i know for a fact that there are lot more illigal immigrants other that spanish, one of my best friends its Israeli and its illigal, but he can get a job just like any american citizen, i know many more in other races and its the same, but spanish people that i know, they can get a job for more than minimum wage
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Yes...there are many. Its really just a matter of location. If the US were in Asia we would be flooded with Chinese. Seems the INS isn't able to find and deport other foreign nationals either.
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i agree with you. people think that they will be able to manage it but that was along time ago with less immigrants. today their are many more and i doubt that the white people will go out and pick tomatoes
176307
A good friend of mine had a prosperous lawn mowing business. "Had" being the key word here. He refused to hire anyone that was in this country illegally. The competition started using illegal slave labor "mexicans" and put him right out of business. He had no problem at all finding people willing to work but when other companies are paying way below minimum wage....what could he do???
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I'd say that the majority are mestizo.  The rest are probably mostly of spanish descent with a small amount of other nationalities that have migrated there through the years.
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Those citizens that are out of work are aware that there are jobs out there.  Employers hire whoever is qualified for the job.  If that person is a foreigner with an actual legal work Visa, more power to them!  Why don't you go worry about the illegal immigrants?\n\nI used to work in the welfare department.  Very few of those people were willing to take jobs and get off welfare.  I got disgusted with humanity working in that place, watching people sit on their butts and actually say no when offered jobs.  One person told me she was earning more in that welfare check than she would at a minimum wage job.\n\nSend your brother down here to New Orleans.  We'll put him to work.  Employers here can't get enough people to fill the job openings.
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Anyone here a member of a union.  The jobs they do, these are not jobs that no americans will do, busboy, valet, waiter, etc.  Maybe Americans want to be paid more but hey, when you have a minimum wage, that's to be expected.  \n\nPersonally, I know a lot of international people.  I hear a lot about their problems getting into this country.  To me, illegal immigration is like cutting ahead of all these great people.  Is that fair, hells no, life in mexico isn't great, but the people in mexico can't complain about anything.  They no nothing about hard life.  If we should allow illegal immigration on the basis of them being refugees, then there are millions in Africa who we should bring in first.  There are two ways of doing it, don't let anyone in illegally, or let everyone in.  And I think we would know what happens if we just opened the floodgates.    \n\nIf the people protesting really wanted to be here, wouldn't they have an american flag, not a mexican one.  I'm really sick of the racial preservation.  You want to be proud to be mexican, go be proud in mexico, because if you want to say you're proud to be mexico and you're illegal, you're saying that you're proud you grew up from such filth that you couldn't help but leave(but you still love being from there).
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First of all just so you know my background is German, Irish and English my wife is Dominican (Spanish speaking). I can only think of two things. 1) They are ignorant! 2) Mexico is one of the largest countries, so it is more noticeable. Plus, how can anyone say that Mexicans are taking all the jobs when other Americans won't even do that type of work? I appreciate them, 'cause if it weren't for them then the fields of fruit and veggies would not get picked. I'm from CA and now I live in NY. There are so many other immigrants here too. At one time Western United States used to be Mexico and the "White Man" took it away. People are just plain ignorant or stupid. Don't let it bother you, hasta
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Here is the delema. The reason that there is so much of a stink is. The illegals are getting offered wages for like, $3 and hour, which is targeted at them to give the employer cheaper workers, just an example. This is below minimum wage, and illegal. An illegal immigrant will take this, and can't complain because they are illegal. Now if the same job was offered at minimum wage. Granted alot of people aren't going to take the job, but there would be more people inclined to take it. No one in there right mind, if they are legal, is going to take a job at $3. So how they are saying that americans won't do those jobs, is inaccurate, because these jobs aren't being offered at legal wages. The American may have little education, but you know what, they are still citizens, and should have atleast a chance at the job, at minimum wage. When they are saying that the wages are low, they don't mean minimum wage low, like Mcdonalds. They mean unsustainably low and illegal. The reason they can live on these low wages is, if there are a bunch working, they all get a small place and use the money together to live there.
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Well I believe that jobs are out there to be found, you just have to put effort into it. As for immigrants, they dont come here to vacation, they come here to work their behinds off to get a better life
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America is a place where they can get a job and make a living. In Mexico unemployment is unbelievable and the economy has imploded.
