Are you qualified to speak here? What do you really know about Mexican immigrants?

Question

I am an old rancher on the Mexican border. My family has ranched here since 1908. I've been looking at some of these answers. 99% of these people don't have any idea what they are talking about.

These mexicans have changed. 50 years ago, they were all good people and I liked them. They lived with us and taught me spanish and many good ways and customs. They and us depended on each other and I made good friends with many of them. They worked hard and never stole from us. All of my good old mexican friends are dead now. I miss them.

Now, they are bad. I wouldn't give a nickel to any of them now. I don't know what happened. They are mean and bad. About 10 to 15 years ago they started stealing from us and got mean and don't want to be friendly any more.

Do you really know the new immigrants?

Answer 1

I work as a CBP Officer on the border everyday helping out new Immigrants and turning back people who do not have a legal right to be here. So, yes I feel I am up to date on Immigration policy and can speak in this forum. And please note, when I say illegal in this forum I mean everybody, not just people from Mexico. We send back people from Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia, The Middle East and Mexico. If you are here illegally we are very "equal opportunity"

I here what you are saying. There seems to be a bigger sense of entitlement people feel they have whenever we send them away. We tried to deny a man for being a public charge (he hadn't paid his $47,000 hospital bill from his last stay, that's a problem). The first thing his green card holder son did was call Senators complaiing about us and how we couldn't do that. Well, yes we could, but you would be surprised how quick management will crumble when they get phone calls from not one but four angry Senators telling us to let this person stay in violation of the very INA they wrote.

We tried to send home a man from the Middle East who was certainly up to no good (the suitcase full of information talking about the greatness of 9/11 was our first clue). He missed his first flight home because he got on the phone to the consulate to complain about how we were being unfair. The Supervisor was too chicken to tell him to hang up, get on the plane and GTFO. We wouldn't dare have a complaint against us.

I walk down the street and I see protests where people are saying "I am Illegal, so what!!!" Well, I'll tell you what's up as I kick you out. Of course I do not have the legal authority inside the border, and we wouldn't dare let local police do anything, which helps build this culture of entitlement.

Again, I am more than willing to help legal immigrants into this country. I do it everyday. But when I see someone entering this country in violation of federal law, then demanding that I give them everything, I am more than a little fed up.

Answer 2

I'd say I'm fairly qualified to speak about Mexican immigrants, I'm dating one. He moved here from Mexico 4 years ago and several members of his family live here also. legally. They are some of the nicest, most respectful people I've ever met. I'm sorry if you've run into some mean people, but believe me, it's not just the mexican immigrants that are getting mean. It's everyone, the world is not a nice place anymore. Americans included.

Answer 3

You are talking about the legal immigrants and I don't find any thing about them that I hate,That's ridiculous,the illegal that comes here and expect us to welcome them with open arms is the only problem I have with anyone. My ancestors came to the New World in 1702 ,they were merchants from Germany.They learned English from the elder/leader of the group and were told by him that they must speak English,they settled the land and prospered. There is not one illegal in my family history. I could not even if I tried hate Mexicans either legal or illegal.But they need to stop coming until they are legal. Very good answer Edward,thank you Proud grow up no one stole the southwest.Get out your history books...Mexico started a war with us,they lost that war,the US then took the land as all winners do but we still paid Mexico a total of $18,250 million for the land,NO ONE STOLE the land.ITS ours not Mexico's.What the hell are they teaching you in school now days...... I'm an American ,I'm not an Anglo,I am a born and raised American citizen of the United States of America.There's nothing in that phrase that says Anglo is there first answer person.? You are wrong.!!!!

Answer 4

I agree with bagalood. I'm also a mexican that lives and works in México (I have a BS in Computer Sciences).

The most of the mexicans that imigrate illegally have two characteristics:

They are poor
The have no education (or just the basic education)

I have a lot of relatives with this characteristics but...they are still nice and hard working people that don't have better options in the places where they were born. In my last travel to NY I saw a "US Mexican" (his mother is mexican, he is a "New Yorker" born and raised in the US) that made me feel embarrassed, I knew why you don't like mexicans...or, that type or mexicans with no education.
But I also have friends working legally and making good things for the US Americans (In Microsoft and Secondmille).

Please, do not think that all the mexicans want to live in the US, in fact, the most of the BS owner's don't dream about it, because we can have a very good life in México, we do accept opportunities in the US to increase our knowledge and experience, that's all.

PS: We also know some US americans that ashame your country...they are called "Spring Breakers". And not because of them we think that you are the same.

