What has immigration, illegal or legal, affected you personally?

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I love listening to this guy excoriate brexiters who hate walking through marketplaces and seeing multiculturalism. Shoot yourself in the foot for racism.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I've been on both sides of this issue: I've been an illegal and legal immigrant. I entered legally but overstayed my welcome for 12 years. I've seen the struggles or immigrants not being able to get better jobs and some do work for minimum wage. But i'll also say some are paid cash and don't claim any taxes. Others do pay taxes with an ITIN number that is given to them when requested so some are doing their part. Before the caravans came, illegal immigrants couldn't get any government help, like food stamps, government housing like section 8 or even apply for a credit card. When Biden was in office and let the new immigrants in, it felt like a slap in the face because they were given all this aid for free but the majority of us who had been working our butts off for decades got squat. "YOU DONT MATTER" is what it felt like. So many undocumented people, the majority of being Mexican got bullied by the central and south Americans that came in. SOME in these groups would say things such as, "thank goodness I'm not Mexican so I could get a green card", "I don't understand why these dumb Mexicans work so much for so little? It's good that Papa Biden is helping us out" and similar things. So of course this fueled hatred from the Mexicans towards the Venezuelans. Now with Trump deporting many of them, the Mexicans are making fun of the Venezuelans and stating they rather be poor and hardworking than spoiled and entitled. Also, the Venezuelans say similar things when they go through Mexico and other countries, usually not wanting to eat the free food that nonprofits offer them or complaining about the free housing they get. In return this has made other countries dislike them as well, including Colombia, Peru and Argentina among others.

Now as a legal immigrant I'm starting to see some of the problems illegal immigration causes. I can't disagree that paying a lower wage to an immigrant doesn't negatively impact the wage of Americans, but I will say that I would like my people to become legal so they can also have a better wage. If we continue to allow illegal immigration, then no one will have a fair wage. So, create guest workers programs like in the 50s and 60s. I don't understand why we did away with them. My grandpa would come to the states during those decades and loved it. It allowed him to make enough for the entire year to support his family in Mexico and then he'd go back half a year and be with our family. I'm sure some companies, and even the government are somehow profiting from illegal immigration, otherwise these programs would still be in place. That's just the first problem.

The second problem is how the cartels use illegal immigration to sneak in women and children for sex trafficking. That truly disgusts me. If you can have the masses come in, how can you not use that for ulterior motives? (Child trafficking). I also saw how criminals would pretend they just came here for work but then they're stealing things from people and even started a turf war in Chicago with a local gang. So now even the gang members are against illegal immigration bc they're stealing their customers.

Now let's be clear. I don't care whose feelings I hurt when I say this: Illegal immigrants usually perform jobs most legal immigrants and residents don't want to do. Not saying no one wants to do them, but most don't. I've seen it firsthand. I barely saw any Americans applying for jobs there were paid below or at minimum wage and demanded hard labor.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

The funny thing about brexiteers/ukip/reform is when questioned by reporters It's never about race, but when they're mouthing off down the pub the racist slurs come thick and fast.

Immigration hasn't been a big issue near me, we haven't had the numbers that parts of England have had. That hasn't stopped a few expressing some colourful views despite never actually seeing an Immigant outside of a daily mail photograph.

The only immigrants who cause trouble are the English ones who buy up houses to rent out as holidayhomes.

AyChingao · Accepted Answer

Yeah, so as a nativeTexan this is a huge problem. You see we got a buncha people from other states that went and watched that "Alamo" movie, got liquored up, and figured they could move downn here and just run around like Yosemite Sam, bitchin' and squealing about all the shit that they just KNOW John Wayne wouldn't put up with.
Here's the deal. My friends the Mexicans and Bolivians and all the flavors of Spanish speakers that occur here in the AmericaS were here before you, we were drinking tequila and cerveza and dancing together long before YOU came. You enjoy the culture, all the "Dia de los Muertos" stuff, and pinatas and ponchos and sombreros. You love the cuisine, BUT all of those people are rapists, drug dealers etc etc etc., but they're lazy and will cheat their way onto welfare rolls while simultaneously taking YOUR job. Sounds like propaganda to me. Vermin? Not my friends, far from it. There is a lot to learn from them.
There have always been teen boys complaining about "wetbacks" and saying we should secede, and they generally got clapped on the ear and told to hush with the stupidity, but we live in ugly times... ugly

What has immigration, illegal or legal, affected you personally?

Ladsin2 · Accepted Answer

Me personally? Depresses wages in the industries I work in. Have had multiple people tell me they'd never hire my company which charges competitive prices because they could "just hire a mexican to do it." Illegal immigrant when I was in HS killed a kid that I didn't know personally, but played football against. Hurt his family a lot I presume. Taxes, illegal immigrants drain government resources that needn't be, thus is reflected in the national debt and my tax rates presumably.

dustybiker2 · Answer

The "immigration issue" is only about white man insecurities. Point blank.

OneViewpoint · Answer

Well, I married a legal European immigrant (Italian). Had two sons with her. Hard working and wouldn't hurt a fly. Didn't work out but her family were / are good people.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

here in Germany, the stupid immigration policy made this place much more dangerous...

goaded · Answer

Well, I'm an immigrant... It has its ups and downs. The people who have most negatively affected my family (to the tune of tens of thousands of Euros) were both white Germans. I don't think I've negatively affected anyone.

Agape93 · Answer

Most of my friends are immigrants, most are now citizens and the rest long since left the country to go back home. We got some Portuguese people I met that give me good deals on fish

exitseven · Answer

I have to pay 350 dollars for a dump sticker next year because the state had to spend 1.5 billion dollars on illegals and could not send money back to the towns.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Brexit was the 2nd most successful Putin intervention in an election. Tony Blair & his WMD stupidity should rot along side David Cameron for his oversized ego. Two fools for a USA POTUS.

Dargil · Answer

I hired an illegal crew on my construction project. No locals even applied. That goes against my narrative, but there you are.

TamYumGung · Answer

You make a good point for doge to completely disband the department of immigration. Why do we need them?

Anonymous · Answer

I live in Texas and I would be lead to believe I can't walk down the street to the grocery store without bumping into 5 illegal immigrants every time. I don't think I've ever seen one.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

did you just call me an IMMIGR? that actually sounds okay by me.

jamesgoldman · Answer

Aside from a whole melting pot of friends nothing I have no problem with migration just the smugglers that should be executed

Anonymous · Answer

Ask people in major cities like NY and Chicago. It got so bad that even Eric Adams has turned around on the issue.

Ask the people who had Venezuelan illegals form gangs that took over their apartments and enslaved them.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

It hasn’t affected me in any shape or form therefore I don’t have the sick desire to uproot someone’s life and break up their family.

RedThread · Answer

It hasn't impacted me in any meaningful way.

Anonymous · Answer

All the gang rapes. I live in germany and it's just not safe to be a woman anymore

NathanDavis · Answer

I did move out of the USA

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