If I am Mexican American born in the USA but my family came to the USA illegally, how am I supposed to feel about illegal immigration?

[Anonymous]

When my family crossed over, I was not born yet. How my grandpa brought my family over was legally but he worked in the USA illegally to save up enough money to be able to bring his family over legally.

In a sense, you could say my family was brought over illegally in a way but not technically. Mexico is the better off country from Latin America. The truth is that violence and poverty are so bad throughout central America that had my grandpa been born there instead of Mexico, there is no way he would have been able to have done what he did 100% legally.

I feel confused on what to make of all this illegal immigration whenever I look at the things that happen in the border. Would it not be hypocritical for me to say, "no, do it the legal way." When I am the product of illegal immigration?

This topic disturbs me because as a kid, before Trump made the wall bigger in my city, I used to see kids my age ran over by cars in a busy highway. I grew up near the border and when there was no wall but only a small fence, families would cross over and run across a busy highway. I would see kids get hit by cars and at the time, I became very curious. I did not understand entirely the complexities behind why they were doing such a dangerous thing. Now that I am older, I understand but still feel confused.

I feel like illegal immigration is wrong and I want them to fix their countries instead of coming to America where everyone hates them. On the contrary, how can I say such a thing when I am a citizen only because I got lucky that my grandpa was born in Mexico and had the work ethic to bring his family over?

[MCheetah]

Your family came here illegally and indirectly hurt hard-working Americans. Illegal immigration is wrong, but that's not what I care about. What I care about is illegal immigrants taking taxpayer money, jobs, and opportunities away from working class Americans, and bringing over crime, drugs, and that filthy Mexican culture no one asked for or wanted, while disrespecting the country and refusing to learn English. It's the human equivalent of having cockroaches infest your home, and then having dumbass liberals claim you need to coddle and feed the cockroaches.

As someone wo grew up dirt poor, it pisses me off! To have people who hate America, hate English, and disrespect the country, come to the US for free money and work, and then have other dumbass idiots say "Oh, that's okay!" while so many Americans can't even get job opportunities, welfare, or work.

And I say all of this as an American living in South Korea right now. No other country but the US and some cucked European nations, would allow people who hate their country to come into it, disrespect it, not bother to learn the language and integrate into the culture, and then have the most useless of those citizens tell them it's okay. I'm all for legal immigrants, but illegals don't deserve a damn thing, especially when they try to force their culture onto other people, who don't want to be forced to learn filthy Mexican Spanish or have their own culture uprooted by illegal immigrants. It's beyond disrespectful.

I can't tell you how to feel, but that is how I feel. The majority of Americans are getting screwed over by the dipsh*t Biden Administration, and we have these same people giving money to illegal Mexicans who hate America and won't even bother to learn English or respect American culture. I'm trying to learn Korean right now and it's way harder than English (2,600 hours to learn, as opposed to 600 to learn English.)

[Stoner710]

you can dislike illegal immigration and be grateful that your parents raised you in a country where you can live and prosper.

[sage2021]

My grandma and grandpa came to America from the Netherlands. The did become legal immediately when they got here. My mother studied hard to take the test to be an American citizen. She passed the test and didn't have to worry about it again.
I am with MCchetahh when he says these illegals don't even bother to learn English.
My grandma and grandpa and mom all learned to speak English.
I don't see why your people can't do the same as the one's that come here and get legalized.

[Asker]

You know the answer already. So my grandpa dropped out of school by the second grade. Yes, he was put to work by that age already because he couldn’t afford school. The same thing is happening today. Children have to buy their own math or science books. They can’t afford them if they are really poor. So they end up dropping out at young ages.
Also the teachers are not certified teachers. They got those jobs by a friend or family member and were put in there because there was nobody else to teach.

Yeah, so their priorities are to have a better life not to learn English. They are able to get by because there is a huge speaking Spanish population here when they arrive.

[sage2021]

Asker
I guess you don't even bother to know how your people have had such a bad impact in English only speaking Americans. And I am sure your people so care, just as long as they are getting taken care of.
But for me, personally, it took me 14 months to find a job because I don't speak Spanish. Every interview I went on, U had to be bilingual. Only one company offered me a job and that's because they only had white English speaking clients.
I had a young son to raise and couldn't support us for 14 months!!
What do you think of that?

[Asker]

Where was this because I’m sure most places just offer higher pay for being bilingual. They won’t discriminate you. I don’t believe you. That’s why there’s options when you call places. Press 2 for English or 1 for Spanish.

[sage2021]

Asker
I said on job interviews that would happened. Can you read English?
Have you ever been on a job interview? Yes, they asked if I was bilingual and I am not. It's not against any law to not hire someone if they don't speak a different language, they just don't call you back to work there.
That wasn't very nice if you to call me a liar. Who the hell are you to call me a liar? You are nobody!!

[Asker]

Something was just off about your story because I know for a fact that it is illegal to discriminate against someone based on their native language.
You also said you got hired at a white speaking workplace that just happened to be the only place out 14 that required you to be bilingual. Where was this? Not the USA.

[sage2021]

Asker Yes, this was in the USA. The State where I applied for work us almost 50% Hispanic. They couldn't hire an English only person, because they needed someone to be able to speak to the clients.
I don't know why you find what I am saying is so unbelievable. Why don't you go on interviews where they only speak English and you only speak Spanish. How do you think that interview would go? But you get your jobs from friends and family and Spanish speaking people that give you a job. No so where I live. Just sometimes if they know the person.

[Asker]

Are you still in that city or moved?

[Agape93]

How ever you want to feel about it.

[NathanDavis]

it doesn't matter how you feel about it...

illegal immigration is always wrong, because it is illegal... and that brings a whole lot of problems to everyone, that is what makes it wrong

[jimmy2]

You stay, they go