Are you against hispanics working in the US ileagaly? Why?
442221
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, \nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
713907
There may be some, perhaps many, who are anti-Mexican immigration because of racism. If you look, however, at the history of the US there is always a back-lash whenever there is large scale immigration by one particular group. There was a time when it was anti-Irish. There were signs that actually said "now hiring...no Irish". It seems to be the way many people respond whenever they are faced with an increasing population that is different than there own. Yes, we Irish were accused of breeding out of control, taking jobs away from "real Americans" and all the rest. I'm sorry the debate has taken on such racist overtones. I support Mexican immigration, legally, but I do understand why many feel they have to cross illegally. I'm also sorry there are so many racists out here.
843593
You are totally right. Only 17% of Hispanics are on welfare and the ones that are have to be legal. As of free health care, usually illegal immigrants don't take advantage of it because they believe they'll get deported even though there's no way that may happen.\n\n__Give me as many thumbs down as you'd like. HATE ME BECAUSE I'M MEXICAN. It sucks living with hate inside. I don't care how much Americans hate Mexicans, I'm still very HAPPY!!!
1163032
I agree that not all white people hate latinos. But it only takes a few haters from any other race of ethnicity to get under anyones skin. Not to get anyone mad but I what to quote something from someone else "Why can you just call them Americans?" said by Perfect American heres the answer to that we can't. Americans are compiled by differents races the only true americans aren't white because the native indians where here first. So basic we are all americans  whether you were born here or naturalized as a citizen. \n All ethnicities have their jealous and envious people. But everyone is important for the cycle of life. How many white people do you see in the fields? 1 the owner the rest are usaully latinos and if it weren't for them alot of the food we get in store would exist. Latinos are usual open to the jobs that other people think they are to good for. If we don't do it who else will? Too many thinkings will go undone.\nNo matter what we the LATINOS& HISPANOS are moving up and if we come together we will suceed. I was born and raise in the US and I am proud to be a Latina. Ser Latina es mi Orgullo!
690418
Very simple, I fired 6 employees who took off to boycott, they were not "illegal" but they were hispanic and in favor of breaking the law. Maybe the Government wont do anything, But each business owner sure can. I already replaced the hispanics who went to boycott with Americans who were interested in working, took abt 30 minutes. I wonder how they will feel tomorrow morning when they find they have no job here.
1026530
I know alot of latinos who don't support illegals, and this makes illegals mad. They try to make them feel guilty, and when they can't they start throwing insults and telling them they are a disgrace to their race. I know this because I live in a majority hispanic city, and my husband is also hispanic. They also get mad when other nationalities of legal immigrants don't support them. One woman I know was called " A Vietnamese b****." The man then went on to say she was a disgrace and at this very moment her people were probably plotting her death.
391491
I know I have spoken out against illegal aliens in response to other questions, and I'm ashamed to admit I never thought about how it would affect the Hispanic folks who have every legal right to be here, same as my ancestors.  I apologize for that.\n\nPersonally, I think we're in a situation similar to that of pre-Nazi Germany.  We have our own Brown Shirts (Homeland Security) and people spying on each other (truck drivers, delivery people and taxi drivers have been asked to keep their eyes open for suspicious activity) and I think we're in for a very bad time in this country.  I think we will all be required to carry papers before too long.  There will no longer be freedom of movement, etc.  God help us all!
221981
Some have become mayors, senators, made it to Congress and some have even become state governors. Some are very powerful lobbyists. At one time, the Surgeon General of the US was a Puerto Rican woman. As of right now, the US's Secretary of Justice and the Secretary of Commerce are both Hispanic men.\n\nSo yes, Hispanics have accomplished very much even with all the racist hurdles they find along the way.\n\nY yo estoy muy orgulloso de ser latino.
418256
Yea (To The ASKER) I Hate IGNORANCE Too\n\nThis Part Of My Answer Goes Out To BRAD_J(Above)\n\nthere are jobs Americans simply won't do, so that the importation of foreigners is essential. Whether these foreign workers are ILLEGAL ALIENS,  guestworkers, or permanent Legal Immigrants is a detail to be worked out by us, the argument goes, but our need for them is unchanged.Even many opponents of the proposed Bush Amnesty assume this to be true, leading them to propose new and improved guestworker programs, with provisions for stricter controls against Permanent Settlement, greater incentives to return, tighter enforcement against Unscrupulous Employers, etc. As well-meaning as such efforts may be, the basic assumption is false — \n\nIf Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - NO EXCEPTIONS - then within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States. The US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and wages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as would the union movement in this nation.\n\nThere is simply no economic reason to import FOREIGN Workers.If the supply of FOREIGN Workers were to dry up (say, through actually ENFORCING the immigration law, for starters), employers would respond to this new, tighter, labor market in two ways. \n\n1: One, they would offer HIGHER Wages, INCREASED Benefits, and Improved Working Conditions, so as to recruit and retain people from the remaining pool of workers.\n\n2:At the same time, the same employers would look for ways to eliminate some of the jobs they now are having trouble filling. The result would be a NEW Equilibrium, with Blue-Collar Workers making somewhat Better Money, but each one of those workers being more productive.