Why dont immigrants stay in their country and make things better there?

RAR24

I think the better comparison is breaking the law to come into a country or stay on your own country lawfully and change things there.

America_YES

It's easier to run from a problem than face it.

naphtli

It takes balls to fight for your country, and most illegals' balls are too busy making anchor babies to fight.

buzzy360comecme

I didn't see the word illegal immigrants. So immigrants that are legal. I don't care if the stay and fix their country or not. It is the cowardly and lazy illegal alien invaders that should stay and not come to ours and F it up. The illegal should fix theirs and stay out of ours
Everyone is screwed by their country until they stand up and force their gov to fix itself. We did a few hundred yrs ago. Now everyone wants to rape the USA for all they can get,
Stephizza
ILLEGAL is not a race
You only use the race card when you have no fact or reason to support your racist views
It is you that are the racist there was no race in the question just that added by the racist their selves

Juan_Valdez

They can run which is easier than fighting for a better country.

cutiepie81289

They think the grass is greener on the other side

notyou311

Because it's easier to leave and sneak into a country that gives you all kinds of benefits.

FozzieBear

Because that would take hard work and generations of commitment to make it better. It's much easier to just sneak into another country and take advantage of THEIR ancestors' sacrifices.

Virgo477

The reason that most immigrants leave their home countries is often because the problems that exist there are overwhelming to them and their governments are not in a place to help them. This country has a system created to allow change to occur. It may be slow at times and may not go in the direction that we want but it is possible. My family immigrated here from the Caribbean where due to the political & economic actions of the "1st world" countries such as the US and the UK are so economically and politically unstable that it would have been impossible to do things like educate thier children or buy a home. They often don't return because after investing in a country, creating a new life & seeing your children born & raised there, it is incredibly difficult to lose all of that in the HOPE that MAYBE things may change in 4 or 5 generations. That's a lot to ask of people.

sandy

desperation. Because you, along with everyone else would do the same if you were in their shoes. Their countries and governments are at fault and should resolve their economic and social issues fast. In the mean time they are not just going to sit there and watch their families starve because it is human nature to want to achieve greater things in life.

desayunogratis

I hope you never have to live in a nation that can make you dissapear for speaking.Many people come here from such places.
For the guy who said "because they are to chicken ***** to stay and fight".
Do you think it is easy coming to a place were you go through a desert or cross a river to take remedial jobs to make a living easy. grow up its just better than they had before.

Lendorien

It's about opportunity and ability to take care of your family among other things.

A lot of third world countries are basket cases. They have poor to non-existant school systems, devestated economies and a complete lack of opportunity to succeed. Look at Mexico. Many people live in destitution. they come to America because they can earn a decent living. Many of them send money back to their families in Mexico.

In other cases, a person manages to get an education, but they can't find a job. Going to a country with a better economy allows them to get a job, support themselves and advance in their fields. If they stayed at home, they'd have barely a subsistance wage and struggle to survive.

And in still others, it's about civil unrest. If a person lives in a war zone and can leave, they sometimes will. It's about survival.

It's not about supporting one's country, it's about taking care of themselves and their family for a lot of these folks. And frankly, I don't blame them.

Once they've taken care of themselves and their families, many of these folks support causes to help their homes.

el_oso_candeloso

so lets take for example Mexico, do u think that mexicans just sit around watching how their country falls apart? its not that they dont do anything about it, its the goverment that no matter who they put in front jus screws them in some way. corruption rules and money buys everything there. so what is it left there to do? nothing unfortunately.

rennayo6

When it comes to Africa,our countries where colonised by various European countries and went on to export their raw materials to their countries.you have got to give something back .to this day when i go to my country of origin they are so many white people in residense their.when you become more travelled you'll become more understanding of why things are. plus people die all the time soooooo it will be really hard for the world to be full to the max.nature has a way of making these things even out. This question made me think tooo much i started yammering.sorry,.

gokart121

because our 'representation' is interested in 'globalization' AKA
the whole one-world-government trip. They give a tinker's damn what we as citizens or voters want, 'they know best' is their domestic policy, and YOU, 'citizen' will shut up and LIKE it...well maybe not in those EXACT words, but that does seem to be the general trend at work, here. Be sure to vote, to speak out, to take a position on illegal immigration, and the years of lack of enforcement thereof. If your incumbent is disinclined to act on the issue, then vote him or her out. Enforcement-oriented reform is needed on the immigration issue, whether they like it or not, it's time to be a little more realistic in our policy and less 'give the world a big cookie' etc.

sway_ii

Because the work is already done here, all they have to do is have their presence known and dems will fight for them, they dont have to do anything.

STIFLE IT LIBS

They are too chickenshit to stand and fight like men.

elnavajo

the same reason why your ancestors came here, to look for a better future,

neil r

It's the Aliens,, they are sending signals to my brain,, they keep saying "Except them, love them, take care of them, give them all you have."
They really just want the USA to be mired down in the same filth as all the other third world country's which is caused by their ignorant people. They are doing this so we will never be able to expand out into space.
Aliens RULE!!!! Bush is their puppet!!!

stephizzal

um, maybe because their economy is screwed and they feel they owe it to their children to bring them up in a land with better prospects?

bigot.

TJD

Because they wouldn't be called immigrants....

diva

Imagine someone asking your great-great grandfather that same question when he first came over here.....I bet you're glad he immigrated to this country huh.....or YOU wouldn't be here.

chuch

Stop, and in fact reverse immigration now before itis to late. Make them all go home, those that stay if the break the law deport them and their families. Banish the EEU. Make countries produce all that they need only importing that they can't. Make it only 2 children a family worldwide, taxing those heavily that go over, then they will bring out the cures for lots of illness's if we stop breeding like flys.

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