Why do americans hate immigrants and make us suffer more than we already are we are all equal human beigns?

acredhead113

I have nothing against a person wanting to better themselves. I live in Guatemala. I am a legal resident of Guatemala. I applied for and after many trips to immigration I finally received all the necessary documents to have legal status. I am also a US citizen by birth. I think that most intelligent people need to be more compassionate for people who have a dire need to go to the USA but legally. The rift is that illegals should not have the same rights and privileges as people who are legal immigrants in the United States. Most Americans have had ancestors who came from almost every country in the world. Were they illegal is the question I have? What is the difference now?

Burg

We love immigrants, we hate criminals and people who can't get the facts right

dapixelator

We don't hate immigrants. A great many of us ARE immigrants. The big difference is the LEGAL vs ILLEGAL. Most people are sick and tired of illegal aliens coming to the US, using fake IDs, depressing wages, bringing crime/gangs,etc.

If we want to talk about fair-- how FAIR is it that millions have come here by skirting therules. Yet, those who came here, or are waiting to come here, are doing so by following the rules.

Why don't you apply all those arguments to the country you came from? Let's pick Mexico? Why is it that so many mexicans feel they have to risk their lives and come to the US illegally? The country is run by a bunch of thieves. Why not fight back against the forces keeping your own people down. Mexico is a great country, it is just run poorly and those in power THERE are keeping you people down, not the Americans.

Come here legally and you're welcomed with open arms. Come here illegally and we get angry. Simple as that.

Why can't you people understand these concepts.

dcchica711

I personally don't hate immigrants, I just resent the tax burden we bear for them since they take advantage of schools and other municipal services and don't pay taxes.

Also, I speak Spanish but many Americans do not, so it's irritating and not customer friendly to go to Mickey D's to buy a burger and realize that the cashier barely knows English.

walter27282000

No One Hates Immigrants.......

It's Illegal Immigrants Everyone has a Problem With......

There's a Big Difference........

Yet you fail to Point that out.........

grumpyoldman

We don't. Just the illegal ones. Especially the ones that form gangs and sell drugs. We have enough of that crap already. Let us run a background check on you and apply for a visa. Sneak in and you can't expect us to trust you.

Sweetpea

Americans do NOT hate immigrants. We welcome them and will go out of our way to help them assimilate into our communities. We do hate illegal alien criminals who sneak in here, break our laws, and steal identities, drive down wages, raise our taxes, tax our medical systems, education systems and justice systems. You are the one that is ignorant of this issue.

I â™¥ You

We dont hate immigrants. We hate the illegal ones who come up here, steal our jobs, have babies so they cant be deported and abuse our welfare/medicaid system. Those are the ones we dont want here. If they came here legally and did the right thing, then we would want you here. But coming here illegally and the EXPECTING us to foot the bill for your living is what we dont like.

DFS

you do NOT "leave it all behind. ALL." you wave your country's flag EVERYWHERE on our USA soil !! You retain your language, national pride and heritage. Seems like very little assimilation going on here. Learn to assimilate and we'd listen a little more to what you're saying. It is pure ignorance that demands RIGHTS for doing something ILLEGAL, all the while waving the Mexican flag for the cameras to see.

â˜†Bombasticâ˜†

We don't hate immigrants, we welcome them with open arms. We dislike illegal immigrants - individuals who take no time out to respect this nation and the laws we have.

If you were a hard worker, you'd work for your status.
If you wanted a better life, you would have taken the precautions to come here the legal route so you'd be safe in the long run.

Why not take time out to come here the legal route instead of costing the American tax payer more money and being faced with the possibility of being deported? Sorry to say it, but you put yourself in the position of suffering.

This isn't a free country - Many have died in the name of freedom.. We have laws that have consequences, you have free will to obey or disobey them. There's no excuse for you to twist laws around to benefit illegal actions. Follow the law or face the consequences of your actions.. And in all fairness, we don't owe you anything.

