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Originally posted by Night Star
Many will say that the illegals are poor. Poor people cannot afford stolen identities and all the fraudulant documents to be here. Many will say that they just want a better life, so do the thousands of citizens who are struggling to feed their families.
If we take away the jobs and freebies they will self deport. Many have already.
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Remember when this country was founded on immigration? What have we become?
Originally posted by Carseller4
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Remember when this country was founded on immigration? What have we become?
The comparison is ridiculous. On so many levels.
Once a structure has been fought for and set in place, rules are set forth beyond that time. Legal immigration is still very much possible in this country.
Early immigrants settled this country and made it great. Structure and rules have been put in place for others to take advantage of their hard work and determination. If certain people believe they are above these rules they spit on the efforts of others, and are committing crimes against America, and are illegal aliens.
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Originally posted by Carseller4
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Remember when this country was founded on immigration? What have we become?
The comparison is ridiculous. On so many levels.
Once a structure has been fought for and set in place, rules are set forth beyond that time. Legal immigration is still very much possible in this country.
Early immigrants settled this country and made it great. Structure and rules have been put in place for others to take advantage of their hard work and determination. If certain people believe they are above these rules they spit on the efforts of others, and are committing crimes against America, and are illegal aliens.
The comparison is fitting, considering the amount of fear that Americans let control their lives, fear that is designed to make you afraid of outsiders, fear that is misplaced, because the only people you should be fearing are the ones you look to for protection.
Whatever happened to “Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free…”? The mainstream media happened, and you’ve been lapping up their kool-aid ever since. They’ve painted these people as healthcare sapping, job stealing, and mass multiplying monsters. Why? Because they [the “top tier] have created the circumstances that everyone is so pissed about, and these immigrants are like a magnifying glass, looking into the problem, exaggerating the effects. So, they’ve made them appear as the source of the issue, instead of the projectionist of the strife that is sweeping this planet.
Jobs aren’t gone because illegal immigrants are showing up and stealing them away. They’re gone because the jobs are being shipped overseas to countries that allow slave labor.
Healthcare shouldn’t be an issue. Americans have been jet setting to countries for free healthcare for years. Healthcare paid for by the citizens of those countries.
The population shouldn’t be a problem, as there would be plenty of jobs to go around if corporations were held accountable for their devious business practices.
Maybe it’s their color. Immigration aside, many immigrants are hated just because Americans need something to hate. They hated the Indians, those brown folk who had the nerve of living here first. They hated the Blacks, those who had the nerve to want to be free. They hated the Irish. Why? Who knows? Maybe because the blacks were free, and something needed to take their place, maybe because they were the “blacks of Europe”, or maybe it was because they came over with large families and a work ethic, something Americans hate, something held in common with Hispanic and Middle Eastern peoples. There are many who would love to do it legally, but need to get here, get a home, and a job in order to save up the $700.00 (USD) it costs to become a legal citizen, and a family of four that’s $2,800.00 dollars, something that could take half a lifetime in some other country.
This isn’t my attempt at swaying your position. This is just me saying why I disapprove of immigration prejudice.
It's like hating a mirror for that scar on your face.
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Remember when this country was founded on immigration? What have we become?