they want us to give jobs to illegals, but you cant have a job in Mexico? is that a double standard!?
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yes double standards it doesn't matter if that job pays nine cents a hour the point is that is wrong to ask us to do something they wont even do themselves . they can protect their borders we cant they can deny work to illegals we cant , it goes on and on
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Define "Allow" :) I would guess that they aren't openly allowing it, more turning a blind eye to it. The problem comes from the fact that both of the industries you mention rely on illegal immigrants for labour, since most Americans don't want the jobs themselves (since the pay is so low and/or the conditions are so bad) Therefore if the legislature starts cracking down on those companies, they could literrally destroy them. Even if they don't levy the enormous fines that would probably be legally required for the companies' infractions, the companies would still be in a position where they simply couldn't afford to hire the staff they needed to keep going. You fancy paying $6 for a burger? Because it could happen if your local burger joint had to start paying Americans to do the jobs currently done by immigrants...
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There are a lot of americans willing to work. Take my sister...she was working at a garment factory that had been here forever...she got laid off, guess why...the company is now sending the work to mexico...she's older so she will retire in a few years, but who's going to hire someone that age? Nobody! If the illegals(not just mexicans) leave, maybe the companies know they can't take advantage of citizens so they would pay better wages. They know illegal immigrants are desperate for money so they exploit them for their greedy purposes. \nI don't know that they should join the military, because that's voluntary, but they should come her legally.\nIt has nothing to do with racial discrimination at all...I've got plenty of hispanic friends..I love the language and Antonio Banderas is my hero woo...oh and I'm married to an egyptian arab...
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heres the thing it seems every time you put a olive branch out there for them they want the whole tree ,does  anyone  else see this? you say  ok we will make the ones here legal and they say no, then couisn carlos cant come ,ok then you say ok you go home and then we will give work visas and they say no we want to be american what the freakin flip you cant make them happy they want mexico and america  read this\n\nShould the American people support an invasion? Why is "Homeland Security" doing very little about the problem, telling border agents to run the other way from illegals? Does this make sense that we should give tens of millions of illegal aliens aid and comfort at taxpayer expense while we are suffering an increased crime rate, high unemploment rates. all for a people that hate and despise us simply for wanting our laws enforced?\nand for wanting our borders enforced ?\n\nWHO will pay for these millions of illegals on welfare when there are NO REAL DECENT JOBS left for anyone here to support a family? If the Mexicans kill off the current working class, then WHO will support THEM? Let's not forget the auto parts plant moved from Detroit to Mexico just a few years ago, that was then moved back to Detroit about a year later. Why? Because after 12 noon they did almost no work. Several auto production lines were in danger of shutdown because sub-assembly parts were late. Is this the future of America? \n\nwhen they are legal they will want higher pay .they will want more goverment aid,more schools will have to be built as more will be able to come and go freely .in short they will have two countries! and we will be overpopulated and there will not be enough jobs  they need to protest their own country make demands to mexico you know that ole saying some men you just cant help, well this is what that feels like. if we give them jobs in mexico it corrupt and will do no good they need to improve their own land instead of looking to us for everything its time they grow up as a nation  and fend for themselves we cant bare the brunt of a whole country being here saying take care of us !
