Do (legal) Mexican immigrants understand the need to enforce our border?
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I've had the chance to work with "legals" that come to the USA seasonally to earn an honest decent living...and I can tell you that they really really appreciate being here and they want to do nothing to hinder their chances of coming back year to year...so the "legals" are really upset with the illegals as they risk messing up a good thing for those who have paid the price to get here and to work here by following all the laws....they believe the illegals will force the USA to shut down the borders and they would all be the poorer....yes they do see the need to control the borders....
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The Border Patrol in AZ have already noticed an increase in apprehensions and attempted crossing in my state.\nI think it was 5 years they had to prove they had been in the US.It wont be that easy to fabricate because there is also the fine and payment of back taxes that must be paid,along with a clean police back ground check.\nI'm sure many are coming here already in anticipation of it but they may be in for a rude awaking.There were a lot of conservative Democrats that were elected or retained their seats so,don't expect this to happen any time soon.There are far too many variables for elation of the illegal aliens...just yet.
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Einstein is your leader?  Sorry.\n\nI don't want them to stay and I don't want anyone to come--we are too crowded period. I care about the land-period.\n\nIf you do stay-life goes on. I will adjust. I will not support law breaking. I will not support a bad government (we have one too). But I do not break the laws. I won't go out of my way to turn someone in for being here and I will be nice to all-just don't ask me to break a law or lie for you. I will not pretend everything is fine-I face facts. And many problems have been caused by the flood of people coming in. And more will be coming. Sad but true.\n\nMy conclusion is--our government will do just a little on the border to appease the people. Not a lot. I am not sure what they will do on Amnesty. If they say OK fine. \n Do I want it this way-no.\n  \nAnd if we combine--I hope we don't destroy the land in Mexico with our constance building and rape of the land. And letting in more than we can pay for or care for.\n\nEinstein? Hasn't he gone over the edge  of reasoning a little?
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If anyone immigrates illegally they are treated the same from the gov standpoint - no matter what country they are from.\n\nBut the truth of the matter is that immigrants from Canada do get treated better by US society than do immigrants (legal or otherwise) from Mexico.  The many posts on this question show that we often assume a Canadian will look somewhat like us and speak English (even though a good portion of Canada speaks French) and therefore, they must have come legally.  Whereas society looks at any Latino and makes the assumption they are here illegally and they are Mexican.  That is called prejudice.  And unfortunately, our great country still struggles with prejudice as this topic shows so well.\n\nUnless you are Native American, your family immigrated at some point - this is what makes America quite unique in the world.  Yes, laws should be followed and enforced, however the automatic biased negative reaction towards Hispanics is wrong.\n\nThe first step to getting better on this is admitting that racism does indeed exist.
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Mexico does not put up with the illegal immigrants the way they want the United States to do it.\n\nThe Mexican government constantly hectors the American people about how we should treat its illegal migrants. President Vicente Fox, Foreign Secretary Ernesto Derbez, and Mexican consuls in the United States insist that Americans should be grateful for the hundreds of thousands of surplus Mexicans who break across our border each year. Without them, these leaders explain, the American economy would grind to a halt (never mind that Mexico’s management of its own affairs would seem to undercut the officials’ economic expertise). Therefore, as a token of appreciation for keeping us afloat, say the Mexican apologists, we must grant amnesty to the law-breakers and reward them for illegal entry with a host of rights.