What do you think about the protest of immigrants?
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I think that it's wrong because they entered our country illegally and they are using our tax dollars to fund their health care and various other charities. They enter our country illegally which is a crime and then they expect Americans to open our arms and welcome them. I have heard that this movement is similar to the ones that they had in the 1960's, wrong! In the 1960's the Black AMERICANS were protesting for equal rights that they deserved. The black AMERICANS were being discriminated against in their own country--they were born here and they deserved to be treated as fairly as any other AMERICAN. I am not a predijiuce person, I believe that everyone who wants to APPLY to become an American citizen has that right, however, I do not believe that it is fair to the people who are applying and waiting patiently to come to this great country of ours to see that all they have to do is enter illegally and they are home free. We are very blessed to be natural born citizens and while we do have our problems it is still the best country in the world! Could you imagine if this protesting of illegals was occuring in other countries, it would not happen because it would not be tolerated and the people involved would be severly punished. And as for the people who are sponsoring these protest--have they lost their minds!! AGAIN, these people entered our country ILLEGALY, I just don't get it, and for the people sponsoring these protests they are self proclaiming themselves as being like Dr. Martin Luther King. What a joke! What frightens me is that just by sheer numbers they might actually make it happen. This government needs to wake up and do something about this prevelant problem before it gets out of hand and our borders will be nothing but 'free for alls'. As for the saying that this country was born on the backs of immigrants, I agree, however, you need to come here LEGALLY as many millions in the past has done.
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Wildfl0wer seems to be on this kick that since the US is the land of the free with justice for all that illegals can march into the country and do whatever the hell they feel like. Sadly, this common viewpoint, is however wrong. And very much so. \n\nNo, we are not all immigrants, no we did not all immigrate to the US at one point in time. Most africans were brought here as slaves, while quite a few irish and other caucasian nationalities were brought over as cheap labor or indentured servants. Others are descendents from the multitude of families that were the original founding families of this nation. In all cases that doesn't make them immigrants. This is just an ignorant pro-immigration arguement that is as tired as the day is long...\n\nYes, we would pick fruit and clean houses. Guess what, prior to the surge of illegal immigration and cheap under-the-table labor that the criminals(and you are criminals, you broke the law by coming here) brought to the states American citizens preformed those jobs on a daily basis. Don't believe you're special just because your people now seem to have the perverbial market cornered on that type of labor industry. We did it before, and I guarentee you that there are legal US citizens right now who would be damned happy to have that job.\n\nAnd onto the topic at hand, do these criminals have a right to protest? No, they do not. They have no rights as far as I'm concerned. They've done nothing to earn any rights or privledges other then the cost of a tank of gas to export them back to where they came from. \n\nIf we were to protest in half the countries that illegals come from we would be jailed or worse. \n\nAnd don't fool yourselves, when you're crying out against any sort of law that is pre-established by the governing system you are in fact protesting against that very government because they were the ones to make it. Don't try to cop an excuse that you're not protesting the government, just the law because they are the same thing. Any other belief is a fallacy of logic.\n\nUntil you have a green card that says you're a citizen, you have no rights or freedoms granted by the contstitution. And depending on your line of work, even then they don't apply to you. What gives me the right to even say this? Freedom of speech, because I *AM* a US citizen. And my job gives me the right because every day I go out to defend it against the people of this world who would like nothing more then to see America in ashes. \n\nI, personally, am tired of tax payer dollars wasted on those who don't pay taxes. The money spent to educate these criminals has much better potential of use by making changes and reforms in our existing education system and raising that to a level that's comprable to the rest of the world. Quit wasting money on illegals, put it to good use teaching our legal children.
