't think it's right to put so much time and effort against people who are here to work. Besides the obvious contributions these people make to our economy.

Answer 3

There is a big difference in allowing the people who have honored the United States by pursuing legal means to come to the US, and granting amnesty to people who have no respect for the US and have broken our laws in order to come here illegally.
We aren't just talking about illegal Mexican immigrants either. There could be terrorist cells and other undesirables that would be granted amnesty as well.
How would this bill be fair to people who have worked for years to attain US citizenship, spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of their time in the process?
I don't think that sending everyone home is necessarily the best option, but blind amnesty is certainly not a good option either.
As for what happened to "the melting pot"? Although I don't think the analogy is particulary accurate, the ideology you claim to understand is still in play. If you look at the history of immigrating societies in America, it will show you that every group that migrated here en masse faced similar conditions.
They were all given the lowest paying jobs. Americans would try to stop their immigration here, and generally there was a good deal of bigotry on both sides as well. Pretty much what you see with the Mexican immigration now.
As for Mexican immigration, I think it needs to be addressed immediately. It is a difficult issue, but Americans need to do what is best for America and American citizens. That is not a matter of bigotry it is a matter of politics and patriotism.

Answer 4

It's not about Keep out or about changing the melting pot. The melting pot refers to the various mix of races/nationalities that encompass the citizens of the United States. The immigration bill works to maintain our LEGAL immigration policies. You make it seem like there won't be any immigration with is a gross exageration as well as a bold faced lie. I mean after all why would we want only legal immigrants? Would we want to screen for criminials, vagrants, etc? Of course, and frankly every other country exercises that right, why is it considered wrong for the US to do it as well?

Answer 5

Most people don't realize it but the ever widening gap in currency valuations is driving these immigrants out of their home countries to seek the higher wages paid in American dollars.

Does anybody reading know or care what the minimum wage is in Mexico?

It's $4.39 ""A DAY!"" That represents about .55 cents an hour for an 8 hour day. Would you work for .55 cents an hour, or seek a higher paying job?

http://www.banderasnews.com/0512/nz-mexwage.htm

It's a world class problem! How to solve it.
Bring Back The Worlds GOLD Standard, whether the IMF likes it or not!

Answer 6

Nonsense, this debate is not about immigration; it is about illegal immigration. Why can't you libs get that through your heads. The US already takes in more legal immigrants than all the other countries in the world combined. We do not want illegal aliens in our country. We want them deported, but if we can't get that, we will settle for the current status, and hope that we get a Congess and President with the guts to enforce our immigration laws.

Another thing, most of the illegals are Mexicans and how is it promoting diversity by allowing ten million more MExicans to remain in our country illegally?
We are a nation of laws and we the people demand that our govt enforce the immigration laws of the USA!

Stop with the hysterics, and learn something about the issue. Check on the links below.

Answer 7

The people that come here these days don't want to "melt".They refuse to learn English and have that entitlement mentality. The people who immigrated to America in previous generations learned the language, an above all, came LEGALLY.

Answer 8

The immigration bill is far too kind. We are only a melting pot when immigrants ASSIMILATE. When they refuse, the whole thing goes to Hell. LEGAL immigrants who ASSIMILATE are perfectly fine, but illegal immigrants, or immigrants of any kind who do not assimilate are a major, major problem.

Answer 9

The immigration bill is not neccessarily to keep people out, it is to control the amount of them that come here and to legalize the ones that do. Rather than having people sneaking around w/ no identity to commit hanus crimes and get away with them bec we have no way of knowing who they are or where they are from.

Answer 10

It's not about not letting people in. The fact is that our laws have evolved to cope with the times and people need to live by them. It's not as easy as it was say thirty or forty years ago to come here legally but that doesn't make it right to sneak in. It shouldn't be ok for someone to work here using someone else's social security number. People should still be able to migrate, they just need to do it legally.