Are all hispanics in favor of special treatment for illegal aliens?
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I have several hispanic friends that agree with me when I say...\nI think May 1 is a great opportunity for the citizens of the United States that need jobs to go and apply \nWhy should we give immigrants that are here ILLEGALLY so many privileges. \nWould Mexico give me those special privileges? Absolutely not. \nIt makes me angry that they call this movement "The Great American Boycott". You are not AMERICAN if you are not a citizen! Call it the damn "Mexican Boycott"!!!\nI have a great idea! Let's have America boycott illegal immigrants for one day! No jobs, medical care, etc. I bet it would hurt them a whole lot more than it would hurt us. \nDon't wave your Mexican flags and then ask to be Americans! If you want to be an American then you better show it and waving your countries flag is NOT the way to do it! If you are so proud of your country and where you came from...STAY THERE!!!
378016
Once again the "illegal" "Hispanics" are trying to change the country for there liking.
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People think that if enough of them yell loud enough it makes their cause correct.  Non Hispanic illegals are either too small in number to be noticed or they are smart enough to know that if they ar illegal they don't have the same rights as citizens.  I often wonder why legal Hispanics support the illegal ones.  The revered Cezar Chavez was against illegals.  He understood that they are a detriment to our country.  I am Hispanic but I recognize that as a sovereign nation we U.S. citizens have the right to secure our own borders
581967
There is a difference we have legals that took the time to go about things the right way ,so they can have a right to vote,right to our health care,rights to our jobs and the rights to have a better oppertunity to do better or not to do better,versus the illegals who are in this country and demand rights, grab our jobs for lower wages,soak up our public health care,drive with out insurance you have to chase them down after an acciedent because of them being Illegal, now I dont mind hispanics I live in a hispanic area and see many wonderful things like small bussines'es a tight community and a passion for celebration for life, and a desire to work hard to get what they desire a peice of a american dream that alot of ppl thinks is owed to them,this I can embrace I ask for it to be done legally,
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In favor:\n\n(1) It is a humane and compassionate thing to do, especially with undocumented workers who have been here for a long time, and have therefore taken roots here.  (It also helps to eschew the problem of separating families because some of the members are here illegally and some are not.)\n\n(2) It is a way to obtain some revenue: e.g., one could legalize an undocumented worker and make him or her pay--over the years, and in small amounts--the tributary debt he or she owes to the IRS, for all the years spent in the US illegally.\n\n(3) It keeps in line with America's historical openness to immigrants and refugees.\n\nAgainst:\n\n(1) It may encourage more illegal immigrants to come here.  This is a serious problem, and so amnesty should only be given if coupled with a substantial increase of border security, and a toughening of the regime of deportations, perhaps even with the criminalization of illegal trespassing.\n\n(2) It will infuriate simpletons in both parties, particularly in the Republican right-wing.\n\n(3) It will produce a block of future values-voters.
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Unfortunately, yeah.\n What originally got me so "militant" is that my youngest daughter was born with a genetic condition that caused multiple disabilities and health issues. If anybody out there REALLY wants details, I'll list 'em all. Our little girl qualifies 100% for "Katie Beckett" Medicaid, but we have to continually fight for it because of the large number of indigent illegals locally. That was my first turning point. My second turning point was that when after I took a stand by expressing my views on illegal immigration, I was labeled "racist" and "xenophobic". I don't care about race. I don't care about country of origin. What concerns me is that there's a whole influx of people into this country that don't want to be an American, they just want America. We return you now to our regularly scheduled programming.
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I just don't want to be harrassed for looking Hispanic.....\n\n"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."\n\nBenjamin Moore
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I feel like I am going to be hunted down, right in my own country. I have to add that a lot of legal hispanics are against illegal immigration too. My neighbor who lives in a double was furious the other day, the other side of his house was rented out to illegals, a drug bust went on, he's dominican and he is legal, has been since birth. He has two small children, so you could just imagine what he was saying about illegals. I do think illegals are invading the country, I dont think they could ever over run it, even if there is a large latino ratio, there are still thousands of legal latinos that are p!ssed just like any other race. Just not so many on here of course!
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NO. MEXICANS WOULD FORCE US TO LEARN SPANISH AND LEARN MEXICAN HISTORY, WORST YET, THEY WOULD HAVE ALL OF US DEPORTED, FASTER THAN WE CAN SAY "I AM ONLY HERE FOR A BETTER LIFE."
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Of course not. How could that be possible? our government wouldn't do that to us would they? Now to research this question I called the government and asked them. They said no. They also said we don't have an illegal alien problem. Oh sure maybe a few, 20 million tops, undocumented workers but not an illegal alien invasion. You trust the government to do what is in your best interest don't you? Here check this out:\nhttp://www.jonesreport.com/articles/131006_food_stamp.html\n\nThey advertise on KAMERICAN to inform you of these great giveaway programs don't they?\nRead far enough and you find this;\n\nIn 2004, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Mexican Embassy agreed to jointly disseminate brochures and create the public service announcements.\n\nThe agreement led Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to tout the food stamp program on Univision's KMEX Channel 34 six weeks ago.\n"This program is not welfare. It won't affect your immigration status," Ortiz Haro said on television.\n\n"The program is a right, and if we don't use it, it's a privilege that will pass you by."\n\nDo I believe illegals are the recipient of services bought and paid for by American Citizens....you bet I do.
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They are bleeding hearts who want a kumbaya type of nation and allow criminals to roam free and get plenty of benefits, all on the taxpayers.. I have yet to understand such a thought process that would support illegal aliens or the ACLU!