Answer 5

The people of Mexico are not bad. The government and the people who want to use them as labor for next to no cost are bad.

I don't have a problem with immigrants, (I have a problem with illegal immigrants however) I don't think we should punish people for not being American.

Mexicans are just as likely to be bad people as Americans are.

The only thing I have a problem with about immigration is that it seems that America is being pressured to change to what the immigrants are used to. The immigrants come to a new country and should change their ways to fit the country's, they had a choice to go there and have a choice to leave. The country should not adapt to the immigrants.

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A man was lying in bed one night when he heard a sound. He looked outside and was shocked to see a flying saucer in his lawn. He talked to the alien that came out of it and tried to convince him to leave, but the alien refused. Finally, the man called the police station and told them he had an alien problem. All they did was issue the alien a drivers license.
'I guess they misunderstood me when I said I had an alien problem,' said the man.

Answer 6

The Mexican immigrants that I know who are here legally are wonderful people. One of my coworkers who is a legal immigrant invited me to go to church with his family the last time I saw him.

Of the Mexicans who I know who are here *illegally*, many are to be completely avoided. Some live in my neighborhood, and their American neighbors of Mexican descent fear and avoid them.

It wasn't very long ago when an officer of the law was killed here in east Texas by illegal immigrants on a routine traffic stop. It was all caught on camera. The illegals had a large quantity of illegal drugs in the vehicle, and shot and killed the officer.

It is true that murder is wrong regardless of who commits it. But if it is someone that has entered your country illegally, then kills government employees who are armed for the purpose of protecting the citizenry and enforcing the laws, then shouldn't we call it terrorism?

Answer 7

Hello, I think I am qualified.
I'm mexican, not migrant, i'm living and working in Mexico, and I agree with you (wich may surprise to many others).
In the past, 20 years ago or more, the mexican migratig were good people, polite, that went to US and get back with enough money to start a business here, in Mexico. I know many from that time, relatives and friends, that now have became in mexican businesmen, specially in farms (where i am). In that time they could earn enogh, also dolars had more value than today: they could go and save enough to come back and start their own business here, now that is not possible, they just earn enogh to live there, no saving. And, not everybody tried to go there: only some regions in where people is more polite or better in work.
But today it is different, actually. That kind of mexican that migrate in the past now stay here, the most (not all of them we must say) of the migrants in this time are the less educated and poors, going there from other regions than before (it used to be from states of Jalisco, Zacatecas or northern states; now it is from southern states too, it means different people, different culture).
Sadly, what you said is true. Migrants today are NOT the main mexican people, many in US doesn't konw this. Many migrants going out from Mexico are mean and lazy people even here, in Mexico. Certanlly, no all of them, but many.
In my poin of view, one thing to fix it would be the called "reforma migratoria"; Canada is still receiving mexican inmigrants of the kind you mentioned, because it is through a legal way, and they can choose what people to accept, usually, the more educated. I have friends now migrating to Canada: they have bachelors or degrees in mexican universities, they go to Canada to work and they speak english and/or french before they go out. Canada is taking the best migrant mexicans at this time, the "old fashioned" migrants, US has only those wich are not wanted there. US should think about this, we will be neighbors forever.

Yes, I really know the new migrants, they are not wanted even here. Sorry, I know it is wrong.

Answer 8

I know more than I want to know,I live in San Antonio which has been heavily Hispanic my whole life. But it is indeed a whole new ballgame now,at least overall. My neighborhood is still actually pretty good,most of the trouble comes from outside it,but the city as a whole has gone downhill over the last 20 years. It's still a lot better than many others though,Phoenix and LA immediately come to mind. Those cities are truly lost.

Jack

Answer 9

There is a tremendous difference between _immigrants_ and _illegal aliens_.
The immigrants that I know are, like in your experience, honest and hard-working individuals.

The ones that I know to be "undocumented" tend to hang out on street corners, in Hispanic bars, and public areas. They are unruly and obnoxious.

Don't get me wrong, some of the "documented" ones are in that crowd also, but the vast majority are not.

My solution:
1. Close the borders
2. Round up an deport all the known "undocumented" aliens
3. Offer those with legal or even expired work visas the opportunity to apply for citizenship
4. Keep the borders closed

Answer 10

I am only 24 and i live in NM, im hispanic (not mexican). but i was raised around my grandparents friends alot of them who were mexican. they were raised with respect and taught their children to also have respect. but now in my generation i am seeing mostly the ILLEGAL immigrant MEXICANS who give all hispanics including the older mexicans a bad name by the way they disreguard the laws and have no respect for no one. so yeah i know what im talking about from my experience.