Is it just me or it’s really hot here?
lol! so much to respond to, i don't know where to begin.
Perhaps, and this is just a thought, if they're lving in such terrible conditions, maybe they shouldn't have had children. I mean, that's what other people do. If I can hardly feed myself, why would I want to reproduce and have even MORE mouths to feed?
del, that makes perfect sense, and i totally agree with it, but things don't always work out that way. some people get married, buy a house, have kids, and then lose their jobs. or run themselves up with debt and file for bankruptcy. or one of the parents goes crazy and kills someone. or one of the parents gets eaten by a shark. i mean we can plan as much as possible, and most people probably don't plan, things just happen and they work with what they have. people should not be punished for things that happen that are out of their control.
as far as illegal immigrants being, well, illegal, if we enforced every law, this country would not be in the state it is now. but instead CEOs run companies to the ground and make out like bandits, corporations outsource illegally do avoid paying taxes, there's fraud, embezzelment, you name it corporate america has done it. but thanks to lobbyists and no-bid contracts and so on it usually ends up going under the radar, unless you're a woman (see: martha stewart).
and we are talking billions up here. BILLIONS. but people don't care about that. they care about the mothers on welfare, and the immigrants getting healthcare on their dime. if we had any say of where out tax dollars went, then maybe an argument about taxpayers money would hold up, but we don't. i'd rather have my tax dollars going to schools, immigrants, and welfare than war-mongering, churches, and paying right-wingers paychecks. but what do i do? quit my job? live on the street? as a form of protest? props to anyone who can do that, but i can't.
nipith got everything right. i used to wonder the same thing myself when i was younger, why not just come legally. but when you've been around enough immigrants, you begin to see how hard it is.
i don't even want to TRAVEL to a non-english speaking country before knowing at least the basics of the language. but that's just me, and some countries do require you to speak the fluent language, but we can not force people to learn english. that's what translators are for. if someone doesn't want to learn, or have the resources to learn english, they should have a say in the matter. would learning the national language enhance your experience? yes. we have to remember that most illegal immigrants come here without high school education, let alone college education. again, we don't know WHY, every person is different. i dropped out of high school because i hated it. i couldn't afford to go to college, and i was born here!
anyway, back to the argument of "just don't do it". if i had a dollar for every pregnant teenage american i've met i'd be rich. so few people plan families, they just happen. it's the middle class american way. someone brought up native americans, i mean come on! by these standards we should all be speaking the dialects for our regions. and the vietnamese immigrants! my second family immigrated from vietnam illegally, it took them years, but they finally became legal. but shit! if we lived in vietnam after what we did to that country, getting papers would be the last thing on my mind.
there are SO many issues with this that will take forever to correct. we just have to remember that we are all human, and as long as we ain't hurtin' nobody, there's no reason to hate eachother. the land doesn't belong to any one person more than the next, regardless of where they're from.
sorry, i feel bad. you all articulate responses, i rant