Illgeal Imigrants to Take to the Street? Foolish.
Illegal imigrants and supporters are taking to the streets in protest in order to demand rights. They say that by not working or buying today they will prove that they can cripple our economy. They demands rights! Apparently a large population hasn't gotten the memo about how rights work in this country. They would have gotten that information had they looked into the process of being legal. Besides human rights that everyone gets including them, citizens of the United States get rights as citizens, which include voting, good roads, free school for the kids, help for the poor, etc. There is even a government office whose sole purpose is to help people become citizens.
But these people are illegal. They didn't go get citizenship. Admitedly some of them might have tried, and they might have gotten turned down for whatever reason. If you aren't a citizen, or you don't have a greencard, or visa, then that would mean that you are breaking the law and thus "illegal".
Did you know that criminals convicted of a felony lose their rights as citizens? No more voting, no more being a gun owner. If you are breaking the law now just by being here, what makes you think you are going to get rights as a citizen? What makes you think you should?
Do you want to be a citizen? Great! There is a process you go through to become a legal US citizen. It might not be easy, but nothing good ever is.
If you are illegal, you need to get legal or go home. Just because someone else breaks the law by exploiting you in the work place doesn't make you any less illegal. You say that you are willing to do work that none of the real Americans are willing to do. You might be right, but the homeless on the streets and the otherwise out of work Americans get first dibs. If we as a country have jobs we can't fill with the already legal Americans, perhaps those jobs will end up oursourced to your own country. If they can't, then your chances of going through the process and being made a legal US citizen are boosted big time.
As it stands, you don't get much sympathy from me. I can understand why you want to come here, but there are better ways of doing it. All I see now is a bunch of illegal people undercutting the compeitition for jobs and using resources meant for US Citizens. (Like public schools.) That isn't very nice.
All you are doing by taking to the street now, is making it easier to get rounded up and shipped to your country of origion, which I suppose come to think of it probably isn't a bad thing.
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I'm actually waiting for someone to say that Illegal Imigrants are being treated as second class citizens.
No they aren't! They would have to BE citizens first wouldn't they.
Posted by: Woody Cavenaugh | May 1, 2006 1:18 PM
Well, as I see it, there is nothing wrong with illegal immigrants. "Undercutting the competition for jobs" means that they work harder for less pay which to me indicates tougher work morale.
It's not their fault their competition is a bunch of lazy slobs. The work market is just like any market, the only thing you really need to take care of is monopoly power. Otherwise it would take of itself just fine, if populistic conservatives didn't always rush to apply protectionistic measures to it.
Posted by: Nesnej | May 16, 2007 6:31 PM
don"t be a hater couse imigrants work harder than american.Mexican kids are smarter than american couse they andlest know anther leguoge like english .And peaple bring there kids so that they can have a good career.I am a latina and my parent dye gust for wanting me to have a good career.
Posted by: ana | June 15, 2007 10:21 AM
I think its funny that americans want the rest of the world to know and admire how great and full of opportunities their country is but get scared when the imigrants come to try to live the dream you sell it trough tv and hollywood.
I came to this country when I was 19 and worked really hard and had to deal with a lot of discrimination and ignorance...I fell like going back but then I remember that as a eaiter here I make w times more a month than my dad and I stay a litle longer to help them..I`m not hurting anybody never stole anything I'm my life. I don't do drugs never been arrested and I'm not a terrorist.but this country still puts me in the same level as a few that had less chaces in life than most of us.
you know what there are a lot of things wrong with this country and its getting worst and worst...I hope you get rid of all of us..the ones that serve your food build your houses and put your kids to bed every night..get lou dobbs to do that for you I don't care anymore once I get enough money ill never come back..
peace....
Posted by: marcello | October 26, 2007 11:43 AM