maybe i should explain myself a little better. I love immigrants dont get me wrong, we wouldn't have in our country what we do today if it weren't for them. I want to know only because there is someone i know, who is an illigal immigrant, who is constantly bothering me in ways i wish not to discuss. If you guys can help me out with that it would be appreciated.\nTo HeAtHeN B****... maybe you should be a little more respectful of the dead, and take that stick out from your ass!\nAnnmontan1973, maybe you should take your own advise and get a life of your own too, and then take it personally to hell!\n...Thanks again ;)
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Why do you have to make your question about an illegal immigrant, if you say you love immigrants. Why can't you just make your issue on the mere fact that this person is harassing you? Take action on that matter with the proper authorities. I was surfing the web for answers and came across all of the ridiculous questions people were asking about illegal immigrants and I felt I had to respond. I thought America was the great melting pot. It was made by people from different countries. Yes some will say they weren't illegal. No one was considered illegal back then. People could come and go into places as they chose. Why can't others do that today. I know there are a lot of issues with terrorists but they seem to be from a certain country. We still need to watch each person carefully just as we need to watch all of our own citizens who murder, rape and abuse us. The Mexican immigrants trying to come into the U.S. are only trying to make money for their families in Mexico, to send back to them. The country is very poor. Why do we as Americans get to go to Mexico and live there when we retire? I have researched Mexico and seen that many elderly people go to Mexico to retire. They have made large retirement villages there. They live rich lifestyles because it is cheap to live with such things as paying $15.00 a week for a maid. Can you believe that? Why do we get to go there and they can't come and live here? We as Americans get to travel many places to visit but we see nothing wrong with that, we're Americans. Why do Americans think they are above the rest? I don't know! Look at all of the movie stars like, George Clooney, who has a house in Paris, or wherever it is, then there's, Angelina Jolie, with her many houses in different countries. All of the stars do that, just like a lot of other non-famous people do. I was reading another question about the child support that was closed. I know someone who is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and the American girl is in the process of getting child support from him. I also know that all of the illegal immigrants who work here in the U.S. get paychecks and each of those paychecks has money taken from it for taxes of sorts, just like ours. This has happened for many years. Where does all of this money go since they are illegal, to the government and to the American people who are receiving retirement checks monthly. The illegals will never use that money because they will not retire from here when they get old. America is using the illegals just as they are using us for help. Why can't we go as we please as long as we abide by the laws of each place. If we don't abide just use the jails; like we use for all of the other millions of American inmates. \nWhat is the wrong in them being here? Only that people here are still prejudice and will always be; even the people who go to church, pretending they are so good. God didn't make us all so we could hate each other. We are all the same just spread throughout the world. Sure we are all shades of different colors, we have to be. Each part of the world has different climates and our skin has to protect us from it. People with very pale skin couldn't live as all of the village people in Africa do without being burnt daily. The skin tone protects each person from the climate of each region. Americans were just lucky enough to live in a climate that has both cold and hot seasons that don't effect our skin as much.\n\nSorry I used your question as a venting tool.
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woohoo finally someone has the same thoughts on this as i do.... hello people every history book will tell you that the native Americans where here first and that the Europeans ran them out of all their homes... yes, Mexicans came and did the same to the Indians when they took over Arizona, new Mexico and California but seriously how much better is white people than brown people if they both stole this land from the true natives??\n\nedited-what I'm saying is yes the Indians where here first but i do not agree with new immigrants or Americans taking advantage of welfare.. i have three children and can't get any help to send them to preschool because my husband  makes a HAIR more than the limit. now my oldest son is behind in kindergarten. \nI'm not trying to contradict myself i just don't like to hear white people say they where here first. and i don't like the fact that because people don't work they get hand outs, and the middle class can't get any help at all...\n\nedited- i don't get what is this discussion about dirty jobs? i love the show but i don't understand what you are all talking about? email me..thanks in advance..
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From the above comment...\n\n"you have a mental problem, your sick in your mind, get a life, your an immigrant too,so stop whining. illegals arent doin anything to you, they actually help you, they werent here, you might as well say goodbye to anything they pick on the field."\n\nHe actually does have the write to voice his opinions, and that my friend, that right there is perfectly fine on a WWW site like this. But, should I tell Yahoo! that you're trying to rid him of his voice? I don't think so!\n\nAnd, I too agree with you on this (I also have a say). Unlike illegals (which are also known as NON-AMERICAN CITIZENS, they don't have a say), as rude and cruel as that seems, it's true. But if someone like an illegal wants to become American, they MUST do it legally, just like my father, and his father had to wait TEN years before they could enter this country in the 50s. Now why is it that someone just underneath the US is allowed to come here illegally? It's not fair.\n\nAnd it's not something that just pisses off citizens of this fair country, it also pisses off legal immigrants, those who waited years, maybe even decades to enter this country. It's NOT FAIR.
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My ancestors were cave men.\n \nI can prove it too, I have hair on my back.\n \nAnd my wife sometimes calls me a knuckle dragger!\n\nNow, Would all of you Non-furry types get off my land ?????\n\n Gee bunt, It looks like you are getting irritated because unlike you claim, most of the people here can trace their roots. Kinda knocks the wind out of you sail doesn it.\n\nI did give you a smart arse answer, and I thought about being serious and giving you a real answer, but you don't deserve one, and here is why.\nBecause I think that most here have already tried to explaine to a few of the knuckleheads here that we are not all immigrants. Being an immigrant is not hereditary, it can't be passed from generation to generation. if a person was born here, that person is a citizen, period. Get it?
