Anti-Immigrationists: What Are You Afraid Of?
I have a simple question for those on the far right who not only want beefed up border security, but also are vehemently opposed to any kind of guest worker program or other proposal that would allow the millions of illegal immigrants who are already living peacefully and productively in the U.S. to achieve legal status. My question: What are you afraid of?
Is it human beings you dislike? Do you look upon each additional person who enters our country as a burden? Is each additional human just another problem to deal with? Do you live by a “scarce resources mentality?” The fewer human beings the better? The fewer people, the bigger your piece of pie? By the same reasoning, do you support abortion and euthanasia?
Or is it that the majority of illegal immigrants to the U.S. are from Mexico and other Latin American countries? Is it Hispanics/Latinos that you dislike? If so, what is it about Latin Americans that you dislike so much? Is it the color of their skin? Is it their language? Is it the music they listen to?
Is it that most Latin Americans are full or part Native American? Is it actually Native Americans you dislike?
Or is your issue that the vast majority of illegal immigrants lived in desperate poverty in their native country, and they came to the U.S. looking for work to support their families? Is it the fact that they are so poor that makes them so distasteful to you? Do you consider poor people an irritation, an eyesore, a burden, a threat? Are we back to dividing up that pie? Are you worried you won’t get a big enough piece?
Which is it? That they are poor? Or Native American? Or Hispanic? Or brown-skinned? Or do you just hate all humans? I would love to hear an explanation.
These are great topics! I enjoyed reading this article you posted. “What do you really hate?” is a great question to ask people. Even better, they have to answer with something! Okay, here goes….
Those darn foreign, brown skinned, latin and native american people who think they can speak other languages should just stay where they are! Ha Ha! I would have to say this is a very shallow comment from an uneducated person. It seems that when people hear the word “immigration” they automatically think about the Mex-US border. It’s this that is the most popularized factor in the immigration issue. People seem to forget that we have immigration from all over and from every entry point into our country.
It may be an oversimplification, but people are just afraid of the unknown. Neighbors that look different or speak different than we do can intimidate or cause us to feel uncomfortable. We like people like us! That is true in any society. What we fail to realize is that most of us have the very same objective in life, to be prosperous and happy! Whether we can achieve that in our own backyard or if we have to make a new home in another country, we want something more for us and our families. Though I completely agree that we need major reformation in our immigration policy, I don’t think we can criticize anyone for coming here to better their life and thoe of their family. We would do the very same!
Will we be left with a smaller piece of the pie for ourselves? Perhaps. You will get your piece of the pie by working! Go figure! Working hard and smart will get you a huge piece of the pie. That is true if we have a constant flow of immigration or not. So that excuse is out!
Do you hate the poor? (That’s a great point, Terry). It makes most people uncomfortable to see a family stricken by poverty. It is much easier to criticize a foreign family in poor conditions because we can easily justify our dislike for them. “Darn foreigners just come here and suck our system dry!”. We have a harder time saying or thinking that about families that are much like our own. We tend to think “Poor guys. I wonder how I can help them.” I would love to cover the topic of why the poor stay poor and how certain people don’t want to work hard, but I think that would be a topic that would include immigration issues but definitely cover several other others here at home.
After all that rambling, basically I’m saying that to hate someone because they are not like you is just plain dumb. Ignorant would be a good word! The other day I say a guy with a different haircut than my own. Man, I hate him! Let’s break it down to the simple. We can’t, or shouldn’t, criticize based on physical appearance, language, etc… Criticize on a person’s character and integrity. Would you rather have someone that looks like you, speaks like you that was a burden to your society “OR” have someone from another country move in to your community and make a contribution for the benefit of everyone? Which is better? I think the answer is very obvious!
Grow up and use the brain God gave you! Does God hate those who don’t look or talk like Him? I didn’t think so. So if God doesn’t, what right do we have? I think that takes care of that issue!
Hey, Tim, glad to see you visiting again. You make some good comments — and this time I even agree with them. Thanks for taking the time to participate in the conversation.
I am ok with people moving here and becoming citizens. i am ok with reforming how we go about deciding who gets to come here. I am ok with taxing fair wages for an honest days work. The idea of making it a felony to sneak in here, a felony to aid or be related to an illegal immigrant is absurd.
I am not ok with the president lying to make a point. There are no jobs I haven’t /wouldn’t do. I simply wont do them for $2 an hour. I question his slave master, clueless, over- privileged motives behind anything he has said on the subject. If he is going to open his mouth about work in this country, I wish it would be about raising the minimum wage. As it stands that wage at full time cannott afford a place to rent, groceries and utilities in any major city here.