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What do you think of the Mexican illegal immigrants?

Honestly, what do you think? I have nothing against the Mexican people. I'm half. Yes, they do take jobs, which leaves less for the people in California and other states - but really don't they want to live? What life do they have in Mexico? Wouldn't you move too - if you were in their place? Death or be an illegal? Surely if we tried we could help their government...

Public Comments

1. I think that they should ALL go back to Mexico and on May 1st have a rally in their own country.
2. I´m half Mexican too and I don´t support illegal immigration. I have illegal relatives in California and Texas and none of them faced a life or death situation in Mexico that forced them to leave the country. Some of them had steady, good-paying jobs in Mexico and had no need to go to the US. They just did it out of greed. If I were born and raised in Mexico I would not go to the US illegally. I would do everything possible to get an education in Mexico (which is entirely possible, considering the fact that government universities are tuition-free) and improve my country, not run away from it. It is not the US´s responsibility to "help" the Mexican government. They need to help themselves.
3. My ill feelings are not so much against them as it is against our politicians for allowing the total disregard of our laws. I don't blame the illegals for seeking a better life but I also don't believe the should be allowed to get away with it. The problem is one that simply enforcing the current laws would correct.
4. I think that most of them think more of America than a lot of Americans. I don't think I deserve to tell them they can't be here simply because I had the blind luck of being born here. As a generalization (and I hate generalizations) they've transported themselves - often at great risk - for a better opportunity for not only them but their families. I respect that more than I could possibly resent them for moving into the country where I was born. I was always reared to believe that one should rely on hard work and perseverence to achieve one's dream, and a lot of immigrants in America - not just Mexican - show that trait. That many of them take jobs Americans won't do says more negative about the average American's work ethic than anything else.
5. What life will Americans have when we have to keep paying for the schools, hospitals, etc. that they are getting and leaving American citizens to pay for. Illegal means criminal, simple as that, and I think if any body Mexican, Asian, Africans what ever that is here illegal needs to go back. We keep catering to illegals, one day America will be the same as 3rd world countries, My child is now being homeschool today because of the school systems here in El Paso, where all the illegals children can get in but my son is American Citizen and can't even go to his own school because they didn't have enough room for him, we keep trying to feel sorry for these people if you want, I don't, I live with these people everyday in El Paso where we have around 500,000 illegal, noone says nothing, Illegal means illegal nothing more
6. Honestly, I seriously dislike people who flagrantly violate standing laws. Disregarding the jobs argument and the supporting people back home argument and any other argument, it boils down to the law says follow procedures to enter this country legally. Does the system need some work, you bet. A primary example is the policy of making any child born on U.S. soil a citizen. Many women close to delivery risk their health on crossing the border in hopes of having a baby in the States. And if the baby is a citizen, the mothers at least must be allowed to stay with them and care for them. However, hoping that as an illegal immigrant you can dodge the authorities long enough for some politician to declare amnesty is NOT a way to become a productive member of society.
7. Very good question..... I have no issues about them coming across but they should come legally and get proper papers. The jobs taken from americans, i totally disagree... Because the jobs they are doing maids, labor (construction), dishwashers, etc..... we americans think we are too good to do them.. They do it at a cheap pay and dont complain.. just glad they have a job and hoping they dont get caught... The President of Mexico needs to start taking care of his people and quit depending on USA.. he is proably supporting the Drugs coming into USA instead of stopping them. But I see Mexican people as good workers and appreciate what they are given.. but they do need to come legally..
8. I do not care what country they are from, if they are here illegally, they need to be deported. Do it the right way, in other words, the legal way, or not at all.
9. If I lived in Mexico then yes I would want better for my children, but, the difference is I would do it legally and I would show my children that I am willing to work hard for it and not suck the welfare system dry,take the jobs of others,commit crimes and steal identitys. I have no sympathy for them because they are ruining my childrens future here in the US,they need to go home and work hard to fix the problems that they have in their own country, us Americans worked hard and paid taxes to help our fellow Americans and not criminals from other countries.
10. I'm of Mexican descent. My mom was born and raised in Mexico and so was my dad. in Mexico the barely had enough to eat for lack of income as both of my grandfathers were not around my paternal died when my dad was 14 and my maternal left his family when my mom was 8. so both of my parents had it bad. and i 4 one an glad that they came 2 the US. So yeah we Americans should do more to help the Mexicans...no matter what their immigration status is.
