Babs34
Well-Known Member
The issue of illegal immigrants may not be why we are at war abroad, but it may become a war on our own soil sooner than you think.See, this is what I'm talking about....
Most of what you just talked about doesn't apply to illegal immigrants in particular, but to all migrants. People who have legal documents to work here also send money back home and cling to their language and culture. Your argument is one against immigration in general.
And by the way, I'm not saying everyone who is anti-immigrant is necessarily prejudice or a racist, it's just that a lot of attitudes about immigration seem to revolve around language and culture more than about people's immigration documents....? Remember, there are also shit-tons of LEGAL hispanic migrants in this country....
It's also interesting that back when our immigration laws were blatantly racist, there were no restrictions on people from the americas. It wasn't until the great depression that it became a 'problem'.
Stop blaming all our problems on people who come here to make a better life for themselves. It's not because of mexicans without visas that we're in the middle of two wars, an environmental disaster and facing fiscal armageddon. We've only got ourselves to blame for the most part...
Let's just clarify right from the get go that I am not a racist. I don't have a racist bone in my body. I am sure there are many wonderful Mexican people with wonderful moral fiber.....but that's not the issue. I shouldn't have to define it either. This nation obviously has to make cuts in our budget.....EXTREME ones at that.
It should not be so easy to cross our borders. We should not be providing "obamnesty." That is disaster further being created......such a ridiculous notion that our president would SUE Arizona, simply for enforcing a law that desperately needed to be ENFORCED.
As for "culture"...I can think of nothing off the top of my head about their culture I would find offensive---other than it being permissible to sleep with 12 year olds. Do I wish to have that imposed upon my surroundings?
I'm not a proponent of many facets with other cultures being incorporated as mainstream in this country. This is America...when you migrate here, you should be doing so because you find our culture at least as appealing as where you came from, if not more so. I don't appreciate any culture migrating here to CHANGE us....and I am not going to be ashamed to state that.
Skip the guilt trip and playing the race card with me. America can not pick up the tab for their own people. How do you suppose we'll bail ourselves out of this debt continuing this course?