\n\nFine. If Mexico wants to dictate our immigration policy to us, let’s follow their example to the letter. That example is particularly relevant on this further day of protests demanding amnesty for illegals. Among the demonstrators in at least 60 cities nationwide will undoubtedly be thousands of border lawbreakers. What would Mexico do? The answer is easy: deport them on the spot. In 2002, a dozen American college students, in Mexico legally, participated peacefully in an environmental protest against a planned airport outside of Mexico City. They swiftly found themselves deported as law-breakers for interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs.\n\nIf Mexico was willing to strip these students of their duly-obtained travel visas, imagine what it would have done had the students broken into the country surreptitiously—not just summary deportation but undoubtedly howls of complaint to the U.S. government for winking at this double violation of Mexican sovereignty. Open borders propagandists in the U.S. constantly present deportation as a patent act of cruelty that no right-thinking person would tolerate. Yet Mexico has no qualms about deporting not just illegals but legal immigrants as well whom it deems fractious.\n\nIf participation in an environmental protest constitutes unlawful interference in Mexico’s internal affairs, how much more intrusive would it deem mass demonstrations to legalize immigration law-breakers? No issue is more central to a country’s sovereignty than immigration policy. Yet we won’t be seeing any statements by Mexican diplomats today urging its citizens in the U.S. to refrain from efforts to influence American laws.\n\nIt is particularly delicious to imagine what would happen if American students in Mexico ran the American flag up a flag pole over an upside down Mexican flag, as students in a Southern California high school did last month. An international crisis! Each participant would be promptly ejected and possibly the American ambassador as well. When President Ernesto Zedillo tried to revise Mexican textbooks in the 1990s to be more favorable toward U.S. foreign policy, Mexico’s pundits denounced him as a traitor. Yet Mexican consuls in the U.S. work mightily to disseminate Mexican textbooks in U.S. schools and they have raised not a peep of remonstrance against Mexican protesters carrying signs such as THIS IS STOLEN LAND and WE DIDN’T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US during the mass demonstrations last month.\n\nEfforts to portray the student protesters in particular as modern day civil rights crusaders are laughable. Far from representing a sacrifice, cutting school is something of a tradition among Hispanics in the U.S., who have a high school dropout rate of just under 50 percent. Taxpayers must pay for the schooling of illegal aliens and their children, yet local schools get stiffed on their per-pupil payments from their state governments because truancy rates are so high. Immigration protests just drive the base truancy rate up higher. In December 2003, the school district in Santa Ana, California, the most Spanish-speaking large city in the country, promised t
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For More Information Regarding Your Question Read These Articles        \n\nhttp://www.alainsnewsletter.com/article.php?id=272\n\nhttp://www.aztlan.net/la_gran_marcha.htm\n\nTheir agenda is not, and never has been to "Have a better life"\n\nSent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:35 PM \nSubject: VIDEO: HISPANICS ADMIT THEY ARE ENGAGED IN "CIVIL WAR" WITHIN THE UNITED STATES\n\nSource: Immigration Watchdog \n\nhttp://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/...\n\nThis video PROVES beyond any doubt, the people marching in our streets under Mexican and other foreign flags, over pending immigration legislation, are engaged in a WAR against our nation.The U.S. Government has failed its duty to protect this land from these invaders; invaders who are openly stating they intend to takeover a portion of this land and carve out their own "Mestizo nation of Aztlan."\n\nClick below to play the video \n\n     http://tinyurl.com/pqzpe \n\nRead The Stories-Watch The Video-YOU Decide For Yourselves\n\nWAKE UP AMERICA\n\nThey want to TAKE our country; they're already saying it's THEIRS
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For starters, that the government enforce existing laws. Secure their southern border. Have their congressmen work out a work program for illegals to be able to work legally. Cut the red tape that is keeping those seeking to legally become citizens from having to wait for years- that only encourages illegals to circumvent the law. Even hispanic californians should seek all this. I am hispanic but also a born citizen and there are many as myself who would agree in general with my recomondations.
