why are the minute men working north of the border when  most of the illegals are mexican, and farther south?
463362
The government needs to do something about all illegal immigration. I understand that people want to come her for a better life, but when coming here illegally it just makes life here worse. We need to control the immigration so that we can properly accommodate the new people in the United States. The illegals get away with way to much and I think the talks of an 11 year trial period would be great. If you mess up, you go back home. If immigrants want to come over here bad enough than they will follow all the rules. Thus making a better country for all who live here!
387775
Maybe because some have political reasons they are fleeing ElSalvador. Maybe the MS-13 are tormenting them and they have to escape. MS-13 is one of the deadliest gangs os Central America.
982873
There aren't any committes on illegal immigrants from Mexico. There are committes on Energy, Agriculture,Education,Health Care,Defense,etc, etc,...
1000013
The answer is easy ... our teenage children!  When I was a teenager, I mowed lawns, bailed hay, worked as a dishwasher and a short order cook.   \n\nI grew up in Illinois where most illegals were domestic help from the Philippines.  When my friends and I needed work we would do most of the stuff the illegals do in the Southwest. \n\nNow days, it's harder for teens to find jobs and the above listed jobs are beneath them!
433663
Because they are doing the job and making illegal immigrants go back to mexico or where they come from.  As a minuteman volunteer I'm proud of the fact that we are making the difference that the government refuses too!
365863
Because many of them have been working in the USA for decades picking oranges, limes and lemons. They basically keep the landlords in business, however when it comes to apply for citizenship, they are considered to be foreigners.\nThey fly the Mex. flag to identify themselves from other nationalities who claim to be refugees and seem to get priority.
521693
Mexico is not eligible for green cards. And those people need to have jobs, quick. So they hop across the border.
700800
I agree. Alot of people where I live really talk down Mexicans,haitians,ect. And I can say that just like all races,there are many uneducated,lazy people. However, if you open your eyes ( I live among many many Mexicans) they work quite hard. The woman who dont work bust their butts to care for the kids on their own and cook,I see them walking with groceries down the streeyt with babies in their arms. Thats hard work! Many of the men work hard out in the heat,even the "drunks" still are out there working. Too many people are just very judgemental about other races and like you said,THATS uneducated.
179222
The Minutemen believe that the rule of law should be upheld.  And if the government isn't fulfilling their half of the socialcompact (as Madison, Jay, and Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers) they are doing their part to help the Border Patrol find lawbreakers in the form of those crossing the border illegally (whether drugsmuggler or illegal aliens).
1117017
Probably because of the big rallies they had put them in the spot light.  And they do make up the largest percentage of illegals.\n\nHowever, I myself do not forget about the others sneaking in and when I write my representatives I make sure that I am referring to all illegals.  We cannot have a policy for just one group, it must take into account all of them because we have more than just Mexicans sneaking into this country.  We should not forget the asian sweat shops on the west coast for example.\n\nI see a lot of focus on the Mexican border, but we cannot forget that Canada is up there and we do get some sneaking in from there.  We have two big coast lines and we have some smuggled in by ship on both coast.  Maby not as many as we get from our southern border, but they do come in by those venues.\n\nThe Mexicans might be the focus on the topic boards and mass media, but not everyone forgets that there is more involved in the debate.
513267
They are depressing the labor market, for whatever value it had in that area, by driving low wages even lower. So the non-high school legitimate American who is looking for work has to compete with non-English-speaking illegal labor willing to work for less than minimum, which by comparison, is a lot more than there were used to getting in that despotic cesspool of corruption called Mexico.
158704
Being that the Mexican border is connected to our country it makes it very easy for people from Mexico to sneek here illegaly. They same could be said for Canada, however, because Canada is not such a poor country the people don't feel the need to escape their situations as much as the people in Mexico. So a majority of the immigrants in this country that have came here illegaly have been from mexico. It has been a hot political topic for so long now and in the eye of the media that when we hear "illegal immigrant" we automatically think south of the border. On the east coast however, there is more of a mixture of people from other countrys that are here illegally.
