Do you think we should have open borders?
Answer:
No, to open borders.
I'm hispanic and my parents came here in the 60's and overstayed their visas. Back then laws were different and things were different. I consider myself very lucky to have been born here. I have gotten a glimpse of other cultures and there is really nothing like the American culture.I love it. As far as what's going on now, people seem to forget that immigration is a privilege and not a right. You are not entitled to live in this great country just because. You either have to be born here or apply to become a permanent resident and abide all the laws. I don't like the fact that many people come here to milk the system, it's just not fair for the ones that are born here or the many immigrants that work hard, pay taxes and remain law abiding citizens. The end is near. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is looking to "remove" about 600,000 permanent residents who have been convicted of aggravated felonies. Additionally, ICE is "removing" illegal aliens by the hundreds. The government has just increased the budget for ICE so they can do a better job of going after the felons and illegal aliens.
God no.
An infusion of too many people from crap countries will make this a crap country.
Sure. As soon as we get rid of the welfare state, medicaid, affirmative action and privatize social security. You know, make it a free nation.
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Its always easy to look at it from the eyes of the immigrants. Of course they want citizenship. But lets think about it from a real standpoint, as a United States citizen. I want what is best for my country. Right now I believe that is sealing our borders and giving amnesty (with tax penalties) to our current illegal citizens. Get it done and get it over with so the immigrants can start paying their own taxes instead of cheating me out of mine.
No way, tall fences make good neighbors
By African Americans you mean Dark skinned people from African decent? I'm sure if they were born in AMERICA they are AMERICANS. If born in Africa they are Africans.
If it was open borders that would ruin millions of hard working Americans lives. How can an American who has been working for 20 years making 24$ an hour at a plant compete with a Mexican that will do it for 12. Millions of people and their families would lose everything. There are legal ways of getting into the country. I think if you are in America you should speak English. I hate going to eat or fill up on gas and hearing only Spanish.
I think we should open fire. Yes, Open.
No.
Yes, I do. I believe we should have a guest-worker program; those who come across our border to work should be registered with the program, and should pay taxes like everyone else here.
Absolutely not.
1) Terrorists
2) Smugglers (drugs, people, dirty bombs...)
3) Illegal aliens
ADDENDUM
"REMEMBER THEY CAN'T DEPORT US ALL"
Uh, yes, we could. One at a time.
We have in our world people who are a threat.
Do you have an apartment or home, with doors and windows that you close and lock, or do you leave them wide open so that any stranger can come into your home? Most of us have concerns for our safety and well being, the security of our personal possessions, so we lock our homes when we are not actually going through the doorway.
Apply that to the nation as a whole. Should our borders be open to people who want to destroy us? Are you a pacifist who believes that it is wrong to oppose bad people like Hitler, that no war was ever justified? That is a minority view point, although there is great debate over what wars are justified.
Can the economy of the nation sustain supporting all the downtrodden people from around the world who need a job and think they can get it here? I don't think so. But we do have civic duty to help the downtrodden around the world. Perhaps we can do things to help their economies and their middle class and other areas so that their homelands can be improved so there no longer is the hunger to come here and burden our economy, plus less reason for wars.
If African Americans were in their spot, they would be on the border patrol trying to keep them out.lol
Theyre so one sided. Its only for them and them only.
They try to say that its not only mexicans coming here illegally and try to take the spotlight off of them and get other non whites to join in their fight but you know what, its not working. We see them for who they really are. Id rather live amoungst white racists then have to live around them.
NO
i think it's ludicrous for anyone to think that open borders is OK. for one thing America has to maintain the amount and the type of person that comes into this country. everyone else checks there borders. I've traveled around the world and i had to ask permission to visit countries. that's the reason for passports.
Do you think you should have locks on your doors or steel bars in jails?
Sure we should.
That would allow all of the U.S. citizens to escape down to Mexico and screw up their country. We could then declare proudly that the peso is our largest economical import.
I wonder why you chose African Americans?
I however do not think our borders should be opened. And I don't really know how they would feel if their land was flooded with Caucasians invading their land (again). Read your history and stop being a bigot.
Nope...ship every illegal out.
No. Mexico needs to set up their own free meal ticket programs for their citizens. Mexico needs to pay the expenses back to U.S agencies for tracking illegals down, and deporting them. Or money out their pocket to come and remove them. Bring them back home to MEXICO.
No, we should not have open borders. However, we should have an immigration system that can be understood by an individual of average intelligence. The current immigration system is difficult to work with even for immigration lawyers.
We should also have a more flexible and intelligently laid out temporary worker program. One with a system of rewards even for potential immigrants who are quality workers and assets to society.
NO, unless you want the USA to become a 3rd world country. Nothing good could come from this for us, have you not seen the heavy toll it has taken, already, on all our hospitals, schools, welfare, etc. If this is not stopped we are doomed.
Before letting illegals in , we first need to get rid of all welfare, food stamps, free Emergency Room visits, and any other public assistance I am not mentioning.
Close em! Not because I'm a white racist Mz America! But because my family and I work our butts off, pay taxes and I'm not paying for anyone, especially Illegal aliens, to get a free ride. But since I'm white I'm automatically racist. Who's the racist here?
NO because i am not stupid and i don't think Mexicans or any other race has the right to come here and take over our nation,i don't care who you are!someone else had a great idea that would solve a lot of problems around the USA.first all illegal immigrants and their kids should be deported back to wherever they came from- to offset the expenses all properties,money etc. that they acquired while living illegally here will be seized and confiscated and not returned to them.for coming here illegally and breaking our laws they will not be allowed to visit or live here ever again! forget the fences dig a moat all along the entire Mexican border and USA and take the dirt and build up the levies of New Orleans and then go to Florida and take all the gators that are roaming around and put in the moat and they can patrol our new border! its a win -win situation for America and our legal citizens!
Neither. Smart borders is the way to go.
WOW AM MEXICAN ! AND HAVE U EVER THOUGHT THAT WE WORK MORE THAT U GUYS !AND EVERYBODY IS A threat. NOT JUST MEXICANS OR AFRICANS ! I C MORE WHITE PEOPLE IN JAIL THAN MEXICANS LIKE SHOOTERS SO SAD! HATERSZZZZZZ.. REMEMBER THEY CAN'T DEPORT US ALL !!!! PEACE !
We should have open borders *only* for legal immigrants! Every person who comes into the United States of America is a criminal, whether or not he or she has violated any *other* law! By the same token, we should make it a little speedier process for legal immigrants to become citizens, if the want! But the citizenship test, driver's license exams, etc. should *only* be administered in the English language!
Close them!
They are pretty open now...and look at the consequences! Nothing good comes of it. CLOSE THE BORDERS!
Why Yes, then 50 million CHinese will come in and steal their jobs and they would be unemployed complaining about immigration. Unfortunately, this economics lesson for them would be at the expense of our country and my paycheck.
NO PUT ARMED GUARDS ON THE BORDER , WITH THE RIGHT TO SHOOT AT ANY ONE ENTERING ILLEGALY
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