Comments on: Lou Dobbs Makes Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:48:41 +0000

I am an illegal. I came here via visa with my parents at age 11. Overstayed after age 18. I have an SSN, I pay taxes, own home ect. I can't work the job I had due to everify. I speak fluent english, paid taxes, do you think i have a chance to become legal? I want to become legal. My abusive american citizen husband would not sponsor me because he was afraid to loose his government job. I want to become an American Citizen. I have a lot to offer to this great country. I am paying for my parents bad decision when their visa expired back in 1983. People, give me a chance.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:48:41 +0000

By: Norski

Norski — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:00:44 +0000

I guess classism is not dead after all. As the son of a construction worker I used to hear about comments like this all the time. And usually the person making the comment was some snotty white collar person who believed that those people who worked with their hands were some lower form of life.

You have no clue as to what it takes to do many jobs where you work with your hands. Take brick laying for instance. It takes years to become a skilled Journeyman. And yet Contractors will replace a skilled Journeyman with an Illegal Immigrant if they find out that the Illegal Immigrant at one time may have built a wall in his back yard just so they can save a few dollars. What most classist people do not know is that because of practices like this it is estimated that as many as half the fireplaces in our town were built incorrectly. An incorrectly built fireplace can easily burn your house down. Think of that the next time you light a fire in your fireplace.

And when you next choose to put down hard working Americans by saying that they should "study and better themselves" consider this. Maybe your neighbor's fireplace or foundation was built by the $30 per hour skilled craftsman and your fireplace or foundation may have been built by the $13 per hour Illegal Immigrant. And yet you each paid the same price for your house. And if you have problems, good luck proving anything or getting any satisfaction. The Contractor will be too busy laughing on his way to the bank.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:54:39 +0000

Teenagers in my area and every area for a 200 mile radius was, is, and will remain… because in an MTV world where mom and dad think it's tragic if little Johnny has to miss a foot ball game or cheerleading practice to break a sweat… all the fast food places, gas stations, Wal Mart, and lanscapers have permenant advertisements for help.

If there are no jobs where you are, then people will just have to do what my dad, grandfather, great-grandfather and so forth did when economies changed… migrate to another state. It ain't the end of the world.

By: wwwmen

wwwmen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:13:52 +0000

Ask all illegals if they wanna pay 10000 $ to get papers and you'll see that all of them will line up .And down goes this crisis

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:53:18 +0000

Brittanicus aren't you the Racist Minuteman ?

By: Truth

Truth — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:52:12 +0000

Who is taking away JOBS? Not these poor migrants, lets see who is firing and do not have any Undocumented working for them, The 4 Million Jobs now lost are form these firms IBM, Banks, Wall Street, Whirlpool, Sony, Gm, Ford, Etc, NOT ONE OF THEM HIRED UNDOCUMENTED> Stop Blaming these poor People,
I am not saying don't close the borders, I am saying don't be IGNORNAT>

By: Truth

Truth — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:46:09 +0000

I don't see any Doctors, Lawyers, Professionals writing anything about these poor Immigrants, I wonder who are those that post messages here. Those who oppose these poor migrants from earning a living and are afraid of losing their low paying lawn mowing, dish washing, construction jobs are LOSERS because if you are afraid of losing your low wage job to some migrant and you are a US CITIZEN, Then you are a LOSER, BEcause being a citizen gave/gives you rights to Study and better yourself and learn a profession that is required in TODAYS WORKPLACE.

Get EDUCATED so you wont have to sit and worry about losing your dish washing food picking lawn mowing job.

By: Norski

Norski — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:15:21 +0000

I think about it every day. That is one of the responsibilities of my job. Unlike those who engage in this as an intellectual exercise, my living depends on staying one step ahead of off-shoring. In the age of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and the demand for high tech quality, in many manufactured goods there still exists barriers to off-shoring that the untrained fear-monger does not understand. The biggest threat to American Jobs is not the off-shoring itself, it is a resistance by the American Worker to the introduction of CAM for fear of losing some jobs. It is the blocking of CAM or it is people too lazy to implement CAM that makes off-shoring a reasonable alternative. Remember, off-shoring is only a problem if those who loose their jobs cannot find employment elsewhere at comparable wages and overall we remain close to full employment. For international trade to work, other nations have to have something to trade.

By: startingover

startingover — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:44:04 +0000

perhaps simplistic , however it's not as complicated as it's sounds
the rules of relativity one industry will affect the other , see while you are analyzing
polls and percentage's of today you aren't looking ahead of the problem and because of the same behavior from our government we are in this mess today and therefor we had a energy crisis , mortgage crisis , economical crisis and did nothing to prevent it,
textile may be just the beginning of a tendency, who knows tomorrow May be
a company like GMC or FORD moving to a place like India in order to have a chance to
compete against Japanese or European companies, think about it it may not be to far away.