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Mendi8a - Grow up ... they are NOT undocumented workers. They are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.\n\nAsk your husband what the requirements are for a US citizen to emigrate to Mexico. They need MUCH more than $10,000. They can NEVER vote. They can NEVER own any land that borders water of any kind. They must be able to support themselves without taking a job from a Mexican.\n\nThe fact is is that they broke the law. It is a slap in the face to you and your husband who did things the legal way. Americans LOVE immigrants. Most everyone in our country today has ancestors who were immigrants at one time. We do NOT like criminals.\n\nWe are a nation of laws, and those laws must be followed in order for society to be orderly. Why stop at letting them break our immigration laws?\n\nIf an illegal needs a car to get to work, it's okay for him to steal your car, right? After all, we need to "stop being so mean to the undocumented workers," right?\n\nWhat if he needs a place to stay? It's okay for him to invade your home because we need to "stop being so mean to the undocumented workers," right?\n\nWhat if he is missing the señora and is feeling a little randy? Is it okay for him to commit rape because we need to "stop being so mean to the undocumented workers"?\n\nWhich laws are okay to be broken so we are not "mean to the undocumented workers"? Which laws must they obey?\n\nMy point is a law is a law is a law. When we start to pick and choose which laws should be followed and which laws should be broken based on personal feeling, we start to break down the very fabric that holds our society together.\n\nEVERY law needs to be upheld. If you don't like the law, follow the legal process and try to get it changed. Until then, if immigration laws are broken, they need to be deported. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.\n\nEDIT: huasquar - Sorry. The world DOES NOT "belong to all of us". The one-world new world order bs may fly in the United Nations, but not in this country - or any sovereign nation for that matter.\n\nEDIT: Chris in Cabo - You are wrong. Just because you DO buy land there does not mean it is legal. And if you want research, how about this:\n\n"Inside of the restricted border/coastal zones, foreign nationals may own land through a fidecomiso (a trust) which is set up through a bank and provides for ownership of the land and property in all but name."\n\nhttp://www.mexperience.com/property/prop_buying.htm\n\nIn other words, you don't own it, buddy. I suggest YOU do some research before you make a fool of yourself again.
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I'm Offended! I'm Illegal Too =), But I can see why giving amnesty to illegal immigrants is a problem if you give citizenship who would be the people working in the yards or picking our grapes??? Not Us!, Now My Family doesn't really care about citizenship my Dad makes around 1,000 a week being a supervisor in carpentry I'm lucky my dad is Smart. All my Parents want is to be able to go to Mexico and come back without a problem, Be able to get a Driving license,Work without a problem, And That's It! But most Mexicans want to be citizens to get free Medicare and Services Which Is Wrong! My Family is in no way like that.\nI Think Letting Mexicans Go To Mexico And Come Back Would Be Good For The Airlines Dont You Think?? But Yeah, Some Mexicans Want The Whole Package and I Dont Agree With That!\nMy Family ALL Speak Good English
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Yes. We should not allow amnesty to any illegals. I mean, does the term "illegal" mean anything anymore? I don't understand why some people are willing to ignore the laws of our land. We may as well open up our borders and not control any immigration. THat;s what the mexicans are saying! They do not want to assimilate but DO want to change our country to be like thier old one, but with jobs.
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Mexico does not put up with the illegal immigrants the way they want the United States to do it.\n\nThe Mexican government constantly hectors the American people about how we should treat its illegal migrants. President Vicente Fox, Foreign Secretary Ernesto Derbez, and Mexican consuls in the United States insist that Americans should be grateful for the hundreds of thousands of surplus Mexicans who break across our border each year. Without them, these leaders explain, the American economy would grind to a halt (never mind that Mexico’s management of its own affairs would seem to undercut the officials’ economic expertise). Therefore, as a token of appreciation for keeping us afloat, say the Mexican apologists, we must grant amnesty to the law-breakers and reward them for illegal entry with a host of rights.\n\nFine. If Mexico wants to dictate our immigration policy to us, let’s follow their example to the letter. That example is particularly relevant on this further day of protests demanding amnesty for illegals. Among the demonstrators in at least 60 cities nationwide will undoubtedly be thousands of border lawbreakers. What would Mexico do? The answer is easy: deport them on the spot. In 2002, a dozen American college students, in Mexico legally, participated peacefully in an environmental protest against a planned airport outside of Mexico City. They swiftly found themselves deported as law-breakers for interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs.\n\nIf Mexico was willing to strip these students of their duly-obtained travel visas, imagine what it would have done had the students broken into the country surreptitiously—not just summary deportation but undoubtedly howls of complaint to the U.S. government for winking at this double violation of Mexican sovereignty. Open borders propagandists in the U.S. constantly present deportation as a patent act of cruelty that no right-thinking person would tolerate. Yet Mexico has no qualms about deporting not just illegals but legal immigrants as well whom it deems fractious.