Question for those against illegal immigration?

Question

At what point did you realize that it was becoming a problem in the U.S.? Was it gradual, an event, a bill or law, a media thing, etc.? Recently or years ago? Thanks in advance for respectful, responsible answers...

Answer 1

It has always been a problem for me. I grew up in Los Angeles and saw all the ills of illegal aliens up close and personal. But over the years the scurge of illegal aliens have spread to every part of this country in one way or another. We need to increase enforcement and deportations.

Answer 2

Of course youre not a racist. This racist thing all started when Obama got elected. That Sharpton guy with Obama's support started calling the whites racist in hopes to stir up the hispanics but they nderestimated their intelligence. The true Hispanic Aamerican citizen is disgusted with what is going on to this country. These illegals now number between 20 to 30 million and spitting out American mades every nine month at out expense and then run to the food stamp office and get on food stamps.. They have destroyed the school systems to the point that the public schools are now called cesspool schools. HISD and ASID are now 80 % hispanics with the majority being illegals that cant speak english. My point being why in the world anyone be FOR illegal immigration. But guress what Obama and his liberal friends are. Why should the Mexicans have any greater right to come in the US than say the good people from the Philippines. Those people are educated and would love to come here and if they do get approved the wait is a long time just because of the massive influx of illegal immigration out of Mexico. But the liberals and this fool we have for a president say we are racist if we say anything about the illegal Mexicans that are here... I would trade a thousand of those illegal mexicans for one Filipino any day.. Is that racist??? Check the histroy of the Filipinos... You will find they have the same last name as that of the Hispanic

Answer 3

Living in a border state and town, I knew that illegals were coming into our country illegally for quite awhile, 20-25 years. You would hear of some illegals being caught and then being deported. As far as the illegal immigration problem becoming a real problem, I did not realize that until just recently, like 2 or 3 years ago when the media really seemed to jump on the bandwagon.

Answer 4

My story is very different from yours, I remember going to my 1st day of school in 1942 and being put in the Mexican room.
Tucson Arizona was a town of 30,000 and I lived on the border between the Black and Mexican Neighborhood's. When they desegregated Tucson Schools in 1951, All my black friends went to the same school. I remember smoking in the park at 12 years old when the white police caught me, they put the cigarette out on the back of my hand and I carried
That scar for many years. I never had a white friend until I was Twenty in the Service, I was in the Military Police and everyone else was white. My 4 friends were all from the South
After getting out of the service I could not get a job in Tucson,and moved to Los Angeles and got a good job, In the mean time the Civil Rights Act of 1965 was past and I moved back to Tucson. I ran into all these cowboy bigots that I had to beat one at a time.
I am an 69 year old and would be the 1st to defend my people from a racist,attack, things are not going back to those, days of the devil, like when ,I was a young Man.
So I always knew of the problem back to that day in the park when I was 12.

Answer 5

about seven yrs ago when working as a shift leader at kfc in kentucky. the store owner and manager started hiring hispanics. three of the six told me after they were there about six months that they were illegal and how they got here.. then I still stayed friendly with them and the others that worked there and kept asking about all the others that I had been noticing in this small town that kept arriving it seemed daily and they said that it was easier and quicker to get in the states illegally than it was legally.. after two yrs the hispanics were everywhere and they just kept coming. the local and state police bust a factory that employed over 250 illegals shut the place down and deported the illegals but that didnt stop the rest from going to different jobs with their illegal id's.. the mexican grocery stores that were opening all over the place were selling illegal ids and helping illegals made it here with food and clothing and more.. before I moved from this state there was three stores and one mexican resturant.. this was a small town that only had a family operated grocer one kroger grocer and one walmart that was new. and seven gas stations, four banks, seven red lights {two lights were put in that yr}. now I live in arizona and you cannot imagine all the hispanics that are here..I wished that I had the funding to move back to kentucky I would do it in a Heart Beat..

Answer 6

I am 65 and along about 1990.. after the Reagen Amnesty.. the Federal Government failed to fund and enforce the Immigration Service, and failed to fund and enforce the programs that were supposed to accompany the Reagen initiatives. Crime was going up, a Spanish Language only porn shop showed up very near the Crystal Cathedral, and welfare payments started going up.

The thing that got me going was simple: the illegal aliens began closing hospitals along the Texas Border in the early 1990's. Those hospital took care of the cowboys and all the folks in the community. They were very expensive for the community to set up, and when they closed, they closed forever. No emergency care.. no beds.. no nothing and people died because that was the case. And the illegal aliens closed them too.

I found the Center for Immigration Studies at http://www.cis.org and Fair U.S. at http://www.fairus.org and as time went on, it became clear neither the President or the Democratic in Congress were going to enforce the law. I became something of an activist.

Answer 7

I'm going to say that I first noticed in the mid 70's. Up until that time the US seemed to allow enough people in from Mexico on seasonal work visas for both economies. They might work 6 months then go home. Maybe a return to that would help.

Don't get me wrong. Mexicans are not the only illegals. They come from many countries. I have heard of plenty of Chinese, Arabs, Iranis and others entering via Mexico. Plenty of illegals also enter in sea cargo shipping containers and once in a while the wheel well of a jet plane.(no idea how they ever survive the cold and lack of oxygen.)

Answer 8

I realized that illegal immigration was hurting the US when I started following politics, & listening to radio talk show host Michael Savage. That was when I was 16 & I'm 20 now, so it's been 4 years.

Answer 9

Steddy I know many on here think I'm Pro Illegal but I'm not I'm Pro Reform. Why? My family was hurt by an illegal and the law wasn't on our side. I'm not saying the police because they tried. They locked the guy up and DHS set him free. Only now he was mad. I begged DHS to do something but they said he was small fish. He ended up committing suicide in front of my grandchildren ages 4,5, and 6. That's something they'll never forget. I'm just greatful he didn't decide to take them along. The story is complicated and I really don't want to get into it here. But let's put it this way...He was legal then a paperwork glitch made him illegal and things went down from there. Our system is broke it needs to be fixed.

2 years ago this made me aware of illegals and what was going on.

Answer 10

Over a year ago I learned what a problem it was becoming from reports by Lou Dobbs on CNN. I had no idea before that but have been following the situation through many sources since then.