Has an immigrant ever hurt you personally?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have had lots of positive experiences with immigrants as friends and coworkers, and contractors, never hurt by one in any way. Nor has any friend or family member been hurt by an immigrant. Have you ever been personally hurt by an immigrant?

Why ask this? I would love to pick up and move to Canada right now. Just go and live there and have DH with health issues access their hc system. Put our kids in school, too. We're law abiding, quiet people and would pay the rent on time.
I bet a slew of other people here would love to do the same right about now.
Do you think the Canadians would have a problem with us doing this? Any Canadians here?

Canada won’t let you immigrate if your husband has health issues. They don’t let people immigrate who they think will be a burden on their health care system.

People in the US think our immigration system is so cruel but we actually are way more welcoming than most developed countries.

Well, we wouldn’t do it legally - we'd just go for a visit and well... stay. How long do you think it would take Canada to find us?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have had lots of positive experiences with immigrants as friends and coworkers, and contractors, never hurt by one in any way. Nor has any friend or family member been hurt by an immigrant. Have you ever been personally hurt by an immigrant?

Strongly in favor of immigration and have had mostly positive experiences, but have had two significant negatives:

1. Car accident caused by immigrants driving very recklessly (passing on the shoulder at speed). No ID, no insurance, reeking of weed.

2. Fully 25% of my kid’s 1st grade class spoke virtually no English. Teacher flatly told us that 80% of her time was occupied by trying to get them up to speed, so she had no time for other kids’ needs.

Many, many more positives than negatives with immigrants, but think we should be honest about the need to dramatically overhaul the system. Unfortunately and as usual, Trump doing it in the very worst way possible.

It is not about hurting. yes, it is extra burden on the community and they also don't get their human rights so it would be better to control this situation. US could issue 1-2M labor visa every year and put all of these people in the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have had lots of positive experiences with immigrants as friends and coworkers, and contractors, never hurt by one in any way. Nor has any friend or family member been hurt by an immigrant. Have you ever been personally hurt by an immigrant?

Strongly in favor of immigration and have had mostly positive experiences, but have had two significant negatives:

1. Car accident caused by immigrants driving very recklessly (passing on the shoulder at speed). No ID, no insurance, reeking of weed.

2. Fully 25% of my kid’s 1st grade class spoke virtually no English. Teacher flatly told us that 80% of her time was occupied by trying to get them up to speed, so she had no time for other kids’ needs.

Many, many more positives than negatives with immigrants, but think we should be honest about the need to dramatically overhaul the system. Unfortunately and as usual, Trump doing it in the very worst way possible.

It is not about hurting. yes, it is extra burden on the community and they also don't get their human rights so it would be better to control this situation. US could issue 1-2M labor visa every year and put all of these people in the system.

PP here. Agree! Goal should be to bring people into the system, set appropriate numbers, and remove bad apples (in a humane and legal way).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes.

Hit and run. Brand new car. Dude flies around the corner and hits my parked as I am walking to it. He gets out and looks extremely nervous when I say I am calling the police. He gets in the car and drives away. I took a photo of his plates. Of course the police are useless. Even if they did pursue, there's a high chance he had a transient address anyway, so it would be a waste of time.

In the end I get screwed out of $2000 as a citizen having to pay for repairs because we have illegal immigrants on the road.

The mother of a doctor who lives across the street borrowed her son's car then rear-ended mine when returning it. Took weeks to get fixed. Should we include mothers of doctors to the list?

Was she an immigrant? Then yes. This thread is only about immigrants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have had lots of positive experiences with immigrants as friends and coworkers, and contractors, never hurt by one in any way. Nor has any friend or family member been hurt by an immigrant. Have you ever been personally hurt by an immigrant?

Why ask this? I would love to pick up and move to Canada right now. Just go and live there and have DH with health issues access their hc system. Put our kids in school, too. We're law abiding, quiet people and would pay the rent on time.
I bet a slew of other people here would love to do the same right about now.
Do you think the Canadians would have a problem with us doing this? Any Canadians here?

Canada won’t let you immigrate if your husband has health issues. They don’t let people immigrate who they think will be a burden on their health care system.

People in the US think our immigration system is so cruel but we actually are way more welcoming than most developed countries.

Well, we wouldn’t do it legally - we'd just go for a visit and well... stay. How long do you think it would take Canada to find us?

Looks like Canada is pretty lenient. They seem to take their time tracking people down if they do it at all. Of course that may change if people keep coming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes.

Elon Musk has caused me distress.

Well, try castor oil.

Where? In the anus?

[Anonymous]

Trump's mom is an immigrant who's hurt me personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have had lots of positive experiences with immigrants as friends and coworkers, and contractors, never hurt by one in any way. Nor has any friend or family member been hurt by an immigrant. Have you ever been personally hurt by an immigrant?

Strongly in favor of immigration and have had mostly positive experiences, but have had two significant negatives:

1. Car accident caused by immigrants driving very recklessly (passing on the shoulder at speed). No ID, no insurance, reeking of weed.

2. Fully 25% of my kid’s 1st grade class spoke virtually no English. Teacher flatly told us that 80% of her time was occupied by trying to get them up to speed, so she had no time for other kids’ needs.

Many, many more positives than negatives with immigrants, but think we should be honest about the need to dramatically overhaul the system. Unfortunately and as usual, Trump doing it in the very worst way possible.

It is not about hurting. yes, it is extra burden on the community and they also don't get their human rights so it would be better to control this situation. US could issue 1-2M labor visa every year and put all of these people in the system.

That’s all fine and good as long as we ignore the effects of immigration on labor, wage, and job conditions. It matters little if they are “legal” or not.

[Anonymous]

My US citizen son and his wife are in the immigration process and my FIL apparently just something like this

“we don’t expect that she’ll ever get here we won’t hold her race against her, it’s not her fault where she was born, she just maybe should have been born somewhere else”

It honestly reminds me of when I got into college and my 8th grade education grandma said, at 30 cents a minute, “now just don’t go thinking you’re someone special now, because you’re not”