What is your personal opinion on immigrants?
404628
i'm assuming you mean illegals. You have to give the guys from central america credit. They were all willing to die trying to get here. Most of them ride on freight trains accross mexico to get to the border. Many are maimed and killed trying to jump on and off the trains. Gangs and marauders rob and kill them all the way up the track. How many of us would be willing to die just to live here? We are all decendants of immigrants. As long as they are not criminals, i don't have a problem with them trying to get a little piece of the american dream.....
992998
I think immigration's out-of-control. I think that a lot of our politicians have some bright ideas about 'one world' etc., and some of those don't quite work out the way they planned, and then there's those gosh-darn unintended consequences etc.\nIf people keep it civil, immigration's no problem, but we're well beyond 'civil' in some cases, and policies need to be improved and amended to slow this stuff down quite a bit....bum's rush doesn't cut it...
665970
Hey...I don't care...Don't think ANYONE SHOULD BE RUDE...because you are a tax payer....you help in OUR COMMUNITY...DUH...what bad thing CAN they say? C'mon people...we all came here one time LONG ago...we were ALL like them ... so fuck off the immigrants thing already people.
506965
What exactly is the problem?\n\nDo we have too many immigrants or too few?\n\nDo they help our economy or hinder it?\n\nDo they pose extra social issues or do they add to our culture?\n\nDoes immigration allow British industry to ensure we have the best skilled and most capable workforce or does it dilute our skills and capabilities?\n\nI'm afraid the 'problem' needs better definition.
800235
I don't think immigrants are allowed depending on where they come from. It is a matter of happen-to-be.
564962
I support immigration, but I believe there should be limits and background checks. Those people who work hard should definitely be legalized, but those who are criminals should be deported immediately.
372805
Hispanics/Latinos/Mexicanos/\nSENORITAS!!!--YES-I LIKE\n\nILLEGAL Immigrants-NO-I DO NOT LIKE\n\nDEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS UPON DISCOVERY\n\nPUSH HR 4437-NO AMNESTY
686557
I hope to be an immigrant. Iam American/English with extended family in Eng. I go to Eng a lot. My family fought for Eng. America is a beautiful country but I will be buied in Eng. so why don't I just buy my home and help the economy in Eng. I understand the non-English immigrants,we have Mexican illegals here and I have a neighbour who is illegal.I dont believe anyone should be actually stopped if family are of the countries heritage like my family was.\n\nI also dont want to go to Eng. where extended family live now for a free ride.\nIam English in blood and want to be in the country my family came from. Can you understand why I feel this way? :)
670755
THANK YOU ATLEAST SOMONE AGREES WITH ME!! IMMIGRANTS ARE THE 21ST CENTURYS SLAVES!!\n\nPEOPLE HERE JUST JUDGE OTHER RACES WITHOUT THINKING; MAYBE THERE HERE FOR A REASON? IMMIGRANTS LEAVE THERE FAMILYS & HOMES WITH THE HOPE OF A BETTER FUTURE. IF ALL WAS GOOD IN THERE COUNTRYS THEY WOULDNT BE HERE!!\n\nSO FOR ALL THE PPL WHO JUDGE IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD OF POSTING YOUR IGNORANT  QUESTIONS, GO & PICK THE FRUITS & VEGETABLES.\nGO CLEAN THE TOILETS, GO FLIP THEM BURGERS!!!\n\nYOU ALL KNOW DAMN RIGHT THEY DO THE JOBS YOU WILL NEVER DO!!!!!!!
377274
Immigrants Are US Citizens\nWhy SHOULDNT They Stay\n\nILLEGAL Immigrants Should Be Deported Upon Discovery\nBecause They Have Violated Federal Immigration Law\n************\n\n**Banana Bean-\nNO I Wouldnt Want You To Complain That I Took YOUR Job
482278
"Give me your tired, your poor, \nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free, \nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore. \nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, \nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!!" \n\nI believe there is a caveat to what is on the Statue of Liberty; Be willing to work hard and contribute to the fabric of America, not come here and expect the citizens to give you handouts.  That is what the idea of legal immigration is all about.  Do you have a job lined up?  do you have a means of support?\n\nPeople that are against illegal immigration are not racist or against the people, but are against the idea that we should have immigrants that come into the country and expect us to give them the life they dreamed of.
