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Should immigrants who can't support themselves or their families be deported?

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MarineBob · 56-60, M
Shouldn't be here
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SuicideBiProxy2 · 36-40, M
@TopOfTheWorld I think the Latinos ruined it. There are too many of them. Overall they support illegal immigration. They push for Spanish language recognition.
@SuicideBiProxy2 The national language is what? 😋
@SuicideBiProxy2 Too many of them ? The Spanish settled this country before the English did. And the U.S. took land that belonged to Mexico.
SuicideBiProxy2 · 36-40, M
@bijouxbroussard The Spanish settled Florida before the Europeans (Like 10 dudes in St. Augustine). We conquered half of Mexico, however most of the land was lightly populated. We have had decades of illegal and legal immigration from Mexico and Central America. These are the people we see protesting when the government deports illegals.

Unless you live in New Mexico, which has Spanish as an official language through treaty, You should be making efforts to make English your primary language. This is largely happening. However due to the size of the hispanic population, people have become anti-immigrant.

I'd personally like to slow immigration from Latin-America to a trickle with preference to South America. Why is it African and Asian immigrants have to play by the rules, but illegals from Central America and Mexico get preferred treatment? It's absurd.
@SuicideBiProxy2 “Conquered”= took. I don’t support illegal immigration, so I don’t enjoy having to argue these points. People who break existing immigration laws are in fact “cutting in line” ahead of those trying to follow the rules, just like those who let their student and work Visas lapse and are illegally here that way. But there is an irony that the descendants of people who took land from Native people complain about “illegal immigrants”.
SuicideBiProxy2 · 36-40, M
@bijouxbroussard The Natives were tribes of people who were technologically inferior. the Eastern Hemisphere was born of war and conflict. We all descend from places where we were conquered or conquered. It is part of our human legacy. No human society has lived in peace. Diversity=Conflict. The Natives fought against themselves. In Mexico and Peru, it was the native peoples that allied with Europeans to take down their oppressors, the Aztecs and Inca.

It doesn't matter if we took Mexico by force. We have a receipt. Most Latinos came to the US in the late 1800s onward to work in the mines during the Profirato and the more recent farm workers/manufacturers.
@SuicideBiProxy2 We don’t, no more than countries previously involved in colonialism elsewhere in the world do. We just make excuses for the past and pretend we don’t understand the reasons for the continuing fallout.
SuicideBiProxy2 · 36-40, M
@bijouxbroussard At some point these countries need to take control of their own futures. they are not victims. they make excuses for their plight. while the US has contributed to the histories of these countries in positive and negative ways, the future is there's.