1057850
None of them come for fun.   How fun is it to work in construction in the dead of summer, sweating your ass off for 10 hours a day? Sound fun to you? Or how about seeding someones lawn and cutting grass, and planting flowers out in the damn sun for 50 hours a week?  Wow that sounds like great fun to me!!!   Western Union is on fire, and has been since immigrants starting immigrating here years ago, know why? because that pay check the mexicans got on Monday tues wed thurs or friday is being wired to a bank in Mexico for their wifes, sisters, daughters, sons or grand children to pick it up.  Ever walked into a grocery store and saw Mexicans lined up at the customer service desk, they're sending their paychecks to mexico.  That's what they come here for.  Lets deport all mexicans shall we??  I guess you might as well not go out to dinner anywhere, forget Chili's, or Olive Garden or your favorite barbeque place, because if we deport them all, are you gonna go back there and make your dinner yourself? They make up all our restraunts, and those roads youre driving on to take you to work everyday, are being paved by  hard working mexicans because no fat lazy ass american wants to slave out in the hot sun for hours on end.    Granted, there's your stereotype mexican, who stares at women, and says things in spanish that you don't understand, but not every mexican is like that.  They honestly come here to make a living and LEAVE.  They dont' want to stay here.  This is foreign to them.   it takes time to save up money, and most of them work 40+hours a week.   Know why restraunts keep hiring mexicans even tho they are threatened every week by the immigration office, because they come to work, and on time, and work their butts off... Did you know that only 20% of americans come to work on time everyday of the week?  Yeah, 20% out of how many millions? I'm not a mexican advocate, I'm just saying, I've been witnessed to what is going on in america and how mexicans are treated, and americans are so SCARED they're gonna come and take their jobs.  Give me a break, have you seen an illegal alien becoming a lawyer, or a doctor... please...  they take the jobs we DONT WANT..so whats the big deal?  Let them come and make some money for their families.  More americans are on welfare than anywhere else, because they don't want to work.  So you hate Mexicans for wanting to make a better life?   \n\nDo you know what it costs to become a LEGAL resident of the United States? Thousands of dollars. I'm not talking about getting a green card and working a job part time and then coming back to Mexico, I'm saying... actually applying at the immigration department, and waiting..not to mention it takes up to 10 years to even get an answer. You all need to read up on your facts. Would you want to wait 10 years to get citizenship, would your kids wait 10 years to eat, because you couldn't get decent money in the country you're living in? They come here for the money. Not to take over our jobs, homes, and land. Get a clue.\n\nFrankly, I could care less. If we become a minority, so be it. Mexicans work harder, and longer than any white folk. I'm white, and I'll tell you what, I wouldn't do half the jobs that mexicans do, for 3 bucks an hour. If you want something done, and DONE right, and not half-assed, then hire a mexican. They are always on time, they always put in more than required, and they always do a great job. Of course there's very few of them, that don't do a good job.. which is like a good portion of americans ( unemployment line is proof enough ). The way I look at it is.. If we can send troops over to IRAQ to make their government more civilized and feed other countries, etc... and all the lovely things we do for 3rd world countries, then by god we should go over to Mexico, and assist them with getting the mexican residents in mexico higher paying jobs. Their jobs over t
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South of the border...
691973
cuz no matter how smart americans are and how much advanced technology they have , this current issue has got off their hands and control by a group of indocumented , uneducated (i mean some don´t even get to study elementary school )and non english speaker group of ppl lol, Eventhou it is not only mexicans the borderline is, indeed they focus in mexico....
1176195
We have problems here to take care of. What about the poor kids living in Appalachia, what about all the families displaced by Katrina, what about the kids who are loosing their dads in Iraq. Charity should begin at home. The Mexicans have had their own country longer than the United States has been a country. They need to make the changes that will bring about a better life in their own country. Why do they come here and demand that we bend over backwards for them.\n\nBilly B hit the nail on the head. The former U.S companies that moved their operations down there should be paying those people a fair wage, but guess what, they went ther for the slave labor. Ford Motor Company will be the next to go there. And they are right, they aren't our jobs, the jobs belong to the companies, they can do what they want. Isn't it funny that the big companies from America are leaving for the slave labor, and now the once unknown automakers like hyundai are opening plants here. They can afford to do that because the unions have been busted and now they can get auto workers for ten bucks an hour. Seems funny that these companies get labor cheaper, they use less people to build a car, they use less materials to build a car now, but the prices go higher every year. \nWell, the Mexicans can survive on their own, they survived a long time before we the United States arrived on the scene. I think they are attempting to destroy us from within, just like the communist said they would. Wake up America. Seal the Borders, shut the gates, stop the invasion.
152567
Because Mexico is south of USA