Thread: Latino immigrants increasingly pessimistic about life in U.S

Don't worry and fret, go home. Our economy will be the better for it. They do go hand in hand.

Gogo wrote:

If you watched Glenn Beck tonight the future is looking bleak folks. If its bleak for us, just think what is for them. They will leave they won't have a choice.

So true, but the unfortunate thing is that rather than closing our borders and ports, this administration and those previous have no clue what is really causing job loss with American taxpayers. I am sure they don't realize that it has been illegal immigration taking minimum wage jobs that should be going to our college students who end up on food stamps, or the outsourcing of jobs to nifty places like India and China. These guys are not worried about the normal unemployed American whose credit is already in the sewer due to shenanigans by the banks that even economists do not understand. They are only worried about the major corporate funds coming in for their reelections to continue their fabulous lives and take more advantage of the taxpayer that can't necessarily pay the taxes they used to. Please the corporations with cheap labor abilities and that reelection is secure.

Originally Posted by vortex

Gogo wrote:

If you watched Glenn Beck tonight the future is looking bleak folks. If its bleak for us, just think what is for them. They will leave they won't have a choice.

So true, but the unfortunate thing is that rather than closing our borders and ports, this administration and those previous have no clue what is really causing job loss with American taxpayers. I am sure they don't realize that it has been illegal immigration taking minimum wage jobs that should be going to our college students who end up on food stamps, or the outsourcing of jobs to nifty places like India and China. These guys are not worried about the normal unemployed American whose credit is already in the sewer due to shenanigans by the banks that even economists do not understand. They are only worried about the major corporate funds coming in for their reelections to continue their fabulous lives and take more advantage of the taxpayer that can't necessarily pay the taxes they used to. Please the corporations with cheap labor abilities and that reelection is secure.

You got it. In every fax I send through numbersusa. I put a postscript saying that very thing.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Originally Posted by Bowman

Americans are pessimistic about life in the USA also!! But we don't have another country to escape to!!!

Amen Bowman! I have always asked, where am I supposed to run to if things do not work out for me here in my own country!!!

I have no where else to go!

I believe this, along with our deep love of our country is the reason we will succeed. We have nowhere else to go, as no other nation would be as generous as this one with regard to taking in the poor and down trodden. We must save ourselves, and we will.

Survey: Latinos say their situation in U.S. is getting worse
Gloom very strong among immigrants
By Stephen Wall, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/18/2008 10:12:32 PM PDT


Half of all Latinos say their situation in the United States is worse now than it was a year ago, according to a survey by the Pew Hispanic Center released Thursday.
The pessimism is especially prevalent among immigrants, nearly two-thirds of whom say things have gotten worse over the past year. In 2007, 42 percent of Latino immigrants and one-third of all Latino adults expressed the same view.

"There is a significant deterioration in the mood of Hispanics," said Susan Minushkin, deputy director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington that conducted the bilingual survey of 2,015 Latino adults nationwide.

The survey included responses from immigrants as well as Latinos born in the United States.

The increasingly downbeat assessments come at a time when the Latino community has been hit hard by rising unemployment and stepped-up immigration enforcement.

A large majority of Latinos oppose measures to crack down on illegal immigration through workplace raids and criminally prosecuting employers who hire unauthorized workers.

Eighty-one percent of Latinos say immigration enforcement should be left mainly to federal authorities rather than local police or sheriffs' departments, according to the survey.

"It's morally wrong to pick out one ethnic group as the enemy. That's what they're doing with these illegitimate raids," said Thomas Gonzalez, a 20-year-old Bloomington native who is

studying political science at UC Santa Barbara. "To separate a U.S. citizen child from their parents just because they're undocumented, it clearly doesn't make sense."
There also is a slight increase over last year in the number of Latinos who worry about deportation. Forty percent say they worry a lot and an additional 17 percent say they are concerned that they, a family member or close friend may be deported, the survey says.

"In our extended families, Latinos either have somebody that has no documents or we know somebody that has no documents," said Emilio Amaya, executive director of the San Bernardino Community Service Center, a nonprofit that provides immigration and other services to Latinos. "Obviously, we feel the impact of any immigration enforcement in the community."

Amaya said enforcement measures don't distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants.

"When it comes to trying to single out an immigrant, if it's a Latino, there's no way to really say if somebody is a U.S. citizen or has no documents. We all look the same," Amaya said.

The survey also looked at the political views of Latinos, who make up a sizable electoral bloc in several battleground states.

Latino registered voters support Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama over Republican candidate John McCain 66 percent to 23 percent, according to the survey.

"Obama offers hope for the Latino community in the same way that John F. Kennedy did," said Javier Galvez, an Upland resident who teaches Mexican culture classes at Pomona College. "You have a man whose father was born in another country and was raised by a single mother. A lot of people identify with his life story. They say, `If he can make it, we can make it, too.' "

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"When it comes to trying to single out an immigrant, if it's a Latino, there's no way to really say if somebody is a U.S. citizen or has no documents. We all look the same," Amaya said.

Now who's doing the racial profiling? I am offended by Amaya's comment. All Latinos certainly do NOT look th same.

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"It's morally wrong to pick out one ethnic group as the enemy. That's what they're doing with these illegitimate raids," said Thomas Gonzalez, a 20-year-old Bloomington native who is

Excuse me but enforcement doesn't say enforcement for only one ethnicity. It says enforcement for all illegal immigrants. That includes, the Vietnamese, Chinese, Mexican, Honduran, and Salvadorans just caught in a raid in Vallejo CA. No racial profiling dear, they all went in.

"It's morally wrong to pick out one ethnic group as the enemy. That's what they're doing with these illegitimate raids,"

Of course he has it backwards, actually what is morally wrong is letting only one ethnic group immigrate to the USA, and that is why the immigration laws need to be enforced, to end this preferential treatment for LaRaza Cosmica!

By Hernán Rozemberg - Express-News The combination of a lack of jobs due to a worsening economy and an unprecedented series of governmental work raids have got immigrants down in the dumps, according to findings in a new survey.

Awl. Sniff, sniff. Illegal aliens are "down in the dumps". Boo-hoo-hoo.

Why dont they just move on back to their home countries? Americans have been suffering for too long trying to get by with unemployment and a screwed up economy. Illegal aliens contributed to this enormous problem. Their presence here has cost this country billions of dollars and its got to stop!