Here are some arguments presented by various Americans on other sites:
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This is a simple issue. Americans can not just go an become instant residents in another country. At best we can get a visa but often it is limited to X amount of days per year we can even stay in some places.
Why should this be any different for the Mexicans? If you are not legal, you are ILLEGAL and should not be allowed to stay.
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Why make it easier? If they can't not be bothered to follow the rules on getting into the country what other rules won't they be bothered with? I have no problem if somebody wants to come here in the right way and make an honest living for themselves though.
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I am not anti-immigrant; I am all for people who want to enter the country legally. My family came over from Spain many years ago. My relatives did it legally. That meant learning English and being a part of the culture. They didn’t sneak over the border in the middle of the night and then run into the streets demanding this, that and the other. Legal immigrants who enter through the proper channels by and large do come here to make society a better place.
Illegal immigrants do not come here to make this country a better place or to contribute to our society. They come here to suck up our resources, housing, handout programs, food and jobs and they ship the fruits of their labor back across the border. Illegal immigrants do not get immunized properly before crossing, this means that they bring disease and sickness with them.
And to fuck with their sad stories. I've got a few of those myself and they don’t entitle me to break the law to fill my needs, wants or desires. I cant just march into Canada or China or Russia or any other country and declare myself a citizen. Why should other people be able to do the same here?
Don’t post a link to a liberal California college and two to a newspaper for religious fruitcakes and tell me that’s why I should let it happen. The liberals have gotten this country into a huge fucking mess with their preaching tolerance and peace and unity bullshit its incredible. And the GOP is equally responsible for the mess because they keep wanting to spend every dime they can get a hold of.
So if you think that they should be allowed to come in here and do whatever they want and we should sit back and let them, well then fuck you because you are not an American and you are the one who doesn’t deserve to be here anymore.
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I don't see this issue as something that a lot of Americans are just going to "accept" and let slide simply because it's been happening for centuries.
Speaking purely as a Canadian, and that encompasses the fact that we up here have our own history of language issues plus albeit much smaller illegal immigration problem, I will say this: I would love to see a workable solution in the USA where thoese illegals who are not raping your system for all it's worth be given a bit of a break. Not a free pass, but a new avenue to gain the citizenship they desperately seek.
As for the rest, well...Call me crazy but I'm not big on people just being able to walk into my country and live off our tax dollars. That's of course my first reaction, I'm well aware that there are many facets to this argument.