Why were the US is called the land of opportunity if in here people don't like illigal immigration / etnicity

Question

Why were the US is called the land of opportunity if in here people don't like illigal immigration / etnicity

Answer 1

Badges we dont need no stinking Badges.

Answer 2

Opportunity is reserved for legal immigrants and citizens...illegals need not apply.

Answer 3

Thats a very shallow question to be honest. Many Americans embrace Immigration but the fact is that it is Illegal. If you want to become an American citizen, you can become one. Taking the illegal route is not fair to the citizens of America and to those who came here legally. Illegal Immigration costs the American government billions of dollars and its negative effects largely outweigh the positive one.

Answer 4

The USA is the land of opportunity, still.  People have so many opportunities and it's not even about the immigration.  However, we still have a problem with illegal immigrants.  I don't mind immigrants myself but, I do believe there should be a time limit to learn english.  I believe if someone wants to come to our country and live in our culture, they should commit to learning it and the language.  Sorry to use you question as my own personal gripe.

Answer 5

I don't see why "people here" have to like crime in order to call this a "land of opportunity".  Ethnicity is irrelevant. Legality is.

If you can't follow the law-- you aren't wanted here.  Simple and straightforward.

Answer 6

If immigrants came here through legal means, then those who come in illegally can do the same. So, they have to  go back home, fill out paper work, take a number and get in line.

Answer 7

First of all, you must not make the assumption that opponent of illegal immigration are racist. For the most part, they are not. There is nothing racist about wanting all immigrants in the United States to come to America through the provided legal procedures. If you think that's racist, then you might as well say that a car dealership is racist for building a fence around its property to ensure against people tresspassing.

On the other hand, I understand that the government has made it extremely difficult to actually obtain legal entrance into America. I the solution is rather simple: a secure border and an easier, and broader path to citizenship.

America is the land of opportunity: to those who will keep its laws.

Answer 8

Because it is the land of opportunities. That's why immigrants come here, work hard and many are successful. Sadly SOME citizens, are jealous of that success and they only criticize instead of learning from immigrants. Anyway, that is not going to stop immigrants from coming to our nation and is SOME of our citizens want to continue complaining its their choice.

Answer 9

If it were only that

The USA have more propaganda than the comunists, something like: "come to the USA and be millionaire", but nobody mentions the failed

Answer 10

key word is ILLEGAL. if they were legal then come on in.

Answer 11

Anyone who wonders WHY Illegals are not welcome need to seriously look up the word ILLEGAL and grasp the difference between RIGHT and WRONG.

These Immigrants only want to BE in America, NOT BE AMERICANS.  They have NO COUNTRY if they live in USA, work in USA, speak Spanish and aren't Citizens.

It's a land of opportunity for AMERICANS.

Make Mexico the land of opportunity for MEXICANS and stay there.

Immigrants who remain immigrants ARE NOT AMERICANS. Mexico doesn't want them back and encourages them to leave by printing and distributing this:

Answer 12

It IS the land of opportunity....for anyone willing to enter legally, abide by our laws, assimilate properly, learn english and be self supporting.

Have at all the opportunity you can imagine.........

Answer 13

That was THEN

...THIS is NOW!

We love ethnicity, can't get enough ethnicity.

As long as we get equal amounts of ethnicity.

50% of our LEGAl immigrants are Mexicanos.

Add to that 20-30 million illegals (8 of 10 who are Mexicanos)

Too much of a good thing ...IS NOT A GOOD THING.

Answer 14

Plenty of opportunity for those who come LEGALLY. . . DUH

Answer 15

This is why.  We ARE open to legal immigration and open to ethnicity changes.  But we have been invaded by folks who are not dealing with the American Citizens decently at all.  A whole bunch of people have blown their opportunity forever!!  

It is going to stop too.  It is going to stop.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/article...

Here are more facts regarding the demographical and statistical impact on American citizens by illegal immigrants. This is the second of four articles in Part II, of a total of 11 articles.

• Looking at just the year 2004, Newsweek reported the Latino surge at 40.5 million compared to 9.6 million in 1970 [8].

• Between January and March, 2005, 7.9 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country, making it the highest five-year period of immigration in American History [9].

• Of adult immigration, 31-percent have not completed high school, which is three-and-a-half times the rate for natives [meaning American citizens] [10].

• Immigration accounts for virtually all of the national increases in public school enrollment over the last two decades. In 2005, there were 10.3 million school-age children from immigration families in the U.S. [11].

• The projected population by 2020 of the U.S. with immigration will rise to ~343 million, as opposed to ~301 million without immigration [12]. The author of this series of articles believes this is a conservative estimate.

• States with the largest increase in immigrants are California, Texas, Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, Virginia, Arizona, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi [13].

• Numerous underground tunnels have been found for smuggling “Who knows what” across the borders [14]. This is often a method for drug and human conveyance from Mexico into the States. And 75% of all illegal drugs come across the border from Mexico at a net cost of $120 billion annually [15].

• In 2004, four L. A. hospitals went bankrupt and closed their doors because they were forced by law to accept non-paying illegal aliens as patients, but nonpaying U. S. Citizens could be denied treatment [16].

The video, “Aztlan Rising” [17], gives a pretty good picture of what’s going on. It provides these details and confirms other statistics in this article [18]:

• Our country is experiencing a 42% increase in birth rate due to illegal aliens having their children here (CIS, 2005).

• 31% of Mexican housewives are on welfare, costing us nearly $70 billion in social services for them. And over 42% of all Mexicans here—nearly half—are on assistance paid for by Americans.

