What part of the country are you from?

Question

This is a two parter, and I want real answers. The first part of the question is, What part of the country are you from? What state, and city.

Secondly, What is your opinion on immigration?

I think this will be interesting.

interesting answers so far. especially JConly's...

by the way Carmen C. you are fierce... i have been reading your answers for the past few days in various questions... you remind me of a modern day Eva Peron. i think i love you. =0) always enjoy reading your answers.

oye Royal Adam... que tal? who pissed you off man? i have to admit some of these answers are a bit skewed but nothing racist... yet. this is what i wanted though.

and to the one from Phoenix, i used to live there. =0) whats up? here is got up to 117 the other day?

hey folks, don't give thumbs down to the Spaniard from Leon, Castilla La Mancha, España... he is a guest, and not an illegal anything. el es mi hermano y de mi herencia.

becksbear... this is just what i didn't want. i don't care if you are a racist bastard who's mommy and daddy are brother and sister... don't dole out your hatred here.

once in a while it is nice to have a question asked on a level playing field with no motivation other than to find people's honest answers (minus the ****** factor).

i gave you a thumbs down, and will to anyone who makes racist statements. i didn't ask what your opinion was on mexicans, or the irish, or the chinese did i?

Answer 1

I am from Northern California, both sides of my family are HISPANOS from Northern New Mexico. Although I do not consider myself to be Mexican, I do feel pain for the people who come here from the poorest parts of Mexico and work so hard to try and make a better life for their families, and are treated like garbage! At least they are WORKING...thats more than we can say for a lot of Americans. As for the "Americans" who are down at the border protesting and the KKK minutemen, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME your own government is not listening to all of your ranting and raving and at the end of the day your opinion will mean s***! If you are so worried about it why don't you move back to Europe? I know I can if I wanted to...I have a passport you think you are SO SUPERIOR then why do Europeans even hate you? Why don't you learn some respect so the rest of the world will respect you because you won't get very far in life by being IGNORANT, racist, and hateful!!

Answer 2

Upstate NY, near Binghamton. When I was born this county's population was 50% foreign-born . Less now , ~ 21% for the state, ~ 60% for NYC . We've gotten a small wave of refugees , from every global upheaval since WW II . We've done just fine , so I don't have the fear of immigrants that seems so prevalent elsewhere .

( I think it's somewhat amusing that politicians from places with low immigrant pop. , such as S. Carolina, Kentucky , & Colorado are the ones with their knickers in the biggest twist)

My sister & family live in Messina, on the northern border . They & several others I know travel regularly to Canada ,( or used to ) . Homeland Insecurity has so FUBARed the border already , that I dread what "secure" might be like . It's already had a negative economic impact,& will likely get worse .

This whole thing is overblown & ridiculous .The only crisis is that '06 was an election year. See the news about Microsoft last week ?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501386.html
& the separate story on the green card snafu ?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR2007070201637.html
USA today's story on the messed up legal immigration? (So messed up, that some are concluding that coming illegally is a better option) . Yikes. Insanity .We're shooting ourselves in the foot. It would be better to help the locations with problems , than screw up the whole country , with "solutions" that don't even fix the supposed problem.

Answer 3

I live in the southwest now, I have been to about 35 states in the USA, ive been to Mexico, Ive been to Canada.
Tijuana sure seemed like a nice little tourist trap of a town when I was young, boy that sure has changed. And it looks like all the border towns have turned into a cesspool of criminal activity.

I am for legal immigration in a controlled amount that the USA can economically handle. completely against illegal immigration. My grandfather was a legal Italian immigrant through ellis island. There was a bigger demand for jobs back then and the USA got from 1900 to 1910 got a huge amount of immigrants.... ... however that same amount of immigrants we have gotten in about the last 2 years.. most of them illegal as we get about 2-3 illegals for every legal now.

Answer 4

West Michigan, I think that trade agreements and the tariff system is more important then illegal immigration. People were not upset with immigration until the manufacturing jobs left. We need to take corporate person-hood away like it use to be and change the rules back and say that if a company wants to move overseas that is fine but it they want to sell that stuff to Americans it will cost them to the point that they will have to manufacture stuff here if they want to sell to the most addicted to retail humans on the planet.

Answer 5

Northern California

Answer 6

Cocoa Beach Florida

I am against illegal immigration because:

1. Unfair to those applying for legal immigration.
2. Implications to population growth, resources and services and quality of life.
3. Lack of registration / screening of illegal immigrants.
4. Problems in home countries should be corrected because there are a lot more people there.

Answer 7

Phoenix, AZ. Daughter of legal immigrants against illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is wrong for more than one reason. It threatens our national security and uses people as pawns for big business, that in turn hurts the American people who have to rely on jobs that the illegals are doing. There are many Americans (born here and naturalized) that go to work everyday in construction and the restaurant fields. They deserve to be paid a descent wage and not have to compete for a job against a person that is here illegally.

Answer 8

I'm from San Antonio, Texas.

Sometimes I think we should just open the border completely!
We would then strive to raise all of Mexico up to our level!
But we would also have to stop the source of poor people or we would eventually be completely overrun. The source in my opinion is the Catholic Church (88% throughout Mexico) telling people not to use birth control. or...(gasp!) abortion.

At other times I wish all Mexicans would leave America forever and immeadiately. But I am married to a Mexican {now legal American} and my kids I suppose are 1/2 Mexican.

I say, completely enforce the laws, but broaden them a bit.

Answer 9

El Paso Tx, the largest southern border city in the US....I love my city and its people! Child of legal parents from Mexico....Dad and brother served in the armed forces....I love my country, but I love my culture and Mexico....I feel horrible that poor people in Mexico cannot make a decent life in Mexico...I don't begrudge them for coming here, afterall, we are all children of immigrants, who back then was much easier to come here....Now that the doors are shut, these people have to sneak in....Its just not fair....But life never is!

Answer 10

New Hampshire and I believe those who hire illegals should be charged with the crimes they commit, rather than always making the victim look like the bad guy!

We have immigration here, albeit most legal. A lot of Canadians, french speaking, Cambodians and Vietnamese!

Though we stole NH from Mass, and they stole it from the Indians. We didn't take the 4 states that used to belong to Mexico until they our illegal immigrants tried to annex them and had to have Polk start a very unpopular war with the Mexicans!