Is it a common misconception???
I heard a radio program, where liberal reporter defended illegal immigrants, saying that some of them cannot read or write, so they cannot fill out their papers and move legally.
Leave alone the question why we need someone who cannot read or write. Most illegal people here are not able to immigrate legally, even if they tried. There is no immigration category for them, they are not wanted/needed.
In order to immigrate you need to be a family member or great scientis/sportsmen, or have an occupation and degree, that is needed in US.
Illegals are not needed.
Answer:
Yeah, so?
Get in line. The USA didn't cause the problems of 99% of the world. Well maybe 98%.
It's a wonderful thin that the USA does accept as many immigrants as it does. AT this point it is to our demise.
To conctribute to that growing problem by not enforcing immigration laws/in fact encouraging it makes no sense on a reason and logic basis for most average Americans. I suspect this is a better deal for the wealthy and our Gov. sap suckers.
They need that buckola sap.
More poor, destitute impoverished folks is not what the US needs or wants. We can help the poor and we should. But not to the extent of our own detriment. This huge, world wide problem will not go away until ALL the countries of the world pull together to stop over population and help people where they live.
Bringing them to the USA only makes the whole mess worse.
What will happen if the American Golden Goose is sucked dry and dies on it's side in a gasping breath of trying too, hard to do to much for way too many?
There will be only LESS hope for everyone.
I agree that illegals are not needed, especially illiterate ones. Most illiterate illegals come from disease-ridden rural areas. Tuberculosis was all but eradicated in the US until illegals started coming in droves and now there are new outbreaks.
How Does Mexico Treat Its Illegals?
by Larry Elder (more by this author)
Posted: 04/06/2006
"We can't infringe upon the right of people to move freely within our territory," said Mexican President Vicente Fox during President George W. Bush's recent visit. Earlier, Fox said he stood by the statement he previously made to the BBC: "I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers."
Does Mexico practice what it preaches?
First, Mexico put its military and police forces on its porous, zigzagged, mountainous, crime-ridden southern border with Guatemala. Chiapas -- the South Carolina-sized southern Mexican state that shares the longest border with Guatemala -- is Mexico's poorest, most illiterate state. About Chiapas, one United Nations human rights commissioner said, "Mexico is one of the countries where illegal immigrants are highly vulnerable to human rights violations and become victims of degrading sexual exploitation and slavery-like practices, and are denied access to education and health care."
Typically, when Mexican authorities catch illegal aliens, they place them overnight in a detention center, then bus or fly them back to their country of origin. Despite the fact that Mexico militarized its border and deported 203,128 illegal immigrants in 2004, many illegals get through by bribing corrupt military and police.
Do Mexicans appreciate the way America has allowed so many poor, Mexican illegals to enter the United States? No. According to a recent Zogby poll, 73 percent of Mexicans call Americans "racist"! When asked whether the United States' wealth comes from freedom and "plenty of opportunity to work," 70 percent of Americans agreed, while only 22 percent of Mexicans agreed. Sixty-two percent of Mexicans said America became wealthy because "it exploits others' wealth." While Americans, according to the poll, see Mexicans as hard-working (78 percent), Mexicans think of Americans as racist, intolerant and not very hard-working.
Racist?
Mexico should look in the mirror. According to the Houston Chronicle's Rachel Graves, around the turn of the 17th century, Mexico imported more African slaves than anywhere else in the New World. As a result, tens of thousands of blacks (no one knows for sure -- the Mexican census does not recognize them) live in Mexico, mostly in destitute villages in its poorest states. An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 blacks live in Costa Chica.
How do they fare? According to the Houston Chronicle, many are illiterate, struggling to get a decent education for their children from government schools. One Costa Chica missionary says, "The kids here are considered by their teachers to be largely unteachable." When stopped by the police, Mexican blacks are often instructed to sing the Mexican national anthem to prove their citizenship!
If so many Mexicans consider Americans racist, why do polls show that nearly half of Mexico's inhabitants say that their lives would improve if they could work here illegally?
Intolerant?
