Comments on: Immigration Raids Leave Children Behind

Operation Return To Sender Severs Generations Of Immigrant Families

[paz0_0]

"My grandparents came over here, worked hard, and would NEVER think to storm the streets and demand their RIGHTS... Why don't you just show us how it's done?!!?"Did your grandparents or parents force out of the country? Did you at 16 had to be the sole responsability of your house?. If not, I still respect your opinion, but Im thinking that it would have being a complete different situation if the State was fragmenting your family. The right to be with your family should be an universal right, not just a right given to you by the State in which you were born. Dont think that Mexicans' are voiceless people who dont demand their rights, they do but eventually people get tired and not only from the corrupt country we Mexicans live in but mainly of looking at children starving, long generations of starving people, of hopeless people. So, ONLY then, they make a forced decision to go to another government that obviously doesnt want them, risking their lives in the process,changing their entire lives etc. The reality is that at least, first generation immigrants miss their country but they are doing it as a sacrifice for their family. If they had a choice, probably they will stay in Mexico but they dont have a choice. Of course illegal immigration remains illegal, there's always the question of whether the sacrifice of having these illegal immigrants in your country is greater that avoiding families being torn apart and looking at your "neighbors" starve....

[worldwatch]

How is it that one never hears of Russians, Germans, Italians, Indians (screw the flipping french) etc ... every one but latinos come here, learn English, (keep their $$$ here) conduct and mind their business quietly and, in the main) stay out of trouble? Don't believe it? Go down to your local county jail and see how many oriental folks you find. Almost NONE. They conduct their business, pay their taxes and don't get into everyone's face. But, no, we have to press one for English, 2 for spanish, print ballots in spanish etc.

[jcho3]

Maybe if they raise the wages people will want to do them. The people hurt the most from illegals working jobs that "nobody else wants" are Americans with high school educations or less. They are being forced to compete with people willing to work for nothing, according to you and others like you. Why not keep them here, exploit them for their cheap labor? That's your rationale.

I think there are legitimate industries that need people willing to work for next to nothing. But the illegals I've talked to don't want those jobs any more than Americans do, and they're moving away from those types of jobs. In fact, there was an incident last year where someone was here illegally from Guatemala that had a low level government job. Owned a house and everything. Yeah, that's really the types of jobs illegals are doing. I can't see any American who would want a govt. job with benefits, do you? And of course after they were busted and getting deported, their children bore the brunt of their parents actions, since some had been born here.

We need a guest worker program and it should be offered to people who don't try to cheat the system.

[worldwatch]

I'm so sick of getting (their version) a history lesson every time this suject comes up.

If it's history you want, consider what the spanish did to mexico .... chew on that one for awhile. Or do you even know?

Again, what part of illegal do you not understand?

[worldwatch]

"People with small minds are afraid of change and the evolution of cultures."

Avalanches are changes too, brainwave.
We're not afraid of anything ... we just don't WANT it and you wouldn't be able to do it witout the express assistance of te feds. We'd STOP you.

Now ... what part of illegal don't you understand?

[missyx21]

***tibu987

I never said it was okay for people to come here illegally. I just said that even when they do become citizens, that White America will still categorized them as illegal Mexicans because of how they look.

[xzavierbrown]

fine, kick the illegals out. raise the wages on 'jobs' nobody wants to do. We still save billions of dollars and we regain the quality of your society.

[jcho3]

" And it has been proven they work the jobs here in the USA that none of us want to work, many times earning much less than minimum wage..and yet we still complain about them.."

No they don't, not in this state. We have one of the highest minimum wages in the nation, and they are beating a path to here... one of the news stations did a report on the day labor situation here and the fact that the illegals stand outside the office with impunity, and won't take less than 10 bucks an hour. Not only that, but the farmers in this state face a real shortage of farm workers because the illegals have decided they don't like farm work and are now moving on to other, better jobs. I pay higher insurance premiums and taxes to support their kids and trips made to the hospital because they don't have insurance, while many citizens don't have insurance. They are not here for my benefit, they are here for their own benefit, and I am tired of their demanding their rights from a country they don't have citizenship to.

[pecasone]

Wow it amazes me that these postings sound so angry...It isn't always so easy to obtain the appropriate documents, visa, passports from each country.. In fact some countries only issue a certain number of Visa's a year.. One country issues a mere 26 visa's a year.. It cost money to get here.. Money most of illegals do not have..They are poor, working for pennies on the dollar and all they think about is how to make a good life for their family in the USA.. All they want is the same life we are afforded.. And it has been proven they work the jobs here in the USA that none of us want to work, many times earning much less than minimum wage..and yet we still complain about them.. If there was a way for many of them to do it legally without costing thousands of dollars and waiting years, Im sure less people would enter illegally.. Not all immigrants come with bad intentions...

[fonic8gw]

It is well known and said, at least in the border area w/ Mexico, that this particular type of family: of Mexican descent but long ago detached from the country of origin and its customs, with kids born in the U.S., known as "pochos", are not well received in Mexico. The common saying is: "Ni aqui ni alla los quieren" (nor here nor there do they like 'em.)
Tough situation but La Migra is La Migra.