"Is America Anti-Immigrants or is it just against illegal immigrants?"

[pampango]

From Peace FM Online:

http://news.peacefmonline.com/social/201005/43107.php

Nevertheless, the American xenophobia, protectionism, intolerance and nationalism are alive in Arizona. Thanks to Al Qaeda, job scarcity and drug smugglers. It’s a bad time to be an immigrant in America. Legal or illegal, immigrants are now public nuisances! The American protectionism and anti-immigrant advocates (especially, the Tea- Party enthusiasts) are making a lot of noise these days, especially in the labor markets about immigrants in America, as they try to preserve jobs for their own nationals.

The anti-immigrants sentiment is not only bubbling in America but, it’s also gaining momentum across Europe. It’s the main prescription for nationalism, xenophobia, intolerance and animosity which are sowing seeds in the desert landscape of Arizona, and other corners of Europe.

The new anti-immigrants’ laws which are brewing in Arizona and Texas are gaining popularity. Because they’re designed to pander to the instincts of the jittery Republican Party’s base voters and supposedly to protect jobs for the “natives”. Unfortunately, in America most people seem to think that foreigners, especially, Hispanics or Latinos (people from Latin America) are taking jobs from the Anglo-Americans.

Regrettably, the majority of Arizonians really like the new law and when you talk to majority of Americans (if they really want to tell the truth) they believe that immigrants ,(both undocumented and legal) are responsible for crime ,unemployment, crowded emergency rooms in the hospitals, over -population, destruction of the Anglo-American culture and every other social ill that comes to mind in this country. In other words “foreigners” are blamed for all the bad things in the country.

[ItNerd4life]

1. Illegal is the key word. It's the people who support illegal immigrants causing

the confusion. They only use 'immigrants' and chants of 'racism', instead of using 'illegal' immigrants.

Many people support immigration and would have no problems with increasing the amount of 'legal' immigrants allowed into this country, but we are overwhelmed by 'illegal' immigrants and can only
absorb so many immigrants without destroying the economy.

[Bluebear]

5. >>>Chants of 'racism'

Yeah, you know us lefties, always chanting 'racism'

[liberal N proud]

2. American is what ever the talking heads tell it to be

It is all driven by the media!

[Posteritatis]

3. Anti-immigrant with anti-illegal-immigration as the cover for most of it. (nt)

[murray hill farm]

Just the latest and most currently popular

group to scapegoat and blame for all that ails us! Without immigrants, we would just scapegoat another group..Gays, Women, African Americans, Irish, the Poor, the Jews, the Muslims...etc. Got to have some group to scapegoat...otherwise we might have to take responsibility for out own lives. We do not want that!

[UndertheOcean]

4. Whatever America is regarding immigration , it is much better than Europe.

Immigrating to the UK is almost impossible if you are from a third world country (unless you are sponsored by a UK relative).

At least the work visa/Green Card is available in the USA as an immigration route .

[branders seine]

6. it's just against brown immigrants

[4lbs]

9. That is the key.

If you are an illegal immigrant from Europe, and look like the following:






Then you can stay as long as you like! Hey, need help getting accustomed to American life?




However, if you are an illegal immigrant and look like one of the following:







Well then... YOU GOTTA LEAVE!

[ParkieDem]

7. I don't know.

I know several Hispanics who live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, and many of them are very anti-illegal immigrant. Most of them sympathize with the plight of the illegals and why they wanted to come to the US. However, my friends argue that they (or their parents) went through the process to get here legally, and other immigrants should do the same.

In addition, most of my friends blame illegals (not Americans) for the quasi-racism involved, saying that if the illegals weren't here, they wouldn't be lumped in with them.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Considering it's the Land of Immigrants, Americans have always had a problem with Immigrants

Germans, Irish, Italians...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. It's anti-immigrant.

Note the opposition to amnesty. If illegal immigrants were given amnesty, they wouldn't be illegal, and the anti-immigrant folks wouldn't have anything to complain about if they were really worried about the rule of law.

You'll also notice they don't care about the constitution, even though that's the highest law in the land.

[Green_Lantern]

11. They are against hispanic immigration unless it benefits them..

I don't think most people bat an eye at immigration of white foreigners.

But immigration is concerning when considering overpopulation of a given area.