cristinaLisbon, North Holland Netherlands17,243 posts
Come on, all you have discribed have to do with a 3rd world country. No conditions in jails, blabla...
About the bill...have you explained us what does that interfere in what? Or maybe legalizing them first then the bill right? Would you be more relaxed?
lets take the men on welfare and allow them to do some of the work to collect the benifits i would rather work and earn my living than allow good hardworking people pay my way for nothing in return but thats just me
cristinaLisbon, North Holland Netherlands17,243 posts
we must be discusting different issues here! I'm talking about illegal immigration and you must be talking about mexicans being illegal...are they very special?
we all want good workers but greed tells us to hire the cheapest go back to any time in history cheapest always won over but now it more than just wages its about peoples future also i know that when it comes time for me to retire there wil be no benifits and taxes you think they are high now wait for ten years from now times are bad now future is only gonna be worse unless peole stand up and say no more but that would be another civil war and who would run the country not i said mc fly
I understand how you feel, but I disagree a little bit too. I feel qualified to comment because I lived on the border of Tijuana from 1975 until about four years ago.
Spanish is spoken all over, but it didn't affect my getting jobs there. Almost everyone who speaks Spanish there also speaks English fluently. The exceptions are many of the farmworkers who know some English, enough to get by. Kind of like how much Spanish I almost know.
A lot of the illegals come to the U.S. to work seasonally, they do take countless jobs. But I don't know who they are taking the jobs from, American teens won't pick strawberries in the fields for hours on end... They will take their skills to the fast food market. The illegals I knew about were not here to gain unlimited success, they were here to survive, and to send money to their loved ones.
Yes I'm aware that is only one place in time that I was exposed to, and I have a lot more thoughts.
I eventually did learn some Spanish, and worked in Tijuana two years, hoping that my language skills would improve. But even in Mexico, I had no need to speak their language, everyone there spoke English !
One more thing, the Mexican I knew there were generous, polite, courteous, and RESPECTFUL to me at all times. Their culture breeds class.
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