At Long Last, My Stance On Immigration

 

 

 

DON'T give me your tired and hungry masses, America is for AMERICANS

 

 

 

I hate immigration. I mean, immigrants add NOTHING to this country whatsoever. With immigration, there is no jobs for ANYONE. I do not care if unemployment is the same as it was 50 years ago...

 

 

Those god damn immigrants are taking my jobs. How the hell am I going to get a job as a guy who mows lawns, a mason, a pesticide spreading type person, or a cook nestled away in the back of a food court to some rich white person's mall? I cannot possibly get a job with this sort of competition!

 

And the crime, I mean, these immigrants breath and breed crime. Sure the census shows (http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/crime/toc.html#9) that immigrants actually produce LESS crime than their proportion of the population, but that's a load of crap. They look DIFFERENT from me, they MUST be dangerous. And how about all of these Eastern Europeans? They SOUND different from me so they must be dangerous.

 

I do not care that my family immigrated here at some time or another, we were European, we were different. These Eastern Europeans of today, they are not the same as us, so they do not apply. Immigration hurts America.

 

 

 

Obviously, the above is a joke. I am for immigration. I believe immigrants can contribute a lot to our society (yes, all of us.) Immigrants do the jobs that most second generation or above Americans are unwilling to do. They work harder, do a better job, and for less money. They actually appreciate American prosperity, while the average American can simply never have enough. Immigrants do not cause a huge amount of crime, unlike the popular perception (they actually cause less.)

 

Many immigrants, such as Asian immigrants work so hard and contribute so much to America, that their children and their children's children will on average make more money than a whtie person. Personally, if I see a Puerto Rican flag or Telemundo, I do not see my "American" culture being robbed from me.

 

1. Italians drive around with their little Italy flags on the back of their Honda Accords and no one seems to mind...

 

2. A culture of lawsuits, crappy music, crappy art, Britney Spears, and basketball is not such a culture that I fear losing...

 

3. My ancestors had their own little Italies and such and I do not hold it against them for trying to preserve some of their heritage.

 

 

 

Basically, I am not a hypocrite. Everyone deserves the oppurtunity to come work their ass of if they choose. If someone leaves their home, family, country, and people, their situation must have been TRULY terrible. If they are willing to work hard, then so be it, I welcome them the oppurtunity. They add to this country with their labor (especially the labor no one else wants to do), their work ethic, and the fact they cause less crime than the average American.

 

There is one tiny little problem: social programs. If you leave free money out, it is human nature to go and take it...being that immigrants are human, they are guilty of the same crime everyone else is guilty of: they want free hand outs and in turn take them. Immigrants use about 65 billion dollars in government/social programs (which includes education. http://www.fairus.org/ImmigrationIssueCent...m?ID=1208&c=15)

 

Yes, immigrants earn 240 billion dollars a year and pay 90 billion dollars in taxes a year. This certainly outweighs the cost to our government and economy. However, I do not believe people should be able to simply come to a new country and immediately be allowed to mooch, but I believe no one should be allowed to mooch so I am being rather consistant. I also believe that schools should teach only English, because it is not fair to teach one group of children English and the other Spanish, while there are other immigrants who speak Polish or some other language that does not fit our spanish speaking immigrant stereotype. It is rather arroagnt to give one set of immigrants preferential treatment over another.

 

Illegal immigrants should not be entitled to any social programs whatsoever, but I also believe that illegals should be given amnesty so they can be tax paying citizens. I also believe that immigrants should not be entitled to programs from the federal government for at least one generation of paying into them. However, I beleive that it is up to a local government's discression to give aid to such populations in the goal of lowering cost for other government bureaucracies (such as police.) If a local government allows a section of a city to fall into decay and does not properly reinvest in such an area, I beleive the long term cost of not spending there are higher than dealing with such a situation earlier.

 

All in all, people in other countries today are entitled to the same chance that my ancestors had. Immigrants help this country's economy, work ahrd, and actually appreciate what they have. As long as America cuts out on the handouts to everyone, I think everyone can have a fair chance at working hard and determining their own destiny.

 

Immigrants...we want you...to do the work we feel to insulted to do...

 

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i dont mind immigrants....

 

i mind illegal immigrants

Go to hell. My parents came here legally and have worked and served the American public for over 40 years. I am tired of this fascist attitude. Nobody is native to the United States. Even the god damn Native Americans came from somewhere else. I am tired of this anti-immigrant crap.

there are plenty of natives to the United States. I am.

 

no one is native of this continent though.