498572
Truthfully, I feel that Illegal immigrants especially the ones who have been here many years. Have families, jobs (As bad s some may be.) These illegal immigrants HAVE ALREADY PAID THEIR DUES!!! \n\nYes, they came here illegally and that is wrong. But our country wasn't exactly founded on Honesty. In fact in alot of ways, we play CUT-THROAT!!! \n\nThe illegal immigrants are a great part of this country and I do not believe this country could survive without them, because they do the crap jobs that AMERICAN's don't want. \n\nI am talking jobs well below, "Would You Like Fries With That?" Most American's Stick up their Noses at, Mcdonalds. Why are you fighing for the job to become a migrant farm worker or clean someone's toliet. \n\n\nif we took the illegal immigrants out of our country and I DO MEAN ALL OF THEM....This country could not run!!!! \n\nThe Arabs own 6percent of America. If you took them out of the picture, this country could not run.....\n\nBecause, those berries you may love won't be picked, those green bell peppers won't be eaten, because they won't be picked and so on......\n\nSo we couldn't meet the supply in demand. \n\nThat is why I say that these people have paid their dues and continue to everyday......\n\nI think deportation should be reserved for people who come here and can't adapt to the way of life here. If you've been here ten years and the only eglish word you know and understand is, HI!!! You should go home.....\n\n\nWhich alot of people do cross our borders with preconcieved thoughts and realize our way of life isn't so great afterall. They feel that they can't go back. These people should be deported...\n\n\nTroublemakers should be deported. \n\nAlot who cross the borders do just fine in America and those who contribute to our broad land whether it'd be picking berries or cleaning toliets should be given citizenship, because they are productive members of society.  \n\nEven more on the up and up alot of these, "illegal" immigrants who have older children that were bornin this country, run resturants, Bodegas and much more. Some make a very livable wage or better with family effort. \n\nSo "Illegal" immigrants if they can adapt to American life should be made citizens and should be allowed to stay. \n\nOne of my neighbor's here in Hawaii was an "Illegal" immigrant in 1962 (I think she crossed the boarder.) I should would miss her Mexian home-cooking and Hot Tamales. If they deported her, after 40 something years of living in America. She speaks english, she's married now so I don't think she is illegal anymore. She has children and has built a life here. It'd be a disappointment to see people like her go!\n\nOnce they are citizens, they pay, TAXES!!!!
650859
Absolutely not.  However, I am considered an unsympathetic party so maybe I shouldn't have an opinion. To take this question a step further should they be able to really have the opportunity to go to our schools?  Our healthcare?  Our tax payers dollars when they are here illegally?  Not to say I hate them or anything of the sort especially since I am related by marriage to some.  Seriously though since when should my dollars go to them in any form.
462081
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.
334193
Of course, and I feel that way. It hurts me how some people in the u.s. think about immigrants.It also gets me mad, they should understand that we are humans and that we all should be treated the same way.Illegal or not legal. Each day some in yahoo answers has to say something bad about immigrants and how we take way the Americans jobs. And this makes  mad, this is not even the true. I'm proud of being what I'm. I'm proud that I left my country to start a new life in here. And although it hurts me how some people think about us immigrants I'm proud of being Mexican, and no one is going to make me change my mind.When ever some one insult us, it makes me feel bad, but it also makes me to stand up for what I'm and said something about what they have said. I'm a legal immigrant, but I think that we ALL should be treated in the same way, Immigrant or not, Legal or not.
525143
I hope legal immigration continues.  Fresh blood is good for countries, just like it is for families.  Every culture brings new ideas, new ways of doing things, approaching a problem, etc.  Illegal immigrants have got to be stopped. They are a huge drain on the economy of any country who has large numbers of them.  This is a problem that must be addressed and solved in the very near future.
737294
I think what bothers me the most is when ppl say we are a country of immigrants... they leave one vital word in that sentence:\n\nWe are a country of LEGAL immigrants. Those with ancestors that migrated here were LEGAL.\n\nI once watched an old black and white taping of some in NYC that had just got off some ships. They had to pass extremely difficult physicals and examinations... meaning our ancestors had to be LEGAL and pass tests to be here.