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What is your opinion on the anti-imigration law and the border wall?
I can understand that Mexicans should stay in Mexico; but if in Mexico they don't find enough to support their families, instead of turning into a modern Germany W/ the Berlin Wall, shouldn't there be SOMEONE looking for a way to help these people?
24 Answers
- mLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well chica,this is the way i feel about the fence and usa dumb laws.The usa spends billions of dollars on iraq,to help them fix their government problems,but can't lend help to our neighbors.I am white in color and was born here in the usa,but i am muy triste,our country,stole half of Mexico's land mass,and use the mexicans for bs jobs here.Then they want to push them aside like they were nothing.But you understand that it seems to be in the us government nature to enslave and take what does not belong to them.The government has the money and power,and think they should be able to dictate how they think the world should be.I pray to mi dios,that mexicans flood the usa,make as much money as possible,and breed out the racism,that has been here since the country began. sorry so long winded. adios
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't really know where are you from but,,, we in the USA don't have laws against immigration and we are not anti-immigration. We are in favor of the fence or wall to be build in the side of the USA on the border with Mexico. This fence is to keep people out, specially the illegals, drug smuglers, terrorists, etc. So you see is different from the infamous Berlin Wall that you mention. And about helping this people well the ones that come from Mexico, Mexico is the richest country in Latin America and is an oil country, very rich,, the Mexican government should take care of their own ,not the Americans. Don't you think so!!!
- 1 decade ago
Yes, we should go there and help them. If we allow the Mexicans to cross the border illegally then we risk a terrorist from another country using the Mexican Border to gain entrance into the United States. We have helped Mexico. We have sent many of our major companies to Mexico by the Free Trade Agreement. We need to allow the Mexicans to have special visas to work in our country. Many of the farmers are in need of their hard working laborers. Then after so many years of them working here we could allow them the opportunity to gain citizenship. First they need to learn our language and our laws. We don't have a Berlin Wall we have a border. The Berlin wall was put in place to make prisoners of the people. Mexico should elect better officials.
- 1 decade ago
First of all, there is no comparison to the Berlin wall and the proposed wall between US and Mexico. The Berlin wall was built to keep the East Germans in. We are proposing to build a wall to keep the illegal invaders out. If Mexico was building the wall then it would be comparable but Mexico encourages it's citizens to leave.
Yes SOMEONE should be looking for a way to help these people and it should be THEM. Mexico would NEVER allow the US or anyone to meddle in their affairs. The ruling class elite are perfectly content with the way things are. They simply export their "problem" to the US. As long as the US continues to allow Mexico to sh** on us they will continue to do so.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Not the same thing. The Berlin Wall was built to imprison its people. Think of it as the Great Wall of China, built to repel invaders and give you security in your bed. You know, only about 4/5ths of the illegal aliens are Mexicans looking to suck from old Uncle Sugar. Terrorists and other really bad people are coming here also.
The US has spent over 211 billion dollars on the development of Mexico in the last 10 years. What do they do with it? Sorry but my attitude anymore for both Iraq and Mexico is "they can both go and pound sand" I'm done supporting the US trying to help them.
- 1 decade ago
First we need several layers of defense along our borders. A wall is good, but how about a few electrified fences and remote motion detector devices, and some independent web cams and more support for coast guard, customs and border agents. It is not a war against illegl immigration although that is a small part of this operation, but securing our borders is a defense against terrorism and crime, specifically, drug trafficing and deterence from WMD's entering the United States. What there is no evidence of WMD's in the black market?...Think again. We need to get it done yesterday, no wait like five years ago or in all reality ten years ago, it should have already been done!
Second, we need to coordinate a better and more efficient system to process legal immigrants quicker and less expensive. This is still America the land of the free and we should open up to the poor and needy...for those of you who oppose this remember your ancestry were immigrants here too! The Irish and the Italians mainly in the 19th century, as for me it was Portuguese and the French. It's a shame to your ancestors that you would refuse immigrants safe passage to the land of America.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Having to wall off the Rio Grande as a last-ditch effort [HAR!] would never have been even seriously considered if Mexico’s Leaders had used any of the modern tools of economics to ramp up its (very very VERY LUCKY) economy. Mexico's GDP is ONE Trillion, SIX Billion US Dollars a year! And the people have to choose between a life in their homeland and a decent life?