\n\nMany people fear the first part of such a response, claiming that prices for fruits and vegetables would skyrocket, fueling inflation..NOT TRUE..Labor accounts for only about ten percent of the retail price of a head of lettuce,  so even doubling the wages of pickers would have little noticeable effect on consumers.\n\nSeveral people told me they used to do the "jobs Americans won't do" until local employers figured out they could get ILLEGAL Aliens to work for less than half the same amount. As an example, a young landscaper who used to make $15 an hour 10 years ago, can't get a similar job now for more than $8 an hour. Same heat. Same difficult working conditions.  But with the Depressed Wage, AMERICANS – who live in a country where the cost of living is miles above that of Mexico's – can't afford to take such jobs.It's not that he and other Americans don't want to do landscaping anymore; it's just that in heavily trafficked ILLEGAL Alien environments, IT DOESNT PAY WELL ENOUGH ANYMORE.\n\n Younger U.S.-born high school graduates are squeezed at both ends. Jobs that would have gone to them in the past are now being grabbed by college graduates. The lowest-wage jobs are unappealing, and employers will not raise wages as long as ILLEGAL Immigrants will take them.\n\nIf this is what the open borders crowd means by ILLEGAL ALIENS doing jobs Americans don't want, they're right. American workers want jobs that can Earn them a DECENT LIVING in this country. Minimum wage is a fortune south of the border, but it doesn't go far here. \n***************************\n\nBack To The ASKERS Question---\n\n\nLets Get The Numbers Straight AND Ill Throw In A Few OTHER Facts For You TOO(For All You Bush Crime Family Lovers)\n\nThe BUSH Crime Family Administration Couldn't Have Done A Better Job \nOf Turning Iraq Into America's Most Expensive And  Dangerous Enemy If It Had Genuinely Had That As Its Goal. . . .\n\n\nAmount appropriated by the US Congress for Opereations In Iraq
375508
Estan pendejos todos estos racistas. They think they can over power minorities. By the way, good answer to the previous question... donde les rallaste la mama. Unity is the only way and too bad for them when hispanics turn the majority into a minority.
266923
I don't think so. Whose gonna do the unwanted jobs then? Easy for some people to say yes but they wouldn't dare do the jobs these people do. Did you ever think that some of these people came here legally to be able to support their families but majority of them ended up being abused by their employers so they ended up illegals? I have heard a lot of stories and verified them. Some of the bad things that happened to them were done by by our fellow Americans and you talk of having electric fences? What's the matter with you? I bet your ancestors would love to hear your comments when they came here as immigrants too. If they'd have known what the future generation would be maybe they would have aborted you.
1142819
Yes It makes me sick to think that people who break our laws are rewarded. To answer the girl from earlier no it isnt all hispanics but lets face facts they are like 95% of illegals. Get rid of the liberal terds, and the illegal Mexicans. All they do is suck off the tit that is law abiding tax paying citizens. They are the reason we have to wait like 2 hrs at the emergency room, our teachers have to speak spanish, and prisons are over populated. F'em send em all packing.
474187
I am a white male, 46 years old, and born in Texas. I don't think all Hispanics are from Mexico. Most are, but not all. Where I work, me and my supervisor are the only whites in our department. The rest are Hispanic (from Mexico) and Vietnamese. I love these guys. They are all very friendly, funny and good people. One guy in a different department is Hispanic (from Honduras) I like him a lot, and he seems to like me. My next door neighbors are Hispanic (from Guatemala), again very nice people. In my neighborhood there use to be only whites, when I was a child and teen. Now there are many Hispanic families, and a few black families. I have no problem with any of them. They are no problem here. Honestly, I don't care where you come from or what your race is. I only want those coming to the US to do so legally so that we know who is coming in and why (to keep out those that would hurt or kill us). YOU, who you are, is much more important than where you come from. You seem intelligent and would probably be a good friend.\n\nVia Con Dios, Amigo\n\nAdios,\nTerry
162699
Not at all, why would you oppose immigration from any country?
383617
People who are Spanish come from Spain, and they are not part of the campaign you speak of (almost all Spanish people come to the US with visas and proper immigration papers). Perhaps you are thinking of MEXICANS and other Latinos who insist on making the immigration issue one based on race.
338389
I am hispanic, and I implore you to cast aside any idea that we should give amensty to ANY illegal immigrant.  We must stay true to the ideal of rule of law and fairness, and 20 million illegal immigrants have turned their back on that ideal.  They should not be rewarded.
199423
YOU GO GIRL!!! Its bout time someone on here has an education when it comes to this issue. there are to many haters out there. \nI think that they hate immigrants bc they have had to work so hard for what they have, you can't say its about the jobs bc those jobs have always been there, just no one wants to do them!!!\nI don't see people haten on immigrants when there goin tru drive trus, when it comes to the cleanin lady, the gardener, the consturction worker, the nanny, or any other job that involves any Physical labor. Do you? I didn't think so!!!\nThere just here to work and have a decent livin, to give there children a better future!!! i would know, thanks to my parents who have put me thru college to become a teacher and have an opportunity to do somethin with my life other than hard physical labor. I give all my props to anyone else who has done this for their children or has help out there family. its hard and scary comin to a new country. all my props go out to those people who are doin somethin other than sittin at home watchin Jerry Springer durin the middle of the day livin off of welfare...\n         WHAT NOW!!!!\n\nSERIOUSLY I WAS READIN SOME OF YA'LLS ANSWERS, LET ME SAY YOU GUYS ARE ALL IGNORANT!!!!\n\nIMMIGRANTS DO PAY TAXES SO DON'T START THAT BS W/ME.\nTHEY DO HARD WORK LAZY A** AMERICANS REFUSE TO DO BC ITS "HARD"...BOO HOO!!! QUIT CRYIN BOUT IT OK!!!