How would Americans get by without Mexican workers?? I?
351006
No american wud b cleaning up after themselves and mowing the grass themselves. ... there wud b no store that sells stuff for a dollar ...........\n\ninstead stores wud b called 9.99 store or everyting for $10.\n\nSecond hand cars wouldnt exist and labor to repair a car wud b soo expensive ....\n\nn housekeeping wud answer wussup dog ?? housekeeping Yo !! wow dat is not wack!! iss too much work
717916
Um, people that'll soon be out office if they don't restore america's confidence in their capacity to pass sufficiently effective legislation to keep the vast majority of mexicans from moving into america at will? Dunno, you'll have to google that one...
326500
No, the would just find another way. The way to stop them is to take away their jobs here. Arrest those that hire them, they are scum bags any way, and put them in jail make them pay huge fines and that will stop the flow. NO JOBS = NO illegal immigration.
210712
That is a crock!! I personally do not believe there is a job an AMERICAN won't do. I have watched  " Dirtiest Jobs" on TV and I see AMERICANS cleaning out cesspools, replacing pumps in cesspools, crawling through pipes underground where there are cockroaches and big, fat RATS, picking up dead animal carcasses on the highways. I never see a Mexican do those jobs. I have a family member who works in the sanitation station in our city, he's white. Our president is speaking out of turn when he says that. He has no idea what American do or will do to take care of their families.
870453
People like yourself,that feel they are superior should not need to come to the USA to gain work. Exceptional people like yourself should transform Mexico's economy to one that all there will want to stay, and we here might want to go to!
628600
I don't think anyone wants to see 'guest worker' ANYTHING until about 1/2 million mexicans go HOME. After that starts to happen,then we can start talking about work permits and all that jazz....but right now, Mexico's got a problem, they forgot they LOST the war of 1848 and that americans are just going to stand idly by while they walk back in en masse. The border patrol says Bush's plan is horse%%%%,so we'll have to wait and see what's really going on with this issue, and whether or not this administration's going to carry off the kind of reforms that will make Mexico sit up and take notice...Mexico doesn't just want 2 bites, they want the WHOLE enchilada. They use their people as tools for their policy goals...hold the baby CLOSER to the camera LOLOL
1145594
Try living in a FEMA trailer for 8 months because there aren't enough workers to rebuild your home.  Then when you find a group of Mexicans that do the job, beyond your expectations and at a reasonable cost, tell me if you care about their "legal status"!!!
354977
The border policy is bull. And honestly, it's in the news and all, but the people I talk to in Southern California.. we don't care! It's just the media hype making it out to be a bigger deal than it is (I hope). To get a little stereotypical, what would we possibly do without Mexicans?? Honestly, who would cook, clean, cut grass, wash the dishes, and do all the other jobs that nobody else wants?? And they are not stealing our jobs, because nobody wants them! And if a Mexican is smart enough to compete with us for jobs (not saying they aren't, many many are!) then that is great! Who are we to decide who gets what? Honestly, the crimes that some of them commit aren't enough to deport an entire group of people. And finally, for the kicker.. WE ALL ENTERED THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY! I hate that argument, but honestly, it is true.
933656
REMEMBER THE ALAMO...\n\nIf illegals can't freeload off Texas, then they'll go elsewhere.   Then the Texas economy will be able to provide more jobs to LEGAL ALIENS and other AMERICANS that are looking for work.  Personally, I would deploy armed NG Troops and citizen volunteers on our borders both North and South.  NO PERSON should be allowed to enter our country without a sponsor, a reason to be here and a good background check.
8437
Well, i think its okay.  Most Americans are unwilling to take the king of Jobs that illegal Mexian aliens will take.  With that in mind if we stopped allowing them to come over then who would do these jobs.  My point is that Americans take for granted that Mexicans are the backbone of the US labor.  Ultimately we should have more security and restriction for people coming over, but we should still allow them to work there way in, by giving them temporary passports.  A great movie that discusses this very topic is called "A Day Without A Mexican".  Acting isn't the greatest and the movie runs a little long, but they make a some great points.
670934
Very well said. If we Americans took the day off, then the illegals would not have anywhere to buy beer, gas, or any opportunities to gawk at us American women. I garuntee that might aid in causing them to go back to their homeland.
612598
Send em back home! If they want to be here so badly, they'll do it legally. And besides, we'd be better off without them. We have US citizens with no jobs, that are willing to clean, disinfect, and deliver. But yet, immigrants get the job because they work for less. Americans need to quit being cheap, and think about helping out their country by hiring our own people.
1142996
That would be very interesting to consider. We assume you are referring to beings from another planet, hence the word alien. The minimum wage in Mexico is roughly 56 cents per hour not 5 cents. Persons convicted of felonies can not vote. If illegals are permitted to become legal, then they have the right to vote just as you do. USA was founded on a English European model of society and now that the model is becoming more Latino this seems to bother you. Did you ever consider that Mexican culture is founded on models from Spain and Germany? So what are you afraid of really? The only thing constant is change.
