Just my .02
I think a reality check needs to be made here.
The English language is being learned, taught and spoken in most other countries all over the world
The English language is becoming the defacto language for everyone on this planet, and is the required secondary language for most larger countries.
So if everyone on this planet is learning English, why are Americans going to start speaking Spanish?
And why is it that the rest of the world is learning English?
Because Americans probably travel more to foreign countries on a whole than any other foreign country’s citizens travel. So it is good business to learn English.
And I have to say.. I just don’t get it and probably never will.
Why do people leave Mexico to come to the United States if Mexico is so great?
Why do you want to turn the United States into something you are willing to risk your life to leave? for goodness sakes people get a fricken clue.
Don’t turn the United States into something that you left, that is just stupid.
This is probably going to offend some, and I don’t mean to piss anyone off, but until I can come up with a better analogy this is the only one I can think of:
Kind of like crapping all over your own home, trashing it, peeing everywhere, pooping everywhere and then instead of cleaning it up you decide to move into your neighbors house, at first he kind of ignores you, but then he sees you have the same habits that you had when you trashed your own home and he sees you starting to trash his house, then he kind of gets ticked off, tries to throw you out, then everyone he knows starts calling him names saying he isn’t compassionate.
With everything you have good and you have bad. Not all illegal immigrants are bad, but not all are good either. I will share with you what I see and what I have experienced.
I have a friend who is a teacher at a highschool, I wont mention any specifics but he has had this young highschool girl that apparently has a lot of emotional problems stemming from the fact that her real dad is from Mexico and lives there. He comes up illegally into the United States and has sex with his own daughter and then goes back to Mexico.
Apparently the authorities cannot do anything about it because he is not a U.S. citizen and I guess there are some other issues involved. This girl has had a few children by her own father.
I don’t think illegal immigrants can get drivers licenses, if they cant get a drivers license that probably cant get insurance. So now you have people driving on the streets that have no license and no insurances. Accidents happen, that is why they are called “accidents†unfortunately however when an illegal immigrant is involved in an accident they feel they have to run from the scene of the accident, which is probably true because if they stick around to accept responsibility they will be in a world of shid, illegal immigrant, no license, no insurance.
So like the motorcyclist who was hit by the farm van last year (one of the board members, I forgot who. Had a friend killed when a farm van hit his friend at an intersection, it was back east I think)
They found the van and it was registered to someone in Colorado. Everyone in the Van scattered and no one called for help for the guy because everyone in the van was too worried about getting in trouble. More than likely because they were illegal immigrants and they knew if they were caught they would get deported.
And as far as paying taxes and illegal immigrants not being able to file a return to recoup their money, guess what? It is called taxes.
First off, if they are paying taxes using a dead persons SSN, that is illegal and identity theft, if they are using a living persons SSN, that is identity theft.
If they are using a living persons SSN and reporting earnings on that persons SSN, guess what? they are screwing someone and possibly causing the IRS to come down on someone who had their identity stolen by an illegal immigrant..
Is that fare? is it fare for an illegal immigrant to cause IRS problems on an ususpecting American? no it is a bunch of B.S.
I doubt very many illegal immigrants are paying taxes however, I have the inside scoop that most are paid under the table. No taxes taken out.
And like Frisbee said, our already over burdened school systems are required to teach and provide schooling for children of illegal immigrants who dont pay taxes.
So American citizens who do pay taxes are picking up the slack and the burden
And even if they do get taxes taken out illegally using someone else’s SSN, all they have to do is claim as many dependants as they want and they will have less taxes taken out than they should.
So don’t even try to tell me that someone who has illegally came into the United States, who is probably driving without a license and without insurance and also has stolen someone’s identity and is using their SSN is going to be honest about the amount of dependants they have.. that is ludicrous to even think that would happen.
So no, illegal immigrants are not really helping our country.
Legal immigrants help our country, always have.
Illegal immigrants however, just for the fact they are under pressure to fly under the radar prevents them from effectively participating fully in our society (even if they wanted to) causing them to circumvent policy and procedures in place to try and enhance our societal structure and the over all good of the collective whole.
In summary, if you like your own house live in it, if you decide your neighbors house is nicer than yours, don’t move in and try to make it like the place you just left, in the end you will be just as unhappy as when you lived in your old home and you will end up pissing a lot of people off in the process
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I think a reality check needs to be made here.
