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Originally Posted by nicoleb

I couldn't be happier with this, personally. Arizona should be congratulated. Illegal immigration has been a huge problem in the US, and, particularly in a financial bind like the one it's in now, America can't afford to continue to let non-citizens use its hospitals and schools.

Which is more expensive, non-citizens using hospitals and schools or people being paid a legal wage to pick our vegetables.

There is a reason nondocumented people come here. Who is responsible? The federal government? Or how about the people that hire them?

Originally Posted by nicoleb

I find it amusing that Obama calls Arizona's efforts "misguided." They're doing more to solve the problem than he or any other president has done so far.

Since when has America been about creating laws that reduce the rights of legal immigrants and natural born citizens? Because that is EXACTLY what this law does.

Please, applaud this law all you want, but never again complain about big government taking your rights away.

Originally Posted by nicoleb

Not only that, but Obama and many Americans in politics are far too soft with foreigners in general. I'm not against immigration if it's legal, but Obama is actually for the opinion that AMERICANS should learn SPANISH,

Obama: "I don't speak a foreign language. It's embarrassing!" - From The Road - CBS News

Before he became the president, Mr. Obama said more Americans should learn a foreign language. How can you argue with that? Are you saying Americans SHOULDN'T learn a foreign language? Maybe we should stop learning math and geography, too.

Originally Posted by nicoleb

and that Mexican immigrants, legal or not, should NOT have to learn English.

Please quote your sources there.

Originally Posted by nicoleb

That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you move into a country, you speak its language, plain and simple. I'd love to see what would happen if an American tried to go to Mexico and didn't bother to learn to speak Spanish.

Really? Go to Mexico. You'll see it all over the place. Go to France, Japan, China, anywhere and you will find Americans who do not know the native tongue. Should this be a UN sanction? "Go to a foreign country and you must speak that language"?

But wait a minute.

You were just complaining that the president said we SHOULD learn a foreign language. Are you saying Americans shouldn't go to foreign countries?

Originally Posted by nicoleb

But I'm getting off-topic here. My thoughts: Arizona, you are awesome. I hope the rest of America will follow Arizona's example and stop letting themselves be walked all over. I don't even LIVE in America, yet the way they have been letting illegal immigrants walk all over them has been annoying me constantly.

You don't live in America, but you are annoyed by foreigners in America?

That seems odd to me.

Originally Posted by nicoleb

Someone did a rant online about it, responding to all those who argue that illegal immigrants "just want a better life." He basically said that, if middle-class Americans tried to climb over a rich person's fence and swim in his pool, eat his food, etc., they wouldn't get any sympathy. Illegal immigrants in America are basically the same thing; they climb over middle-class Americans' fences and steal their things, and they're not in any life-threatening danger like refugees. It's infuriating. Three cheers for Arizona!

Oh, I see. People looking for a better life for themselves and their families are therefore criminals if they leave their hellhole of a home.

Let's see...you live in Mexico with nothing, or go to America where they are hiring hardworking people just like you to work in their fields. Maybe the conditions aren't ideal, but you can make 10 times what you make at home, and even if it is risky, you have parents and family that need to eat. Are they "stealing"? Maybe, but since fruits and vegetables rot on the vines when migrant workers are run out of town, it isn't like there are Americans who are willing to take these jobs. Is that "stealing" jobs?

How about going after the employers that hire illegal employees and shut them down? Wouldn't that be a lot easier and cheaper?

Take away the lollipop and the ants disappear.