HUH? When you do something illegally, its called a crime. You don’t walk into someones home, but very nicely tell them you are going to be staying with them, their own healthcare coverage will have to cover you, screw the cost, because you worked really hard to get to this point so you deserve. Since you treat everyone equally in your home, you must treat me as well, it doesn’t matter that I just walked into you home with out knocking. But, I want to be here, I deserve to be here so you have no say. Oh and we need to change some rules in this house, because I want to stay here forever. I do work really hard and I do things no one else does. Of course, if I didn’t come here illegally and get paid under the table, someone else in the house might have a job. I am going to fly my Mexican flag to, cause I just love that country. HMM…why am I here again? You all need to learn Spanish now, because I am here.
I could go on and on.
My husband is Panamanian, served in Our Marine forces for 4 years then 2 years later became a citizen by going threw the proper lines. It took his sister 12 years to finally become a citizen. You have to go through the right channels no matter how long it takes. You have no rights until you do. Your opinion does not matter because you chose to come here ILLEGALLY, which yes means you committed a crime, therefore you are a criminal. Just because you want it badly and have good intentions doesn’t make it change. Go threw the right channels, become legal, then you have a right to vote, you have a right to boycott, and you have a right to parade in the streets carrying your American Flag.

Sorry, I’d call the cops.

I am all for fixing what is broken… but automatic amnesty is not that. If the system can be fixed I would be the first one supporting it… but there are bigger fish to fry, like for example fixing minimun wages in this country. I am just saying that we need to worry about bigger things, and illegal immigrants wanting to just be put to the front of the line is not fair.

And happy International Workers Day, everybody. 120 years ago a general strike was called in Chicago to demand an eight-hour workday. There should be folks marching in solidarity and pride in the streets. Today a lot of them just happen to be carrying the wrong signs.

While most of us who were born in this country, understand the moral and political foundation of the “American Dream,” and speak English were deeply offended by the public demands of criminal invaders today, we may be forgetting a whole gr…

But I believe that anyone who has the same willingness to work, the same personal sense of responsibility, and above all the understanding that the American dream is about human rights and not about consumer goods, and who goes through the legal process for becoming a citizen, is every bit as American as my family and every bit as entitled and every bit as welcome. To you who have come here legallly I say you are of the same spirit and the same hope as my family — only as circumstances would have it you just happened to come four hundred years later. You are most welcome in this country, my fellow American.

Like it or not, society has made itself dependent upon immigrants, migrant workers and anyone else who chooses to do the jobs most of us turn our noses up at. Their demonstration is nothing underhanded. Unless you consider handing people who seem to think these illegals are worthless, lazy, welfare sucking, criminals a dose of reality. If that were the case, why would people be angry at them for killing the economy for a day? If they do nothing to contribute to the well-being of this country, what does it matter to us citizens if they decide to just not work today?

Curious, perhaps what has most people flustered is knowing that their fellow citizens are showing support for the illegal immigrants.

John, you are the true definition of the American Dream. And anytime I think about what that means, you always come to my mind. Always. I was born here and I do well here for myself. But you, my friend, are the proof that it can happen to anybody.

The illegal immigration issue doesn’t really bother me. However, when I try to think about it from your point of view, I think I would be pissed off. It’s taken you the majority of your life to get where you are. You have worked hard and have succeeded in doing everything the legal way. You’ve never taken any shortcuts to become the successful person that you are and I respect that. And thoughtout the struggle, you have had to face the misguided judgments that you were just another lazy Mexican. I would think that it would be a huge slap in your face to say that those illegal immigrants should just be given the citizenship that you worked so hard and waited so long to receive.

I am proud of you. You are the person you are and have the respect that you do because you worked so hard for them. The value comes from working hard. There is no respect when something is just handed over to you without the experience.

You are wrong. I am not RICH, I did not have “connections” and it took a lot of hard work to come into this country. If you read what I wrote carefully you will see that I am not saying that poor people should not have an opportunity to move up, I am saying that the people that protest, most of them anyway have no clue what they are fighting for.

If you truly think that I because a U.S. citizen purely because of connections you are sadly mistaken. As a matter of fact I had an even harder time that even my family, but that is a story onto itself.

Illegal immigrants are in most cases hard workers, but what are they doing for our economy? Sure some pay rent which in turn will become taxes. They also buy food and other goods that are taxed. But they do not pay income taxes and then use public services that are becoming harder and harder to get for the people that are paying for it. It is a matter of fairness, not a matter of social class.

Even though I am a citizen now, I am still an immigrant. I am not a natural born citizen and the difference between an illegal immigrant and me is that I came here legally. I pay taxes; I learned the language and want to build a future for my family in this country. Some illegal immigrants could care less about America as a country and come here to better their lives in Mexico. This topic is one that is very close to me because I have been surrounded by it since I moved here. I have seen the good and the bad, and believe me most of the people protesting today do not have a clue about what they are fighting for or what they are going to accomplish.

I would love for all illegal immigrants to get worker visas and better opportunities to become citizens, but I believe that they need to get back to the end of the line, or meet a certain criteria. If Mexico failed them, I don’t want the US to fail them too… but all I want in return is respect for this country and its laws.

One-day boycotts simply don’t work. I just pray that this does not polarize this issue any further.

I wish people would try to fight just as hard instead of waiting for a favor or a handout.

In reality Logtar, most immigrants (as you used to be) somehow get here to the U.S. because of connections their parents have or because they got money. I doubt that having connections or being rich constitutes “working hard”. I could give you a millions ways in which poor people work harder than any rich person (or middle class person for that matter), and technically, if a person that works hard should get into the U.S., then what the hell do you think these Mexicans are doing, having a siesta?

The REALITY is that if you’ve got connections, money or BOTH, you’re going to be a U.S. citizen. It’s as simple as that. And what about the poor who ALSO want the American dream? Oh no, their not WORTHY of coming to our country, right? F^&* that sh$t. That’s a bunch of conservative rhetoric that is completely discriminatory about who DESERVES to be an American citizen.