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If there is a backlash, it probably will be against the demonstrators. Even before students began blocking the Los Angeles streets to protest legislation in Congress to toughen penalties for illegal immigrants and smugglers,\nMark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies told me over the telephone, \n"I hope they keep doing it(PROTESTING). It just makes it less and less likely the Senate's going to pass any amnesty.\n\nhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...\n\nThis Nation Has 300 MILLION Citizens That Shop And Buy Gas And Use The Banks\n\nThe "BOYCOTT" Of About 7-10 Million People Will Have A MINIMAL Impact On Our Economy If It Has ANY WHATSOEVER\n\nThe Latino Community Can BOYCOTT ALL They Like\nIt Will PROVE To The People That The Economy Will NOT Fail Without Their"CONTRIBUTIONS"\n\nPUSH HR4437-NO AMNESTY\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY
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i agree with you. the illegals are not citizens and should not be able to protest for anything. they should earn their rights by being legal so that they can pay taxes like everyone else.
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i dont think they should protest. i remember when they started protesting a few weeks back they were waving the MEXICAN flag if you can believe it!! LOL
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Personally I am all for immigrants being here.  They are very hard workers!  At least they are here trying to make a living for their families, unlike alot of dead beat citizens living off the government.  They are here trying to provide for their families working jobs that most americans think that they are too good to do.  This past weekend I visted Kansas City, and on almost street corner their was a american citizen holding a sign up begging for food or money.  Why is this?  Why are they begging for money when they are sooo many jobs out there?  They are born here in the United States with everything.  They have legal papers to work, so why are they looking for hand outs?  Hispanics come here with out papers and find work almost anywhere.  They are not afraid to work.  You don't ever see them standing on the street corners begging, no you see them in the fields, chicken plants, orchards and almost every contrustion site WORKING!  Working for their families so that they can have a life.  You don't see them at the wellfare offices sigining up on food stamps and wic do you?  Living off my hard earned taxes that the government takes from my check.  But you will see alot of lazy american citizens setting there waiting for a hand out.  I am a american citizen and came from a very poor family, but my mother worked hard to feed us kids and made sure we had everything that we needed. She never looked for hand outs, she got out there and worked.  The government has made it too easy for us to live for free.  They give people food stamps, pay for there housing (HUD), and help with their utilites.  All free of charge, taken from the tax payers checks.  I understand there is some people out there that does need help, like senior citizens and disabled people, but young teenagers and grown able to work adults, no.  Most of them have more kids just to get more money from the government.  Take a good look at our very own citizens before you judge other people.  God made the world for all...don't you remember the song in school....this land is your land?  God created all things!  I think these people trying to provide for their families will make in heaven before the lazy muchers do.  Get to know an immigrant and you will find out what a family really is.  Their family values are so unlike americans.  Very kind and caring people.  I am happily married to a Mexican lady, and her and her family is one of the most rewarding part of my life.  So what do I think about illegal immigrants? Hats off for people trying to make a better life for their families!
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I know I have spoken out against illegal aliens in response to other questions, and I'm ashamed to admit I never thought about how it would affect the Hispanic folks who have every legal right to be here, same as my ancestors.  I apologize for that.\n\nPersonally, I think we're in a situation similar to that of pre-Nazi Germany.  We have our own Brown Shirts (Homeland Security) and people spying on each other (truck drivers, delivery people and taxi drivers have been asked to keep their eyes open for suspicious activity) and I think we're in for a very bad time in this country.  I think we will all be required to carry papers before too long.  There will no longer be freedom of movement, etc.  God help us all!
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"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation."\n\nThat is funny.  Of course, how did I miss it.  Waving a foreign flag, speaking a foreign language, demanding free services, bastardizing the National Anthem.  Sound like their trying to embrace this nation - in a war!\n\nI believe that this is going to backfire on them.  In California we need to stop electing these people who hate living in this country.  That's the only reason I can explain why they would boycott it.
