Hi Mike. I would like to know where you stand on illegal immigration.



Personally, I am an attractive single white female in Phoenix, AZ. I have had numerous run ins with illegal immigrants mostly from Mexico and I can't say that my experiences have left me wanting to welcome them with open arms. I've been grabbed, whistled at and cat called by them, have been cornered on several occasions and have even had one try to rape me. Because they come from a poor and outwardly misogynistic society many feel they have the right to do as they please to women when they feel like it. I try to tell other people about this and they say I have an unusually high rate of bad experiences with these people. The thing is, the people who tell me this don't live in this region.

I get called a racist by people on in chat rooms and message boards because they live in areas where it's not overly rundown and virtually taken over by these people and can't see things from my perspective. These same people say they're here for a better life and that's all they want. If they wanted a better life why don't they try to change things in their own country before lowing the quality of our lives? Once beautiful thriving neighborhoods are now overrun by people who are turing neighborhood after neighborhood into things that resemble border towns.

Being in the situation I am in I really have to do research on the neighborhood as it is difficult for me to find a place to live where my safety isn't in jeopardy because the people who are coming over are poor and bring an element of crime with them that I feel wouldn't be here if we enforced our laws and our borders. Sure we have problems of our own but every crime committed by an illegal alien is a preventable crime if we had a better handle on securing our borders.

Not only that but Mexico expects us to open our Southern borders while they keep theirs closed because they don't want that element that the people who live in Central and South America bring with them. How hypocritical is that? The people around here are rude, pushy, don't think they need to work at fitting in and learning our language or our customs, and then try to tell us that we should be more accepting of their ways and try to accommodate their lifestyle and customs. More and more signs and billboards are popping up in the Spanish language. It's too easy for these people to not bother to integrate into our society. On top of it all, they say this is their land and we are the invaders. I know a few Native Americans who beg to differ. I can trace my direct lineage through my father and grandfather back to 1798 and my family as a whole back to the era of the revolutionary war. Shouldn't that make this my country? How long does my family need to occupy a country before we call it ours?

My grandmother on my father's side is an immigrant and she went through paperwork hell to become an American. Why should these people be any different?

There are countless things I'd like to say and could bring up but I wanted you to understand the problem from my own point of view and what is happening to make me feel this way in my humble little corner of the world. Anyway, please respond with how you feel on this subject and let me know if I went wrong anywhere or if my feelings lack validity.