What Do You Think About Immigration? We Are Sending Your Comments To Washington Congresspersons in Time For The Vote

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# Sandra Jimenez said on June 25, 2007 10:03 PM:

I'll be the 1st to comment.  I'm a 3rd generation Hispanic, and am the first in my family to obtain a college degree.  

I think we need to make a decision, really any decision before the issue reverts this society back to the prejudice that happened with african -americans back in the 1800s and 1900s (early).  

This is getting crazy

# Elena G. from Uvalde said on June 25, 2007 10:12 PM:

If people want to kick out the Hispanics, they need to start now trying to figure out who will wash their dishes, clean their bathrooms, prepare their sushi, work in chicken processing plants, build buildings. And i can go on with my list.

# chet said on June 25, 2007 10:24 PM:

The current system already allows for legal immigration.  Immigration laws don't need to be changed.  They need to be enforced.  Ignoring the laws does an injustice to immigrants who come here legally.

# Elena G. said on June 25, 2007 10:33 PM:

I agree with you Chet, 100%.  My question is, once laws are enforced & the illegal workforce disappears, are businesses & our country prepared to pay the wages that will be necessary to support a legal workforce?  

Much of our country is running on a low-wage workforce which depends on illegal immigrants who don't protest their minimum or below-minimum wages either because they are afraid or because they can't.

What happens once that low-wage workforce disappears?  Is our society prepared for that?  Who's going to take those jobs?  And who's going to pay for it?

# Robert U. said on June 26, 2007 8:15 AM:

I disagree with the measure, I think the entire issue is useless.  Illegal immigrants will still enter the country, things will not b solved.

# Barbara bermudez said on June 26, 2007 9:05 AM:

Disagree with bill.  This is not going to work.  Why is our tax payer money being used to argue this bill which will not keep out the illegals anyways.

# Juliano la ROsa said on June 26, 2007 9:27 AM:

THumbs up.  THis bill can only help our country and promote the legality of the work those people do to help us.

Also, i read something like 80% of the visas given will go to family members of people who are already here.  That is mportant.  My family s in Argentina, and I want to bring my mother.  This program would allow me to do that.

# admin said on June 27, 2007 9:50 AM:

Thanks for your comments everyone we are closing this drive, and sending them in.

Hispanic.com

# llanero said on October 31, 2007 1:05 PM:

When the illegal immigrants arrived on the eastern shore of America on the Mayflower.They were welcomed with open arms,until the Indigenous people discovered their deceit!From then on America has made a steady decline.I am now feeling the effects of terrorism at it's worst.I feel the dominant culture is so obssesed with the immigration issue it will no longer distiguish between legal or illegal!Just like in the State of Colorado during WWII where Colorado began rounding up it's Mexican citizens for deportation to Mexico.They included Mexican-Americans too.Many of the Mexican citizens resorted to calling themselves "Spanish"just so they wuoldn't be included in this Mexican category.Then the War became such an overwhelming burden to them,they decided to allow these people to return as documented workers to assist in the war effort.Alls it is,this ugly hate monster rearing it's ugly head again.The indigenous peoples of the Americas will have to deal with it in a just manner so that we(the Indigenous Peoples)can live freely like it used to be before the occupation began!!!!