Do you know the difference between settlers and illegal immigrants?
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I believe that a settler(s) is defined as a person or peoples who set up their own community from scratch, whereas an illegal immigrant(s) is defined as a person or peoples who enter an already established community without authorisation given by said community.
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The Illegal Immigrants.
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I am 100% AGAINST ILLEGAL immigrants in the USA.\n\nHowever, I do believe that your statement is incorrect. Many U.S. citizens are improving the economy of Mexico, by purchasing property there.\n\nThere are actually some retirement communities springing up there.  The only difference is, WE DO IT LEGALLY!\n\n\n\nUpdate;\n\nHickemtwiddle,\n\nI really appreciate your note of correction to me. I feel it is very important and relevant to both your question and my answer. That is why I am going to copy it here;\n\nHello MsKnowItAll (chyrelanne), \n\nYou have received a message from another user! \n\nFrom: Hickemtwiddle \n\nSubject: Americans buying land in Mexico \n\nMessage: From a Fox Radio reprt I heard this morning, Mexico's Presidetn Fox has changed the law there. Now one must be a natural born Mexican citizen to own land in mexico. No Americans are buying land thre, but, they are leasing and renting it.\nMaybe you should check your own facts \n\n\nAll I can say is thank you! You are correct, I was not aware of that recent change in Mexican law. If I had been I am certain I would have answered differently. That now prompts the question, What happen to the land owned by citizens of the USA since the recent change of law?\n\nI am always grateful when to be shown a truth when I am mistaken. That is the only way to grow and expand.\n\n\nNow, to answer your question properly.\n\nI guess the reason for the double standard is because Mexico has a smarter immigration policy than the USA.\n\nYou would think that, that alone would make the ILLEGAL aliens in this country understand at least a part of our frustration.\n\nPlease understand, if people come here LEGALLY, I have no problem with it. It is only the ILLEGAL immigrant that I would like to see leav or deported en mass!. No matter what country they originate from.
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Nope. I wouldn't know an illegal from South America either. I assume people are legal, unless I am told by them that they aren't. And they're not volunteering the information.
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wow.  very well said.  what happend between white settlers and native americans, while very sad and wrong, is in the long gone past and its flat stupid to be upset over that.  i am upset with illegals because they come here ILLEGALY and DEMAND that we give them free stuff and financial help and all the freedoms of a US citizen.  while they may seek a better life by coming to America (cuz we just that cool) if we wanted you here, we would let you here.  many latin american countries are underdeveloped and diseases can travel through borders easily when people sneak across them.  plain and simple.
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I actually don't blame either one. Both are victims, in a way. Our economic system seems to demand the illegals and the economic system of the illegals seems to demand that they sneak in here and take the jobs. We're all messed up. Sorry, I have to tell the truth according to how I see it.
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Legally or Illegally?
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Legal immigrants do recieve SSN and pay taxes. Illegal immigrants don't because they come here illegally.   Illegal immigrants don't get unemployment, disablities, and retirement benefits.
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interesting, isn't it?  A land once owned by Mexico and very ruthlessly stolen from them in war is now being called a land that they should stay out of.  You shouldn't see your friends as 'illegal' aliens.  Really, the original people who came to this country immigrated without permission.  They killed the people who were already here.  And yet, somehow, they determined that they had more of a right to be here than the people who already were... Stand up for your friends.
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Sorry folks - NO MORE!!\n\nThe law has been changed and while we'll help the lady with the birth and so on, if necessary, they are both illegals and will be deported.\n\nSee Ya!\n\nThank you for your time.
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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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There are probably facts for the other side, for immigrants, but I can't tell you about those because I am against them. As you know, there are always at least two sides to an issue. Good job for listening to both sides. A lot of people just hard-headedly choose one without hearing the other out. I picked my side on beliefs and try to be somewhat polite when in debates, but it can be hard :)
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alnjk: I agree that it is difficult to circumvente around the meaning of the word illegal, although some have tried to distort the meaning by referring to those having an illegal status by calling them "undocumented" instead. The terms "immigrant" and "ILLEGAL immigrant are NOT interchangable. For example if I tell you to screw in a light bulb you would put the light bulb in...If I asked you to UNscrew the light bulb, you would know that I ment to take it out. PREFIXES make a BIG difference in the meaning of a word.......yes the word 'prefix' is a transitive verb.
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You can read about both of them on Encarta. Don't just take my word, they are different, learn why they are different there.
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how about a traitor?  i was an immigrant but came here legally. i became a us citizen after 5 years of continuous stay in the us. i applied for citizenship and was granted. there are legal ways and process to migrate. illegal is illegal, plain and simple. it is a criminal act. it must be punishable by law. these illegal immigrants know this as a fact and yet they justify this act. i am so against illegal immigration and some call me a traitor.
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Putting this simply...\n\nA refugee is a person who has left their land due to some strife or catastrophe for another land (could be in their own country still) and are basically homeless (fleeing oppression is the most often reason).\n\nAn immigrant is any person who leaves their own land for another (they can be poor, rich, just wanting a change of scenery, whatever....).\n\nHope that clears it up.
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Immigrant is a person going Into a country, Emigrant is a person Exiting his or her previous country.  So for example, if I moved from the US to Japan, I would be a US emigrant, but a Japanese immigrant.