Simply Understanding the Illegal Immigration...

That's the way they would like us to do things but I for one have started complaining to my phone company, cable company and any other place that wants me to press 1 for english...My main question is why to I have to press one for english....This is the United States....Would like to report that our phone company has now taken that option off the message they have...The longer we keep meeting their demands the more they will demand..... With people like the jerks at the ACLU we as Citizens of the United States we are going to have to start demanding that our laws that are already on the books be inforced and OUR LAW MAKERS START TO DO WHAT WE WANT DONE...if they don't then when election time comes around kick them out of office so fast that it will take them three weeks to be able to set down... To often we just set on our hands and say let someone else do it that's why the country has gotten this way..Anyone who doesn't take notice that they are breaking into to our country must have their head in the sand...

I wish I could agree with you and I wish I could tell you it was that easy. Yes, we should protect our borders and yes, it is illegal and a crime. But these people have nothing to go back to. They aren't trying to take anything away from you and me. They are trying to provide for their family. THey don't HAVE JOBS to go to. Mexico is BROKEN. Their economy is in horrid condition, crime is rampant, and they don't have jobs. These people are just trying to LIVE. They come here and they DO work that americans won't do. Are you willing to be a migrant worker? Are you willing to work in a dirty factory? They do these things. Without them, many US Farms would GO OUT OF BUSINESS if they had to pay YOU the wage YOU would ask to pick grapes or melons. They do fill a need. And they are PEOPLE too. They come here because America accepts them, and sometimes that is under the table. They risk their lives. And now you want to kick them out? That's pretty hard. Some have lived here for DECADES, had families, who are now American Citizens. Some have built a good life for themselves and they have nothing to go to if we kick them out. We should have done a better job from the beginning, but trying to round people up like cattle, and dump them into a country that has NOTHING to offer them - who wins there? The price of your groceries just went up. The price of many items you buy just went up. Families are torn apart, and children separated from their mothers. SO tell me, who wins here?

I have received that same email. It does tend to put things in the proper perspective. There is a sheriff in Georgia that has started deportation proceedings against over 40 (I don't remember the exact number, maybe 43 give or take) illegal immigrants. Imagine that, a law enforcement officer who has the backbone to uphold the current laws. We need about 5 million more like him.

What does it say for our mentality when we allow criminals to dictate to us? Surely there are some elected officials who can see what they are doing and what a bleak future is ahead of us if something is not done NOW to stop them!

Oh my - this is probably going to make me very unpopular, but the more I read these type of discussions I get so mad! So please - tell me - what the hell is wrong with welcoming different people and cultures, into your country? AFter all, America is one very large country, and only a few hundred years ago, it was populated purely by native, non-English speaking American Indians - and who cared about them and their rights, when the immigrants moved in? And as for learning new languages? It broadens the mind - helps you learn about something outside your narrow little world - so what is wrong with it? I live in Europe - everything her is multi-cultural - we all speak at least two or three languages - we all learn them from early childhood, and travel extensively to neighbouring European countries where the language/religion/culture/government changes every few hours as we cross borders. We have also recently had large amounts of people moving here from Africa and India/Pakistan, who have bought their own culture/religion and food etc here. And rather than harming us, - it has bought us a greater culture, knowledge and understanding of the world around us, of other people, and their problems. It an oly be good - not bad. My job works with refugees - you cannot imagine the stories I hear and the traumas some of these people have left behind, so to blithely say that people ought to "stay put" and make their own country a better place, is the height of ignoramce. I guess it is because so many Americans are so ignorat of everything outside their own little world..........I read somewhere that only 12% of American people have passports, which scares the living daylights out of me - no wonder so many are so narraw, and judgemental, and scared of"foreingers" and change. So please - open up a bit - look at the world in a little less blinkered a way. These people are not all criminals, and if you let them, they could bring a change for the better to your land - some even might become your friends.

"Why can't people see how rediculous this is?? " What is ridiculous is when people try to put into simple terms, a complex situation. How about this one? I own a fruit stand. A starving child "steals" a piece of fruit. I guess I should go off on that child and call a swat team because they HAD THE NERVE to take some of what I have. Never mind that I am making a ton of money of this fruit stand and throw away a trash can full of spoiled fruit each day because I can't sell it all.

A friend sent me this a few months ago, and I did not realize how easy it made the whole thing to understand ...and to demonstrate that we are idiots. I don't understand, and I personally am tired of it. I but my butt at work to get very little money and terrible benefits. Then I find that people come here from other countries and get better medical coverage then I do...for free. I think the whole thing sucks, but in our passion to be politically correct...we are stupid.

i feel as you do in some aspects, I wish we as American people can go to another country and get a fresh new identity and credit line no matter what the situation was back home. It has gotten out of control and it doesn't make sense how they are still getting in? I'm more worried about terrorists seizing the vulnerability as a way to get into the country posing as an illegal immigrant.