The "Mexican invasion of America"

Ok me I am of the mexican decent. My dad does speak spanish and so do my grandparents however I think that they want to come here either leagally, to visit, vacation or make a lifestyle then learn English. Why do I have to get a job because they don't want to learn English. I think if they want to make a lifestyle and live here in the US then their first requirment before anything else is they speak English well enough for us to understand and they speak it everywhere they go and not assume just because I look mexican I speak Spanish because I don't. Also my dad and my grandparents do speak English and they speak it well. I have friends that tell me all the time when I ask why their parents don't speak English and they say because they don't want to learn.

I don't think it is even about wheather or not that they came here legal or illegally. It does bother me that they will pay extra if you are bilingual for a job and they won't hire you if you aren't bilingual but any other country that you go to you probably have to learn their language to get a job there.

I don't think for most it's an issue of race, but legality.. I think for some reason it's viewed that way if someone questions the wisdom of amnesty and open borders. When much more prevalently, it's an issue of whoever comes to live in the country post terrorism, many would like them to be accounted for.. Another issue I believe some are concerned over is taxes and expenses.. such as children being born here, of non legal parents, being automatically covered for all things, and paid by taxes, when even the children of citizens are not so.. or non resident tuitions being less expensive than the citizen's... or rather than the citizen's children's.. If people are paying taxes surely they have a right to consider these things.

It does rile me up a little bit, especially when I hear of illegal immigrants going around and killing, raping and committing other crimes in this country. I do not have a problem if people from Mexico came here through the legal process. However, anyone that migrates to the US should be required to speak our language and also support our country and our flag. They should do background checks on people immigrating here and anyone with criminal backgrounds should not be allowed here.

Wanna know why I'm pissed off about it? http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Hw1CzOhnis They want war. Glad you're having fun buddying up to the illegals. Traitors like you make me sick.

I don't see it as a big deal either. If you live west of Louisiana, you are in territories that Spain once owned anyway. And you don't have to learn Spanish if you don't want to. And in some places you don't have to learn English either. That is great.

Oh please you Americans never stop complaining do you?...what should the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistabe be complaining about.....that there are too many Americans in their country and that too they simply havnt come there to have a better life but to ensure that everyone in the world follow the American way of life whether they like it or not....lokks like the American Military forces and the American administration has almost become the semi-official defence and government of Iraq....oh God what are they supposed to do:(....boo hoo....

I am not bothered by any ethnic group that is here legally. They pay taxes and help in the community. They will be paying my Social Security, if I get any. I believe our culture can be enriched by people from other countries. I am concerned about health care, but I am also concerned about the cost of health care for people from the US who will not work, and do not pay taxes, and cannot find a doctor and use the ER as their primary care physician, meanwhile making poor lifestyle choices that are killing them and are causing retardation in their children and recurring ear infections and asthma. I wish I spoke Spanish, and when my life slows down I will probably study it for fun. The other foreign language that has a strong foot hold in our country is German. Many technological processes rely upon German know how and engineering. I am waiting to hear complaints about that. That needs to be another language I learn, just for fun. The thing about some of the new laws that are supposed to be helping America is that they are really going to hurt some aspects of our society. I am waiting to hear all of the complaints about the cost of food because the crops are rotting in the field because the farmers are not able to find anyone to harvest them.Oh, well. Let them eat cake.

I do have a problem with the illegals. They seem to get better healthcare than my son - who does not have healtcare through his work yet and can't afford it otherwise. Things like that bother me. When I'm paying into the tax system that is not helping the American public, yeah, I have a problem with it. On the other hand, this is what America is about. Right now, we are being faced with a (tiny) bit of what they Indians dealt with so many years ago. Our ancestors had no problem coming in, taking over, forcing the people who lived here to adhere to our languages and customs. Now we have a HUGE problem with a smaller group of people doing some of the same things. It's a double-edged sword.

the thing that bothers me is the fact that I as a legal emigrand went through the whole nine yards of enterin g the USA legaly andbecame a citisen yet here are those folks just taking everything is as if they are making a laughing stock of those of us who did it the right way!we are a country of laws and they surely are law breakers !