We know equality is important, but we also know law is the foundation of this country and without it leaves us no future.

sarge927

Immigrants have not harmed American society. Heck, we're all immigrants after a fashion, so our forefathers helped build this great nation. The problem is ILLEGAL immigration. We understand perfectly anyone's desire to come to this country for a better life, but in the final analysis this country has laws and those who break them by coming here illegally do lots of harm. They force our government to spend more and more tax dollars on border security, social security, welfare programs, health care (since illegal immigrants don't have health care so the hospitals end up eating that bill); the list goes on and on, and who ends up paying the bill ultimately? The American taxpayer. The Mexican government does not arbitrarily let anyone who wants to emigrate to Mexico enter the country with no questions asked -- why should we? If you want to come to this country, we will be happy to have you and welcome you, provided you come to this country legally.

Blackfirefly

MOst probably would not hate, thats to much negative energy into something that produces nothing, I would say it is the policy and the audacity of an illegal demanding rights, I would say go marching in mexicos territory, wave your flag proudly there and make demands there!!!!

ookami007

I don't think most people have any issues with immigrants - especially productive ones.

Illegal immigrants are just that... illegal. They have tried to bypass our laws for their own gain. No one likes a cheater. And that's exactly what illegal immigrants are - they are cheaters. They are criminals.

If someone wants to enter our country, they should show our country some respect and enter legally and then make themselves a productive part of the system.

Instead, you have thousands of illegal immigrants who come here illegally, then cannot get work (because they are illegal) and then live off the taxes of legitimate citizens. They become freeloaders. No one likes freeloaders.

I think every illegal immigrant that is here for non-political reasons (ie. persecution in other countries) should be sent back to their countries and forced to apply for citizenship like the rest of the law abiding immigrants.

I'm sure this isn't politically correct, but it's long past the time to worrry about that. Our lax policies on immigration and "slap on the wrist" prosecution of those violating the law and hiring those who violate the law are taxing our welfare, healthcare and other resources.

I think most people and most Americans want to help those around us - but we do have laws in this country. And we expect YOU to obey them too!

RP McMurphy

Americans tend to fancy the rule of law, so don't expect an attitude adjustment anytime soon.

P.S. - Tell that illegal who stole my Oakley sunglasses from my car if I ever see him I'm gonna hit him over the head with a baseball bat.

honk2goose

Get over it. We don't hate immigrants, we hate ILLEGAL immigrants. Plus, the bill is definitely not passing, why are we even talking about this anymore?

tttplttttt

Why do illegal immigrants hate Americans and want to break our country's laws, abuse our system, burden our resources that are paid BY AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS FOR AMERICANS' USE?

xuserx2000: If our 'DOOR' is mainly locked to *anyone*, that's our prerogative and our laws. It doesn't give anyone from another country an excuse to break them. We have those laws for a *reason*. NonAmericans have no entitlement whatsoever to our country. You're the one without a clue -- or ethics.

soldier_for_life93

Well you shouldn't be in this country illegally then! I can't help if you are a coward and can't fix your own country! You are a criminal and you belong in jail and then deported! No free passes for illegals, period! If you don't like it, leave now!

dms92370

This is in response to illegal imigration, not legal immigration.

Why do you have to ruin our future in search of yours. Crush our dreams in search of yours. You want to make a difference, do it in YOUR country. You say your leaving it all behind, WHAT? are you leaving? You will do to this country, just as you did to your own. Once, it has given all it can. You will move on to the next. You take jobs that could be done by citizens. Once you are amnestied into the country, you will become a drain on us. You will want the better jobs. You will ravage the already hideous Health Care system. Welfare will be our biggest employer, since, now that your citizens, you don't want that other job.

Plus, the first thing you did upon entering the country was BREAK THE LAW!!! Our ancestors got on boats sailed across an ocean, were made to sit on an island til they could pass the entrance exam or sent home. They saw fit to learn the language. Your contempt for OUR society. OUR society! Not yours! Tends to rub us the wrong way. Their are brave men in Iraq, risking their LIVES next to OUR sons, for the chance to EARN citizenship. What do you bring to the table? NOTHING!!

