Immigrant Love

Cleary, this man has not been to Los Angeles and seen what Mexican illegal immigration has done to this city. I am a native, and have seen all facets. If you stepped off a plane and drove around randomly, most of the time you would think you're in a 2nd or 3rd world slum. I can tell you that it wasn't this way even 25 years ago. So to the apologists and liberals who embrace this and embrace paying for them and their kids, I say welcome to your nightmare.

OBEY THE LAW !! Racism is easy to hide behind those words. Since when do people care so much about every single law that the US has imposed? People are going to come here despite whatever stupid anti "MEXICAN" law we have. The reason you like that law so much is because it is created in a way that makes it almost impossible for an immigrant especially Central Americans to settle here. One thing is for sure is that US and Mexico were in reverse Americans wouldn't give a crap about no stupid anti American law in order to create a better life for their family. And by the way i live in Laredo, TX born and raised and its also one of the safest places to live way way safer than LA, Miami, Detroit, New York, etc. Grenades, machine guns,are you kidding me come on get a fu$%#ng life. probably like three or four times i heard gunshots outside in my LIFETIME and im 28 years old. Now next door in Nuevo Laredo Mex. it is crap i give you that but we also have some of the best law enforcement agencies in the country (webb count sheriff, laredo pd, and the best border patrol agents) keeping us safe. Anyway be afraid of the MEXICANS. They are taking over. They are becoming the majority. And by the way go ahead and build you multi billion dollar twelve foot wall on the border. We'll just by a $10 thirteen foot ladder at a mexican home depot

Why is it that the only immigrants everyone is talking about are the hispanic immigrants from Mexico? No one seems to be very upset at the American Corporations that are providing immigrants with jobs. There's no complaints when they are digging your ditches or picking your fields. Cheap swaetsuite shops involving asians didnt register to many complaints, and lets not talk about all the asian mesage parlors sprawled across the country. No coplaints there. Nobody's in those places checking for green cards or demanding our government do so! It seems that we Americans are forgeting what Mexico and itt citizens have done for us. Go to Cancoon, Tiajana, or Madamores. I dont hear them complaining about us over there drinking and vacationing and buying cheap goods.

For one thing, MArrying a citizen does not ensure legalization. I have an uncle that married a lovely woman from Australia, and they had a heck of a time! They even contacted the government ahead of time to find out what hoops they would have to jump through to enable this lady to stay in the country during the naturalization process. Because of faulty information, these newlyweds were not able to be with each other in the same country for over a year. After that, the road was still rocky, and by noo means an easy process. I also have a friend who moved to this country at the age of 3. His parents never became citizens, and at the time of his marriage, he was not a citizen either. He started the process in his teens ( when he was old enough to know what was going on) and married an American citizen in his early twenties. He is now married to a U.S citizen, and has two beautiful American children and is still struggling through the immigration process. He speaks English as well as you or I and can't remember any other country, and has struggled to do the right thing in the right way. Yet he has to work twice as hard to earn half the money to support his young family because he is not yet naturalized.

It is certainly not as easy as just marrying a U.S citizen. It is doing a disservice to make it appear to be so.

Wow! another article trying to confuse Legal and illegal immigration. 47 million Latinos here, this is a very good reason to stop all immigration of Latinos. Not because they are bad people, which most are not, but because they have no reason to assimilate or learn English with that many of them here. The bu** Sh** claims tht we can not deport 20 million (pick a number) illegals is brought up by Latin groups that want us to give up and open the border. We can get rid ogf many by just requiring employers to prove they hired only legal residents. This is our country, not Mexico's and we can decide who to let in. We are being invaded while Mexico stops illegals from entering their country on it's southern border (hyprocrites). Concerned citizens of the US must fight governors, senators and Catholic and Latino groups to keep our country. If we loose they will open the border. Ask why don't they protest in their own country? Newsweek should stop letting Sampson and Zakaria spout their ill founded beliefs.

How' ' pimping to the american public' sound to you as an answer to your question. It was originally used by one of the founding fathers on another one at election time... for some, the need to hate is stronger than the need to love, I call them bigots.
Why don't those 'illegal immigrants' get their human rights recognized ?
White man comes to America, the whole continent, commits genocide on the natives, brings slaves first for cheap labor and then declare that same cheap labor as illegal. do you see any greed in there ?

How's 'pimping to the american public' sound to you as an answer ? the phrase was used originally by one of the founding fathers on another one..

How's 'pimping to the american public' sound as an answer ? I
the phrase was originally used by one of the 'founding fathers on another one, to the best of my knowledge, also on election time...

The issue is, and always has been one of culture. If immigrants assimilate they are perceived differently than those who do not. Latino immigrants have elected not to do so or are at a minimum taking their time, and as a result they have been met with a backlash. Liberal Americans have elected to promote a Multi-cultural path, enraging those of us on the ground who see the cost of such idealism. Multiculturalism doesn't work, and societies that permit the divisions to remain ultimately pay a horrific price.

America MUST be united by one language, one economic system and one system of government based on the principals of law, democracy and self sufficiency. If our new neighbors choose to walk a different path, we as Americans need to steer that path back to the fence the jumped over when they came in. American poor are being betrayed by American industry by having their jobs stolen and given to illegal's in the name of profit. Our public institutions are being exploited and our infrastructure overwhelmed by those who don't even claim allegiance. It is time we show them the door, WHILE WE STILL CAN!

All one need due is study France to see our future.

First of all, I assume that we are making the assumption that in the image of crime, we are not including the obvious fact that so-called "undocumented immigrants" are breaking the law simply by being here. People need to take their statistics and put them together. Statistics supposedly show that crime is lower with first generation (especially illegal) immigrants. But statistics also supposedly show that immigrants (especially illegal) are also very unlikely to report crime. Also, it's very difficult to put a hand on illegal immigrants who hide and run from police rather then be questioned by them about crimes that were committed in the neighborhood. This leads to a further lack of faith in the system and fewer crimes are reported. I used to work in law enforcement and I saw it all the time. It's really hard to find out about crime if no one in the neighborhood will talk to police including the victims. Immigrants don't report crime because they're afraid that they'll be arrested and as a result, fewer crimes are reported. (Of course, they shouldn't worry, because in most places nowadays, you can't check their immigration status even if you arrest them.) Thus leading to an image of a lower crime rate. This leads to more gang activity, as people feel 'justice' must be done, and if they can't go to the police, then who do they go to? They go to the gangs. The gangs accomplish the task and again, no one reports anything to the police because they don't want to get arrested for being here illegally in the first place, and now for a second reason, they're more afraid of the gangs then they are of the police. And your contention that the crime in Texas is a result of gang violence spilling over into the US is ridiculous. The gangs wouldn't be coming after people in the US if we didn't have an open border. They don't have a beef with the US citizens, they have a beef with the rival gang members that fled across the border into the US to hide out. The simple fact is, do the crime, do the time, and every single undocumented immigrant in the United States today is a criminal and should be arrested and deported immediately. Anyone who says otherwise is soft on crime. Period.

Yes, one of the causes of crime is gang activity. That is not the issue. Legal immigrants are not the issue. The issue is simple - enter the country legally so we know who you are and what your past is, Employers hire only legal immigrants and citizens. Government resources should aid and not complicate these two goals.

El Paso, Texas, has one of the lowest crime rates in the United States, and it is majority Hispanic.