\n\nIf participation in an environmental protest constitutes unlawful interference in Mexico’s internal affairs, how much more intrusive would it deem mass demonstrations to legalize immigration law-breakers? No issue is more central to a country’s sovereignty than immigration policy. Yet we won’t be seeing any statements by Mexican diplomats today urging its citizens in the U.S. to refrain from efforts to influence American laws.\n\nIt is particularly delicious to imagine what would happen if American students in Mexico ran the American flag up a flag pole over an upside down Mexican flag, as students in a Southern California high school did last month. An international crisis! Each participant would be promptly ejected and possibly the American ambassador as well. When President Ernesto Zedillo tried to revise Mexican textbooks in the 1990s to be more favorable toward U.S. foreign policy, Mexico’s pundits denounced him as a traitor. Yet Mexican consuls in the U.S. work mightily to disseminate Mexican textbooks in U.S. schools and they have raised not a peep of remonstrance against Mexican protesters carrying signs such as THIS IS STOLEN LAND and WE DIDN’T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US during the mass demonstrations last month.\n\nEfforts to portray the student protesters in particular as modern day civil rights crusaders are laughable. Far from representing a sacrifice, cutting school is something of a tradition among Hispanics in the U.S., who have a high school dropout rate of just under 50 percent. Taxpayers must pay for the schooling of illegal aliens and their children, yet local schools get stiffed on their per-pupil payments from their state governments because truancy rates are so high. Immigration protests just drive the base truancy rate up higher. In December 2003, the school district in Santa Ana, California, the most Spanish-speaking large city in the country, promised t
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Ditto to hobbit.  If it's worth it enough, you'll do it right. You're welcomed to come, but do it legally. You are not above the law. You cannot come here illegally and expect us to look the other way "because you're only here to work hard at the jobs no one else wants," And then turn around and demand a living wage or unionize to bully your way to a better salary like the farmworkers and the hotelworkers have done. Do you want to be above the law? Than you can't expect the law to be on your side when it would work to your benefit.
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Your right we mexicans are very united and we believe in family. We will work as hard as possible to abe able to give our families a better life. I see it every day when American decide to kick out there 18 year old or I also see American divorced parents who either mom or dad do not want to help support there own children. I see more homeless white folks then anything else. In California I do not see a mexican begging for money why because me have to much pride for that. Our saying is We will rather die on our feet then live our lives on our knees. Please give respect to the people who are making your economy stronger. As for people who say that the dont pay taxes. Well guess what i work in a tax office and there are ways they do it. The apply for EIN but they are never able to receive disabilty, social secuirty or unemployment. They don't complain. If we do send illegals back then you american will be paying $75.00 for a bag of tomatoes.
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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!!!
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Yeah, but they have to eat. If they can't get a better job because they don't have the papers then how can you say no to a job that exploits you but gives you enough to at least eat?\n\nA friend of mine works at a country club. She just started and she's already thinking of quiting. Her boss is sexually harassing her. She's gonna sue his ass and is trying to get the other girls who work with her and who have received the same treatment to testify. The problem is nobody wants to because they are illegal and will get deported if they do. They stay there because they don't have any other job to go and they have to send the money and help their family's back home. \n\nThis kind of thing makes me very sad and angry but that's just how life is. Just be thankful you will never have to be in their shoes, or at least pray that you don't.
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This nations job and obligation is to its legal citizens first,then if there is anything left ,to help other less fortunate country's,do so..We do not have any right at all to take anything from this nations legal Americans and give it to illegal aliens..Its ludicrous to even think that way.Its an insult to all Americans.Take care of Americans first.Always
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If we made Mexico a state this corp would have no where to go close by to get cheap labor. And then they would have to come back here and not get tax breaks for going to mexico. WE have a President who is in bed with Mexico and wants cheap labor to come into the United States.
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i am mexican, i am not illegal n e more, but pple still pick on me like tellin me tht we are called "BEANERS" + they tell me "GO GET A JOB AS A CONSTRUCTION WORKER!" they just dont no wad its like 2 b a mex. w/out mexicans they US wudnt b wad it is 2day, mexicans take jobs tht americans arent willing 2 take, they just hav no idea wad a mexican goes through, they hav absolutely no experience.
