Would it be fair if the Hispanics born in the USA couldn't get legalized?
541367
It is now the law that if you're born in the USA, you are a citizen.  \n\nIf the law was changed to say that if your parents were here illegally you cannot be (or are no longer) a citizen, we'd have to deport a lot more folks than Latinos.
685521
that's right i like the way u think i mean if a mexican or anybody for that matter came here they would be allowed to buy land here but if an american or any body else for that matter were to even try to buy land it wouldnt work because like u said u have to be mexican by birth....
133205
Lack of Education - Possible. People might think Mexicans rule the Hispanic world!\n\nDescrimination - Again, possible. There are some pretty bad rumors out there about Mexicans.\n\nGeneralization - A lot of Hispanics I know are Mexican. Maybe they assumed most every Hispanic person is Mexican.
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.
286067
It is a very touchy subject because yes they shouldn't be allowed to come over and be over here illegally, but at the same time them being illegal doesn't mean that they should be allowed to be taken advantage of and exploited by greedy business owners.  And for the "the U.S. used to be Mexico" argument, that is lame because almost every piece of land was at one time owned by different peoples, we took it just as people have been taking land since the beginning of time.
1142145
If the illegality of crossing the border was where it ended, probubly not a REALLY big deal but ...it doesn't end there. They come here poor, unenculturated, unaware, uneducated, unhealthy and un many other important things. They don't come here "un fertile" however.\nBeing in the "Un state" they are in, they don't have insurance, to cover their rather bad driving (many times while intoxicated) and the damage they do after they hit and run, is born by the property owner and or the insurance co. Rates go up, dislike for the Mexicans is fostered and Americans in general are demeaned both by the criminality, as well as the degredation of the lawful process that we usually live within.\nI don't know about you folks, but if I conduct myself in such a way as to break the law, I know there is a high likelyhood I will be caught and brought to justice. I have something to lose. The illegal hasn't got much or anything to lose. This illegal thang makes for two different systems of justice; a higher standard for us Americans ...and a lower standard for the illegals. Not a very fair, equitable or workable situation. It has to end for many reasons.
944614
Ummm... illegal immigrants can't vote.  And I am hispanic and I wouldn't mind at all if they didn't vote "white" as you put it.  As long as they don't vote republican - its okay with me!
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!!!
208793
In my opinion its not fair at all. This is America, and in order to be a American you should have to go through the procedures required to become one. I believe that it should not be legal to stay in the USA unless you plan on learning the language, learning the culture and have a plan for you future here. It should be the same all over the world. If you love your home country so much that you want to send money back to them all the time or eventually go back there and your just here to work and take up American jobs, that's no acceptable to me at all. If you love were your from them perhaps you should stay there. In the end no its not fair, maybe people come to this country every day with good intention and they do it the legal way, no one should be allowed over our borders without first proving that they really want to be here and love this country.
542937
tex is correct, and this is exactly why it would be extremely unfair to those who have been waiting YEARS (in some cases...20years) to come here legally...to grant amnesty to those who are illegal.
485136
I think this new law is crap too. They should not be able to chose the people that live here. I mean we make a big part of this country without us this country isn't a real country. This country is made up of different race. What would they say if we toke the white American out of the latino countries.
221341
It's up to the states to decide...opponents like the ACLU debate that making English the offical language would be unconstiutional because it would not enable the Spanish-speaking, German-speaking, and French-speaking immigrants and citizens from a fair and just trial, liberties and such.\n\nGoogle it, but I think because the United States is soo big and diverse, that it wouldn't be fair to the first immigrants of this country.
596354
The problem is that the legalization elements have been all entwined in the guest worker program which is a really bad program.  One Senator ran projections of how many poor immigrants would come here under the program (on TOP of the current rate of immigration and on TOP of the current illegal immigrants) and he came up with 185 million to 217 million poor immigrants in the next 20 years.  Even California Senators Boxer and Feinstein who have been pushing for legalization as their main goal in the program voted against this element of the program. (They lost.)\n\nCan  your school and neighborhood fit and support that many poor immigrants?  Mine can't. Do you see that many jobs around? I don't.  This is a big business idea to keep wages depressed for unskilled and semi skilled labor into the indefinite future.\n\nIf the border is truly secured, I want to deport felons and want illegal immigrants to actively start learning English as a condition of legalization.  However, as you say, they are already here.  The problem is that if you say you want legalization people now say 'I want the guest worker program' and most of them don't have a clue what is in it.\n\nIf there is a way to frame the bill during conference into qualified illegal legalization plus MAJOR border security, I would be in favor of it.  To tell the truth, though, I'd rather have no bill at all than the Senate Bill in its current form.
919752
well it seems that there has been a bad assumption. Just because some one has a Hispanic last name does not make them automatic an illegal.
307527
They would be totally screwed. No one but desperate, struggling immigrants would be willing to work in sub-standard conditions for far less than minimum wage, getting sprayed with pesticides and God knows what else.\n\nIf you haven't already read "The Fight in the Fields" about Cesar Chavez, you should... I'm guessing you probably own it already.
330270
Of course.  A legal has every right and we should support them.\nAn illegal is a criminal by definition.  Go through the process of becoming legitimate or don't come to the U.S.\nGiven the sheer numbers of illegals, it would be impossible to deport them all, but they should pay a fine for breaking the law of the land and they should go through the process of becoming legal.  It would take a line of buses from San Diego to Alaska to haul them all out at onece.  Its just not realistic to ship them all out.  Also, given how involved they are in our economy, our economic system would suffer and be threatened with collapse if that many people were suddenly jerked out of it.
665573
Life would go on... I don't think America is going to fall apart without any one minority (not that I have anything against Hispanics, or minorities in general)... I suspect this is in response to 'what would happen if illegal immigrants get mad and leave the USA.  This seems to be the line the media is running with these days, but the mass protests on May 1st didn't affect the economy in any substantial manner (the 10cent hike in gas prices has done far more than they could hope to do), heck it even made my day better, since a segment of the population wasted their time making fools of themselves protesting in the streets instead of impeding traffic on the interstate...