409575
somebody said about no real jobs and the mexicans issue. This anyway doesnt apply on me I am not mexican, but why I cant find a decent Job. I have my education and i am sure not because of the mexicans but because of the OUTSOURCING. My Job aswell of many other vanished for some CHEAP LABOR overseas (india and china), The issue of the illegal immigrant has been  a problem since forever, but why now it was erupted? Because the Big companies are laying off people left and right, and outsourcing the jobs of others, maybe they knew some retaliation will happen so they erupt and paid money in millions to let media concentrate on mexicans.\n\nBeside that someone said the 300.000 on welfare.... Did you trach how many are not mexicans on welfare and they are capable of working but they dont want to do anything beside selling crack on the streets and hang out arround. You know how many are those? MANYYYY.\n\nWhat about the war thats is not OURS!!! war expense everyday was estimated of 100 millions. Gaz for vehicles, food for soldiers, etc... What we have to do with irakians problems? why we still there? thats beside everyday we lose one or 2 soldiers. These are humans !!! THATS where you lose Money!!!\n\nAnd for those who said now we have laws about immigration I am afraid that you missed totally the point of the person who asked this question. He mentioned the settlers as a prove that all white, yellow, black, brown except what called red indians are IMMIGRANT. You accept that fact or not, this country history return back to 300 to 400 years max. \n\nAnyway americans are offensive to newly immigrant? yes but because of some rules in some companies about zero tolerance against discrimination they dont say it out loud. btw If the americans didnt descriminate against others based on their origin...why there is a law prohibit the descrimination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
690825
I believe our main lost in this problem is the structure of our society. \n\nWe are family people who are used to be close to the family, healp each other, be supportive, and those are the strong supports of our country.\n\nThat is being lost, since the families are broken cause the people who go there to find a job are mainly the young man, leaving behind their old mothers, fathers, sisters, and sometimes wifes and kids.\n\nBut is it true, as well, that nowaday, our economy is strongly dependant on the money those immigrants send to their families back to Mexico.
581609
It would affect the US economy,  no doubt. In labour intensive areas like agriculture, it would result in the increase of prices while our tax money which goes to support the illegal immigrants will see a reduction. Everyone is worried about how the average Ameican who is so dependent on the labour will fend for himself. \n\nAlso, not all the people who are doing manual labour are Mexicans/ Latinos. And not all Latinos illegals either.  \n\nLastly, it will also get all the couch potatoes up and a obese nation on it's toes again - maybe we needed this to jolt us out of our sedentary lifestyle into a more active one?
1130133
I don't know if you will consider this an intelligent answer or bashing, but this is my opinion: Not only would prices go up, but availability would go down.  I tried doing agricultural work in the 70's when I was a young and inquisitive hippie type.  I cannot imagine that any of us spoiled Americans who could possibly get any other type of work would want to do that for more than a few days.  It is NOT FUN.\n  I think that the produce would rot in the fields if there were no Mexicans available to pick it.  Most of us would be unable and unwilling to go out there and do anything that is that uncomfortable and dirty and exposes you to the sun, and agricultural chemicals, snakes, etc.\n  It is my opinion that the hype over closing the Mexican border has more to do with making middle Americans feel insecure than it does with Mexicans really.  I also believe that the typical Mexican working in the US would much prefer to be legal, would chose to be if it were easily possible.\n  I frequently travel from the middle of Mexico to the middle of the US by bus, the border has buses from Mexico lined up 24/7 all full of Mexicans, all going to every part of the US.  You never hear about those people on the news, do you?\n  I have found travel in the US to be less easy, more expensive, and more hassle these last few years.  What we need to be asking is why are our freedoms being curtailed?  All of this hype over Mexicans is just being put out to distract Americans from the facts of lessening freedom for us.  \n  Of course our country could not run without the Mexican work force.  Take a look around your own town wherever it is, I bet you will find a whole section that is Mexican.  Mexican groceries, clothes, Drs, all anyone would need, including buses that are totally run in Spanish and cross the border daily.\n  You needn't worry that the borders are going to be closed to Mexicans, what you need to worry about is are they going to be closed to YOU unless you are rich...  The folks who are putting out this brainwashing have no real interest in the rights/abuses of Mexicans, they are after your rights.\n  I hate to put this out there, because it is probably just going to get me in trouble, but I think a lot of the stuff that is on the news is nothing but brainwashing.\n  Some of the people here in Mexico believe that there may be as much as 30% of the Mexican workforce in the US at this time, and I know for sure that the American retirees are here spending money like crazy, I spend most of mine here in Mexico.\n  There are larger issues of economics and social control here, you can count on it.  We are not being told the truth, we are being manipulated by someone, I have no idea who, but I bet they are super-rich...  And they have no intention of cutting off their own supply of cheap labor.  They just want you to be too afraid to do anything but earn and spend money which is all they care about you for.  Whew! glad I got that off my chest, hope you find my opinion interesting.