America legally accepts about one million immigrants per year, with perhaps as many as 12 million people living here illegally, about half of whom come from Mexico. Many estimate that 500,000 or more people enter the country illegally every year. California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante is Hispanic. So is the man who holds the powerful position of speaker of the California Assembly. Los Angeles, America's second-largest city, has a Hispanic mayor, and of the 54 members of California's congressional delegation, nine are Hispanic. The former governor of California once proposed granting driver's licenses to illegals. And in California, under some circumstances, an illegal alien can apply for the cheaper in-state college tuition. Many predict the Hispanic governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, former Clinton Cabinet member, will run for president.
Not very hard-working?
According to the International Labor Organization, Americans work more than almost anybody in the developed world, including Japan. The average American worked 1,824 hours in 2004, compared with the Spanish at 1,799 and the French at 1,441 hours. The Dutch put in even less -- working 25 percent fewer hours than Americans.
President Bush, against the wishes of many in his own party as well of half of all Americans, makes the reasonable case for a guest worker program that would allow or provide some sort of legal status for those living here illegally. Latino "activists" do that cause harm by staging protests and waving the Mexican flag and demanding their "rights." For example, Juan Jose Gutierrez of Latino Movement USA says, "We think that the right thing to do is to grant full rights, full equality, under the laws in the Constitution of the United States, to all immigrants, period."
Americans raise legitimate concerns about the competition illegals pose to unskilled labor, and that illegals cut in front of people already waiting in line to get in the country legally. Americans resent expenditures for illegals on education and health care, and problems posed by some who commit additional crime in America. Illegals' attitude of entitlement helps to explain the growing anger Americans feel toward illegal aliens. Students leaving high schools, waving Mexican flags and chanting "Si se puede" do President Bush -- and their "cause" -- no favor.
I agree.
If they can not pay then how do so many of them pay people thousands of dollars to bring them here? There are many organizations here that help illegals (especially hispanics) with paper work, translators, rides, etc., so that excuse doesn't work for them either. Every one of them knows that it's easier and more profitable to come here illegally. The laws (or enforcement of them) are so screwed up that most people who NEED TO KNOW their legal status can't even ask. Well, that is changing in some places, including my area. You are right. We don't need illegals. They need us. And they hate us for that and for not wanting to keep them in the lifestyles that they have or would like to become accustomed to.
I don't really support illegals and think we need to stop the flow. But you also have to realize we all do benefit from them taking low paying jobs and helping keep inflation down. You could get many american workers do some of the jobs they do, such as construction, landscaping, ect.. But you would have to pay them twice as much, which is passed down to us. So what's better, illegals with low wages keeping inflation down, or americans with high wages leading to higher prices for everthing? Personally I dont mind paying more for American workers to have good wages, it just mean you might not be able to spend as much money on material things or eating out.
You say illegals are not needed, but go tell that to farmers in CA. Illegals are needed badly to work those farms, and even if you doubled the wages most americans would not do the work. Many farmers have had to throw out crops b/c they didn't have enough workers. There is a huge labor shortage for farmworkers in CA and there needs to be a guest worker program or something.
Also we should be giving the good jobs to americans. You talk about immigrant scientists or those with degrees, well they are going to come to america and take white collar jobs and work for less too. Those proffesional jobs should go to americans not immigrants b/c those specialty immigrants bring wages down in the white collar jobs too.
You views on immigration seem short sighted, you have to realize that you and everyone else benefits from them being here too. You may not realize it or like to admit it, but they help keeps things a lot cheaper than they would otherwise be. Though I am not discounting the fact many are a drain on taxpayers too. But basically I am trying to point out with need them almost just as much as we don't. We just need to better control the situation so too many don't come over.
I agree with you.
I don’t know how the radio hosts came up with that assumption but it is really ignorant and kind of “stupid”. If anyone is coming into the US, chances are they are not English speakers. There are forms specific to the language of choice. These immigrants can go to their embassy or online and print out forms in their own language. What the radio’s statement suggests is that everyone in the world speaks English and anyone coming into the US speaks English.
i wonder what the next excuse is going to be for justification of illegal immigration. I have already heard “American are immigrants to” “illegals work jobs Americans do not want” “illegals want a better life” and now “illegals cant read” None of these excuses justify breaking the law. I think so many people fail to remember that illegal entry is a crime.
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