I'm just curious if the people who are upset about Latin American immigrants are going to be equally upset when war refugees begin to start streaming into the country (as they inevitably will)?
Don't get me wrong, I'll welcome them with open arms - but it seems to me that the same Americans who were so gung-ho to go to war are the exact same Americans crying about an "invasion" of Mexicans (who just so happen to be the backbone of the American agricultural industry).
2007-06-20 07:45:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Build a gigantic fence next to the 900 foot Jesus and in any case Iraquis don't swim very well or so I've heard.
2007-06-20 09:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Calvin W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't about Latin Americans, but numbers, failing services like education, costs and inability to pay in taxes what they use in resources.
And the Iraqi's are refugees. We have been taking refugees all along and would seem a bit more responsible for these than most.
2007-06-20 15:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conservatives in America (not Republicans, though some are true conservatives) are NOT against immigration. They ARE against ILLEGAL immigration and the security threat posed by having such open borders. The Left likes to portray the Right as people who hate the idea of immigration, legal or illegal, which is simply not the case.
True conservatives call for the sealing up of the borders first before addressing the issues of dealing with illegal aliens and those who employ them as well as the issue of streamlining the process of legal immigration.
2007-06-20 14:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Brodie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You will not have millions of Iraqis coming here....and no, we wouldn't care if some immigrated because they would probably do it the right way. Because of that, I would have more respect for them.
If they came here illegal I would care just like now with the latin americans
You guys can't get over the real issue here do you...keep making a racial thing out of it, it doesn't mean a da** thing.
2007-06-20 14:51:59 · answer #4 · answered by Workcompguru31 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, because:
they will come LEGALLY;
they will be political refugees, not merely economic ones; and
they will not claim that this is really THEIR country and try to tell US what to do.
PS the majority of farmworkers, across every job description, are American.
2007-06-20 14:48:43 · answer #5 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I rail against Illegal immigration, but I welcomed the Vietnamese who came here after the Fall of Saigon. I'd welcome any Iraqis whom we betray and abandon in a similar fashion - though, I'd prefer that we not betray or abandon them.
2007-06-20 14:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't know. i really haven't heard of any conservative "railing" against immigration.
ohh, you mean ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
yes, i will have a problem if iraqis sneak into my country and live off my tax dollars, just like ILLEGAL mexicans, or hondurans, or whoever BREAKS THE LAW to get in here.
if the iraqis want to immigrate, i would love to have them.
2007-06-20 14:51:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As long as they come here legally, I don't care in the least.
I keep saying this - Legal is fine. ILLEGAL is where I have the issue.
2007-06-20 14:51:48 · answer #8 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
as long as they do it legally, they are welcome in the US.
as for the Mexicans: the ones that come legally are also welcomed, a large majority don't, and those are the ones that we have a problem with
2007-06-20 14:49:51 · answer #9 · answered by Scott J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Because they are browned skinned.
2007-06-20 14:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by RevJim 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