Tulsa Oklahoma story, does this article reflect what most Citizens feel about Illegal Immigration?
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Yes, it does. It reflects my feelings. Most of us are upset about this 'silent invasion' for a variety of reasons. Most of us like the responses we see from various state and local governments who are trying to do what the federal government has failed to do, enforce our laws and save our nation's sovereignty.
I am disappointed with the responses of some, including some of the people in the article, that it is too difficult to detect and deport illegal aliens or that we are driving them underground. That is not an American can-do philosophy. Where is the spirit of American ingenuity?
We have never as a nation just taken the easiest road when the reward at the end of the harder road was greater. However, many of the illegal aliens have taken that easy road by entering illegally instead of the harder legal path that brings rewards. I fear their mind-set disdaining our laws and traditions overtaking our nation.
yes
Absolutely! We are just tired of all of it.
Yes as shown by all the calls, letters and emails sent when the immigration bill was up for vote. It is happening all over the country and not unique to the border states and the west.
Yes, I think it does. These people create their own problems by coming here illegally. I think it's time for the U.S. to enforce our laws.
Yes,I think so. The government isn't doing anything to solve the problem,so it will be left up to the states and cities to do it themselves. Hope alot more cities jump on the band wagon and follow suit. They can't sue every town that wants to enact their own laws. I for one am getting tired of hearing how scared the illegals are. I have no sympathy for law breakers.
Yes it does! Our government isn't doing enough to solve the illegal immigration problem. It is a travesty what happened to the professor and the officer who did nothing to report an illegal should no longer be on the force. That is the kind of thing that makes our insurance rates go up also. Once again we are paying more for something required by law in order to drive while illegals are getting off scott free. If I hit someone with my car and I didn't have insurance, I'm sure I wouldn't have just gotten off like that. It's an absolute travesty!
i agree strongly with the bill. maybe ill move to tulsa
It is sad to see so many Xenophobes. I live in Tulsa, OK. While going to college I had the usual server position, and got to work with many immigrants (most claimed to be legal, but im sure that most were not). To tell you the truth they were the hardest working of all. The US born kids working in the restaurant were always complaining, arriving late, telling off the managers, and just plain not showing up, instead the immigrants were always early, most stayed late, never called in, they were in essence the model employees...(except for that whole being illegal thing).
I do not think it is fair that they have to come here illegally to have a chance at a good life, a chance for their children to have a good education and a bright future, while at the same time I see a lot of US born citizens just waste their life in dead end jobs, not caring to take advantage of the chances offered in this country and just live in their mobile homes (trust me, there are a ton of trailer parks here in the Tulsa area) and ***** about "them damn Mexicans" taking our jobs...most people would not touch the jobs they do because they would be "underneath them".
There is a huge housing boom here in Tulsa, new neighborhoods pop up left and right, can you imagine the economic impact on rounding up all those hard working laborers and sending them back to Mexico just because they are illegal?
What do you want me to say, in my humble opinion, a worker program is a positive idea, it was the first time I agreed with Mr Bush since he was elected in 2000.
What scares me is what Sebastian Lantos referred to, about people wanting to take things into their own hands and start to be vigilantes. I'm a legal immigrant from Argentina, I have been living in the us for almost 13 years, I'm a college graduate and a Commercial pilot, yet I am still concerned about some uneducated bully hearing me say something in Spanish and try to do something to me or my family because, "I'm a damn foreigner taking his job thats why he is so poor".
Quit being so damn violent and start accepting that things are changing and that immigration has been happening for thousands of years. Shoot, this country was formed by a massive influx of immigrants (back then there was no such thing as legal or illegal immigration) taking the lands from the Native Americans.
If you are afraid of losing your job, go to college as I did and get a degree, those really help to get jobs, I know it requires some hard work, but hey it wont kill you...
Yes..good article except for the parts to elicit sympathy for illegals. I don't care if they are scared. Maybe if they get scared enough, they will leave.
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