Well how can mexicans be considered immigrants when we were here first?
471640
I think everyone is EQUAL! If American's see that the time has changed and it is not the 1900's anymore!! STOP THE RACISM!! God created everyone equally and he would not discriminate!!
1060182
Actually, most Mexican imagrants are either Christian or Catholic. Therefore, they tend to have stronger moral than many born Americans.\n\nFYI: I was born in Brooklyn, NY. So I speak as a born American.
1020962
See the problem here is you should be asking why illegal immigrants are allowed to be here? Yes a lot of our ancestors were immagrants, but this is now... Why are there illegal immagrant children in US schools expecially if they can't speek english well, how much can they learn like that? But ultimantly you can blame the politicians they always promise better education until they're elected then it gets pushed to the side.
480616
You are ABSOLUTELY right. Take in to consideration, in 1607, there was no "America", this was a new world, without a name, and without a law. The Europeans who came here did a million things wrong (treatment of Natives), but we have spent decades trying to correct that. If you are 1/3 or more Native American, you do not have to pay taxes. It's probably not enough, but you can't change the past. \n\nThank you, by the way. I was unsure when immigration laws were passed. Now I have more to feed my argument with. Let's not forget about Ellis Island. Before border control, that was all we had. Every person who came in this country for about two decades passed through there. They underwent inspection after inspection, and if they had a HINT of ilness, they were sent home, no questions asked. Think of the thousands (or more) who tried to come here the "legal" way (since that was the ONLY way), and were denied access. If we just let anybody come here, without rules or guidelines, it's like slapping the face of those who never made it. \n\nI think we need better border control, and speedier citizenship processes. We need to tell the people we want to deport "If you want to stay here, here's the paperwork. You can live HERE (name of city or building or street) and work THIS (name of specific job or jobs) until you finish your immigration papers. If you are not legal by (Set date) you will be deported. Then, we tighten border control and deport EVERYONE we see come here illegally. \n\nNow that immigration is inside the law, we need to address the issue and handle it properly. We need to quit arguing about the past, because it is behind us. Let's move on and fix our nation.
635676
interesting, isn't it?  A land once owned by Mexico and very ruthlessly stolen from them in war is now being called a land that they should stay out of.  You shouldn't see your friends as 'illegal' aliens.  Really, the original people who came to this country immigrated without permission.  They killed the people who were already here.  And yet, somehow, they determined that they had more of a right to be here than the people who already were... Stand up for your friends.
922960
yes, the majority of mexicans are indeed mestizos. my parents are mexicans (also mestizos), which would make me a mestizo as well, regardless if i was born in the USA or in some other country besides Mexico.\nbut i was born in the USA so i do consider myself to be mestizo because my parents are. \ni hope this answers your question.\ntake care.
1050821
Mexicans are Americans. We are all the same.
634346
Honey, not only mexicans come in through the mexican border. Fyi there's been plenty of europeans, central, south americans, asian, africans and middle easteners that come in through the mexican border.
1151299
i m not surprised that you have no job may be you should try Europe since it so great. Mexicans have been in California and America for many thousands of years. if you dint like them then why are you here squatter.your family got so called legal status in a month , fraud  that's only because of the corruption in power.\nby the way their are way more Anglos here than native American so who is the trespasser. since you like analogies so much here one for you and your buddies\nif someone brakes into your house and land then claims its theirs because they have stolen it for along time. if they don't give it back they are guilty for the crimes the peoples did in the first place to attain it. so if your a new immigrant with no connection to the invaders of 1492 and their descendant then you have no say in this matter.
470625
No one is against Mexicans or anyone else coming into the country.  We just want them to come in the right way.  If immigrants follow the laws and get naturalized, there would be no problem.
386089
Everyone in this nation is an immigrant or has derived from immigrants, even the Native American Indians that crossed over from Asia over the Alaskan-Siberian Land bridge some 10,000 years ago, so anyone saying that mexicans were here first is suffering from a cranial rectal insertion complex.  Plus Mexico was conquered by the US in alittle war called the Mexican-American War, and If I remember right we wiped the table with them so they should be thanking their lucky stars that we didn't full take all of their lands!
818844
all of this B,S, about Mexicans being illegal ? strange but unless history is wrong again the Mexicans were here before any whites or any others except Indians, the U,S, took the whole western half of this country from Mexico and many many Mexicans fought for the American forces, then their land and homes were taken by the whites because our gov, did not recognize Spanish land grants, therefore driving many Mexicans who helped and fought for America into Mexico,it would seen those yelling about Mexicans would be yelling about the Islanders here who start crying for their welfare checks before they get off of the boat, or the over one million Muslims who are a very present danger to America, and are robbing us blind thru grants, loans, etc, and are waiting for their Friends to get here so they can cut our throats,    B,T.W.  what about that wet back Mexican who threw his own body on a hand grenade in Iraq to save his American buddies? do you think any Islander or Muslim would do that? don't think so,
972800
no way, they were born here so what makes that illegal?
612885
before the Mexican there was Italian, Chinese, Irish, Ger amen, Russian, etc. And don't forget the Africans we forcible brought here. And no one is leaving.
253147
why would they do that,if you can just imagine for one moment>your people too were illegal immigrants,what if we had maned all of the borders to this country,you would not be sitting in that chair where you are now but,someplace Else and we would be asking ourselves these questions about you.
910360
Is this a joke?  Other than native Americans, who were legally prevented from having any say in the running of our nation, everybody who lived here and who was involved in founding this nation were immigrants.  If the rules of today were in effect back then, they would have been illegal immigrants as well.
883955
Surley the point of the question is not to keep going over the past, but to query the right of the US to deny to others what it has asserted for itself, that is freedom of movement to other countries.\n\nIt is ridiculous to assert that there were no laws, therefore everything was legal. All societies have rules of behaviour. The settlers simply declared their own rights over the land, and increasingly denied any rights to the Natives as they got stronger.\n\nOf course the past can't be undone, and the Indians were not pure and innocent; and today's Mexicans are in part descended from similar settlers.\n\nBut we could try to accept that there is nothing new about migration, and that immigrants are motivated by the same human desires that inspired the Pilgrim Fathers.