The English language is being learned, taught and spoken in most other countries all over the world
The English language is becoming the defacto language for everyone on this planet, and is the required secondary language for most larger countries.
So if everyone on this planet is learning English, why are Americans going to start speaking Spanish?
And why is it that the rest of the world is learning English?
Because Americans probably travel more to foreign countries on a whole than any other foreign country’s citizens travel. So it is good business to learn English.
And I have to say.. I just don’t get it and probably never will.
Why do people leave Mexico to come to the United States if Mexico is so great?
Why do you want to turn the United States into something you are willing to risk your life to leave? for goodness sakes people get a fricken clue.
Don’t turn the United States into something that you left, that is just stupid.
This is probably going to offend some, and I don’t mean to piss anyone off, but until I can come up with a better analogy this is the only one I can think of:
Kind of like crapping all over your own home, trashing it, peeing everywhere, pooping everywhere and then instead of cleaning it up you decide to move into your neighbors house, at first he kind of ignores you, but then he sees you have the same habits that you had when you trashed your own home and he sees you starting to trash his house, then he kind of gets ticked off, tries to throw you out, then everyone he knows starts calling him names saying he isn’t compassionate.
With everything you have good and you have bad. Not all illegal immigrants are bad, but not all are good either. I will share with you what I see and what I have experienced.
I have a friend who is a teacher at a highschool, I wont mention any specifics but he has had this young highschool girl that apparently has a lot of emotional problems stemming from the fact that her real dad is from Mexico and lives there. He comes up illegally into the United States and has sex with his own daughter and then goes back to Mexico.
Apparently the authorities cannot do anything about it because he is not a U.S. citizen and I guess there are some other issues involved. This girl has had a few children by her own father.
I don’t think illegal immigrants can get drivers licenses, if they cant get a drivers license that probably cant get insurance. So now you have people driving on the streets that have no license and no insurances. Accidents happen, that is why they are called “accidents†unfortunately however when an illegal immigrant is involved in an accident they feel they have to run from the scene of the accident, which is probably true because if they stick around to accept responsibility they will be in a world of shid, illegal immigrant, no license, no insurance.
So like the motorcyclist who was hit by the farm van last year (one of the board members, I forgot who. Had a friend killed when a farm van hit his friend at an intersection, it was back east I think)
They found the van and it was registered to someone in Colorado. Everyone in the Van scattered and no one called for help for the guy because everyone in the van was too worried about getting in trouble. More than likely because they were illegal immigrants and they knew if they were caught they would get deported.
And as far as paying taxes and illegal immigrants not being able to file a return to recoup their money, guess what? It is called taxes.
First off, if they are paying taxes using a dead persons SSN, that is illegal and identity theft, if they are using a living persons SSN, that is identity theft.
If they are using a living persons SSN and reporting earnings on that persons SSN, guess what? they are screwing someone and possibly causing the IRS to come down on someone who had their identity stolen by an illegal immigrant..
Is that fare? is it fare for an illegal immigrant to cause IRS problems on an ususpecting American? no it is a bunch of B.S.
I doubt very many illegal immigrants are paying taxes however, I have the inside scoop that most are paid under the table. No taxes taken out.
And like Frisbee said, our already over burdened school systems are required to teach and provide schooling for children of illegal immigrants who dont pay taxes.
So American citizens who do pay taxes are picking up the slack and the burden
And even if they do get taxes taken out illegally using someone else’s SSN, all they have to do is claim as many dependants as they want and they will have less taxes taken out than they should.
So don’t even try to tell me that someone who has illegally came into the United States, who is probably driving without a license and without insurance and also has stolen someone’s identity and is using their SSN is going to be honest about the amount of dependants they have.. that is ludicrous to even think that would happen.
So no, illegal immigrants are not really helping our country.
Legal immigrants help our country, always have.
Illegal immigrants however, just for the fact they are under pressure to fly under the radar prevents them from effectively participating fully in our society (even if they wanted to) causing them to circumvent policy and procedures in place to try and enhance our societal structure and the over all good of the collective whole.
In summary, if you like your own house live in it, if you decide your neighbors house is nicer than yours, don’t move in and try to make it like the place you just left, in the end you will be just as unhappy as when you lived in your old home and you will end up pissing a lot of people off in the process
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