why do white people in america hate immigrants now days, when they were once immigrants too?
341871
What part of ILLEGAL do you not understand. Legal immigrants are welcomed every day. ILLEGAL aliens go home.
1163032
I agree that not all white people hate latinos. But it only takes a few haters from any other race of ethnicity to get under anyones skin. Not to get anyone mad but I what to quote something from someone else "Why can you just call them Americans?" said by Perfect American heres the answer to that we can't. Americans are compiled by differents races the only true americans aren't white because the native indians where here first. So basic we are all americans  whether you were born here or naturalized as a citizen. \n All ethnicities have their jealous and envious people. But everyone is important for the cycle of life. How many white people do you see in the fields? 1 the owner the rest are usaully latinos and if it weren't for them alot of the food we get in store would exist. Latinos are usual open to the jobs that other people think they are to good for. If we don't do it who else will? Too many thinkings will go undone.\nNo matter what we the LATINOS& HISPANOS are moving up and if we come together we will suceed. I was born and raise in the US and I am proud to be a Latina. Ser Latina es mi Orgullo!
348173
honestly, \n\nI think white people are hated the most.  Ever notice that it is the white people who are accused of being racist?  You never hear of a minority being accused of being racist.  Don't worry about it, come on over here, everybody else is doing it.  Nobody will hurt you.  It's an exagerated idea in America.  Minorities declare racism to explain their failures or to better their chances of getting what they want.  It's called the race card and they all play it here.
1015402
I get so put off when people use the past to justify the present...I wonder if we will EVER evolve beyond it...at least some of us have.  \nAnd if you're gonna quote history as your argument, you need to be fair and look at ALL the history of the United States before you start hating just one group.  \nI actually don't like the fact that I've recently moved from S. Texas partly because of the illegals trespassing across my property, but I also believe our govt. needs to get a grip and help solve the problem instead of adding to it...
237150
I wish I knew why myself. Our economy is in the crapper and the people that live here now cant even find jobs and now we have all these people from different countries wanting to come here and take what jobs we have. And half the time these people that come here do not like America or Americans and bad mouth us every chance they get but they have no problem taking our money. Then they either send the money back to people in their countries or once a year go back to their countries to spend their money there instead of here where they made it and help our economy. Thats why I try to stay away from foreign owned stores and such and try to buy only from Americans.And Im not talking race. As long as they are American I dont care what color they are.
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I wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayflower, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots\n\nst\n====================================================\nManicman:\nGive them time to, well assimilate!, as did most American forefathers! Let them understand that this (taxes, education and stuff like that) would be good for them, if you try to drive em out and hound them and try all the racism, then you are just going to increase the hatred, and have them doing stuff  like propogating the Mexican flag. \n\nDon't you understand that if you corner anybody, that being is going to cry out for help, and that's what they are doing, making the world aware of their plight by waving the Mex flag and burning the Stars and Stripes? What better way to come on prime time news than this?
1166332
It's called 'white guilt'. Ken Hamblin, the radio personality, had a lot to say on this one, and there's a bit of truth to it...we've had decades of school teachers and politicians/other public figures who've walked around basically saying that 'whites are bad, this that, the other', and that we're supposed to pay for all this stuff for 'minorities' etc. Basically, the whole thing's a Big Shakedown. \n\nThe most racist man I've ever met in my life was big n black, and then I met his mexican cousin. Some people are assholes, got a major chip on their shoulder, and it's not the 'white man's fault.\n\nThe best fix for all of this is full, 100% border enforcement. Most of the people that come to america are doing so to seek honest work. It's those that aren't that have given everybody else a bad name, and frankly it's time to update the way the whole thing's going. I hate to throw the 9/11 card, but it has its' place in this debate, too, if ya don't know where people are from, or what they're doing in your country, how do you know they're not out there, plottin' something? We've got our own home-grown kooks, nuts, and freaks, we don't need imports...if all people were honest, hard-working(as the pro-immigration people keep trying to hype it), and good to their neighbors, there'd be no issue. Since that's not the case, there needs to be some immigration enforcement done. Balkanized communities that wall themselves in and don't speak a lick of english are unacceptable to most americans, we don't want to see mini-states that are led and funded by people from other countries, no matter how much revenue's involved. There is no payoff worthy of sacrificing That Which Is America, and americans won't stand by and see the country parceled off. If that means one less commercial food processing company, so be it. If that means your neighbor being slapped with a $500 fine for being too lazy to mow her own damn grass, so be it. The illegal alien thing needs to STOP. Mexico can tend the welfare and future of their own citizens, if they can't, for some reason, with their fairly robust economy, then they need reforms so that they CAN take care of their people. The population of Mexico is 1/3 that of the United States. They can 'si, se puede' in Mexico City, see what it gets em...
493118
kill them?  Good thing the natives the pilgrims found didnt belive the same thing eh?  Kill them, really?  Whjy, b/c they want a better life for themselves and families?  When the only thing your and my family had to do back in the day was make it across the pond alive and they were let in?  Because they came over in ships and Mexicans swim or wade across a river they are somehow different?  Americans like you make me ashamed to be American.  What is it about them you don't like?  The fact they scrub toilets and make beds or the fact they wash dishes and paint houses?  Are you in the market for those jobs?  If so, then, lol, I MUST say to you, finish high school or get a GED and for Christ's sake get an associates degree and stop complaining about a part of the American society that at one time, all of our families were apart of you ignorant piece of trash.
