Those of you who want us Latinos to stay and "fix our own country," do you have any suggestions ?
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i feel you can live happily wherever you want..but i feel the problem in latin american countries is the U.S. goverment is slapping you to keep your economics down, which makes it impossible to fix anything,,,so my suggestion to "fix your country" as you say...vote for political figures in your country that is for the people, improving, living and economics.\ndon't allow big business to come into your country and pay poor wages.\npeople come to the states to get money for there families, and i feel there is nothing wrong with this..who is to say who can live here and who can't, we all came from somewhere else also.\nbut to sum it up..start with your own goverment, they have to make the first step in making the changes. its inhuman to pay someone 2.00 an hour and think it is enough to support a family...people need to wake up  and look at the big picture...the very people who are telling latin people not to come into the states are the very people making the problem , or the general population is just uneducated as to what is going on.
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Let them go back to their own countries voluntarily or else send them back with a life time bar to returning.\n\nIf they come back after deportation put them on a chain gang and let them do the "jobs that Americans won't" like cleaning out public sewers and building American public buildings/roads/parks.
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Stop spending so much on crap like the rare species of maggot, stop teaching absintenance only programs, stop affirmative action, do something about illegal immigrants (i'm all for immigrants AS LONG AS THEY ARE LEGAL), stop sticking America into other countries business.\n\nFlint is retarded.\n\nNo, I know white trash.  I am not white trash because I am white.  White trash is trash because they are racist and ignorant.  Nobody could mistake me for either one.\n\nTeachers shouldn't have to do more than they already do.  It is the parents responsibility for their children's psychological behavior.  Parent's need to stop whinning that teachers need to do it.  It is the parent's job.\n\nI think welfare system should change too.  They should stp paying for every crack whore that has a baby.  Everyone else that is trying to get work and support themselves I commend you.  And you shouldn't have to pay it back like a loan.  That is why you pay taxes.\n\nAnd I agree with Prince and Rascal.
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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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True, true, Hayley... Pancha DOES have voices in her head. What we need is a three pronged attack to this problem (let's get tactical!). First: The border needs to be sealed with a combination of high tech walls and fences, with multiple sensors and cameras. It has to be manned by both the Border Patrol and the National Guard due to the escorts from the Federales and Mexican army - they have the Border Patrol outgunned and are already firing on our Law Enforcement personnel. Second: We need get rid of the illegals. To try and catch 20 million at one time is not feasible. We conduct raids and deport the ones we find. We give our Law Enforcement around the country the tools they need to question suspected illegals and arrest them if necessary. As it stands now, most Police Departments in our major cities have directives that direct the Officers NOT to question a suspect (or person of interest) as to their resident status. We can't expect them to do their job if we make them work with their hands tied behind their backs. Third: We need to come down like a ton of bricks on the employers that continue to hire illegals. If we start handing out some big fines, and possibly prison, they will stop hiring these fleabags for hardly any money. If they stop hiring, then the well dries up, and they stop coming over, and the others go home to whatever rock it was that they climbed out from under. As an afterthought, the Federal Government should look into some of these elected officials in California speaking of "civil war" and taking over. I believe the English term for that is "Treason"!\nThen maybe after puking these mutts out, I can go to Home Depot and buy something that is printed entirely in English! Oh, what a wonderful world it would be!!
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That's exactly what I've been saying.  People love to complain about everythin but really don't want to do anything to change things.  They want everyone else to do it for them.\n\nWhy do you think the Latinos are getting their way?  THEY ARE ORGANIZED and get off their butts.
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I don't think the government doesn't want latino here... the government doesn't want any more immigrants in the U.S period! since the influx of immigrants is getting to a point where it's creating problems for the economy of the country as a whole.  Why is that? well, all these people even though they're here in the country illegally, and I'm sure that their sole intention is to do well and to be able to help their family back home and to do better for themselves... however, if things doesn't turn out the way they hope it would be, and they're not getting much support from the government, some of those immigrants will ended up doing anything possible to survive, that being said anything whether good/bad to make a living and I believe that's what the government is trying to end.  It is sad because after all, the U.S is made of immigrants and to be able to stop something that a whole country was built by.. is really not a solution.  I think that although their action is understandable by trying to restrict the influx of immigrants, however... other methods could have been used to help those who sees the U.S as their only way to a better way of living.
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Great idea - and then immediately deport the illegal immigrants as soon as they are found.  Then, seal up the borders so they can't come back unless they apply to come back legally.  However, those who have been deported probably can't even then apply legally because I think they now have a "criminal record."  So, in that case, they will just keep on trying to come back illegally, so if the borders aren't going to be sealed up tightly, they know they will eventually make it back again.  But, if the employers stop hiring them and they get refused any social services, public schooling, etc., they will finally get the message and go back home and tell everyone at home not to try to go to the USA illegally anymore, because it can't be done.  Then, they will be forced to focus on their own governments and get things cleaned up there so they can have a decent life in their own countries.
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i think the best solution is to make them all legal.  after all, who is not an immigrant in this country except for the native american?  open the borders.
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I definitely think you are right on track.  Latinos are definitely defiant.  Streets in the United States are becoming more and more filled with garbage because of the growing Latin community.  I am originally from El Salvador, but my wife and I share your views.  We are not getting enough respect from the Americans because we are NOT AT ALL respecting American Laws.  And it has to do a lot with education.  Maybe the MASSES of latinos living in the United States are mostly uneducated classes looking to enhance their income and actually fleeing their countries.  That makes for a big chunk of people looking very bad in the eyes of the public.
