Can anyone me honestly or does any one care?

Carol R

Yeah, people care. Our country is not open minded and we really don't care about the plight of the world around us, that is going to be our biggest downfall. It's hard to be on this sight and keep goodness in your heart, I bet half of the racists who claim to be "good Americans" also consider themselves good Christians. It's sad.

MEL T

This is a lie. My mother was Canadian and came here legally decades ago. My cousin who was educated came to live with us and was ordered back to Canada. This is not a Racist issue as much as the Mexicans would like to believe it so.

Windseeker_1

Canadians do have certain restrictions when they go to the US too. We can't stay as long as we want without permission. We can't cross the border if we have certain major convictions. We cannot bring children over without their birth certificate. We cannot work over there without a permit. We cannot vote.

51ain'tbad

How hard they work has nothing to do with being illegal, I have never refused a job either, I have done some shitty work in my day to raise my family.

Mr Toooo Sexy

I seem to remember before we had so many illegals that America didnt have a economic collapse from a lack of non skilled workers.Hhmmmmmmmm. I wonder how that happened?

poisoneva

They deplete welfare, medicaid, public schools....they don't pay taxes into the systems that are supporting them. You need to get your facts straight. Anybody who doesn't pay taxes does not deserve to live here and should be deported!

rnash0305

what we americans "honestly" want is for people like you to get educations and be honest about wanting to become citizens. speak english, not spanish, don't demand segregation in schools for your kids because you are too hard-headed to learn or teach your kids to learn english so our "american" teachers have to give up their jobs to people who know how to speak spanish and can teach your kids. how unfair is that? and we don't refuse to work, they take that work because there are people that will pay them cash just to get the work done, they should be busted and sent back across the border with the illegals.

Saphire

Not all mexicans are illegal immigrants. Not all canadians are legal immigrants.

pogostc

First off, no they do not help us that much. They are helping themselves. Why is it work that Americans won't do? Because too many people feel as though they are entitled to something "just because." Look at all the posts referencing the redistribution of wealth. How many Mexicans come here for work and how many come here and break the law. I think the numbers would boggle your mind. Do some research on this, there are many government agencies and many non-government groups that track the numbers. You have a computer do some digging.

I don't understand what your color or race has to do with this. So since you have black and white relatives that makes you a true American and the rest of us below you? Choose your words better. As Hillary Clinton said they do the work nobody else wants to like clean up after her, wash her clothes, and clean her house. I don't have a Mexican doing my work.

As far as what makes me believe I have a right here. I bled for this country, I have a right here. My father and his father before him did the same. My family came here legally, they went through Ellis Island and earned the right. Crossing the boarder and sneaking past and sometimes shooting officers doesn't give you a right. This also goes far back to when the Spaniards killed the Aztecs and took Mexico, hence the Spanish language. Since they killed Indians first does that mean they deserve it more?

As far as Canadians go, you don't see them dragging their children through the frozen lakes to get here. You don't see them running across the boarder smuggling drugs. You don't see the Canadians claiming the land as theirs. You don't see the Canadians forcing their views on us like the Mexicans are pushing their educational standards on local public schools. You don't see Canadian gangs coming into our cities killing people. Need I go on?

ramjet

OK, lets remain in the present for now.....
by today's law and the cultural arrangement between the US and Canada, we can each cross the border regularly and easily. The difference is, Canadians do not generally cross the border in order to work at low paying jobs for a season, or sneak in in order to stay in the land of plenty (we have plenty of our own thanks and a great standard of living to boot).
Illegal immigration is a problem, no matter how you look at it. Mexicans (and others) get into the states to work at low paying jobs and also in alot of cases hopefully to stay because they feel they have a better chance at making a decent living for themselves and their families. It has to be regulated in some way - it's not an option for any administrative government - and it's not simple.
As far as the past is concerned, you are right, we all have an ambiguous claim to this continent - but we live in the here and now - and we are governed by those we put in power.

special-chemical-x

People from canada have to go through immigration just like people from mexico - exact same deal.

And there are limits of how many immigrants from which countries. It's just that there are many more mexicans coming to the US than Canadians. So the Canadians probably aren't filling out the max they are allowed while the Mexicans are easilly doing so.

Most people who came to the US did so legally - NOT illegally.

Even the early settlers came here legally, as the indians had no law against it.

