Who here is tired of the illegal immigration issue?

zetabosio

I know what you mean, but I am more tired of explaining people (in and outside of Mexico) why this stuff on the end is about political interests.

Very conveniently, Mr. Bush developed a guest worker proposal just when he was hitting his lowest points of popularity and the Hispanic community has become the biggest minority in the US.

And very conveniently, the American Congress has decided to push the immigration agenda until after the elections in 2008. That's one whole year from now to START discussing about the immigration issue !!!

The same way in Mexico, the opposition is using the lack of success of implementing a guest worker programme in the US as a failure of the current Mexican President (Mr. Calderon). And candidates are more than ever trying to promote the Mexican vote in the US (!!!), even thinking of visiting cities like LA for propaganda. (!!)

And naturally, we, the people, the tax payers, the folk, are the ones suffering from their nuances. I truly believe we are just being used by politicians from both sides of the border to gain part in any of the postures for them to win more seats at the congresses.

overweight doomsayer

There's a difference beetween legal immigrants and illegal immigrants...
Most irish chinese ect that came in the beginning of the century had to go threw strict health screenings.they were here legally after that.They came here to work not to cause trouble.They came here to be americans not to shove their own countries flags down our throats like mexicans do.
The illegals here do not care about that.They come here to make money to send back to mexico....

Serpico7

Yes, the latino's are the majority, over 3/4 of all the illegal immigrants are latino. So if we concentrate on them, then we take a big bite out of the issue. Make sense? Stop your ignorance and follow the law!

Make something out of nothing? But we already have something!

steddy voter

I will agree with you that the illegal immigrant population is comprised of several nationalities. I will also agree that our varied cultures have made our country great, and that there have been instances of illegal immigrants in the past.

However, I will disagree with you on other points. First of all, at the time Emma Lazarus' poem was added to the statue of liberty, the U.S. had in full force the Chinese Exclusion Act - the only law in U.S. History that has banned a specific ethnicity. This was enacted after the transcontinental railroad was completed. The country was more exclusionary than it is now. Also, the immigrants that came here by ship in the 19th and early part of the 20th century had to endure greater hardships than legal immigrants today, and yet the numbers of illegal immigrants were significantly lower. The legalitities were much stricter then. Laws were enforced.

exgrunt

I am tired of the illegal immigration issue not being solved. I do not believe that rounding up and deporting 12 million people is realistic or worthwhile. On the other hand, I do believe that the border and ports of entry can be controlled. Unfortunately, large corporations want to import a continuously renewable underclass in order to keep wages low. Companies that employ illegal immigrants must be held accountable. Once that is done, you'd be amazed at how quickly wages would rise. Imagine: a living wage without a single piece of new legislation.

already_enuff_spice_in_this

Yes, tired of hearing the Mexican bashing, and "illegal=criminal" if they only knew the truth. Who knows what it going to take for it to stop.

Sweetharttt

If we can get rid of the majority of illegal criminal aliens, which happen to be latinos, then the rest would be a breeze to flush out and send back to their country.

Illegal is illegal.

Tobias Maximus

Yes, please get out of your trailors once in a while and forget about illegal immigrants. They do more good than you do....thanks!

Sergio D.

lex, its racist to assume that only latino illegal immigrants come here for the welfare and not to work

El Chile

here . I'm sick and tired of seen the Whites picking on Latinos but specially on Mexicans . and I'm not illegal and i speak English( I think,)and still not making them happy so .

honeybeejim

I'm tired of government not doing anything about illegal immigrants

Harihara S

First thing is any law is illegal to human freedom of existence.

But we have an organized form of social living. Therefore, we have laws, regulations and other social structures existing everywhere time immemorial. Laws were made not to punish but to protect. But if protecting means punishing then allow it sometimes, taking then existing various social factors in to consideration.

Poverty and disparity among human beings is the main factor for immigration apart from another major factor- opportunity (happens with elite social group and well educated). Therefore, if nations must stop illegal immigration they should immediately step in to eradicating poverty. The poverty and disparities should be stopped and checked at the local levels at different nations. If this is done vast levels of both legal and illegal immigrations can be stopped. Every human being thinks he or she has the right to access all the natural resources aplenty on planet earth. That is basically the devil of all other evils.

We do not have the right to anything on mother earth. But still we can leverage ourselves with a little freedom to live in and co-exist with mother nature. Major portion of the human race are an unenlightened masses however, they may be well educated. Therefore, they follow their heart, they follow their feelings and emotions, they follow their own limited intelligence and apply it to the rest of the social thinking they can do at best.

In such case they would never know what is legal or illegal or what is right and wrong. It is said, "Survival of the fittest was a past thing." But somewhere some how such a thing still exists. Therefore, each one wants to be fit enough by hook or by crook.

Barrage

folks, it doesn't matter if we're tired of illegal immigration. illegal immigration will effectively be taken care of when corporate America and the IRS will stop squeezing cash out of these people.
(for those who believed that illegals don't pay taxes, you're wrong. Quite a few of them do that's one of the reasons laws against them are not enforced.)

RicMon87

I'm tired people crying and moaning about the illegal immigration issue. I mean, get a hobby (not you), and no offense.

I understand what you are saying, people still give us facts and statistics on how most of the illegal immigrants are Mexican, as it that gives them a right or an excuse to hate Mexicans, or to bash them, etc. No, that's not an excuse.

â™¥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~â™¥

Some illegal immigrants in the US are more integrated than others. I posted a question here and I talked about white illegals:

* Lost Kiwis and Kolalas: Australilan and New Zealand illegals.

* JFK or Logan Carpenters: Irish illegals.

* Stray Canucks: Canadian Illegals.

These people are white and speak English and usually enter the US legally but overstay their visas. They have protective coloration.

The Irish illegals even have a very big Irish-American community that gives them support. Russian and East European illegals have American communitys in the US too.

But the large Mexican-American community in the US is more segregated from the US society even though it has the history and most Mexican-Americans are white and mestizo. But in the northeast there are tensions with Mexican-Americans and blacks and the White Power people are targeting Mexican-Americans. It's bad.

There is more to say but for now I'm trying to say that this is not just an illegal alien thing and it is getting worse.

lonewolf1

I am just tired of illegals, period..!!!!!

judy "ORIGINAL"

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I'm a little tired of it, yes.

If the mask fits...

You are right, and I agree with you!!!

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