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I'm Latin, I don't live in the states and hopefully will never have to, even though I have a self owned house there, anyway here in my country we have some ilegal north americans and I'm not ignorant enough to judge them by their inmigration status,but I guess that's because of the different educational and cultural background we have with some egomaniac countries.Some people are really pathetic.
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Where I live, it's the Mestizos and Blacks who are the "outcasts".  People here don't cater to their every whim. All the signs and newspapers are in English. If they can't read them, or they can't speak our language, they're pretty much out of luck. And you almost never see one on the streets after dark. (Yes, our little town is very peaceful and quiet. If you play loud, obnoxious ghetto noise late at night, your house might "mysteriously" burn down. With " YOU " still in it!)
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Mexican illegals are almost in mayority poor people without education. People like these are always being taken advantage of by U.S. business owners getting the low paying jobs no american would accept, and by the Mexican goverment allowing them to travel in most cases risking their lives to the U.S. so that they earn some dollars and send them to their families. And sooner or later, directly or inderectly, mexican polititians get the money. Now that few dollars multiplied by millions of mexican workers becomes Mexico politiians´third largest income. \nThe illigal immigration is wrong, but it has been this way everywhere ever since there are borders; all rich countries have a poor neighbor, and they allways permit a number of "illegal immigrants" to cover all the unwanted jobs but when the immigrants become too many, then it becomes a problem. There is a price to pay if one wants a cheep labour force and the U.S. is paying it. White americans have not learned from the past, when they bought africans to be their cheap labour force once, and now they have had to learn to live with african americans, and that was the price. This time they permitted the Mexicans for cheap labour and now they they will have to learn to live with a large number of latin american immigrants. Now, remember that americans were illigal immigrants in the northern part of Mexico but with the help of a corrupt Mexican president payed a small sum, managed to keep all that territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. How much has the U.S. really gained from those states that were once Mexico??? Did Mexico not lose??\nNow, that is the way it is, and borders are the way they are,  but at least some U.S. citizens should not be so cruel when they talk about "illegal immigrants". These are just poor desperate people trying to survive economicaly since they have no posibility in their "pueblitos". A "funny" thing is that the cruelest comments I´ve read seem to be from descendants of poor immigrants.
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Well, since unlike the immigrants who come here from countries such as Germany, Poland, Hungary, etc, Spanish people are not required to learn English (I guess we really are not created equal, since some groups of people can learn the language and others just are not smart enough)I guess it helps those of us born here, since we have to cater to them.
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hahaha this is hilarious so now us "hispanics" are terrorists funny funny funny well hun without us "terrorists" u wouldnt eat! ur country would be worthless ur countrie's economy would drop drastically! hahaha theres alot of ppl (americans) who say they support legal immigrants but go out there to the feilds go ask anyone working there if they're legal? ur gonna get a whole lot of NO's why? cause if ur legal here ur gonna wanna get better jobs so who is gonna be doing all the feild work, restaurant work??? u americans?? hahaha no i dont think so! whether u want to admit it or not this country is build by immigrants u americans would be doomed without immigrants! an interesting fact i heard in the news two days ago... by the year 2015 there will be more hispanics in this country than americans lmao!.... roses are red violets are blue without latinos what would white ppl do? lol im very poetic hahaha jk :D \n\n~laterz take care :D
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they're producing important class of labour for the US because we need it. don't believe this illegal shit,  the only reason we're now trying to fight it is because we just figured out that we're not the smartest countries with our immigration rules. We want cheap labour but the minimum wage law prevents us from this so now we want to immitate the arabian countries and bring cheap mexican labour under a 'work visa' which doesn't give the same rights as a residency or citizenship, but first, we must clean the dirt and start new..
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ppl around this area think black people are all rappers that wear their pants down and their boxers hanging out, and that they dont have a job. i happen to be friends with them and they are nothing like that. i also hear things about hispanics in our area. people think all hispanics are lowdown, dirty, poor people that live 20-30 people in a house. well, i hate this, because it is not true. they arent all illegal, and most of them work harder than american people!!