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Yes, the rules have to be obeyed by all. How can any reasonable person give citizenship to one group who flagrantly defied the rules to enter a country, then restrict those who have the decency to go by the book? All you are doing there is rewarding the criminal. Besides being utterly irrational it isn't too slick a way of discouraging crime of any sort and illegal entry is not a crime we want to encourage. \n\nYou'll notice I don't say illegal immigration. Those people who come here illegally are not immigrants, they are criminal trespassers
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Very stupid bill It is a copout. Why not enforce the laws already in place?\n\nMy issue is the fact that our borders are so insecure that this is still happening even after 911.\n\nAnd no we do not owe illegal immigrants anything
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Absolutely!! We are a land of all people from all nations. We have thrived as a nation when people come here with hope in their eyes and put their energy towards building a better life for their families. There is a lot more room for a lot more. We only ask that you try to be assimilated into the great melting pot like the rest of us. \n\nThe illegal ones - man, we understand that life may be hard where you are. But there needs to be respect for the law. Unlike the corrupt regimes in so many places - like Mexico - the US is a nation of laws, not men. Maybe we need to change our laws on immigration to better accommodate the reality of how our world economy is working today. But we have to enforce the law and secure our borders. The stakes are as high as the World Trade Center used to be..
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I totally agree with you.  I live in one of those states.  The city I live in is now 96% hispanic.\nI don't have to tell you what that means.\nAs far as the comment that you are not illegal and don't have to go through what they are going through is crap.  No one forces them to cross the border.  I am tried of all the complaining about the American people and our government.  They need to do something about their own government.  By the way, my city now looks like Tijuana.  The very kind of city they are trying to get away from.  And for all you bleeding hearts in other areas that are not being affected by this yet.  Sit tight.  Coming soon to a city near you.l
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Some Nat. Guard on the borders, but probably not enough to make a statement...because Mexico is our friend.  Fines for illegals and worker programs.  You didn't miss much.
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If the illegality of crossing the border was where it ended, probubly not a REALLY big deal but ...it doesn't end there. They come here poor, unenculturated, unaware, uneducated, unhealthy and un many other important things. They don't come here "un fertile" however.\nBeing in the "Un state" they are in, they don't have insurance, to cover their rather bad driving (many times while intoxicated) and the damage they do after they hit and run, is born by the property owner and or the insurance co. Rates go up, dislike for the Mexicans is fostered and Americans in general are demeaned both by the criminality, as well as the degredation of the lawful process that we usually live within.\nI don't know about you folks, but if I conduct myself in such a way as to break the law, I know there is a high likelyhood I will be caught and brought to justice. I have something to lose. The illegal hasn't got much or anything to lose. This illegal thang makes for two different systems of justice; a higher standard for us Americans ...and a lower standard for the illegals. Not a very fair, equitable or workable situation. It has to end for many reasons.
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I believe Mexico would be forced to improve if we secured our borders. They have a current economic policy of getting rid of their poor people by sending them here, which is obviously uncaring and irresponsible. If we stopped being their welfare state, maybe they could improve the lives of their people.
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This whole immigration thing is just the flavor of the month.If i move to Mexico, i would make the effort to learn the predominant language of the area. Right now i speak a little Spanish and a little Tagalog. It helps to break down barriers to communication.We do have laws in place dealing with this issue. Both sides of the border have just been working it for mutual benefit. We don't need new laws either enforce the ones that we do have or do away with them. Peace.
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Hurting big time, \n\nDon't get me wrong I am all for people that want to move to America and make a better life for themselves.  But Could they do it legally?  I don't think Mexicans would like me very much if I went to their country waving an American flag, making people learn the English language, and protesting because of the government.  They would laugh in my face.  If we can not protect our borders then our country is not worth having!!!
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I do not want to see the Mexicanization of American Culture and that is exactly what will happen in 50-60 years if we don't close our borders to future illegals.  We need a fence on the border with the manpower and technology to bring it to a halt.  As for those already here, have a heart and use common sense.  We aren't going to send them back.  Let's make them legal after they learn english, show they have gainful employment and have them take the citizenship test.  THE POLITICIANS, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT AND SELLING OUT SOCITEY DOWN THE RIVER FOR THE ILLEGAL VOTES!  SHAME ON THEM, ESPECIALLY THE PRESIDENT.  (I voted for him so I can take him on.)