Saturday, October 4, 2008
Immigrants
The United States deals with immigrants everyday. Most of our country's immigrants come here from Mexico, and sadly many of them do it illegally. Also we get illegal immigrants from communist countries like Cuba. With most Cubans I've heard that the "rule" that our CoastGuard uses is wet foot dry foot. It is that if a Cuban citizen touches dry land than they can stay in the country unless they are hurt. If that is the case then we will give them medical care and sometimes let them stay in the country. If the citizen did not make it onto land then we deport them back to Cuba. The way that we deal with Mexican citizens is that we built a very big fence that hopefully discourages any of them from trying to sneak in, but many try anyway. We also have Border Control that stop people from getting into the country. If they are caught then they are deported back to Mexico. I wouldnt really care if they make it across but so many of them are that they are taking many of the jobs, esspecially here in Texas. I understand that they are only looking for a better life and a good job. That is what I think about illegal immigrants, please resond back.
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I agree they are taking many jobs but if you really think about it they arent taking jobs that people would want such as janitors, waiters, and cutting lawns, so if you think about it they're here to make a better life any way they can and try to help others at the same time because if you look most construction workers are usually hispanic
I've never heard of that wet foot rule, that's pretty weird
I've never heard of that wet foot/dry foot rule either. Interesting.
I agree with David, also immigrants are willing to work for lower wages at jobs that involve more labor, and their standards for living tend to be lower than the American standard. They take lots of jobs no one else wants, and they're not trying to "steal" anyone else's job, they just want to support their family, which they can't do very well at all in Mexico, which is corrupt and not exactly a country "for the people."
I've heard of the wet foot rule although not the part about the medical treatment stuff. In my opinion it's not so much the fact that they're 'taking American jobs' because David's right no one WANTS the jobs, but it is illegal and it makes it harder for immigrants to get in legally because there's less room.
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