What part of the country are you from?
Secondly, What is your opinion on immigration?
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I am from Northern California, both sides of my family are HISPANOS from Northern New Mexico. Although I do not consider myself to be Mexican, I do feel pain for the people who come here from the poorest parts of Mexico and work so hard to try and make a better life for their families, and are treated like garbage! At least they are WORKING...thats more than we can say for a lot of Americans. As for the "Americans" who are down at the border protesting and the KKK minutemen, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME your own government is not listening to all of your ranting and raving and at the end of the day your opinion will mean s***! If you are so worried about it why don't you move back to Europe? I know I can if I wanted to...I have a passport you think you are SO SUPERIOR then why do Europeans even hate you? Why don't you learn some respect so the rest of the world will respect you because you won't get very far in life by being IGNORANT, racist, and hateful!!
ohio, near cincinnati. against illegal immigration. even this far north the courts, jails and emergency rooms are filling up.
Washington state. I don't see too many people with strong opinion up here. May be other than apple growers who need migrant workers to pick apples. Immigration debate apparently scared some migrant workers away.
Minnesota
Legal immigration (in limited qualities): Good
Illegal immigration: Criminal
Dallas, Texas. I am not in favor of a flood of immigrants coming in illegally but I am understanding of why they do it. I support legal immigration as much as my redneck neighbor, but hell, I don't want people shooting illegals on the border just because they stepped a foot across their national boundry. I want justice for those illegals, no more killing, no more discrimination, no more inner war. Because that is what this country is close at, civil war.
New York
I've 'immigrated' from Idaho, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Tennessee, Kansas, Maine ...
As for immigration, it has always been a part of North America, even before Europeans came. Europeans are part of a recent mass immigration, which has expanded to include more people from other land masses. And ... people from North America are immigrating elsewhere to other countries ...
Immigration is a universal human phenomena.
People have always moved to find more food or other resources, to stay alive, and to improve their lives. Or they've moved because other people forced them to. etc. etc.
SouthEast of the U.S,Georgia,Atlanta.I tthink they should check background and every speck of them befor ethey come into this country.If they let the wrong people over here we're in trouble.I understand freedom and being able to do what you want and following the laws there are limitations that should follow that green card!!!
I am from Leon,Spain!! I speak Spanish & English. You got promblem with that white boy???
San Antonio, Texas. Against ILLEGAL immigration!
Phoenix metro area, Arizona... I enjoy the heat..
It was that hot; no worries, that is why we all have pools and still tube down the Salt River!
Minnesota.
Don't care about immigration.
New Hampshire and I believe those who hire illegals should be charged with the crimes they commit, rather than always making the victim look like the bad guy!
We have immigration here, albeit most legal. A lot of Canadians, french speaking, Cambodians and Vietnamese!
Though we stole NH from Mass, and they stole it from the Indians. We didn't take the 4 states that used to belong to Mexico until they our illegal immigrants tried to annex them and had to have Polk start a very unpopular war with the Mexicans!
Born in Conn . Grew up in S. Cal.,lived in Colorado,New Jersey, Mass. New York, Hawaii,New Mexico and now live part-time in Nevada and Hungary. I think people should be free to immigrate anywhere they wish has long as it is done legally.
I'm from the midwest - Immigration - I'm for it. my family immigrated here from Newcastle England in 1893. It took a whole lot of time and considerable money for them to get their ticket (in steerage on the ship Umbria).
The Salvation Army in Newcastle helped them, as well as lots of other families, obtain the necessary documents, money, sponsorship, and of course, they had to know exactly what state they were going to and where they were going to work. Mine went to Indiana and worked as a collier - as he'd done in England.
It wasn't until 1940 (47 years later) that he took the citizenship test and very proudly went home with his citizenship paper which still hangs on my wall. He and his wife worked very hard to get here - as did most of the immigrants. They were fortunate enough to be among the numbers who were allowed to stay. (Remember at Ellis Island, a great number of immigrants were sent home because the US customs and immigration officials didn't feel they were healthy enough or strong enough or bright enough to prosper themselves here in the U.S.)