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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.
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How about an American boycott of Mex-American businesses that close, at your inconvenience, for the purpose of supporting the illegals.  Or how about firing employees who fail to show up for work for the same reason.  Or, how about a political bloodbath against congressmen who don't come down hard on the illegals.  It's time we took our country back, I personally do not need people who don't even belong here, dictating to me.  I also believe that people of Mexican decent, who claim to be Americans, should choose once and for all, where their allegiance is.  Are you an American, or are you a Mexican?  At a time like this, you cannot be both!
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So, let's have that border fence. And, employer enforcement. AND, welfare reform. AND tax cuts, so legislators don't get all stoned and start pre-taxing your great-grandkids you haven't even had yet. And, and and. Get things back in balance. Also, get the foreign real estate speculators out of the US housing market so less americans end up on the street or on the dole every year.
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As a liberal married to a man who is half-Mexican, it sounds like an excellent plan to me!  Before we give the conservatives the boot, we should grab their money as they head over the border.  Many of them are crooked CEOs who obtained their wealth by stabbing everyone else (not just Mexicans) in the back.
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I was on a forum a little while ago and a guy on there had a pretty decent plan.  So I will pass it on.  First . Close the borders for good.  ( I don't think that is possible)  2.   All illegals in the penal system would be deported immediately. ( that is an excellent idea)  3.  All undocumented workers would have 6 months to study and get their citizenships, or get deported as well. ( ah, i am still not sure absorbing all of them would be good for the country, but I think it's good mid ground).  4, after the 6 months any company still employing Illegals get fined 100,000 a day. (Love that).
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I may be silly to treat this as a legitimate question, however:\n\nTheoretically, I'd say let the Mexican's vote on it. I am absolutely certain that those in power would want to stay there and there would be war. However, again theoretically, if that could occur peacefully, and Mexican people wanted it, it might not be a bad idea. We have been able to leverage our natural resources into taking care of our people (and much of the world's overflow) well enough that people are trying to come here illegally in floods our immigration policy has determined to be too overwhelming to assimilate legally.\n\nIf we had all of Mexico's natural resources, I don't see any reason why we couldn't do the same thing there, after which they might be happy with their own land, and we would all love to visit them. \n\nI like Mexicans, when they aren't illegally draining education funds to support multilingual education to the point where it is impossible to educate my own kids to the level I am paying for as a taxpayer. I think they are hard working, have wonderful family values, and are warm people on an individual basis. I wouldn't mind at all being in the same country with them if they brought their natural resources with them so that we could leverage them to pay for the additional population, at an American lifestyle level.\n\nHowever, we went into Iraq with all the best intentions (I hope), and look what happened there. We thought the Kurds and Shiites would magically bond to install a unified government, and never considered that our enemies in the terrorist world would be so threatened they would gather in Iraq to make life for innocent citizens there a living hell.\nI gave my confidence to our government when we went over, assuming they had more information than I did, and I still thing they did what they thought was best. However, when you remove the lid from a pressure cooker, things can blow up.\n\nIn a theoretical world, I think the idea is possible, if the Mexican's wanted it. In the real world, I think we'd better fix our crystal ball before we try to 'fix' someone else's country.\n\nHaving said that, I don't want our lifestyle to become reduced just because it is better than that of our neighbors. I think we need to set a reasonable immigration policy and enforce it. We can only absorb so much and still keep our culture recognizable. Granted that every immigrating group has added flavor to the mix, I don't agree one group should come in here illegally and try to dominate the home culture by their numbers. \n\nI do not speak of race. I am speaking of assimilation. I am also thinking of a balance of immigration which includes other countries besides those physically closest to us. \n\nSorry. Too long.
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HERE IS THE THING I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THOSE OF OTHER NATIONS MOVING HERE BUT I HAVE A FEW RULES IN MY EYES SHOULD BE LAW... AND ENFORCED\n\nHERE 1 YEAR AND U BETTER SPEAK F**KING ENGLISH\n\nIF YOU CAN NOT HOLD A JOB AFTER 6 MONTHS THEN U GO THE F**K HOME\n\nNOT JUST ONE FAMILY MEMBER CAN BE A LEGAL CITIZEN  FOR THE WHOLE F**KING FAMILY OR GO BACK TO WHERE U CAME FROM \n\nI COULD KEEP GOING BUT UR GETTING THE GIST ... THIS IS NOT A NEW ISSUE ITS A HUGE ISSUE NOW AND THE FACT IS WE AS VOTERS HAVE A VOICE WAKE UP PEOPLE WE HAVE CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN CAUSE WE ARE TO BUSY KISSIN ASS TO BE A NATION OF LOVE AND REALLY WAHT IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE IS A WAR WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND FUNNY THING IS LOL WE HAVE OPENED THE GATES THERE WILL BE RIOTS THERE WILL BE KILLING THERE WILL BE A WAR ....IF U THINK THIS IS NOT COMMING OHH U ARE SO DAMN WRONG ... AND THEN WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED SEPERATED NATIONALITIES IT WILL START ALL OVER KICKER IS CAUSE WE DID NOT TAKE CARE OF A SIMPLE PROBLEM AND WE HAVE NOW MADE LAWS WHICH DON'T GET ME WRONG ARE GOOD LAWS ... THAT GIVE THEM MORE POWER IN THE FACT THAT THEY ARE HERE ILLEGAL ... WE OWE THEM SOMETHING LEGALLY ... WE HAVE CREATED THIS SHIT .. OK I AM GONNA SHUT UP LOL HUGS OH YEAH