My thoughts on immigration -- do you agree?

Question

Why cant we see peoplefor what they really are, mexican black asian.
What it all comes down to is you have someone trying to make a better life for themself.
Feed their family,get a chance to start a family.
Work hard and do good things.

Why is that somethign people are so easy to take away from others?

It just shows how uncompassionate and black hearted some people choose to be.
If mexicans are crossign our borders and commiting crimes, then punish them accordingly.
make is so they never come back.

but if all they want to do is work hard and provide for their familes, than as people -- not just americans, we should be sympathetic to that cause.

because remember -- GOD could have so easily made us an immigrant in a 3rd worldcountry.
So maybe we owe it to HIM, to treat others as we would want to be treated.

you think?

Answer 1

If they want to come here and make a better life for themselves, then they MUST go through the process and apply LEGALLY for citizenship. No one is denying that this is a better place to live, we just want the people who come here to take advantage of what we have to offer, to show that they appreciate what they are coming here for and do the work. Is that heartless? I don't think so.

Answer 2

i have such mixed feelings about this issue. I was completely on the side you are on , and then I heard that it was expressed somewhat like Serpico, the poster , above me, states about having a garden.

The other day , someone expressed it , that you might look at a house in a better neighborhood / it would have better schools for you child / be close to work, offer more opportunities and be better than the house you live in. This does not give you a legal right to go move into the house illegally. If homes, were being stolen , moved into illegally by PULTE homes, for example, the police would be out there making them leave. Don't you think ? Imagine you just one day decided you would go move into a model house and live there without having bought it.

I do see both sides a bit better. It is a hard problem.

I think that America should make it easier to immigrate here. We have so much land and we need taxpayers. But the issue is the government will just keep misusing the tax dollars so no matter how many people are paying they will always claim they do not have enough money for schools and the health care.

It 's a complicated problem.

I think you sound like you have a good heart though. Good Luck to you.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Well, gee, let's all just love each other, hold hands and sing Kumbayah.

Your opening question sounds like Woodstock 1969.

The REALITY is: three million illegals entering our country every year, at least a million of whom successfully evade our border patrol.
Illegals who use welfare, get free medical care, crowd our courts and prisons, drag down academic quality of our schools, who carry and spread diseases, and have demonstrated a contempt for our laws with their first act here, by entering the U.S. illegally.

Dirty Martini quoted a net cost to taxpayers of 70 billion a year. I've seen estimates of that net cost being in excess of 100 billion.
Either way, the cost is enormous, and it is not the obligation of the United States to let these people illegally come here, burden our taxpayers, and drag down our nation.

Answer 5

I just want to tell you guys that sometimes those who are ready to love and need to live in this country, and even pray for this country every Sunday, can not find a legal way to stay; but those who actually hate this country and it's culture, mock this country with their mouth and (I believe) in their heart ; but lucky enough to find a legal way to stay would stay just for money not because they love this country, and who knows what they are going to do when they get permitted to stay ?; What I want to say is that ; If you are so strict in talking about legal and illegals;
Then many , many, many, many times you let the right ones out and get the wrong ones in !
ask for wisdom from The Highest that this Great Country would do the best ! This is not an easy thing !

Answer 6

If you don't have heritage here, you are an immigrant. Those holding the heirship to this country are those who have relatives that date back to September 17, 1776 when we instituted the Constitution of the United States. If you look at what other countries call their heritage, and respect what they have instituted for their country, you should do the same here.

Come in as an immigrant the right way, and have the dignity that one can claim. If not, I am for accepting anyone on the planet as a human being indeed, where color is not an issue, where nationality is not an issue.

Furthermore, illegal aliens in this country need to leave, and that is the bottomline. Come right with it, or get out; and it has nothing to do with color or nationality in the least.

God has nothing to do with what you are talking about in this quest of yours, keep his name out of this. Good try.

Answer 7

I agree in principal, but there are three practical problems with this.

1. There are 7 billion people in the world, most of them in countries far poorer than the US. If we remove all immigration restrictions, we might have two or three billion knocking on our door. Why should those who came here illegally be allowed to stay, without letting all those others in too who haven't broken the law by sneaking in?

2. Illegal immigrants who aren't educated up to the standard of a First World information economy - or at the very least, don't speak or read English! - impose very real and fairly large costs on other Americans. First, an immigrant farm worker who earns $6 an hour picking tomatoes isn't contributing much in taxes to support the schools his children attend (a kid in school costs the taxpayer about $10,000 a year), nor is he able to pay for the medical costs if he or his family is injured, or for his share of the costs of maintaining the roads he drives on, the police and fire departments (and US Army) that protect him, etc. While it's true that immigrants as a whole roughly pay for themselves in this kind of documentable expense, undereducated Hispanic ones do not, the balance being made up by the Chinese engineers and Indian doctors and British investment bankers that ARE ready to compete in an information economy.

