why are mexicans being offended by this new bill passed?
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Because the new bill will make it a felony to be in the country illegally.  It will also be a felony to hire someone who is illegally in the United States.
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No one is saying that Mexicans can't speak Spanish in the streets or that they can't be proud of their heritage.  The problem is that this protest is not ABOUT Mexican heritage.  It's ABOUT Mexicans who are in this country ILLEGALLY who want to continue to be here ILLEGALLY. Also, WHAT THE HECK DOES IT MATTER THAT THE SOUTHERN U.S. USED TO BELONG TO MEXICO....IT DOESNT ANYMORE. So, how is that relevant to this debate.  It now belongs to the U.S. and there are laws that should be followed.\n\nThe protests are not a matter of free speech, because our rights are reserved for the "legal" citizens of this country. I think it is not very smart to be doing something illegal, then making it known that you are doing it. \n\nPeople who are here illegally are breaking the law. There are steps that can be taken to be here legally and they should take them. It may be a difficult process, but as we all know Freedom isn't free, and if you want it bad enough, you should be willing to do what it takes to get it through legal means.\n\nWhat would happen if child molesters decided to protest the laws against child molesting. We would all say, that's crazy! How can they be "in the wrong" and demand the laws be changed so that they can do what they want. I don't think it is right. The best way to resolve the problem is to make it prohibitive for illegal people to be here, and beneficial for legal immigrants to be here. Our laws are there for a reason, America is not a free for all...and if you want to be a part of its citizenry, then you must follow the laws like the rest of the citizens. \n\nIt is wrong for people to use emotionalism to incite riot by saying that "human rights" are being violated. How is it a violation of human rights to tell people who entered this country illegally, got jobs, and basically are squatters and cheaters that at long last, YOU MUST DO THE RIGHT THING! \n\nI think they do not understand what the definition of "Human Rights" is. They are not being treated inhumanely, they are actually fortunate. Because they are being treated as any other American Citizen who breaks the law. ACTUALLY they are being treated BETTER than any other American Citizen who breaks the law. How many U.S. citizens do you know, can break the law, admit to it, protest about it....and not be punished unless or until congress decides to re-write the law in an effort to be as fair to THEM as possible. Come on! Just because they took low paying jobs and work hard at them, does not mean that they are free to break the law. And if we allow them to do it, then the country they are so eager to live in will cease to be the country it is supposed to be. \n\nIf what illegal immigrants want to do is to work, raise families, and live in a free society. Then, follow the LEGAL process to do so, learn the language, and the culture, pay your taxes, and become an American the right way!\n\nDon't break the law and then scream victim! You are not victims. The tax payers who support social programs are victims; the people who migrate to this country and become legal citizens are victims. Illegal immigrants are people who made a "CHOICE" to do the WRONG thing, and think they should be excused or rewarded for that choice. I say WAKE UP; take responsibility for your actions, and GET LEGAL or leave.
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Heres ALL The Racism You Want\n\nA close, personal friendship with President George W. Bush has given Mexicos President Vicente Fox the opportunity to purposely allow (or even send) Millions of Criminals, Thugs, Anarchists, and Potential Terrorists to swarm over our southern border in breathtaking numbers. (Nearly half of all illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. came here since Bush became president in 2000.)  \n\n\n\nMexico's President Fox has been unrelenting in his brazen demands on the United States, starting with open borders even before he was elected. He has called for the border to be “a joining line.” His visits to the U.S. have been filled with endless requirements for Mexican citizens illegally in this country — free healthcare, taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition for illegals at state colleges and universities, guestworker programs and amnesty for all. \n\n                                                             **************************\n\nMexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.  People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” (Incidentally,  Senor  Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown.) \n\nMario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state.  Anyone who doesn't like it should leave." \n\n\nObledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA"\n\n                                                 ********************\n\nThe newly "ELECTED"mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, joined the lawbreakers and proclaimed "this bill in Congress is wrong". Señor Villaraigosa said "The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." Yeah, he Actually said that. People should make no mistake about it: Villaraigosa was "ELECTED" by ILLEGALs VOTING, and HIS Allegiance, along with the rest of these "ELECTED" public officials in California of Mexican ancestry is to Mexico, not California or these United States of America. Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws.\n\nVillaraigosa is A Member Of  "MEChA"  and  " LA RAZA"\n\n                                               *********************\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\n \n\n The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. \n\n\n\n               http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13863\n\n                      \n\n"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La R
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I agree with you. I must say that I'm Mexican and I find it ridiculous that the Mexican Government and other people around here complasion because they are complaining about the US building a wall to prevent (or at least try to) more illegal immigrants get to the US.\n\nI think they should be more concerned about creating more jobs and giving Mexican citizens a better standard of life.
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Well I live near L.A. and driving home from work yesterday I saw no less than 10 people on the sides of roads and at bus stops waving Mexican flags and urging cars to beep.  It is nice to see them so vehemently praising their country.  So then why do they fight to stay here?\n\nThey are protesting because we are passing (or trying to pass) a national law that makes it a felony to be here illegally.   There are many nuances about this bill that make people upset, mainly that churches will have to check papers before offering charity aid to people.  This won't fly (due to separation of church and state), but other than that piece, this bill is a good idea.  \n\nThey come here and take jobs and don't pay (enough) taxes, and drain on society, but get mad when we "insult their mexican heritage".  Then go back to Mexico.  There is no law that says we have to open our gates.  Look at other countries where getting a visa is next to impossible.  We should be more like that.  This is simply my opinion.
