Has an immigrant ever hurt you personally?

[Anonymous]

No, nor by non-immigrants, but that of course is irrelevant to a related, but different question: Has an immigrant ever hurt anyone? Or, for that matter, has a non-immigrant ever hurt anyone?

This seems a specious question, to say the least assuming it is meant to suggest that immigrants, legal or not, never hurt anybody.

[Anonymous]

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Now do women and children victimized by the Trump administration!

[Anonymous]

My parents were a mixed relationship - both immigrants from different places.

We have definitely been hurt by the "white" immigrant side of my family. Bigotry, xenophobia, and terrible unkindness. Some of them are MAGA.

[Anonymous]

My immigrant husband has had a drinking problem and has been verbally abusive. He has battled it and seems to have come out on a more positive side for now.

But other than that, no. The people who have physically hurt me have been American born.

[Anonymous]

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.

#2 is not about language. Our school has children who arrive speaking 22 different languages, and they all manage to learn. Your child's teacher has the support of ELS teachers as well. Also it takes a child 90 days of immersion to get up to speed enough to learn in the new languge according to the experts at our school. I think your kid's teacher is either making excuses for poor classroom management skills or is having difficulty with a different kind of problem altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Now do Americans killed by US Citizens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Now do Americans killed by US Citizens

Do you want people to answer your question or not, OP? Is this supposed to be a game of gotcha, or do you actually want answers?

[Anonymous]

Never. Not once. Many positive experiences with immigrants as teachers, caregivers for my children and aging parents, really lovely people. I pray for all of them during these terrible times.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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jsteele 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?

How many have you taken to live with you in your house, personally?

I took one. I married her.

Well there's one! Only 10+ million illegal aliens to go.

Are you bringing in any of those 10+ million into your house to support, personally?

Who do you think I am, Donald Trump? Admittedly, he married twice as many immigrants as I have and employs hundreds more than I could even dream of doing.

My 90 year old uncle had a live-in caregiver from a South American country. She was a gift from God. Really, really special and caring. She took him places he wanted to go but could not because he was infirm -- to the theater, to the symphony, to restaurants, to parties, to a wedding! She was as wonderful as could be, and she was with him until he died. We could never have cared for him if we had not found her. He wanted to stay in his home, and because of her, he did. I could not be more grateful to her. I don't know where she is now. I don't even know if she was documented. It doesn't matter. She was essential to our family. Why does MAGA want to deport such amazing, needed people?

[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.

In the first example, how did you know they were immigrants?

Didn’t speak any English whatsoever. Had to communicate in Spanish.

Note that I have no idea whether they were here legally or not and am not commenting on that. Question was about immigrants generally.

[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.

Are those kids US citizens? Speaking Spanish is not illegal

Didn’t mention Spanish—you jumped to conclusions.

As it happens, this was an area with large numbers of temporary immigrant workers. Possible that some of the kids were citizens but not likely given the short duration of the parents’ residency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but plenty of conservative Christian white people have hurt or disgusted me so badly that I avoid socializing with them. I keep my social circle very small.

--signed,
white woman

I bet you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Now do Americans killed by US Citizens

Do you want people to answer your question or not, OP? Is this supposed to be a game of gotcha, or do you actually want answers?

DP...the person who included that poster is pushing the false narrative that you're more likely to be murdered by an immigrant than by a US citizen, instead of answering OP's question.

[Anonymous]

Since you asked...An illegal immigrant ran a stop sign while I was running in a crosswalk, ran me over, and when he was finally caught, he falsified his information to the police before subsequently being released. We later learned that he murdered another man in the grocery store a few days later and that he had already been arrested and served jail time for previous crimes. My children came quite near to losing their mother that day. So yes. I have personally been hurt by an ILLEGAL immigrant.

[Anonymous]

Ask the Epstein victims. Maxell was on an H-1B. Ask the 911 victims.