Once the indians were pushed aside and the US controlled the land, laws were put in place limitting how many people can come across the border and for how long or under what conditions. After that point there were now illegal immigrants.

Bob

You need to read a book every once in a while, get your facts straight and ask you question again.

TRUTHSEEKER

they help? ya they help tear down are system. do you know how many hospital's that have closed down because they don't have the fund's to stay open, because of the illegals not payin. how about them sponging off are welfare system. the only reason they do the job's the Americana's wont do, is because the boss man knows when he See's a fool. an illegal will work for less then the american's. please read your facts before you bump your gum's. and they don't pay there tax's

mickeyg1958

There are no jobs Americans won't do, Peaches. And YOU tell ME, why should someone from another country go through the proper legal channels and wait years, while for others it is just a hop, skip, and a jump into my backyard in Houston? Hmmm?
I have ancestors from Mexico but they got here legally, just like everyone else should. Do you bleeding hearts know how to balance a checkbook? Do you realize Harris County Hospital District (Houston metro area) spent $92 million, yes I said million, dollars to give FREE medical care to illegals last year? Guess what happens if I need free medical care? Ooops, sorry, out of funds, NEXT!

Wake up and look at the numbers, folks. We cannot afford to feed, house, and clothe the whole freakin' world for free...why? Because nothing is free, that's why. You pay, I pay, our children and grandchildren pay.

Kaz

Bottom line, you need to have permission to enter a diffrent country, i.e. Pass port, green card, gov't papers.

yars232c

why aren't you so heavy against living in Mexico or any other country, why here?

I dare all of you illegals to leave and we'll see who needs who. You won't, because we're right.

Try that argument in cuba, china, or russia, or better yet - north korea and see how far you get. There cannot be world citizens and no borders. That was the stone age.

geez

justasking

no one can just come here and be legal you need proper visas and work papers . I work construction and am tired of hearing how Mexicans do work I or people like me don't want we just can't afford to do the work at 7-10 bucks an hour. big company's hire them so the small business can't compete and go under.I have nothing against the legal immigrant just keep it fair and keep out the illegals

The difference ids the Canadians do it the legal way they can't come here illegally and just get citizenship any more than Mexicans can. Illegal is illegal whether you come from Mexico Canada, China or Europe. Without a Visa you are illegal and you know it. And Mexicans do the work Americans used to do all the time but they won't do them for minimum wage and illegals who do only depress the wages for everyone else. When or if they give amnesty to the ones who are here illegally they will find out first hand because the next wave of illegals will take the job you are doing for $7.00 an hour and will do it for $5.00 an hour then you will see why we complain.

volleyballchick

1. Canadians are treated differently because they are not ILLEGALLY flooding into this country and then claiming "foul" when the US wants to enforce their LAWS.

2. Your illegal Mexican friends made their own bed. They are getting the "rage" of Americans due to the ones that choose to come here illegally and rob us economically, socially and financially. And you wonder why they are not welcomed with open arms? Does taxes mean anything to you??

3. We all did not come here illegally. A majority of our families came over to this country long before immigration law. So how can one violate a law that wasn't? It's hard to break a law when it is not there to break, right?

My family is a mix of English, Irish, German, and my grandfather (god bless him) was 100 % Native American. So you know something? I have a pretty good right to be here. . .

They do not "help". They hurt. How? They use government programs (welfare, social security, medicaid, etc) without paying taxes for them. They use our school systems again without paying taxes for them. They undercut pay rates in some areas of the country because they are willing to work for less than minimum wage (which no one can live on the way it is). They use our hospitals and then can't afford to pay for the care. Do you think that just goes away? Nope. We pay for it on our next visit.

Help? Yeah - they're helping me pay higher for everything. Really fair. Why don't I love illegal immigrants???

razeumright

No, none of my ancestor came here illegally, they broke no laws coming to this country, be it 1600's from England or 1840 from Ireland all came into this country legally, they did not stow away on the ships that brought them here, they booked passage. Blacks were brought here against their will but legally until they banned slavery. Why do some people think they have right to be here? Well some of our roots run deep, our ancestors fought at Valley Forge and won our independence from England, they farmed and cleared and raised families in the harshest conditions and every generation has given so that the next will have it better, why should Mexicans be entitled to the freedom and prosperity that Americans have been fighting and working for for over 200 years, do they not have a country of their own? If they want what we have let them fight a war of rebellion and secure their freedom from a corrupt government. Mexicans need to change their own country not invade ours.

