Americans don't like immigrants?

Question

America is the land of the immigrants since forever. reading here I see that people tell imigrants "GO BACK HOME" and stuff like that.

I am thinking about immigration the America and leave in NY .

what do you people really think about immigrants?

Answer 1

We like legal immigrants who speak English just fine, but we're not going to make special allowances if you come here illegally  and/or don't speak English. that's done with.

Answer 2

People just tend to resent any "others"... nationally, linguistically, religiously, etc. Everyone thinks someone else is getting something free that they worked for, pay taxes on, etc.

There was a time the Irish were the latest wave of new working class, and they were despised too. So just realize that whoever is currently emigrating will also have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren here, and they too will have rights.

Answer 3

Americans love legal immigrants.

We don't like illegal aliens breaking our nation immigration laws.

Answer 4

If you are israeli, then u are Middle-Eastern not European. Israel is not in Europe.

Answer 5

I love your Questions and Details! I'm proud of you, because in this site its a lot people who thinks they own the world. I Love America, I'm so proud to be here, and I wish one day Immigration will do more new laws to help illegals to have a normal life like anybody in the US.

Answer 6

welcome to America  

Answer 7

immigrants were the foundation of the united states.  

while some illegal immigrants are good people trying to make a better life for their family, a great number are gang bangers, criminals, and sucking off the welfare system they don't have to pay into.

at the same time, there are hard working illegals that will do menial jobs the americans seem to think they are too good to do and for next to nothing in wages.

Answer 8

I live in a community that has suddenly become predominantly Hispanic.  While I don't care if people come to this country LEGALLY I wish there were rules set up for their entrance.  For one, it's crazy how many of them don't speak English.  I couldn't imagine moving to another country and not knowing the language.

It's not right that they don't have to pay taxes.

They throw their trash all over the place. Everyday I have to go outside and pick up their garbage in my yard.  This wasn't a problem before Hispanics started showing up.

They're loud.  Every night they sit outside and BLAST their car stereos so loudly I can hear it over my TV and air conditioner.  They play their music late into the night, interrupting my sleeping.

They hang out in my yard.  Pleases, respect my property lines.

I respect their culture, why can't they respect mine?

Answer 9

Personally, I am all for immigration to this country.  I am a native of the USA, and I love that we have such a diverse population.

My only problem is when foreigners come to this country and refuse to learn basic English.  They drive, they get Welfare, WIC, all sorts of free things, which is fine because I'm sure it must be hard starting new in a new country.  But, AT LEAST learn the language of your new country!!!!!!   All these people know how to say is "No English".  

I have an idea, how about when an immigrant comes to America, they are given 2 years to speak passable English.  If they cannot speak passable English in 2 years, they are sent back to their home country and cannot return to America.

Answer 10

the people who are saying GO HOME are talking to the illegle imigrants

i agree with them

yes america is the melting pot and we take u in but u need to come in legaly and pay taxes and stuff like that like everyone else  

Answer 11

america is a country of immigrants... unless you are a native american, your family immigated here at some point within the last 500 years.. i have no problem with immigrants, so long as they come over here legally and go through the immigration processes

Answer 12

My town is now about 35% hispanic.  A lot of them are good, hard working people.  That being said, DUIs, rape, domestic battery, public intoxication and drug busts have about doubled since they came here.  The arrest report reads like a town in Mexico.

Answer 13

I don't have a problem whatsoever with the legal immigrants of this country.

being illegal is a term within itself...ILLEGAL.

Just because someone is white doesn't mean they are fully European.

Just because someone is tan/brown doesn't mean they are Hispanic.

People are getting races confused.

Answer 14

Don't worry about what you see here.  The people here do not represent the American people as a whole.  Yahoo Answers will always attract the nationalists, racists and other miscreants.

Answer 15

I think everyone hates ILLEGAL Immigrants regardless of what country, LEGAL immigrants are however not hated as far as they don't scrounge the system.  

Answer 16

I love legal immigrants, and will go out of my way to help them.

I really have a problem with illegal immigrants and will go out of my way to run 'em off.

Answer 17

yes but you will pay taxes and not make us pay for your life as well as ours.

Answer 18

go some where else if you don't like the way people here think.

Most of us are decendents of somewhere else,but if you read history,we all came here and learned to speak English,and all are supposed to abide by the same laws.Don't come here wanting us to learn your language,and believe the way you believe.

If you want to change things go back to where you came from and change things there.

Answer 19

America is the land of the immigrants since forever. reading here I see that people tell imigrants "GO BACK HOME" and stuff like that.

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No.  Not even close.  I am a citizen who served seven bloody months in Vietnam fighting for my country.  Only some of our family got home and not a one deserted.

My parents and Uncles were citizens and fought in Korea for at least two years, and in World War Two for four years.  Only some of them came home.

My Great Grand parents fled Germany and bought swamp land in Victoria, Texas and made it very, very good land, in 1906.  All of my Great Grand Parents, and Uncles and Cousins, servered in World War One against the Central Powers, and only some of them came home.

We are citizens, and we established rules for immigration.  We want them followed, and if they are not, I am beginning to believe the illegals should serve on a prison work farm for at least a year.  Further... I don't want my next President to be buddy buddy with the Mexicans and do as he is told to do... I want them to enforce the law.

Answer 20

Legal Immigrants we appreciate, Illegal Immigrants we don't.

Answer 21

It is the criminal illegal alien invaders that we do not want or need here.

Do it legally and you are welcome with open arms.

Answer 22

You are incorrect. Most Americans are either immigrants or descended from immigrants. Even American Indians immigrated here. What most of us don't like is illegal immigrants who violate our laws. It is those same illegals who give law abiding immigrants a bad name. I realize that it is easy to misinterpret the rhetoric when you are outside looking in, but most Americans welcome legal immigrants without comment.