Who do you think deserves to live in America????
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I Think I Understand Where Your Goin With This Question Jack\n\nIf We See The US As A LIFEBOAT...And The People Tryin To \nFind A Better Life(ILLEGAL Immigrants)Being The VICTIMS Of A SINKING Ship\n\nThe Life Boat Holds 30 People - (Citizens And LEGAL Immigrants)\n\nAnd Theres Only ONE Boat-With Enough Food And Water \n(JOBS) For The People On Board(Citizens And LEGALS)\n\nYet There Are HUNDREDS Of VICTIMS Treading Water (Illegals)\n\nYea...I Can See It...Yea, Lets Let Em ALL In\n\nNeed I Say More??? Everybody Get It???\n\nGood Question Jack..When DO We Row Away???\n\nI Think A Good Time To Start Rowing Away Is BEFORE The BOAT Overloads And SINKS...\n\nOr Were ALL Up $HIT Creek---\n\nThanks Jack-I Think I See Things A Little More Clear Now
635921
I'm not sure about the whole thing, but my opinion is that I welcome anyone as long as they become an American citizen, work hard and pay taxes like the rest of us !
426663
It's so hard to decide. I think I'd eliminate Oklahoma, it really seems to have nothing to offer, but I guess not eliminate since a lot of Native Americans live ther, but maybe give it to them if that's allowed in this answer? Haha. \n\nMy dad would always tell me this joke: \nWhy do birds fly upside down over Oklahoma? \n--Because there's nothing worth sh*ting on!\n\nMan, Texas rocks. But I'd like for it to stay part of the US. Individually we would just constantly pick the worst worst leaders (haha although we do that anyway, sorry guys! At least Tom Delay's not going back in haha)\n\nHaha, man you guys haven't been to or known people from the right parts of Texas (ie: Panhandle and west Texan people seem to be more conservative and rude, people from the big cities are awesome). Native Texans- ie: the stubborn ones that would probably never leave to go live in an 'inferior' state (haha), are some of the nicest people. I had a friend move up to NY for school and she just shudders at all the rudeness she's faced there. Nevertheless there are tons of liberals here. I'm one, even an atheist too in the buckel of the Bible belt, and there's a huge gay population in many of the major cities and college towns (which usually lends itself to being quite liberal areas). It's hard to get past the screaming republiconservatives from round here, but there are some awesome people born and bred from right here.
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I think the American dream is to be the best and the biggest. I mean look at our history. We over through England, than we tried to rid our land of the Native Americans, after that we tried to take over the Panama Islands, Alaska we bought from Russia, Hawaii we just plain took over, the Virgin Islands, now we're in Iraq. What's next..........Ireland, or Italy?
690818
They should all become legal American citizens. If you're talking about an ILLEGAL immigrant, they need to get the hell out of our country.
1162676
do you live in the USA? well i think that we should take care of our own first unlike what we currently do! we need to stop spending billions upon billions of American dollars over seas and our space projects and take care of home first ..... then worry about everything else..... the USA should not have a homless population muchless starving familes!
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America, will "not" let the unfortunate prosper? Have you ever heard of hard work? America, does "not" hold anyone back..Can you tell me, why is everyone trying to get into the U.S.to try and make a better life, for themselves, and there family? Is everyone trying to migrate to Cuba, or Russia, to try and do those things? Anyone with a little ambition, can also be fortunate enough to have a piece of the "American" dream..And, where did your forefathers immigrate from..We all came from another country, to make life better, for future generations..
424695
No, we should not ignore this. I do believe that everyone has a right to come to this country to make a better life for themselves, but I believe that you should have to earn this right. Living with the rights that we do have is a privilege.
1103817
hear hear!  I'm canadian and believe it is an intentional choice, so as to marginalize any other americans, we must be sub-categorized as if we north americans are less important.  (also south, central, latin, african, etc, etc.)
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
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Illegal immigrants who love America should go home and come back legally.  Those who hate America should just go home.\n\nResident aliens who have enlisted to fight for this country DESERVE the citizenship that was promised them at the conclusion of their service to this country.
240035
I myself do not feel anyone should leave America for their free speech, but when they bash America so much and so hard it seems they don't want to be here. It all just hurts so much!!
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i would say brittian or america.  brittian cause the accents on that whole continent are awesome.\nand america,  there is no way i would go and live there now, but it seems to be the land of real opportunity.
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Don't know what you mean by the DECIDER!*.  I do know that many countries look to the USA for financial and military support.  I also know from personal experience that many people believe that all Americans live like George Bush, Donald Trump or Jennifer Lopez.  I have traveled and made it my mission to prove that we are not all "Ugly Americans" nor do we all belong on the set of "Dallas".  Much like the problems in the USA, this is a situation that need to be handled person to person.  I don't recommend Rick Santorum meet with a group of under privileged youth, that would be like Donald Trump sitting down to lunch with people at a shelter.  The USA needs to start at home with representatives who can actually speak to those they represent.  After that they can move on to bridging the gap with other nations.
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Disagree, the last thing we need are more South Dakotan's!!! They should make abortion mandatory in that state, and illegal in Minnesota where all the great people are from, then we can populate America with first class citizans... Yea!!
962955
I think you should come (stay in) America. There are so many great things you can do. America has educated and produced some of the worlds best thinkers. We have great extra curricular activities and hard-working proffesers and scholars who work all year around to make sure that the next genneration has what it needs to make a difference.
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You are generalizing all Americans into one catagory which is wrong. Even though your opinion doesn't concern me or very much matter I believe you really need to further your education. Let's see what you can do in 8th grade. I agree that there's a lot of people from all different countries who are lame excuses, not just America. Furthermore, if you really look into history, you will see that Americans are a spin-off of those countries over there. England, France, Germany, Finland, Norway, Africa, etc. We have as U.S. Citizens - Japanese, Chinese, Somalians, Russians, Australians, Lebanese, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Canadians, Austrians, Bosnians, Africans, Finnish, Norwegians, French, English, Greek, Irish, Dutch, New Zealanders, Polish, Lithuanians, Scots, Spanish, Portugese, and many others from all different countries. Maybe that's why we are blessed. So when you put America down, you're messing with a lot of different Nations. America pays out of the a** for helping different countries and they should consider themselves blessed to have a friend that will do that and is able to do that. So if other countries would just stay out of our pockets and not concern themselves with the money we waste and think of a way to come up with their own we wouldn't have to spend so much on them. And we could spend it on hot air balloons or something....\n\nI was wrong, you are right. It's all about money. I was laying in bed last night and came to this conclusion since I remembered the plight of the Native Americans and how they were all sent to reservations to live and given commodities to live. The BIA lost 20 billion that was suppose to be for the tribal lands with no clear explanantion of where it went. Now that the Tribes have casinos the Government wants a cut of that money too. Enough will never be enough. I also aplogize for my sarcasm. I get carried away from myself sometimes. I was going to edit this last night but the electricity went out and I was left in the dark. Hmmmm......