• 44% illegals from ages 0-16 have no basic English proficiency skills (U.S. Department of Education; December 2005).

• 92% of the cocaine in our country come from Mexico, and 65% of meth and marijuana are brought into our country the same way.

• Illegal aliens make up about 3% of our population and yet over 30% of them comprise our prison population.

• Free medical care to the illegals closed 60-plus hospitals in California alone since 1993, and more are closing as this very article is being written.

• Illegal children have created a 93% rise in public school population, and cost public schools annually nearly $30 billion (Bureau of Statistics, 2002).

• Through sympathetic Americans and illegal fraud and forgery, alien criminals come to this country where, in 2005, alone, they committed 1,800-2,500 murders (Mac Johnson, Human Events 2005). For example, Jose Sosa, age 16, brutally stabbed to death a Nashville woman and her daughter in April 2006, and Sosa now sits in a juvenile detention center. Reports state that he had been caught coming into the States illegal, then was detained and fingerprinted, and later deported. He re-entered un-obstructed later (http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4...

• Three feet from the Mexican-American border is the town of Colonia Libertad, which is the most violent place in all of Mexico.

• Al Qaeda leaders have met with Hispanic gangs to plan terrorist attacks against the U.S (Washington Times, 09-28-04).

• Mexican military units have crossed into America 216 times since 1996 (Washington Times; 01-17-06).

• If permitted, and if they had the means, over half of all of Mexico’s population—50 million—would move to the U.S. (PEW, August 2005).

• $60 billion are earned by illegal aliens each year, of which nearly $14 billion or more are sent back to Mexico yearly (Sept. 25, 2002 NPR report).

• Only 36% of Mexicans view Americans favorably; 73% say Americans are racists; only 16% say Americans are honest (Zogby poll, 03-2000).

And Liz Michael writes that [19]:

• Thirty-six to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare [resulting in the average Mexican illegal alien costing U.S. taxpayers a whopping $55,000 each.

• “As many as 1,500 illegal immigrants cross the reservation each day, leaving more than 4 million pounds of trash a year,” according to a June 2004 Government Accountability Office report [20].

• Eighteen million Americans cannot find a job [because illegal aliens have them]. There are not very many jobs around that Americans will not do. So illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at the peril of American workers.

Reporter Stuter [21] gives us some added factual insight into life with the aliens:

• A recent Pew Hispanic Center study shows that of the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the country, 3% provide stoop farm labor; the other 97% are taking jobs away from Americans in the fields of construction, hospitality, manufacturing, restaurant, and administrative and service jobs…in real terms that equates to 11.64 to 19.4 million jobs that Americans want and need…[and yet employers who pay less money to the illegals] charges the [consumers the] same prices as though he were [paying Americans for working]…[with] the profits going into the employers’ pocket [22].

• The violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13 (M-13) arrived in our country from San Salvador by way of Mexico… [and] is well-known for targeting and killing law enforcement personnel. In early 2005, there was believed to be 5 to 6,000 M-13 gang members in Washington, DC and adjoining communities in Virginia and Maryland. This is just one area of the United States….[one M-13 member confronted a White American, wanting his trailer and the M-13 member told him] that he liked to harm white men, would burn down his house then fade back into the barrios of Los Angeles or maybe Raleigh’…if he didn’t get his way in obtaining the trailer.

• Bush is totally disregarding the law in pursuit of his personal passions…[wanting] a guest worker program and amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens already in the United States…Bush play[ed] to illegal aliens under the guise of courting the vote of the people of Hispanic race…Bush is clearly visible holding and waving the Mexican flag. [Go to Stuter’s article, or hit control and click on this link see the 2004 campaign video] [23].

In this pro-Latino video, Mr. Bush states that there are 40 million Latinos here, and that his administration has the longest list of employed Hispanics. Under these circumstances, do you think Mr. Bush or anyone succeeding him will limit illegal immigration? His father had promised to do it right after he announced to the world for the first time the now famous phrase “New World Order,” but didn’t. And Bill Clinton had promised to do it, too, and didn’t either; so neither will President Dubya’s successor. Let’s face it: As Ralph Epperson so well puts it, there is no two-party election in our country. Both Democrats and Republicans are in the pockets of the Elite” [24].

From the L.A. Times [25]:

• 40% of all workers in the L.A. County (~10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes…illegal aliens without green cards.

• 95% of warrants for murder in L.A. are for illegal aliens.

• 75% of the people on the most wanted list in L.A. are illegal aliens.

• Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD are illegal.

• 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

• In L.A. County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million speak Spanish out of a total of 10.2 million in the country

***• Less than 2% of illegal aliens pick our crops but 29% are on welfare [26]****.

Answer 16

Because it is Illegal

Answer 17

Not everyone is against immagrants. All people except indians are immagrants. They will give you alot of reasons and excuses but the fact is, it's the vote. Whites are the magority in this country and some want to keep it that way.There are others that don't  feel that way. They see us all as people. P.S. i'm black.

Answer 18

because it was the land of opportunity in the past, not now. most people in other countries don't even want to come to US anymore. it's just not worth it for them, especially that the value of a dollar in Europe is so low and the economy is bad.

England and Germany in Europe are the new " land of opportunity".

Answer 19

Huh???

What kind of logic is that?

It's like saying why do people call the US the land of freedom if you can't go around killing anybody you want.

Killing is illegal, it's breaking the law.

Entering the country illegally is breaking the law.

Answer 20

It IS the land of opportunity, for LEGAL immigrants.  It is not open to those who choose to think our laws don't apply to them.  If you want to live here, obey our laws, just as we would have to do in the country you come from.