11. I don't CARE what "life they have in mexico"!! They are NOT legal citizens of THIS country!!!! They are CRIMINAL INVADERS, who are in this country ILLEGALLY!!! And, NO i would NEVER sneak into a country ILLEGALLY!!! I would not even want to live in a country where 86% of the people do NOT want them here!!!! You feel sorry for these people NOW,but how will you feel in the future,when they are taking the food from YOUR children??? When YOU are unable to find a job that pays a decent wage, because there are so MANY illegals here who are willing to work for LESS??? ILLEGALS are COSTING everyone of us in one way or another!!!! It is NOT up to the United States to support eveyone in this world!!!! It is NOT up to the American people to bail out other countrys!!!! ILLEGALS should NOT even be OUR problem!!! They are mexico's problem!!! mexico just PAWNS them off onto US, and it is NOT FAIR!!!!
12. Everyone has the right to survive. I don't blame them for their attempts but it seems it's easier to blame the American people who want their laws enforced than it is to blame the Mexican government for whats going on. As well as the American government for not enforcing our laws and allowing crooked business owners to get away with hiring illegals. The American government DOES send them money. The Mexican people here send money to them many in liu of paying taxes and other bills, that are then placed on the American tax payer to cover. So we are paying and loosing all the way around and now we're faced with an invasion which is degrading America across the nation and enough is enough. We have poverty here as well. This invasion is not only taking jobs from the most needy, but they are also taking the most affordable housing from our own people, they are depleating the social services ment for our poor to the point where hospitals and clinics across this country are being forced to close under the weight of the expenses. Our school systems have done a big nose dive from where we used to be and part of that is a direct result from having to cut beneficial programs for our citizens to accomodate illegals and anchor babies who refuse to learn our language and have instead wanted this "bi-lingual" education which has been and absolute failure. There are some very nice illegals......there are also a huge group of not so nice illegals. I know really nice American people who have broken the law and some not so nice ones as well. Bottom line is poverty is no excuse to be exempt from the law whether you're from Mexico or here. Life isn't fair.....I didn't write the rules. I just expect them to be obeyed. Do you think it's fair to be a law abiding citizen and forced to obey laws and then have illegals just come in, take your jobs and also get away with other crimes and never be punished? Mexico is horribly corrupt and they have alot of their own mess to clean up before any real change would ever take place no matter how much money was sent there. I don't like seeing areas of my country turned into the same h-hole people supposidly came here to get away from.
13. Many of those illegals don't want to be here in the US and they are angry that they have been forced to do so. They want to reclaim Aztlan, which they feel was illegally taken from them, even though it wasn't...these United States paid for it and then even won it with the battle at the Alamo. If I were in their place I would try to respect the nations laws...ALL the nations laws.
14. Help their government like we're helping Iraq? Yeah, that'd go over really well! If they're so hard-working, why can't they work to improve their own country instead of dragging us down? In America, American citizens come first. Pedro is welcome here if he comes here LEGALLY. I have nothing against Mexican people as a whole. My issue is with people coming here illegally, whether they're Mexican or Canadian!
15. As harsh as it might sound, their problems in Mexico shouldn't be our problems in the US. It's too bad their lives suck but that's still no excuse for what's going on north of the border now.
16. I get what you're saying..I understand that the people coming here illegally are desperate and in dire circumstances, I don't doubt that at all. However, as someone who grew up in dire circumstances myself (yes, I know what it's like to go to bed hungry for weeks on end, to not have heat in the winter and to face the uncertainty of whether or not you're going to have a roof over your head), I still believe that breaking the law is unacceptable. That doesn't mean that I don't understand the motivation behind it, but it is what it is. After all, we have hundreds of thousands of legal American citizens who are homeless, who are hungry, who are in desperate situations and who are crying for an opportunity to support their families. However, should one of these people choose to rob a bank or sell drugs in an attempt to support their family, we don't see protests in the streets to exonorate them of their crimes. We may understand the motivation behind their actions, but the truth is that they've broken the law, regardless of the reasons/circumstances and in this country, there are consequences for breaking the law. If there aren't, then what's the point of even having a legal system?
17. they should have a death sentence for illegal aliens if they steal,rape or killed some 1
18. I think Mexican illegal aliens should be deported back to Mexico.
19. No comment except that they need to put up a bigger border.