Some of the responsibility absolutely rests with the people, though.
Do the math: A girl is born to her 12-yr old mother. On or around that girls 12th birthday she has a child and then one more child every 16 months thereafter [as did her mom] till she is no longer able or until her husband's body turns up in the trunk (normally sleeps on hood). When each of her children reaches 12 y.o. they preggie-up and whelp a series of their own. And so on and son on. Anyone got the answer?
FACT: More than fifty percent of Mexico's population is under 21 years of age (BBC). Where were you and what were you doing when Challenger exploded on lift-off? Well, while we in the U.S. were reeling from that, HALF of Mexico's 106 million people were a yet-to-be-made "conscious decision."
In fairness to the people, how can 13 siblings learn to respect education from a mom, dad and thirty-seven hundred aunts and uncles none of whom achieved more than a 3rd grade education? It certainly wasn't a choice these kids made themselves. But, the question to ask is “who is best positioned to stop this trend?” These poor, wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time sibling-swarms. Who else? The Dalai Lama?
And if they DON'T change it, we'll be cursed at, stared wanly at, hated, called greedy capitalist pigs and other choice titles for – now that it’s doubled again – denying citizenship to the poorest among two-hundred twelve million! In ’86 it was like 65 million. What happened?! Now you’ve been told 21 years in advance. Now you know these people have a decision to make that can change everything!
If their birthrate drops, their economy might be able to catch up. In the meantime, the absolute worse thing we can do is to enable them to blissfully continue as if there’ll never be consequences. It’d be like giving liquor to an alcoholic. Let the hammer fall now while they can handle it. Imagine how sharp, determined, educated and disciplined they’ll be 30 years from now with less than 2 children per average couple.
The problem lands in front of their eyes. After some cussin’ they adjust, focus and take up the yoke. They fix it. They’re better off. We’re better off.
If we grant amnesty, in twenty one years, the problem has doubled, another generation has been indoctrinated by “cash example” that it is, in NO way, their problem, AND they’re looking at us with more beguiling hatred than ever!
- 1 decade ago
Ever hear the phrase "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime." The problem is not with people wanting to come here, but in the number and manner that they do come. What I mean by this is that many of the "qualified workers who come here don't bring their families, but send the money back to Mexico draining our economy. They have no interest in benefiting the US and do not want citizenship. Otherwise they could have come legally. The rest either have insufficient skills and drain our welfare system or are criminals and hurt the US with their criminal acts.
If the Mexican government cared for it's own people they wouldn't need to come here to begin with, but that is another discussion altogether. They could educate their people and provide for them, but that could mean that the political system there would have to change and someone might not be presidente anymore....
- 1 decade ago
We are helping these PEOPLE they live off of our TAXES that they DO NOT PAY ! We HOUSE them we FEED them we give them MEDICAL care for FREE ! That's why they keep coming" IT'S THE LAND OF THE FREE" and they keep taking,even though that's not what it means. What more do they want? If we did just give them OUR Country for say, they'd just trash it like they did there 's. I feel for them I know how poverty stricken they are over there I have been to Mexico and it broke my heart to see some of the stuff I' ve seen, they have made it that way ,now they come here to do the same to our country? Take food out of not just MY CHILDREN'S mouths but every American that might need help if they lost there job or a loved one. Go ahead try to get the Food Card, Medical card if you are WHITE GOOD LUCK.When there 5 to 10 children are eating like kings. WRONG !!!! They need to send the illegals back and there kids too, sorry to say but they did it to them selves.
- DizneyLv 51 decade ago
When the Mexican Pres. compared the proposed wall to the Berlin wall he was really stupid. Mexico and the US are SEPARATE countries. No comparison.
As for the wall - 10 feet tall, really thick with electricity. Keep the illegal alien criminals out. They are all criminals because they are breaking our laws.