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It is too bad that there are so many of you ignorant people out there answering these questions about the boycott today.  There are immigrants that do things the right way and others that don't, just like anybody else.  You can blame mexicans, italians, germans, etc. for whatever you want but there are many of white people that are doing wrong things just like anyone else is.  Something I heard a lady say this morning on the radio was that the immigrants are taking all the jobs with the benefits.  Instead of complaining why isn't her voice heard in positive ways instead of just talking sh!t...\n\n*To those of you who have previously answered this question, why do you complain about immigrants not knowing english when you yourselves don't even know how to spell correctly?  If you are going to talk sh!t then I suggest you atleast take a minute to spell check and read back your answer to yourself!
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I think it just solidified the antagonism felt on both sides. Personally, I am against illegal immigrants from any country.  The key word is ILLEGAL. By doing what they did, I think they just made legal citizens angrier with them and much less likely to feel any sympathy.  Why do they think they have the right to demand a privilege be given to them that so many others worked so hard to obtain? It lessens the value of what the legal immigrants obtained, and sends the message that we'll just throw our hands up and say, "Oh, okay, if you insist, come on in illegally.  We'll yell a little bit then let you stay."  Can you imagine the flood of illegals we'll get if these people are given amnesty?
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Even though I am a citizen my parents weren't I will stand up for what i believe in. If it wasn't for my parents i wouldn't be living in a free country, I am proud to live in AMERICA but I'm also proud of what they did for me. Unless you've been to Mexico people don't know what those people go through day in and day out just to feed a family its awful..SO I WILL PROTEST FOR MY FATHER MAY HE REST IN PEACE.......LOVE YOU DAD YOUR, BABYGIRL....
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There is controversy. I know someone who had to teach the foreigner who was taking her job what to do. It's rough up here in the Mitten, but how can one protest against something going on overseas when it's easier to protest what's going on at home?\n\nAfter all, we need jobs here NOW. Illegal immigrants are taking away those chances. We also need the jobs overseas, but we can't be immediately affected by them (in terms of, if the owners said they'll come back, they won't be back for months or maybe years.)
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I was just about to post the same thing but you beat me too it! I guess great minds think alike!! I live in NY state and i saw no change. I even saw Mexicans here buying things, working, acting like nothing was new. No signs, No protesters, nothing. Business as usual here. Now i live in  trailer park, next to a gas station. And a lot of the population here is Hispanic and Mexican. I sat in my house and watch them go to the store, buy things, just act like nothing was wrong. If i didn't frequent Yahoo Answers then i would have never know about the marches yesterday. So I think that the "March" was poorly organized. It didn't reach every single aspect of our American lives or our city's. Like it was intended. And I thought that was the point? I know they marched in D.C., and New York City, and all the BIGGER city's in our country, but its the small city's that make up alot about this country. And we saw no effect. So i really wouldn't worry.. I don't think they accomplished much yesterday. Nothing at all.
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I agree.  There hasn't been any protests that I've been able to get to so far, but there needs to be some protests all across the country.\n\nAll of these pro-illegal immigrants should be forced to compensate all of these innocent people who have had their identities and social security numbers stolen by these illegals who invade this country not caring if they hurt Americans or not. And compensate them times ten the financial losses for all of the time and hardship they've had to suffer for these lowlifes.
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I don't think that there are protest planned in New Mexico. \n\nAll immigrants should supports the May 1 boycott. Those people who say bad things about the people are just AFRAID that the U.S. government will find out what will REALLY happen without immigrants.
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I feel its been ignored for far too long. I also beleive that During these protests and gatherings of the Illegal Immigrants we should have dispatched the national guard to check green cards and ID's and loaded the illegals into a Trailor and shipped them back to mexico. Studies say prices will go up 2% if we got rid of them. 2% Thats nothing Id pay 5 cents more for a loaf of bread to have more jobs available. If they can put so much effort in coming to America they should focus on their own country.
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I agree 100% I am not an immigrant. Illegals and their supporters are trying to divert attention to the fact that THEY shouldn't be complaining. i don't mind hearing an opposing view point from an American . but I do not want to hear negativity from a person that shouldn't be here in the first place.