Have you ever talked with an illegal immigrant?

Question

If so, what was your experience?

Answer 1

muy bueno, gracias.

seriously, i've worked in restaurants and construction. mexico is poor and offers little employment. the problem is not only U.S. immigration, but Mexico is not doing enough to keep their own citizens in their own country.

All of the illegal and legal immigrants I've met from Mexico seemed honest, worked hard, were friendly, and really wanted no trouble, just to make money to send home to their family.

I am friends with some other illegal immigrants from other places around the world. It doesn't really come up, but I know it is a very long and frustrating bureacratic process to become a legal citizen. My old roomate is marrying a girl from Germany, college educated, speaks English very well, it will take 9 years for her to get citizenship, so they are moving to Berlin.

Answer 2

I'm sure I've talked to an illegal immigrant. But i don't go asking if they are here illegally so i don't know. I work in construction and ware old clothes and somethings i think i look like an illegal immigrant so I'm sure people see me and think I'm an immigrant. but when i talk i don't sound like an immigrant. But i have talked with people from black to white with accents and they might have been here illegally who knows but the experience was fine. i think i might have misunderstood some or all of what they said or laughed because they talked funny but overall it was good.

Answer 3

I live in Austin, Texas --- so yes many times. The experience of course, varies as with any other personal exchange. No doubt you will have many conversations with illegal immigrants in the near future. We have already become the third most populated country in the world with people from everywhere pushing their way in. I fear we will all become desperate workers. We will all have a lot in common to talk about. I don't see much passion on the part of our government to defend our borders.

Answer 4

I don't work in industries that employ illegal aliens, so I don't have the chance to talk to them on a regular basis. But all of the times that I had to have encounter with someone who most likely was an illegal(not speaking or understanding English, avoiding eye contact, etc...) it was always very frustrating and even annoying. Most of the times these people couldn't understand questions that I had and quite often they were clueless about what they were supposed to know of the business(service) they worked at.

Answer 5

Yes, I have spoken with illegal immigrants many times. It was a mix of both good and bad experiences. Sorry to say that they were mostly bad but there were a few that really made a good impression on me and the experience was nice enough that I wished they weren't illegal and we could know each other on a daily basis.

Answer 6

Many times I 've talked to illegal immigrants.What was the experience?One was the most horrible of my life but others were quite pleasant.Much as my experiences with anyone.

Answer 7

Rented a Mobile home to him during harvest season. Tailor wasn't even up for rent, they just asked if they could rent it, so I rented it to him for $200.00 a month, figured he could use a break since he was working for minnimum wage or around that. Then he asked a couple of month's later if he could cut some wood off my property for fire wood, Told him sure no problem. Came by about 4 weeks later, there was a path through my woods 30 feet wide and a 100 yards deep, and at the road a sign, FIRE WOOD $10.00 A LOAD YOU CUT. Last time I will help one out.

Answer 8

My company has hired a few that were later fired when they couldnt show S>S numbers,they didnt work out very well because they pretended not to know english so they could get away with goofing off,example we are not aloud to have cell phones and they would use the cell phones all day instead of doing their work. I would like to add though that we have hired legal hispanics that have worked out great and earned our respect.

Answer 9

How would I know that they were illegal? When I speak with others I don't ask for identification, are we supposed to do this now? When I go shopping, I see foreign people all the time & a lot of them speak in a language I don't understand (rude in my opinion) but I don't ask them if they are here legally. I don't feel that I have the right to ask them to prove themselves to me, I'm not the law. I consider this a job for the government & law inforcement. If I saw something suspicious, I would call the law to handle it. So my experience is "Duh"!

Answer 10

At a gas station in Tennessee. He was from India and came here on a tourist visa, visa ran out and he never left. He said he has to work at the station instead of his usual occupation an Accountant because he lacks the legal documentation to be in the United States.