3. There's another huge cost that falls only on his immediate neighbors, and one that's far too often overlooked in this debate. Hispanic children as a whole have high school graduation rates of less than 50%, a rate which is probably much worse for children of illegal immigrants. It's simply not fair for an American citizen child to have to sit in a classroom waiting while the child of a migrant worker is brought up to speed in a language he doesn't speak. That American kid, of whatever background (but likely poor), probably won't ever catch up in his competition against children from richer districts, or, later, in his international competition against software engineers from China or Ireland for that job he wants. One more good job outsourced overseas.... These families, in poor districts, who live alongside the illegal immigrants and their famlies and go to the same classrooms, aren't the kind of people who are heard in Congress, or attend Harvard. They don't even know how far their schools are falling behind the schools in the richer suburb down the street.

There is also mounting evidence that illegal immigration cuts the wages paid to legal working class workers, making our poor poorer, enlarging the urban and rural underclass, while subsidizing the cost of eating out or mowing the lawns for the American middle class.

I don't know what the answer is, but we don't help the debate when we concentrate only on the benefits and the virtues of the immigrants themselves, while ignoring the very real costs they impose. One hundred years ago, when so many immigrants also came to these shores, we had an economy that could benefit from plenty of willing workers with strong backs. Nowadays, we are in a post industrial knowledge economy, and the same kind of uneducated worker just doesn't contribute to the whole.

If we want to offer charity, maybe we'd be better off sending cash to Bangladesh or Mexico instead? Or just buying their exports? Then American kids wouldn't be hurt by their uneducated classmates, and perhaps the Mexican government would start helping rather than living off of its citizens. We do need a steady supply of fresh immigrants, but maybe we should give the Ghanaian engineer or Swedish product designer a bigger chance for a legal visa, and cut down on the illegal immigration of illiterate peasants.

Answer 8

With all of the illegals coming into the U.S. we are turning into a third world country. Just sit tight, afore long some crazed Arabs or some of their toadies will sneak over the border disguised as "poor Mexicans" and turn one of our cities into green glass. Then the problem with illegals will then be taken care of. Either by the government or fed up sick and tired of government inaction Americans...

Answer 9

At one time we was all immigrates, I know what many of my family was on both sides. My mothers grandparents came from Germany just b4 WW1, my dads folks came from Germany and Sweden way back b4 the revolution. I think each and every person could trace their family back t another country. Now we want to stop all of them coming over.
I have been to other country's,so far we don't have to have a pass port to go from one state to another only to Canada and Mexico, but give it time we will and if you don't have the papers you go to jail.
As for the work we or those that are here now need to get off their collective butts and get out there and do the job. Stop collecting the welfare or what ever government check and work. It going to take some time but we can do it. I see another thing, we keep complaining about, all this stuff yet we keep buying ther products. If we stop and buy our own it would make in time a huge impact. I'm talking about restaurants mostly. But any and all we need to stop using them or flat refuse to buy it if it came from some other country. Look at the boarder guards their uniforms were made in Mexico, the US flag we was putting on top of the graves in Vet cemetery's was made in China. Support begins right her at home not in some other country. That is all I have to say abot that.

Answer 10

I agree we should punish only the immigrants who commit a crime. Violating our border is a crime though.

As for black hearted, it is black hearted for someone to waltz right in, while we make those who are law abiding wait for years to come in. It's black hearted to give priority to our jobs that broke our law, while many people who are far worse off is waiting for an opportunity to come in. Mexico is better off economically than the majority of countries in the world. THe malnutrition rate in Mexico is undercontrol, while in Africa, some countries malnutrition rate is over one third of their population. If we are truely compassionate, we would give the Nigerians the opportunity to work in our farms, before the Mexicans.

People think it's harmless that people cross our borders, well, they're stealing food from the mouths of those who are desperate. If we close off illegal immigration, we would actually be force to import labor, hopefully from countries who need our help the most. Look at what's going on with the raids right now. We decrease the number of illegal immigrants and now farms are pressuring our government to streamline the H2A visas. They are bringing in immigrants from Southeast asia, like THai, and Hmong to work.
THailands population is almost half of that of Mexico, but they have 8 to 9 million more people undergoing malnutritioned than Mexico. Yes, I realize not all illegal immigrants are Mexicans, but a majority of them are and it's unfair to the Thai, since they need the money more.

Answer 11

Enforce the borders and the Laws in place. No more room at the inn.
Build the WALL
deport them all when found
Jail employers of the illegal alien invaders
Illegal isn't a race it is illegal
We owe nothing to third world spit-hole countries