Is the Anti-Illegal Immigrant Movement disliking immigrants hurting U.S. image abroad?

the big

I think so

To wes s:
I have seen that question millions of times. Post it in the law and ethics section, or the languages section, not here

I doubt that anybody does not understand the meaning of illegal, but just in case, I say it:
Means: "out of the law, not following the law, at the margin of the law"

There ! Happy now ?

forstay

I think our inability to remove the illegals from within our borders is a much more dangerous message to be sending to those abroad .

Cheshire Cat

NO
because other countries are much more strict towards illegal immigration
for example my home country Germany

-no education for illegals( if they try to enroll in a school , they get arrested and will be send home)

the same happens if they go to hospital for treatment
after they got help for their medical problem , they go straight home

no landlord will rent a house or a apprtment to an illegal because they can not provide documentation , and they can not open an bankaccount

Yak Rider

I hope so. I hope it really spoils our image in all the countries where the bulk of the illegal aliens come from.

DAR

If there were no subsidies it would be a different issue. But when you set up a system to tax for education of so many, who almost all speak the same language, and have to add in literally millions whose parents pay less taxes (if any) than their families take in benefits, don't have educated parents, and don't speak the language, not only is it improperly taking from those who actually belong there, it ruins education and other services for the people who are paying for them.

If there were no subsidies, it would be about people. Now it's about not enough resources and too great a cost, as well as transfer of subsidies not to the poor people have agreed to help, those born or properly admitted here, but to those who snuck in to get those benefits. Every parent wants what is best for their children, but the ones who follow the rules, work and pay for that are ENTITLED to it, and have reason to hold a grudge against those who illegally overburden the system.

ICE 'em

No. Them being here is though. It makes it appear as if we can not secure our borders and just let criminals run about.

Î‘GITÎ©

I don't think so. As you stated, this "movement" is anti - ILLEGAL immigrant and I'm sure numerous countries around the world can relate.

Karen

No, it is making people think twice before crossing the border illegally.

Adam C

1/3 all of those in prison are illegal aliens. go talk to the families of those who were murdered, raped or robbed by these dirt bags

Kosta

i am sorry that this is not an answer but i just had to say this

to Obama the Messiah: you are such an idiot. first of all if the U.S. falls all countries in this world will go into total disaster, their economy is gonna be history. 2nd of all the U.S. is far mopre succesful then any country in the world right now, expecially with more then half of them in a hellhole. do you know why we are so succesful? because we had and still have intelligent hardworking people building and maintaining our government. yes there are people sitting on their a**es watching TV and wanting the government to do everything for them but those people are not true americans, most of them came from other countries and all they could care about is themselves. the U.S. will stand tall for thousands of years to come idiotic selfish people like you will never bring us down. btw, why are u so negative against the U.S. is it because we are the most succesful country or because we technolagized and connected the whole world making life, communication, and trading much easier?it's people like you that start wars and cause uneccesary deaths.

you just got told off by an 8th grader

Victor

That situation of hurting the usa image has bveen going for a loooong time. Now with the dislike of imigrants, the hate crimes against imigrants ( legal or ilegal, it is a non discrimination issue. They are all included ), etc, etc, it is getting a little bit even worse

But the usa don't care about that

wes S

Who cares about our image abroad. What part of ILLEGAL is so hard to understand?

Dirty Martini

No, it isn't. Our policies around immigration are no better--and no worse--than most.

And let's pretend it is for a minute.

Why would we possibly care?

left the forum

Yes. But that is part of American history. The USA reputation is bad anyway, but fellow Americans ( racists) don't have the intelligence to see it.

Ya heard me

The U.S. would have to care first. And then, be grateful that maybe these moochers dislike us so much they no longer come here to take over what we have.

Paco

You have 40 answers, and 106 questions, talk about one confused person. If most of those question are as lame and wacko as the ones you ask in the immigration section, Houston, we have a moron here.

dipstick

That has got to be the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

I would say the racist pro-crime pro-illegal anti-American movement is hurting the U.S. image abroad.

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Diablo

The fact the the U.S. can't even control it's borders has to be hurting it's image. If the U.S. has a bad image, I would hate to see what the world thinks of Mexico's image, bunch of crazy people who invade other nations by the thousands and don't care about others laws, drugs, crime, kidnappings, corruption etc.

GreasyTony

Yes it is! and especially when groups like the KKK are allowed to rally and try to brain wash more Americans into their hate. They tell Americans that the agenda is focus on "illegal immigration", when we really know the truth. It's almost embarrassing to know that Americans are doing such things, especially on here when we see such negative comments and threats against illegals, and the people that try to defend them. I don't think other countries see it as a good thing when hate groups have been reported to be growing because of the immigration issues.

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/04/anti-immigration-hate-on-a-rapid-upswing/
Anti-immigration hate on a rapid upswing

The recent rise in number of hate groups also parallels a rise in hate crimes against Latinos, which the FBI reported up by 35 percent between 2003 and 2006. FBI experts say those crimes usually are intended to target illegal immigrants, but often hit legal residents, many of whom are native U.S. citizens.

livelife

um hello havent you wached the news latetly? there are people killing immigrants legal or not legal and you say that its the immigrant to blame. if you are proud of racism then you will go to hell because we are all human beings. doesnt take an eigth grader like me to figure that out

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