Just taking a little poll on something?

Question

I'm just curious (and please don't take this as something to provoke a fight, I genuinely want to know straight answers) How many of you out there, no matter what your stance is on immigration from Mexico, legal or illegal, actually know anyone from Mexico personally? And I don't mean know them in passing, or just at work or something, REALLY know them (ie-like you would know a good friend)?
Serious answers only please, this is not a racial issue!

Eclipse-I'm not arguing for or against illegal or legal immigration here, just trying to ask a straightforward question "Do you or do you not know anyone personally who is from Mexico?"

Its about someone-While I may not always agree with you, you present your answers better than anyone else on this board.

New Yahooer-Whoa! Careful, you might have your fangs showing there! Mexicans are a frequent topic of conversation in the immigration section, I just wanted to hear how many people actually knew any of them. It wasn't an illegal/legal debate, which if you thought about it before attacking me, you would realize is not the ONLY topic of conversation suitable to this board. It is well within the realm of reason to ask this question on a page regarding immigration, because it pertains to asking how many people know members of probably our most major group of immigrants. I just specified I was not trying to have a legal/illegal or racial debate with this particular question.
You are quite quick to attack and name call...Take it easy! The question was not a personal attack.

Yes, which explains why you have previously answered ?s specifically about Mexicans, since you are so against questions that pertain directly to one country....Sorry you disagree, but the Mexican population in the US DOES indeed pertain to immigration, and nowhere on the Immigration page does it state you can't ask a question about a specific group of people who IMMIGRATE here (hence the generalized name of the board, IMMIGRATION). I've answered and asked plenty of ?s on this board, all I did was specify that this one in particular was not one I was trying to spark a legal/illegal debate with, just wanted to know how many people actually knew a member of a group that immigrates here regularly..It could be society and culture related too, but the way I intended it was to find out (since we all discuss various groups of people who immigrate here) how many people actually knew one. Have you recently been appointed as the one who determines what can be dicussed here & I just missed it?

If you haven't noticed, Mexicans are probably the most frequently criticized group of immigrants on this board, and it isn't unreasonable to ask how many people actually know any of them personally? If you are going to criticize a specific group of immigrants, it's not unreasonable for someone on the same board to ask if you even know any of them.

And I said that without even calling you names....think about it.

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

I have had many Mexican friends who were Americans but not really anyone close from Mexico.
I did know a beautiful wealthy women in L .A. who's father was a doctor in Mexico City. Her husband was a Holl ywood actor in the late 50's and 60's.He was from Mexico.
They were very pleasant people.

Answer 3

Yes, several. One a very nice couple, now Amercan citizens who opened the best diner in town. Quite a few at work, several who refuse to try to speak English and seem to hate anyone who is not Mexican. The Garzas are wonderful people, and Mexico's loss is our gain.

Answer 4

It's somewhat of a trick question, because you could be asking
1) if we know Mexicans who are educated and fully assimilated Americans of Mexican descent
2) if we know Mexicans who are recent legal immigrants
or
3) if we know Mexicans who are here illegally

I know Mexicans who are, or I suspect are, from all categories. I also have friends from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, and Cuba. All here legally that I know of.

I know some who are anti-illegals, but most of them passively support illegal immigration.

Many of them have small businesses, and like to hire illegals. Cheap labor.

It bothers me that they have such a lax attitude toward the laws of the country they choose to live in.

Most of them travel to their home countries frequently and spend considerable time there. It bothers me that their first loyalty is to somewhere outside the United States, and that they regard the U.S. as just a place to get an education and make money.

Most speak and write english in a very functional, barely comprehensible form, and despite my attempts to help them learn and refine their english, have very little interest in improving. At work I find this incredibly frustrating, the patient intake forms, medical documentation that is completely illiterate. By choice. I'd gladly teach them, but their clear disinterest made me give up trying.

In a period where I felt less strongly about immigration, I did more socially with them. But increasingly, knowing their nationalist pride for other countries they have a first loyalty to, and knowing their attitude toward protecting our borders, I regard them the same as illegals, as unpatriotic enablers who are exploiting and weakening our country, and I feel increasingly less connection with them.

My ancestors uprooted and made this their homeland. These people are foreigners by choice, with no loyalty to this country.

Answer 5

Yea I know quite a few. My neighbor next door is from Mexico and I have a friend from Mexico who I have went on a trip to Nevada go play poker with that is from there and still owns a house there.

Answer 6

Yes, I now ALOT of Mexicans. All of my family is from Mexico, and most of my friends are Mexicans that came from Mexico.

Answer 7

I know dozens currently and, over the last 10 years, have known at least 3 hundred. They've been friends, enemies, combatants, authorities, teachers, college roommates, brother-in-law, nieces and nephews (if half & half is okay, here...hehe), and everything in between

I'd be lying if I said they haven't impressed me deeply, disappointed me, made me laugh, made me angry, surprized me and even bored me with the "same old enchilada".

But then, I speak Chinese and know hundreds of Chinese, too. And they've done the same. But with one exception: The Latin-American stands, now, at an historic cross-roads, poised to correct a legacy of papal governance - without solutions - and replace it with representative leadership.

The well-intentioned sympathies in the U.S. emasculate them and label them defeatists. They work to say, "We Americans fixed our nation. But, then, we can do such things. You can't."

We silently assess them inferior. By insisting their only hope is to come here and work in the system we created, we imply that they can NOT create their own. We've inscribed on their chests, "Defeated". In bold, insulting letters.

Ironically, then, those who insist that good fences make good neighbors are, by their rigidness, expressing a de facto vote of confidence.

I know I am. I know these people are capable. Even the ones I don't like. (just keep those guys in the back, okay?)

I say, Go for it!!!! Ignore the DEFEATISTS, and be the architects of your freeway to destiny.





"Where there is no law but each man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the LEAST of real liberties."

General Henry M. Roberts, "Roberts Rules of Order" 1915

Answer 8

Yes, My husband is from Mexico, and I know several Mexicans.

Answer 9

I work in the Food Processing industry, most of my friends are Mexican. Most of them oppose illegal immigration.

Answer 10

I have a good friend who's from across the border. He's here legally though, so I don't know if that counts.

Answer 11

My niece married a Mexican. I know him quite well. He's a nice guy. But he is not illegal. I still am firm on my stance to deport all illegals.