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Sina
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 Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: Immigration? |
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| What do you think of immigration in the US? What do you think Americans think about it? Are they rather opposed or willing to accept newcomers? |
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liebe
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| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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Based on my experience, most Americans are opposed to it. Most Americans are conservative, religious people who don't like anyone who looks, sounds, or thinks differently than they do. Least of all do they want to see "damn foreigners" coming in and "stealing their American jobs."
There are exceptions, though. The U.S. is a large country, and the people can vary from a state to state and a city to city. NYC, California and such tend to be more liberal and welcoming. |
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Shana
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Immigration? |
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| Sina wrote: |
| What do you think of immigration in the US? What do you think Americans think about it? Are they rather opposed or willing to accept newcomers? |
well im mexican girl, i dont think that immigration is good, but i thinh that people should do almost everything they could for make better their lifes, i think that immigrants helps US, they paid taxed, they work in all that jobs that none want to do.... |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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Location: So. Cal
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| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Immigration? |
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| Shana wrote: |
| i think that immigrants helps US, they paid taxed, they work in all that jobs that none want to do.... |
Legal immigrants generally are a benefit. They tend to be well educated, high skilled, and since they enter with a legal visa, they are usually law-abiding and follow our societal rules. This country needs more of such people.
The problem is illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants tend to be low educated, low skilled, and are clearly disdainful of our laws (entering unlawfully and existing as part of an underground cash economy that does not often pay taxes). Add to that is the problem of our social welfare state. The state (local and federal level) provides many social services to everyone including unlawful residents. The social services are not covered by the sum total of taxes those illegal residents pay. And since they are low skilled and low educated, if they were legalized the costs would increase greater than the increase of taxes they would pay. The result is a cost ranging from $10 billion (that's BILLION with a "B") to $65 billion for the U.S. taxpayers ($3-9 billion for California taxpayers alone!). U.S. citizens are getting tired of subsidizing Mexico's poverty problem (stemming from its culture of corruption that supresses its economic growth potential).
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