immigrant sacrifices united states?
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All immigrants to the USA have made sacrifices.\nHard work, in poor conditions, for low wages,\nbut in past times, THEY WERE **** LEGAL*** IMMIGRANTS.\nMIKE
498196
Yea, why what happened.  Did we do something bad?  Let me ask my native American friends.  Oh,  they're all dead.  Oh let me see there are some on reservations running casinos.  I don't make it to reservations or casinos to ask the real Americans if they're proud.  I asked the new Americans and most are proud to be still killing and forcing the hypocrisy of political causes and corporate greed on the world while turning a back to the Johnny come lately Americans here that have had their jobs outsourced or given to cheap illegal labor.    What's an American anyway?  Are they like Unicorns?  I am proud to be a conquerer, with lots of material things, fed all my ideas by religious fanatics, to be told how the rest of the world is by a media that is self serving, to let rich folks sit safely in the suburbs while my urban area that was once safe and enjoyable turn into a breeding ground for drug dealers, thieves, robbers, broken families, with everything handed out to everyone but me.  Yea I'm proud to be a part of that and will die for it if asked.  It isn't pretty to look at our mistakes of the past and present. Do I give up being an American because I have to feel guilty or dissatisfied with things not going my way?  I have no choice about being proud and American.  I will lie, steal, cheat, kill, to keep my proud American heritage.  I am proud to be American.  Why are you not?  You sound like someone who isn't maybe.  Don't be spineless and cowardly.  Yell it out.  I am proud to be American.  Give me baseball, apple pie, cheeseburgers, money, cheap chinese goods, football, basketball, cable t.v., cell phones, at whatever cost to anyone so long as I can enjoy it and even if I have to kill someone to preserve these things.  USA baby.  Have a hot dog on me.
886605
I would highly recommend that you go visit india for an extended time and make sure that is what you want to do before you set things in motion on a more permanent basis.\n\nI just want to clarify that an American does NOT automatically lose their american citizen if they become a citizen of another country.  The only way this happens is if you go to embassy and sign away your rights by consciously choosing to renounce your american citizenship.\n\nDual citizenship is allowed, but not encouraged.\nThe exception to this is when a person from ANOTHER country becomes a citizen of the U.S.  As part of the oath, there is a phrase renouncing previous citizenship.  However, this is no longer enforced, for a variety of reasons, even though it is still on the books.\n\nI lost all my links, but I will post the link to this information as soon as I locate it.\n\nP.S. ... while it is legal to have dual citizenship, it can create some problems and hassles, too, post 9/11 ... just be prepared.
375967
US is one of the few countries that allows dual citizenship which is a crock of s@#!
694467
This nations job and obligation is to its legal citizens first,then if there is anything left ,to help other less fortunate country's,do so..We do not have any right at all to take anything from this nations legal Americans and give it to illegal aliens..Its ludicrous to even think that way.Its an insult to all Americans.Take care of Americans first.Always
642428
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!
727711
Well  as an American i would like to have a happy holiday, but its hard if the god like powers of the INS keeps you and your wife in limbo in different country's for years, god save us from the hands of our twisted government and its heartless laws. and to the rest of you that don't get what he is saying,  the people (who get to immigrate) to the usa are proud they can live and work here and be with their familys, and while you have big turkey dinners, they are just happy to get to eat dinner together, i respect  what he says.
302094
Thank you. As ridiculuous as that sounds, thank you for taking the time to obey our immigration laws. I agree with you that those that do not follow the laws are crimminals. I do not see you as an uncle tom or back stabber or whatever the others on here have called you. If you and thousands of others have taken the time to follow the correct procedures to obtain citizenship in this country, no matter how hard it was, you deserve to hold your head high. Those that don't, and continue to break our immigration laws should be rounded up and sent back to wherever they came from. I no longer want to support them through my taxes just so they can send the money they make back to their native country.
448479
Why ? If you are an American then you are an immigrant. If you are not FOR immigration then you better hand it over to original Indians. Just because you got comfy comfy so you want to deny it to others?
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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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why is your avatar brown? do u know the same proponents for these immigrant acts could turn on you by revoking your citizenship if you're 1st generation American. They are proposing that if your parents are illegal and you are born here, that you be illegal as well. It doesn't matter that you grew up here or speak perfect English and this is the only culture you know. I am not for less or more border protection, I am against non-sensical immigration laws that call it a felony if I help an immigrant by giving them food, water or a place to rest their head. What about the church helping these people? What about doctors for that matter? Racist legislators want to call it aiding and abetting a felon. Yes, make no mistake about it, it's pure unadulterated racism.
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I'm neither, but i think it makes everyone a criminal not just Immigrants, if an American Citizen helps out an Immigrant we're considered criminals as well which sucks cause if I see a guy in the dessert dieing of thirst or hunger I will help him out, and I'll probably be treated as a criminal for doing it too. I think the US has become a country with a strict policy on everyman for himself, and srew the rest.
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I feel badly that they spent money, risked their lives and came all the way to the home of the free and the brave looking for the American dream, only to be arrested for doing so. It sucks for them. It really does. However, I also fully and wholeheartedly support the efforts of the INS and any other law enforcement agency who "sweeps away" illegal immigrants. There is immigration, and ILLEGAL immigration. There is a difference. There is a reason. I support immigration. My grandparents immigrated here not only from other countries, but other continents.Legally. My wife is an immigrant. She came here legally. My best friend married a lady he met and fell in love with while on deployment. Then had to extend his tour of duty in a war zone for 2 years waiting for permission to bring her here. Legally. Channels. Law. Rules. Regulations. I broke the law once. I went to prison for 4 years. I ask no one to feel sorry for me. And I find it hard to feel sorry for those who have to pay whatever the price may be for their own crimes. In this case, the crime is the same as tresspassing. If I enter your home without permission, I'm breaking the law. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER. The only thing that saddens me, is that they were here illegally in the first place. They could have followed the rules, and lived without fear of retribution, arrest, and deportation.
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No, it's typically an act of desperation that leads to the person living "in between" cultures (completely losing your identity because you are essentially no longer a citizen of anywhere). This state of existence can lead to some bizarre behavior (i.e.--simultaneously demanding to be enfranchised in your new location while celebrating your old citizenship). But that's a result of the fear that you no longer belong anywhere. \n\nYou may or may not like our government's policy on illegal immigration, but try to have a little compassion for the people who only wanted to live the life that you and I take for granted. Don't mistake me, I'm not defending the illegal actions of those who have violated our laws, but I think you have to separate people from policy. Until our government develops a real and enforceable border policy, maybe they're the ones we should hold accountable.
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I'm confused as to why people think subjecting immigrant to the same social responsibilities as US citizens is punishing them in some way?\n\nAmerica has always been about people coming here. That is part of waht makes this country great. The current initiatives (while by no means perfect) are under way to establish the ground rules for what immigrants need to do to be a part of our society
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Report this to the Customs & Border Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security (what used to be the INS).  There are agents in just about every federal building in the country.  This is especially true if these people are making a profit on trafficking and/or placing the immigrants in dangerous conditions.  \nhttp://www.cbp.gov/
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what are you talking about?  This does not occur in the US.  Being a citizen is a priviledge no ones pays you for it.