rainydaydreamr

check your facts. there are plenty of mexicans that have moved to this country, both legally, and illegally, then got legal. canadians have the same legal restrictions. you just hear more about mexicans because canadians aren't so desparate to get here that they kill themselves to get here, because the conditions in their country are generally much better than they are in mexico.

nigelbestpeace

keeping mexicans illegal makes them weaker, more vulnerable, more easily manipulated for the owners of america, the superrich

there is a human failing to look up to the rich and down on the poor - whereas the truth is that the poor are the robbed and the rich are the robbers

you are quite right - humanity has not yet learned to make the rich poorer and the poor richer, ie, to head towards justice, which is the source of peace, happiness, freedom, democracy, everything good

people allow unlimited wealth which is unlimited power, which is always used to oppress [steal from] others - people allow the rich to foment wars and send the people off to fight and die in them - people allow the rich every freedom to be above the law, run the country into ruins - the people always have done so

every empire has fallen from becoming excessively overrich and overpoor, which is theft, which is cause of violence, which bankrupts the state

now we have the bombs capable of destroying all life - and the people are still allowing the superrich every freedom to destroy the world, to rob the world, and thus to increase anger and violence and danger and expense

1% get 90% of world income and do less than 1% of the work - and the people do nothing - like the peasants in the film the three amigos, who allow the bandits to regularly steal and rob and get richer and more powerful and tyrannical

the rich have always flooded the work market with labour to get cheap ie slave labour - in the 19th C they closed the commons, ran off tenants, built deer parks, so tha tthe industrial revolution would have cheap labour - they didnt stop short of having 12 year old nearnaked girls pulling coaltrucks through freezing dripping corridors underground

the people love to be persecuted, beaten up, used, abused, raped, exploited, worked to death, frightened to death, killed, used as cannonfodder

proof: how obvious was it that wealth is power - how obvious was it that superwealth was superpower, that superpower was undemocratic, tyranny? - and yet the american people for 200 years ignored the wisdom of the founding fathers and let wealth concentrate, let the whip that would beat them grow freely in america - and so it has been in every age: let plutocracies arise and abuse the people

karen s

i was raised in a poor neighborhood, composed of all races,in a very large city, unlike black people, or any other race. Mexicans exclude THEMSELVES, they only talk to each other,they only hang out with each other.our native language is and always has been English, fine if you live here ,fine if you were born here,but we speak english,and YES by all means bring your culture. thats what makes this america. BUT SPEAK OUR LANGUGE !!!!!. that would help alot.

butterflyspy

Stop Lying and saying Mexicans Are doing work we refuse to do.Maybe They are doing work you wont do.IM a white farm worker in the trenchs and alot of them have actually refused to do work I do.We had one girl last a week it seems in Mexico she was a teacher and when she realized she had to get Nasty to do what I do she decided to go home.It wasnt what she had thought would be.So please stop generalizing.Right now I look around me and see many white rednecks crawling through crap picking up carcasses.If you aint in the trenches you dont know.I know they keep our wages down.

DAR

There are still restrictions but a big part of it is that so many Mexicans here are bringing in family as fast as they are allowed, that they already have the biggest number of visas being awarded, as I understand it.

Amberly Pattison

Sad but true. Mexicans get a very different race card don't they. I belive that part of it is that Canadians have the same physical looks as many Americans. Mexicans are set apart by their skin color and their language as well. Plus Canada is a very beautiful place where there is so much good. The people like it there, and most of them aren't trying to move to the US. However we get so many immigrants from Mexico and more people wanting to come. It makes it look as if people in Mexico don't liie their own country so why would Americans. I hope this helps. Not my opinion, but a general view.

Woopyalecris

Because the bigger countries my friend took advantage of Latin America, whatever is south of the border was good while we had money, when Latin America runned out of money we were not longer welcome, they even take our name and use it just for the USA calling themselves Americans, when America is a continent not a country.

Princess 29 71

If we understood the power of our thoughts,
we would guard them more closely.
If we understood the awesome power of our words,
we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
In our thoughts and words we create
our own weaknesses and our own strengths.
Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts.
We can always replace negative with positive

We do not see things as they are.
We see them as we are.

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