Go home. Make your country beautiful and perfect if you have soo much to offer.

iamct01

It is not fair to the people that come here legally that have to go through the steps to come here. I don`t think they should be turned away from hospitals because they are human but shame on the Americans that hire illegals and gave them the motivation to come here and put us in the position to tell these nice people they have to go home and come back the right way. We have an illegal employer problem not a illegal worker problem.

R, P, then B

when you come here ILLEGALLY, that's when we have an issue.

When you don't pay into the system that you abuse.

when emergency rooms get shut down because they're used as a free source of medical care.

when TB, Mumps and Polio start infecting our children after we had them all but wiped out.

when the lie about "we do jobs Americans won't do" keeps getting played like it'll become true. I will do drywall and construction, I will garden and clean houses.

when I see you protest and carry foreign flags, that tells me you don't want to be American, you want to turn America into the country you left.

When I can't get my daughters into school because the classes are overfull with the children of illegal immigrants.

That's just a start.....

chucky w

I have been a imigrant i went to canada becuse i needed a job, I did it legally and everything was great. yeah it was a pain in the butt, and took forever. However i now get to enjoy the benfits of being in canada. I as a american do not have problems with immigrant i have a problem with illegal immgrants. They should be happy though, If they where in other countries, they would just go to jail untill they die, or worse. I think america is one of the most relaxed nations on it's immigration policies.

Kate

In Utah a skinhead murdered a police officer. The skinhead was under arrest and had been taken to a clinic for some kind of check up. He said he told the policeman 3 times to let him go and the cop wouldn't listen...so it is the cops fault for being shot in the head because he didn't let the criminal go. It just wasn't the skinhead's fault, It couldn't possibly be his fault...he warned the cop. He shot the man in the head ... too bad... but he felt he was not accountable....quite narcissistic...

Illegals blame tax-paying legal Americans for all their ills. Then they call us names because we are sick of you being here.... How narcissistic is that! Why don't you magically return to your country and quit being a nightmare to all of us who carry you on our backs? Why don't you fix your own country? Why don't you behave in a responsible, accountable way? Why don't you use spell-check?

We do not hate immigrants, we do want illegals to be held accountable for their crimes... beginning when they crossed into OUR country illegally. Onward and upward to stolen SS numbers, drunken illegals who kill an average of 23 Americans a day.... onward and upward to those who drain our financial resources by stealing our social services designed to be given to Americans....

We are not here for the same purpose. If you are here illegally, go away.

Hockeyfan

The problem is not with the dream at a better life. We all have that. Yes, there are even those of us who were born and raised here that are looking for a better life. But I do not have the right break the law to get a better life. If you want a better life that is great but please do it legally.

We are all immigrants to say we hate immigrants is to say we hate ourselves. To me that would not be a logical statement. It is not immigration it is your method. It is the legality of it.

rhajha

If this "so called dream" , turns into such a "nightmare"....STAY HOME!!!....If we are all here to look out for one another....Why the hell should WE be responsible to carry the finacial burden of other countries"yours in particular"?....if you were truely trying to better yourselves....Why don't you do something to "better" yourselves in your own country???.....Why do so many of you come here,and take atvantage of the system ILLEGALLY!!!!????...Why do so many of you seemingly have a child as soon as you set down your suitcase?????.....Why do so many of you refuse to speak English(even though we know you can).....????...and the list goes on and on and on......we have our own people to try and take care of....we don't need more.....and especially DEAD WEIGHT!!!!.....Go through the proper channels legally....or GET OUT!!..Is that ENGLISH enough for you??

mckenziecalhoun

I understand the criminal. I can put my feet in his shoes. I would hope that if turned criminal, people would stop me.

You want your dream, but your dream is to steal our dream, to skip our laws, and according to some of the more vocal members of your group (the rest remain silent) want to take part of our country away and give it to Mexico.