382062
It is really sad to see how much intolerance there is in America.  I am embarrassed at some of the responses people give to questions like this.  In my life I have spent time around white, black, Asian, Indian and Mexican people.  I have met people on welfare, people who drive ugly cars, people who beat their kids, molesters, drug users etc.  I have also met hard workers, loving parents, clean cut, well mannered people from every background.  Reading some of these answers made me think.  I tried to think of the dirtiest, low lives that I knew of and I was surprised to find that they all happened to be white or born here.  The houses on my street that have immaculate yards and hardest workers living in them happen to be Hispanic families. Hatred is an ugly thing.  Prejudice is also ugly.  Ignorance is dangerous.  Jesus loves us all no matter what color we are...even when we judge and put down and hate, God forgives us.  Laws are funny things.  They change constantly.  Sometimes laws are fair and right.  Sometimes they are unjust and need to be adapted.  I believe there will always be hatred, intolerance and stupidity.  But I know that there are also people here that have love, understanding, fairness and God in their hearts.  Knowing that helps.
618581
Back to sqaure one, my oft repeated answer to such q's (apt, and anyway  it does get me two points) \n\nI wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots.\n\nSo this is gonna happen with the 'greasers' as you seem to allude to the people of Mexican descent in your polite, but hard hitting questions in the immigration section of Yahoo Answers!
354183
Because people are so racisits and sterotypical.  They forget that America was founded on immigrants, and that our country would not be what it is today without the immigrants who shed blood to build it.  People look at Spanish people as just a bunch of illegal criminals, and forget we have our own criminals.  As Americans who live in the greatest country in the world, we have decided (some of us not all) (Exclude me lol) think we are better than anyone, when in reality, lets face it, if not for immigrants coming in and doing the mundane jobs, we as Americans would be in a pinch.  Just let these hipocrites on here be stupid and full of it because when it comes down to it, they are fooling no one but themselves.
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Because people is too freaking stupid to see pass their noses. Our nation was established by IMMIGRANTS! Jez!? Give me a break! I have friends who are immigrant workers and let me tell you been an immigrant is not easy at all, yes they do pay taxes, yes they do work their butts off doing what "little white boys" doesn't like to do! Immigrants are the reason why the US is the way it is, if it wasn't for them the US economy would drop inmensenly! I wish that all the immigrants did went back to their home countries...and I want to see the US survive! As soon as ALL the immigrants are gone the US is going to go downhill. Because the US depends of those immigrants as much as the immigrants depend of the US. It's a vicious cycle and you know what people....It's giving us the way of living that we have!
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Not just NO but HELL NO!The expression "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!" comes to mind.\n\nPeople who support this stupid, ignorant, xeno-phobic, racist, and unfair laws that criminalize undocumented immigrants are a bunch of assholes! \n\nGet your heads out of your ass and read some history books for God's sake! Immigrants MADE this country great! If the same bullshit laws were past, let's say about 60 to 80 years ago then many Americans RIGHT NOW wouldn't be successful or law obeying tax paying people. It takes about five generations to become "an American"\n\nIf you study American history you will find similar stupid ass ideas that illegal immigrants are hurting the country. Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Western Europeans (yes, even Germans) were once believed to be the "great evil within" the country. The Chinese and Japanese were treated like crap, even people of certain religions (Irish Catholics) were treated like dogs by other immigrants who were a few generations removed from their mother lands culture and language (Assimilation)\n\nLet's not forget the Civil Rights Era of the 1960's. \n\nImmigrant legal or not pay taxes which helps America. So these laws only help the way to HATE, FEAR, and the Fairness that is our great country America!!!
541218
The protests have an un-wanted effect on Americans period.\nNot just white people.\nThere protests sent a messgae of how much they dislike this country. That does not help their cause one bit.
1111982
Misguided bigoted people they be, they've to be pitied and do deserve a lot worse that the ridicule that you've given em by calling the white massas scum, but hatred is what they don't deserve.\n\nPity their limited minds though!\nst
199423
YOU GO GIRL!!! Its bout time someone on here has an education when it comes to this issue. there are to many haters out there. \nI think that they hate immigrants bc they have had to work so hard for what they have, you can't say its about the jobs bc those jobs have always been there, just no one wants to do them!!!\nI don't see people haten on immigrants when there goin tru drive trus, when it comes to the cleanin lady, the gardener, the consturction worker, the nanny, or any other job that involves any Physical labor. Do you? I didn't think so!!!\nThere just here to work and have a decent livin, to give there children a better future!!! i would know, thanks to my parents who have put me thru college to become a teacher and have an opportunity to do somethin with my life other than hard physical labor. I give all my props to anyone else who has done this for their children or has help out there family. its hard and scary comin to a new country. all my props go out to those people who are doin somethin other than sittin at home watchin Jerry Springer durin the middle of the day livin off of welfare...\n         WHAT NOW!!!!\n\nSERIOUSLY I WAS READIN SOME OF YA'LLS ANSWERS, LET ME SAY YOU GUYS ARE ALL IGNORANT!!!!\n\nIMMIGRANTS DO PAY TAXES SO DON'T START THAT BS W/ME.\nTHEY DO HARD WORK LAZY A** AMERICANS REFUSE TO DO BC ITS "HARD"...BOO HOO!!! QUIT CRYIN BOUT IT OK!!!
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It's always been that way, throughout history.  The Dutch hated the British, the British hated the French and the Irish, the Irish hated the Italians, and now everybody hates Latinos.\n\nNot really, a lot of us like them just fine.  But this is nothing new.\n\nInteresting what pflippy99 says.  Many Latinos have more native American than Spanish blood in them... most Spanish people have light skin, dark hair, and blue eyes. But the conquistadors didn't bring their wives...\n\nBut even the "native" americans came here from somewhere else.  Human beings evolved in Africa.