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THANK YOU ATLEAST SOMONE AGREES WITH ME!! IMMIGRANTS ARE THE 21ST CENTURYS SLAVES!!\n\nPEOPLE HERE JUST JUDGE OTHER RACES WITHOUT THINKING; MAYBE THERE HERE FOR A REASON? IMMIGRANTS LEAVE THERE FAMILYS & HOMES WITH THE HOPE OF A BETTER FUTURE. IF ALL WAS GOOD IN THERE COUNTRYS THEY WOULDNT BE HERE!!\n\nSO FOR ALL THE PPL WHO JUDGE IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD OF POSTING YOUR IGNORANT  QUESTIONS, GO & PICK THE FRUITS & VEGETABLES.\nGO CLEAN THE TOILETS, GO FLIP THEM BURGERS!!!\n\nYOU ALL KNOW DAMN RIGHT THEY DO THE JOBS YOU WILL NEVER DO!!!!!!!
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Aww how sweet alexthec! Go ahead, call me lazy. I think YOU are the lazy one, sitting on your little cushy American @$$ while immigrants pick your fruit and mow your lawn. Because it goes like this pendejo, one of your ancestors was a 'lazy' immigrant who committed crimes and raised taxes.
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hmmm.....don't see many of the regulars answering this question/statement do you.\n\nanother aspect of this immigration topic we have yet to pick the scab off.\n\nI love it.\n\nOh but I have to add....they are all going to post quickly with "illegal".....though that had nothing to do with the question.....that is going to be your basic answer.\n\nLMAO\n\ngood post!
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This is what I'm saying. I cannot believe that our legislators are allowing these people to bully them! And the immigrants themselves,(not all, of course, but many i encounter) are angry at U.S. citizens for wanting stricter laws enforced on immigration. Do these people not realize how much we pay for when they immigrate illegally? And i don't just mean monetarily either. sheesh!
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You americans and your minuteman. Quit the crap. The inmigrants only do those jobs you snob americans(not all of you) don't want to do. And anyway, you all "americans" are inmigrants anyway, the only real americans are the indians that you keep in resevoirs. Imagine how your economy would be without all the latins that clean your floors, and do your harvesting and work their butts off for a penny or two? All your vigilantes should find a real job and stop killing people just beacuse they are trying to make an honest living and trying to live the american dream. The same reason the ancestors of those vigilantes inmigrated to the US.
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I have never understood the gall of some immigrants.  Rather than be grateful to their host country, they make all sorts of demands, even though they are guests, not citizens.\n\nRecently, the government of the Netherlands has been requiring potential immigrants to view a video on life in their country.  It shows the whole gamut of life in cities like Amsterdam where you will see same-sex kissing, drug use, women in skimpy outfits, etc.  Muslim immigrants, many of whom are there illegally, having overstayed their visas, were making outrageous demands on the Netherlands government.  They were insisting that society conform to Muslim standards!\n\nThat would be like Mustafah barging into your house unannounced, making a bee line in his muddy shoes directly to the sofa, changing the tv channel you were watching, yelling rudely for the lady of the house to bring him something to drink, along with demands for some exotic vegan food, and topping it all off by demanding that the lady encase herself in a head to toe burka because the sight of her naked ankle is an abomination to Allah.
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
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This is only an issue because these people are too lazy and don't want to work for anything. Illigals are even getting gov assistance, and now we are makeing it so that they don't even have to learn english. that is a good question tho... why ARE we bickering over legalizing a bunch of free loaders who can't communicate with the general population? Yea, that will be good for the country *scoff* But we can't deport them! That might hurt their feelings... god, america is really irritating me lately!
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People will justify their answers but you are exactly right.  This is why on the 4th of July I have a hard time getting into "love of country"...genocide, slavery, suppression of human rights, exploitation of minors and women...these days were are killing people and destabilizing the middle east in order to force our form of govt on them...basically the winners write the history...it has always been this way...right now lots of children, grandchildren, great grand children of immigrants are slamming the newest wave of immigrants...this isn't new...immigrants have always been reviled...I remember reading historical documents about the anti-Irish, German, Italian, Japanese movements...there are real issues regarding immigration - health, housing, education...but these people would not be here if they weren't working...so they have a place...now the challenge is to see if we can solve these problems without the fear and hate spread by the hysterical chicken little alarmists.  Unfortunately, people often are ruled by emotions and fears than by rational thoughts when dealing with these issues...of course, emotions and fear sell papers, get ratings, and consolidate political power...and rational discourse is very boring to much of the US public.
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I am going to answer that 2nd question.  What is wrong with people.... they are jealous, hateful, and trifling....I for one commend you on your decision... my view on immigration.... the more the merrier.
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I don't think so. Whose gonna do the unwanted jobs then? Easy for some people to say yes but they wouldn't dare do the jobs these people do. Did you ever think that some of these people came here legally to be able to support their families but majority of them ended up being abused by their employers so they ended up illegals? I have heard a lot of stories and verified them. Some of the bad things that happened to them were done by by our fellow Americans and you talk of having electric fences? What's the matter with you? I bet your ancestors would love to hear your comments when they came here as immigrants too. If they'd have known what the future generation would be maybe they would have aborted you.
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True as rain my dear.  Nobody but you has said anything rational about the whole immigration thing without degrading the Hispanics.  There is no need to call names.  Somebody might have a valid solution to the problem for both ends, but blow the whole thing by using words like*******etc.  You made a very good point.  Good Question.
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frankly i think all immigrants should go back to where they came from, they do not respect our way of life then they get the hump when we dont respect theirs... WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE, they are in our damn country... You dont like it then GO HOME!