Hispaniards and immigration
A pew poll found significant differences in the attitudes towards immigrants that foreign-born hispanics and US-born hispanics. The two important issues where they disagree is the driver's license issue,
Six in 10 Hispanics born in this country approve of measures to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting drivers' licenses, while two-thirds born in another country disapprove of such measures.,and the overall immigration issue,
Foreign-born Hispanics take a more positive view than native-born Hispanics on whether immigrants strengthen the United States. Almost nine in 10 foreign-born Hispanics say immigrants strengthen the country, while two-thirds of Hispanics born in the United States feel that way, according to the poll.
I find it hard to believe that anyone that has any sort of slight understanding of the history of this country would be against immigration in general. It is so clear that immigrants help, and also assimilate despite repeated fears(throughout history) that they would change the nation. I think more immigrants are needed because of all the fat and lazy natural borns that we have in this country. Make them compete for jobs with people who actually work hard and appreciate work! We need to always keep the entrepreneurial spirit fresh, it's the most precious resource there is.
As for the differences, I can only theorize. Assimilation. People who are born here have the same fears and misgivings as the population at large.
And as far as giving driver's licenses to illegals... You are a fucking moron if you support that policy. It is the single most retarded issue ever. I can't even believe it is an issue. Just expand immigration quotas please, and really crackdown on illegals. It's easily the most sane policy.
posted by Clupbert @ 11:58 AM
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My thoughts exactly. Immigrants are great because they're generally the only ones who want to give back to the county. On Canada Day last year, I was with a friend in Ottawa, in a park on the south end of the MacKenzie-King bridge, and we met an immigrant from Kosovo, about 25-30. We got to talking, and he said he came here knowing NO English, with just a bindle and the shirt off his back, and he had moved to Ottawa and found a job. And from there he financed his education at the University of Ottawa's law school. He said that he never had this kind of opportunity at home, and that he felt Canada was the greatest country in the world.
A little after that, I went to an immigration ceremony because one of the people I worked with was getting her citizenship. People from all seven continents who, from as far as I could tell, had nothing but respect for their new country. Unlike the dumbasses who are born here and do nothing.
As for illegals, I think it's telling when the most anti-illegals person I've ever met was a Spanish prof from Mexico who had absolutely no qualms about calling illegals "wetbacks." When I raised a tentative objection, she stopped me:
"I don't think you understand how pissed off people like me are at these jerkoffs who just think that the rules don't apply to them. Believe me, in my circle of friends, all us legal immigrants would be the first ones to toss illegals out. They have no respect."
All well said except for this, "he felt Canada was the greatest country in the world. "
His feelings obviously were lying to him or they were ignorant.
He hadn't yet gone to the US. Give him a break =)
Oh, and I asked him about his thoughts on the Kosovo war. He said, "What the f--- took you so long?" Okay, I'm embellishing, but you get the idea.
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