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Is Hispanic friends supposed to mean illegal immigrant friends?  I have a bunch of Hispanic friends. However, most Hispanics are here legally and most Hispanics are opposed to illegal immigration.\n\nIf I have any illegal immigrant friends, I am unaware of it.  \n\nI support legalization of qualified illegal immigrants who have real roots here.  I don't think it is fair to those who have been waiting.  However, after so many years of not enforcing the law and letting them get their roots so deep into this country, I would just feel bad deporting them.  \n\nI am not so sure about the way the guest worker program for future immigrants is shaping up on the Senate floor however.  They are billed by Bush as temporary, but the Senate is saying they (the ones yet to come under an increase in legal immigration rate) can become permanent residents with a path to citizenship.  I don't think that is good for anyone here, including most particularly the Hispanics or others performing low wage jobs.  There will be a perpetual 'race to the bottom' for wage levels, in my opinion.
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yes many immigrants come to the united states for a better life.  jus like our founding fathers who came from europe. and yes many "hispanics" have resentment towart the usa.  but if you look at why hispanics have resentment it isn't against the country itself but more against racists and hypocrisy that exists against the immigrants that come to this country.  many hispanics love and die for this country from the civil war to the current war in iraq.
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I am not racist, and I WANT immigration, just want LEGAL and SANE implementation.  Here is my plan:\n\nWe have to be smart. Walls and intense surveillance on the borders shoot to kill drug smugglers and their police and Mexican army escorts.\n\nMake a legal way for those in the country to become legal, since sending them all back is NOT a real option; it is just an emotional answer.\n\nDeny all services to undocumented aliens, no driver’s license, no welfare, no food stamps.\n\nMake conversational English requirement for all who desire citizenship. We do not want to disparage their roots, but it is the LEGAL language of the USA. Opportunities get better for them when they speak both languages, so MAKE IT SO FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS (not just Latin).\n\nAmend the Constitution to revoke instant citizenship for anyone born here, this will stop the "anchor baby" problem. The rule should be one citizen OR LEGAL immigrant parent. That is more than fair and just.\n\nOnce that is implemented, open immigration to people in record numbers, because the illegals would be cut so far down, thousands of others would be able come in. Allow legal immigrants to share in social services, that is fair.\n\nI don't even think that it would be bad for the USA to allow children to attend schools that live across the border in Mexico, BUT if we want to allow that, we need to have Uncle Sam PAY FOR IT. It would be a nice way of being friends after the 30 foot walls go up!
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neither side is racist.  both sides use that epitaph to cloud the issue.  neither side is completely right and if they can cloud the issue they can keep people from seeing the weaknesses in their plan.  \nthis immigration thing is about security, both along the border and criminal problems inside the country and being able to support such a number of people with our social systems - its not about race at all.\nits not that the USA doesn't accept immigrants, its that we can only accept so many a year and that we need to be able to document them.  So, while we strive to make legal immigration better/streamlined, and to strengthen our borders against more illegals, we still have the problem with the illegals that are already here.  shipping them back over the border is not only a crass suggestion, but in infeasible one.  Do we separate families if we only catch the dad?  or de we capture kids at school or in the playground and send them back leaving mothers wondering where their children are?  do we start storming houses, demanding people to show proof that they are legal, and if they can't (of which there could be many valid reasons they can't prove it) we ship them out without really knowing?  Remember that these  people came here chasing the same dream that ALL of our forefathers did.  Should we treat them so inhumanely?  is throwing every single immigrant back to mexico really going to solve our social problems? \nthe way to do it is really to first, secure the borders, so that when we do start doing things, it makes a difference.  no more unknown crossings, in either direction.  Second, we need to cut down on legal immigration for say 5 years or so.  Then we need to have some sort of incentive for the illegal immigrants who are already here to proclaim themselves.  Once they have they should have to be forced to become citizens within a reasonable amount of time, or be deported.   I've heard things like being able to benefit from social programs like welfare or foodstamps, or getting tax breaks; i don't know what the incentive should be, but these are some ideas that have been floated.  Now this looks like a reward for getting here illegally, and maybe it is, but their reward is not nearly as great as the government's.  That being mainly that we now know the demographics of an area, when these people work they will pay taxes, they will be identifiable and traceable through driver's licenses, and thus less able to avoid capture or penalty when they do commit crimes.  the gov't will be able to handle any emergency situation better if they know how many people are really in an area.  they will know what resources and how many will be necessary should an area need support in some way.    there are so many possible benefits for the gov't to know that these people are here, that it would take up much too much space to list try to list them all here.\nSuffice it to say, that this is an important issue that is not the least bit about race, except to the ignorant populace who can't or won't use their brains and see beyond the facade the political parties have constructed in their attacks upon one another.
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Most of the pro-illegal crowd apparently have this idea that it is a human right for people to enter another country and stay there for a "better life" regardless of whatever violations they may commit along the way.\n\nThese people think that the United States has an obligation to help the poor of other countries, i wouldnt be surprised if these people are also advocates for USA intervention in foreign lands.
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What does it matter where they are from?  The issue is illegal immigration, not the country of origin.  Latinos have assumed a high profile in the marches and in the debate, so there is some reason to think in terms of 'Mexicans'. Your numbers bear that out since that 43% is illegal aliens from all of the other countries in the world, put together.\n\nHowever, I agree that name calling is a distraction at best, and nasty to read.  We could do without it, on BOTH sides of the debate.