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Truth is illegal mexican workers are "the new slaves" like black people were at one point.There is a high demand of illegal workers and Thats why they are here! People want to pay for cheap labor and thats why they are here. But why just focus on one group??? what about the italian illegal immigrants? and what about the germans? and the polish? and the chinese? or japanese? my point is that people discriminate against only the mexican workers and then (and this bothers me a lot) they come off saying "OH I'm part german and part ecuatorian and part this and part that" Your ancestors were immigrants too at one point or another FACE IT! Unless you have 100% indian and only indian (native american) from before the british got here indian You come from an immigrant background. I think they deserve a chance ONLY if they want to STAy here and learn the language and pay taxes and not borders hop,work and then go back. If they want to truly become american citizens I say YOU DESERVE IT!! and YOU SHOULD GET A CHANCE!!
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None of them come for fun.   How fun is it to work in construction in the dead of summer, sweating your ass off for 10 hours a day? Sound fun to you? Or how about seeding someones lawn and cutting grass, and planting flowers out in the damn sun for 50 hours a week?  Wow that sounds like great fun to me!!!   Western Union is on fire, and has been since immigrants starting immigrating here years ago, know why? because that pay check the mexicans got on Monday tues wed thurs or friday is being wired to a bank in Mexico for their wifes, sisters, daughters, sons or grand children to pick it up.  Ever walked into a grocery store and saw Mexicans lined up at the customer service desk, they're sending their paychecks to mexico.  That's what they come here for.  Lets deport all mexicans shall we??  I guess you might as well not go out to dinner anywhere, forget Chili's, or Olive Garden or your favorite barbeque place, because if we deport them all, are you gonna go back there and make your dinner yourself? They make up all our restraunts, and those roads youre driving on to take you to work everyday, are being paved by  hard working mexicans because no fat lazy ass american wants to slave out in the hot sun for hours on end.    Granted, there's your stereotype mexican, who stares at women, and says things in spanish that you don't understand, but not every mexican is like that.  They honestly come here to make a living and LEAVE.  They dont' want to stay here.  This is foreign to them.   it takes time to save up money, and most of them work 40+hours a week.   Know why restraunts keep hiring mexicans even tho they are threatened every week by the immigration office, because they come to work, and on time, and work their butts off... Did you know that only 20% of americans come to work on time everyday of the week?  Yeah, 20% out of how many millions? I'm not a mexican advocate, I'm just saying, I've been witnessed to what is going on in america and how mexicans are treated, and americans are so SCARED they're gonna come and take their jobs.  Give me a break, have you seen an illegal alien becoming a lawyer, or a doctor... please...  they take the jobs we DONT WANT..so whats the big deal?  Let them come and make some money for their families.  More americans are on welfare than anywhere else, because they don't want to work.  So you hate Mexicans for wanting to make a better life?   \n\nDo you know what it costs to become a LEGAL resident of the United States? Thousands of dollars. I'm not talking about getting a green card and working a job part time and then coming back to Mexico, I'm saying... actually applying at the immigration department, and waiting..not to mention it takes up to 10 years to even get an answer. You all need to read up on your facts. Would you want to wait 10 years to get citizenship, would your kids wait 10 years to eat, because you couldn't get decent money in the country you're living in? They come here for the money. Not to take over our jobs, homes, and land. Get a clue.\n\nFrankly, I could care less. If we become a minority, so be it. Mexicans work harder, and longer than any white folk. I'm white, and I'll tell you what, I wouldn't do half the jobs that mexicans do, for 3 bucks an hour. If you want something done, and DONE right, and not half-assed, then hire a mexican. They are always on time, they always put in more than required, and they always do a great job. Of course there's very few of them, that don't do a good job.. which is like a good portion of americans ( unemployment line is proof enough ). The way I look at it is.. If we can send troops over to IRAQ to make their government more civilized and feed other countries, etc... and all the lovely things we do for 3rd world countries, then by god we should go over to Mexico, and assist them with getting the mexican residents in mexico higher paying jobs. Their jobs over t