Thread: Opinion:Waves of anger wash across all Latinos

This is so ridiculous. I’m beginning to believe there is a delusion inducing organism in the water in Mexico that lies dormant until the border is crossed into the US. These people are so out of touch with reality it’s actually sad.

If you are in this country illegally, you should feel uncomfortable; you’re breaking the law. Should a bank robber feel comfortable as he/she exits the bank with a bag of loot? This is as ludicrous as a burglar intentionally waiting for a homeowner to return, expecting to be treated to dinner and a movie; then whining "racism" when the police are called.

This is as ludicrous as a burglar intentionally waiting for a homeowner to return, expecting to be treated to dinner and a movie; then whining "racism" when the police are called.

Well said Deb

California has been angry for years. As one of the first states to feel the effects of illegal immigration. They are NOT the scapegoats for all of our problems. They are, in a large part, THE PROBLEM. You can't argue with statistics. My major problem is the criminal element, but other problems arise when you import millions of impoverished, uneducated people in a short span of time. They are a drain on the community. They start having babies at young ages instead of educating themselves in order to get ahead. This is sheer stupidity and when the average citizen sees this on a day to day basis he becomes VERY angry.

Why don't they CHANGE MEXICO??????? Their anger should be toward that filthy corrupt country of theirs not our country. Gawd I get so mad!

Have read Pew studies before and didn't know who or what Pew was.

How bias can they be?

This is one of their studies dated 2003:

11.24.2003

Remittance Senders And Receivers
Tracking The Transnational Channels
by Roberto Suro

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Across the United States some six million immigrants from Latin America now send money to their families back home on a regular basis. The number of senders and the sums they dispatched grew even when the U.S. economy slowed, and looking to the future, the growth seems likely to continue and potentially to accelerate. The total remittance flow from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean could come close to $30 billion this year, making it by far the largest single remittance channel in the world. These funds now reach large portions of the populations in the region--18 percent of all adults in Mexico and 28 percent in El Salvador are remittance receivers--and the impact is no longer limited to the countryside or to the poor. Taken altogether these indicators suggest that the remittance traffic in the Western Hemisphere has crossed a threshold not only in magnitude but also in significance.

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=23

6 million people regularly send money home (it doesn't state total number who send money home)--may reach $30 billion this year. Know what that amounts to per person--where is that kind of money coming from?

This is Pew

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http://pewhispanic.org/docs/?DocID=4

Keep writing this whining drivel.....there's still a few people who aren't totally angered yet!

I get IDed when purchasing the occasional 6-pack, and being 61, I always tell the clerk how glad I am to show it. Any American citizen should be proud to able to SHOW their ID for whatever reason. I don't believe there is racial profiling as much as there is "perp" profiling. If you were looking for illegal aliens, your first choice would be whom......????

The laws, while aimed at freezing out undocumented immigrants, are heating up the rancor toward Latinos in general. We are being made the culprit and cause of whatever afflicts our country.

Let me make this paragraph a little bit more accurate than it is, You are being made the culprit because of the very simple reason that you are the culprit.