See the rest of the world is doing it

you people are forgetting that the illegal immigrants are the ones who do the nasty lesser paid jobs that you americans refuse to do but often rely on. Illegal immigration is not pleasant but at the same time don't complain if you (as a country) partly rely on those same immigrants.

Of course it's a double standard...but we're the United States...everything we do is wrong...until someone needs help, then we're expected to be there...and we are. Can't win no matter what we do.

I don't know who's looking down on us and calling us horrible for trying to stop the border violence, except Mexico, which wants its citizens to come over here and send back American dollars. There's no double standard, because the US doesn't have a standard of any kind any more.

Let me be clear for a moment. Anyone who's in this discussion needs to look at the facts about the immigration law in Arizona. In order for someone in Arizona to be questioned about if their in the country illegally or not they must first be detained for a crime other then their possible illegal immigration status. The police can't just go up and ask anybody if their in Arizona illegally. That's not the way the new law works.

What does it even mean to be an American today? Does it mean we share a common language? No. English can't be our official language because it is racist. Does it mean we share a common culture? No. America must be diverse. It's our strength. America must be multi-culture. Does it mean we share a common history? Maybe. I'm not sure we do anymore. A lot of our history has been corrected. Note how certain statues have been removed or schools renamed because certain historical figures were deemed unsavory. Does being an American have anything do with our laws? No. Laws don't apply to some people. Do we share a common heritage? No. At one time the country could say yes to all the following. We can't today.

I just don't get why we won't do what is needed to be done. Its not enough to make immigration laws - We acctually need to enforce them like the rest of the World does. In some countries, the execute or inprison illegal immigrants. But yet America gives them welfare and food stamps? Im tired of nothing being done about it. We need to arm the gaurds at the border and give them the right to shoot. Illegal Immigration would decrease significantly if our border patrol had the right to shoot, and acctually did it.

It's more than a double standard in the context of what the phrase "double standard" actually conveys. It's a completely separate standard; a dueling standard: politically correct/socially just society V everyone else. To people living by their separate standard, the rest of us are the ones with a "double standard," going after Latino immigrants when America itself was birthed of immigrants, citing illegal ills instead of positives, etc. The entire PC culture is completely separate of anything the rest of us live with or live within. And it definitely has its own standards. Just like one of the discussions I've recently seen on here, where depicting Obama as certain characters is "racist" because it's offensive to some minorities, even though the person depicting him wasn't connecting those particular dots. In one world, that's racism. There's no two ways around it. But in the other world, the non-PC world, it's just basic common sense that a black guy can be called what a white guy's called if people are really equal. The PC standard for any minority is that they deserve preference. That's the bottom line. Not equality. Not equal footing. But uberironic separatist preference. Ongoing reparations due to countless factors, none the least of which is, of course, white guilt. South of America's border, it just happens out that most people are a few shades darker than 66% of America's--already considered white supremacist--population. The PC culture is thicker in Europe, I've heard, and it's certainly no surprise that it's suddenly racism when a white guy in a white country wants to get a handle on immigrants whom most are about the same shade as Latinos. Now they're victims and whites are the oppressors. I can't stop myself from ranting about the ridiculous irony here. The goal is, I thought, it usher in equality, where a person is judged on his or her character and not his or her skin tone. But it's just as backwards to look at a person's skin tone when they're charged with a crime and assume that's the reason and go full stop, as it is to deny someone of something due to the color of their skin. At the very, very least, it's patronizing "minorities." And I have to put that in quotations because they're (non-whites in general) only minorities in majority white countries. People jump on their Hitler fantasy wagon or something and just assume that their race is the only reason for it. Full stop! Just their race. They truly believe it and refuse to look at anything but the skin tone of the majority of immigrants in question. Racism extends past slavery and lynchings. It's kept alive and well by backwards maroons who honestly believe they're helping to heal the world by crying wolf.

the matter seems really to be discussed,, discussed once, twice and till this protests get down.. this is just a way to kill the issue,, huh,, americans can't b stopped.. this time they r on right side,,, and this double standard is just a disadvantage they take behind all advantages they are provided