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I just saw it and am disgusted.  How dare they try to justify their causes with such antics.  They are illegals and should not even have the right to protest to Americans in their own lawful land.  Congress should be ashamed to have let this happen.  Why should I as a taxpayer be subjected to such disrespect?  I do however feel its a hopeless case at this point.  Something should have been done long ago.  The problem has gotten way out of hand and I do not see a resolution happening anytime soon.  I live in Los Angeles and everything is in spanish, my TIVO even has started recording some daytime soap on the 'Univision' spanish network.
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The hate for "illegals" is just the newest accepted form of racism. People justify it by saying they hate them because they are breaking the law by being here, when really all it is is that they feel uncomfortable being around people that seem different. Do you think people would be so upset if Mexicans spoke English and had fair skin? Why aren't people worried about securing the boarder of Canada?
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Some Mexicans love it enough to break the f***ing law!!  GODDAMMIT!! I am SOO F***ING tired of hearing about this "rights for illegal immigrants" bullS**t!  they broke federal law coming here, then have the gall to say they want citizenship?? F**K THAT!  I dont care!!  I pay my f***ing taxes, and dammit, build a big f***ing wall if you have to.  There are too damn many illegals in this country now, and I live with more than half of them in SoCal.  For God's sakes, with the immigration protests, illegals brought down the American flag at a SoCal High School and raised the Mexican flag, with the US flag underneath, and upside down.  If you proud Americans aren't pissed about that, there's a problem.  That is BULLS**T!  and i think our f***ing president, despite being a MORON, should understand that, and PREVENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, not grant known felons CLEMENCY!
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The millions of people who would take off a days work to protest the Mexicans would be as wrong as the Mexican Americans who did take a day off yesterday to protest the immigrations law that is being set up.  This new immigration law does not have only to do with People from Mexico.  It will stop all illegal immigrants from all Countries getting into this country.  This will try to help protect us from getting our Country Blew to pieces!!!
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To be fair its mostly illegal aliens protesting.  \nWhy should they even have a say in what the new immigration law is?  They should come over here legally.  \nIt isn't fair to the people who go through the proper channels for these people to come here and ruin it for them.\nThey're even making it harder for those of us who were born here to get ID's  and licenses and such, it makes me really mad.
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poor girl!! People say that this is a illegal immigration issue not a racist issue, but people make it a racist issue when they make comments like "All Mexicans are stealing lazy a$$es" how can you debate with those kind of comments and say it's just a illegal immigration issue?I call BULL SH*T. and agree with you!!
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obeirn1:  Fianlly someone with a brain on here.  I agree with you 100%.  Here is the trouble with this immigration debate, to much prejudices, and racisits trying to run the country.  Also some of these "haters" as I have so affectionatly called them, tend to go with what the neighbor says without investingating things themselves.  Like most things, when people jump to conclusions, this whole thing will turn out to blow up in the "haters" face.  People dont realize that it is not just "Mexicans" here illegally, and if you look at the problem more, you will se that it is actually our own Governement (INS policies) that prohibit the majority of these hispanics from gaining papers.  Look at it from their side, if your kids were starving would you not do what you had to do to feed them?  Now if you cant afford food, how on earth are you to afford thousands of dollars for papers, when the wages in countries like Mexico are 5 bucks a week....people just think they know all when they refuse to see the tarnish on the coin.  ~~To answer the question, I am ashamed that as a whole, americans think they are somehow better than the rest of the world!~~
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Everybody gets offended these days. Its pathetic. \n\nPeople's lives are too easy, life in general is too easy, so they need something to complain about. It truly is pathetic. \n\nNotice one thing thats missing from the Bill of Rights? There is nothing in there about 'having the right to not be offended'.
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I totally agree with you.  I don't give a damn about being politically correct.  I will say it.  One of our biggest problems happens to be all of these illegals (mostly from Mexico) on social services, getting government handouts for them and their legion of anchor babies.  I am sick and tired of it.  This country is going downhill.  \n\nYes, I wish to preserve what is left of my country.
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NOT I. Too many others in line trying to do it the right way. It is very insulting to those individuals from all countries including Mexico. And as proof that I am not a raccist, my wife is Mexican and El Salvadorian.There are other legal issues and problems that arise all from this one subject,but not enough time or letters to type it all. I love all people from everywhere, God bless you all in a way that is detrimantal to your survival, but don't cut in front of someone that wants to do it the right way and become a United States Citizen. I know there is more to it than that and I understand. But that is the biggest reason next to an even bigger one I will not talk about online.
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That bill also included the doubling of the H2-B foreign worker program. This program does the same as the illegal immigrants do,only at the TOP of the job level. It gives leadership,technical, blue-collar, office jobs, to foreign workers. Then they conveniently forget their Visa expired and just stay. There was a lot of "pork" in that bill that we were not aware of. American citizens should write, call and e-mail their congressmen and senators to let them know how we oppose amnesty in any form for the ILLEGALS in our country. They should be deported for the felony they have committed. Our border should be CLOSED! When congress resumes in two weeks they will see how much we want this issue taken care of in the right way "for American citizens". I for one will contact my congressman and I urge every American who is fed up with illegal immigrants sucking this country dry of the programs and assistance meant for the legal citizens to do the same. If the LEGAL immigrants who came here the proper way can't stand up for the country that welcomed them in then I think they should  pack up and go to their respective countries as well. I'm sick of Mexicans, Latinos, Hispanics, and any other people from south of the USA border who think they own a piece of our country.I once was welcoming to the LEGALS but now, I'm getting fed up with them, too!!!\n\nType into "search" the words "Senate"  or  "Congressman" to find your senator or congressman to e-mail or mail a letter.
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I don't think is funny, But it is true that Mexicans are taking back what used to be part of Mexico, and the best thing is that there is not violence involved from our part,we are taking over wheather you like it or not ( ES MEJOR QUE EMPIEZEN A APRENDER ESPAÑOL Pende........)