WOW - good thing we don't have all those dumb laws now - nobody would make it across the border..
katy
I AM FROM LETS SAY ASHLEYVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
ITS A GREAT STATE I MEAN CITY
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I live in Oklahoma City Oklahoma but I have lived around the world.
I do not believe in illegal immigration and think it is the defining issue of our time. I believe it is as or more damaging to the US as terrorism
I am from the US, from a state and city that is sick and tired of all the mexican illegals. I think they should all be deported on grounds of being a criminal for entering the US illegally. I also see that a lot of Americans have spoken and the Amnesty Bill did not get passed. Next time this BS comes up, we will fight it again.
West Michigan, I think that trade agreements and the tariff system is more important then illegal immigration. People were not upset with immigration until the manufacturing jobs left. We need to take corporate person-hood away like it use to be and change the rules back and say that if a company wants to move overseas that is fine but it they want to sell that stuff to Americans it will cost them to the point that they will have to manufacture stuff here if they want to sell to the most addicted to retail humans on the planet.
new york state, north of nyc.
as the child of immigrants, i'm all for legal immigration. however, regarding illegal immigration, i feel that we should take a more consistent stand against it, or we might as well just throw the borders open, and declare the equivalent of anarchistic free-for-all, with everyone pushing and shoving, trying to grab whatever they can for themselves with no unity and no sense of loyalty.
just think, we can all live in a revival of the old west, with vigilante justice, and general lawlessness.
Born and Raise in Los Angeles. Moderately against illegal immigration. Might tolerate a compromise if it would stop future illegal immigration. Also wants more restriction in legal immigration. Personally saw too many abuses.
I'm originally from Minnesota, but I've lived in Arkansas since I was 7.
It really bothers me to think of millions of illegal immigrants draining resources from tax-paying Americans.
However, on a practical note, obviously those people haven't drained us to the point of bankruptcy. We've wasted trillions more dollars on our own than the immigrants have wasted.
I say have them pay a fine, payable over several years, then give them citizenship.
Besides, how would our country function minus several million workers who were suddenly deported?
I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
Sometimes I think we should just open the border completely!
We would then strive to raise all of Mexico up to our level!
But we would also have to stop the source of poor people or we would eventually be completely overrun. The source in my opinion is the Catholic Church (88% throughout Mexico) telling people not to use birth control. or...(gasp!) abortion.
At other times I wish all Mexicans would leave America forever and immeadiately. But I am married to a Mexican {now legal American} and my kids I suppose are 1/2 Mexican.
I say, completely enforce the laws, but broaden them a bit.
I'm from Orange County, CA.and lived in AZ for awhile (loved it).I'm against illegal immigration..And for the record, I love the Mexican people, they are some of the nicest people I know.but if you want to come to this country, please, please do it legally...
I am from Towson Maryland, My great great great parents are legal immigrants from Wales, and England.
I am fully in favor of legal immigration, I am totaly against illegals.
I live in the southwest now, I have been to about 35 states in the USA, ive been to Mexico, Ive been to Canada.
Tijuana sure seemed like a nice little tourist trap of a town when I was young, boy that sure has changed. And it looks like all the border towns have turned into a cesspool of criminal activity.
I am for legal immigration in a controlled amount that the USA can economically handle. completely against illegal immigration. My grandfather was a legal Italian immigrant through ellis island. There was a bigger demand for jobs back then and the USA got from 1900 to 1910 got a huge amount of immigrants. ... however that same amount of immigrants we have gotten in about the last 2 years.. most of them illegal as we get about 2-3 illegals for every legal now.
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Phoenix, AZ. Daughter of legal immigrants against illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is wrong for more than one reason. It threatens our national security and uses people as pawns for big business, that in turn hurts the American people who have to rely on jobs that the illegals are doing. There are many Americans (born here and naturalized) that go to work everyday in construction and the restaurant fields. They deserve to be paid a descent wage and not have to compete for a job against a person that is here illegally.
Cocoa Beach Florida
I am against illegal immigration because:
1. Unfair to those applying for legal immigration.
2. Implications to population growth, resources and services and quality of life.
3. Lack of registration / screening of illegal immigrants.
4. Problems in home countries should be corrected because there are a lot more people there.
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