My significant other was born in Mexico but moved to the states when he was 6. His mother always told him not to tell people he was from Mexico because of the wide spread prejudice. Bad part about that is I asked him after we had been dating about 4 months what his nationality was and he told me Castillian and Italian with no mention of Mexico. We were in a bad wreck and he was in the hospital and I had applied for his ss disability and even though I had a million of his IDs they wanted his birth certificate. I called his Mom and she freaked out because he was born in Mexico. Personally I don't care where someone is from or what color they are it's the kind of person they are. I'm predjudiced against !@#$%holes no matter the race, LOL , but thats it.

While I see what your saying here, and think thats great that you conformed to accomodate those around you, I slightly disagree. The two issues I have with this is the "legal" point of it all & the fact that Spanish is becoming a prominate language here. The language factor, as I read some others feel this way, is that I'm a born a natural citizen of the US, and my native language is English. MANY jobs are starting to require you to speak Spanish fluently, in the event that you have to deal with Spanish speaking citizens. While I'm able to understand how it is more comfortable for Spanish persons to speak their native language, for those of us speaking the Native language of English, its a hinderance. So I have to spend money on college courses to learn a language to be able to function in this country? I dont think so. I'm not going to even think about vacationing in a country with a native language I dont speak, so why would I want to relocate and live there without learning the language? I think if your going to LIVE here and have you life here, then learn to communicate in the native language. That seems like common sense to me. There are 6,700 languages spoken throughout this world, and Im MOST sure there are a large amount of people speaking these languages living here, should I learn all those languages to accomadate everyone? The legality of it all, all I have to say is that if you want to live here and be happy, then fill out all the forms, learn english, apply for a work permit to legally work and pay the same amount of taxes the rest of us do. The amount of money immigrants save during the year from Fed tax breaks is enough to buy themselves a brand new Mustang. If you want healthcare then buy it like the rest of us do. No one race is lazier or more hard working than the other so for you to say that they will do the jobs that most Americans WONT do is just rediculous. There are just as many Mexicans not working here & living off public aid as there are natural born citizens. And since its LAW to have certain amounts of minorities in place by employers, whites are sometimes over looked when they in fact might do a better job, just so the company can "fill a quota" put in place by the Federal Government so there is equality in the workplace. Its BS. I think people should be hired because of education, experience & a strong work history, not ethnic backgrounds. Bay xx

I get upset with the illegal immigrant situation. First what is the problem with coming in legally and becoming a citizen. Isn't that supposed to be why they are here? I am speaking mainly of Mexico. Why are these people flooding in to the United States. If things are so bad in there country why not stay and fight to change it like we had to. Spend some of that energy cleaning up there country. This country has had to fight really hard to get its independence in the beginging right through the world wars to to protect itself. Many many brave souls gave there lives to give us the freedom and benefits we now have. It didn't come easily. As the saying goes " Freedom isn't Free" We paid a high price with each one of these individuals. Where were these people than? Sitting in Mexico. They appear to be to lazy to clean up their own homeland ( where is the pride?) and make it a better place to live and a better heritage to leave to their children. But no -they just want to get out of town and sponge offf of other peoples rights. They get free everything and I can't even get heath insurance. They brag about producing offspring just so they can stay in this country and leech from us. What do you think would happen it Americans started flooding into Mexico and demanding everthing from Tv to Grocery stores and currency be in English. Any one else see the movie "Day after Tomorrow"? I thought it was pretty poetic that when America needed to be evacuated because of a natural disastor Mexico closed there borders to us and wouldn't let anyone in until all of there debts to us were forgiven and they didn't have to pay them. Is this a glimps of the future? I also think it is absolutley absurd that they won't learn the language. I will bet if we made it a law that you could only apply for public assistance in English they would learn really fast. I have no problem AT ALL with immigrants coming into America and becoming citizens. That is how this country started. But I do have a problem with all of the people who want to be called something American. Wither it is Black American, Hispanic American, German American, Italian American, Jewish American etc. etc. etc. Why not just plain old American. I thought we were all equal. And I thought that is why they came. They come here but want to instill there culture here. So if it was so great why did they leave. If I were to move to another country (and I won't) I would expect to learn the language, the culture and abide by there laws. Is that asking to much here?