You expect courtesy for such treatment? What about our dreams? What about a country for immigrants, protecting it's citizens from those who would escape here to avoid felony prosecution in their own countries, who are shipped here because they have serious contagious diseases, who want to take advantage of our welfare system, endanger their natives by living eight in a room in conditions that would choke a horse, avoiding taxes, taking jobs.

Some employers whine that they need the workers. They LIE. They don't want to raise wages. They want cheap labor. People talk about minimum wage being low. These employers, if they didn't have access to the cheap workers would raise wages to get workers! Why would any legal worker in the United States want it otherwise?

We don't owe you. We are not here for the same purpose.

You are ignorant of our laws, ignorant of what is just, scared because you have broken our laws and may get justly caught, greedy for money you don't have to pay taxes on, full of pride that says "you Americans owe me", and have closed eyes to the unjust way you are treating a country you claim to dream of.

You are the nightmare. We've lived with you long enough.

Folks, make it impossible for any illegal immigrant caught to EVER become a citizen and it will stop over night.

daydreamer2

Why do you confuse the issue by using terms like "immigrants" when you know good and well that it is NOT the IMMIGRANT who is being opposed?? You know very well that it is "Illegal aliens" who are NOT wanted by the majority of Americans. And it would be fair of you to at least look into the very valid reasons we have for not wanting "illegals". Crime, disease, taxpayer money spent on people that are NOT entitled to our money that WE put into the system legally. Just as it is a myth that all Mexicans are criminals, (because I certainly know that isn't true) it is another myth that all people born in America get to live the "American Dream" . There are some of us who have to live week to week and hand to mouth, and never have ANYTHING left over for indulgences. We have to struggle just to keep our heads above water alot of the time. Please, do NOT insult ours or your own intelligence to actually believe that it is the Mexican person who is being critisized, but rather, the "illegal" one who comes like a thief in the night, only to bring chaos and destruction upon those he encounters. And please do not believe the hype that ALL Americans "have it all".

Crazybird

Americans don't hate immigrants. Not even the illegal ones. We want our laws enforced. Breaking the law for a "better life" is no excuse.

Harm society? Please.....the corruption following this mass illegal migration is harming our society. People refusing to speak English and running people out of their homes and towns is ruining our society. Draining our social services, closing our hospitals and clinics and overcrowding our schools, is ruining our society.

America is a country trying to survive as well. We are not the unlimited job fair and freebie capitol of the world.

All I can say is if they all felt this peace and love that you describe.....then why all the kill the gringo, flying a foreign flag, demanding instead of asking, refusing to learn English etc.? Not the example at all of people who are supposidly greatful for a better life. It has caused more division than I've ever seen. Where most have settled they have turned into crime infested neighborhoods where regular Americans dare not tread. Let alone be able to find their way around since none of the signs are in English. Has anyone ever thought that many have brought this on themselves with their own arrogant attitudes? Too many have shot their mouths off degrading American people. Too many have played the race card and made unreasonable demands and made a mockery of this country to feel very compassionate. Whoever designed you're comming out of the shadows party didn't do enough research. Tough luck we're here and you're gonna deal with it and cater to me or I'll make your life hell isn't a very good avenue to take with law abiding citizens. This is our country and we have laws. We have worked very hard to accommodate a wide variety of people. There probably isn't a more compassionate group of people in the world that are willing to help anybody.........they pulled the wrong cards to play. Above all.....obey our laws and speak our language. Not tough or unreasonable demands for anyone when there's so much more offered in exchange.

Anne

You and yours keep asking why the Americans hate immigrants, knowing very well that we are against illegals, but you know that already. This is just your way of playing poor me. You leave your home counties because you are suffering, and now that you are here you want us to give you the American Dream. I think you and yours are playing both ends the against the middle, the middle class that has to pay for your demands and lack of responsibilities for your actions. So stop this poor me act go back to your home counties and stand up for your rights there not here

45 auto

Your crying the wrong tune ,we have more legal immigration
than any other country in the world. If your meaning illegal immigration no comment?

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