It does not bother me neither because they were here first anyways. It was the Europeans that first came here to their land. This land was once divided with Mexicans and Indians. The Europeans came here, killed and stole everything from these people. People who complain about it are just another racist group. If you don't like it go back to where you came from.. ha ha ha. Yeah that makes sense doesn't it? You hear this yet they do it and you complain about it. Ignorance! This is supposed to be the "land of the free" what makes these people any less human that they don't deserve freedom to be here either?

I read a colum in Time Magazinea couple of years ago by a Canidian - Charles Krouthammer (sp?). His point was people need to learn the language of the country. When you look at the US what is it that holds us together? It is our language - English. You become an American when you can speek the language. He pointed out the dangers of a two language nation. In Canada the French speeking people from Quebec are living in poverty because of language. I think ther are several things we as a nation need to do to solve the problem. 1. secure the borders - North, South, East and West. Many illegales are from Eastern Europe and Africa and enter from the East Coast or from Canada. The Asian population (illeagle) comes in thruog the West Coast and Canada. 2. Develop a means for those here illeagly to register and have a real background check and health screening done. Then set up a program for them to become US Citizens with sponcers. 3. Have ICE round up the criminals and thos who have not registered and deport them. I am sure that most people are like me and know or have know illegal immigrants and would welcome them into their community. When you read some of the stories you will find that many have been in this country and have learned the language and lived amoung us for years. These are the people we want and get rid of the other that are causing problems or wh do not want to follow the laws of our country.

I think they should come here legally. As it stands now, we have no idea who is here whether they have a criminal background or not. I really hate it when I go to a store and the clerk tells me she does not know english. I think they should learn the language. If I live in Mexico, I would not expect the Mexicans to learn english.

Im part native American , and what you just said riles me up.This nation once belonged to indian and mexican peoples long before any white man came here. talk about illgally being here( please)..... all of you are hypocrits.

First of all, I have Mexican family members on all sides. Secondly, I've noticed recently that almost every product has both English AND Spanish on the labels and that bothers me. WHY does it bother me? Because many of these products had only English on them a few months ago. It's like everywhere I go, I'm hit with something with Spanish on it. That is mostly an annoyance than a complaint though.

You are putting your decision on your small town. It is very likely that you work in an office and your cannot determine their effects based on just where you live. I i repeat, I have no job because I dont cut myself down to working under the table and working for half of my worth. I am an American citizen and I have qualifications beyond what they have. You are oblivious to what is going on throughout the entire country and I hope you are not the deciding vote for our next president. My life is tough and I worked my butt off for every penny that I have and I cannot get a job because of them. Also, I got my very first car last May and worked for the money to buy that car for over 3 years. I had that car for 12 days then I was hit head on by a car load of illegals that had no insurance and I was the only that was hurt. Now the effects of that accident were 1) I have no car 2) I have the worst credit because I cannot get a job to pay off the doctor bills from them 3) I have no job ... and the list goes on. So before you go standing up for them I suggest that you do some research as to their effects now and the ones that will be occuring in the near future as our government runs out of money to support them. And one more thing, they dont do the jobs that Americans wont do. They do the jobs for half price. I know many jobless people more than willing to do the work but wont be hired.

The point is that they are here illegally. That means they are breaking the law by just being here, not to mention the crimes that they commit and the jail cells that they are filling up. Oh and what about our school system that you and I are paying for. We now need spanish speaking teachers and aids so that we can communicate with their children. And what does that do to the English speaking children, it slows down their learning because half of the time is spent explaining in Spanish. And when was the last time that you needed to go to the emergency room and wait, and wait....and wait some more because one of their little ones had an ear infection? All paid from your and my taxes via welfare. You are kidding your self if you do not think this is not affecting you. Construction jobs used to be a high paying job until it was taken over by illegal workers and that was a job that the Americans will do but just not for minimum wage! Same with logging and many other blue collar jobs. So my friend, keep drinking your kool aid and learning your native language and when you no longer have a job that you are able to support your self at because the illegals will do it for minimum wages, don't cry to us that there aren't any good jobs out there!