To: clear who wrote (42319 ) 4/28/2013 10:17:40 PM From: DallasKevin Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 85487 Read the whole trail of this. I have already answered all of what you are saying here. First off, the myth that illegals can get public assistance is just that...a myth. They can not receive any kind of public assistance, in fact can not even receive assistance from the Salvation Army, as they have the same requirements as the Federal Government. Illegal means no government issued ID, and no Social Security number...without both of those, they can not receive assistance of any kind. Next, you hit one nail on target. The country they want to immigrate TO gets to choose them. And everything I have heard has been negative towards anyone from Mexico coming here. As for the freedoms...I guess we need to tear down that plaque on the Statue of Liberty, since the sayings there no longer apply. Do you have any idea how the current "lottery" system operates as far as Latin America is concerned? I thought not. If you are from any middle eastern country there is no lottery system. Only Latin Americans are hampered with this....even though they are not threats to the US. As for what "made you answer me"...your simple statement there is confirmation of the misinformation that the Right has foisted on the public. People from Mexico only constitute around 58% of all illegals in the US, and yet any time someone says "illegals", the Right jumps and says "Mexican", like a knee jerk reaction. This is unfairly singling out one single ethnicity and attempting to blame that one group for everything. Did you now that the numbers of illegals from Mexico has dropped by almost 28% since 2007? Or that the number of illegals from India has risen 125%? Those from India are the ones taking high paying jobs in Engineering and Information Technology...and yet everyone is being led to point at the maids, landscapers and waitresses because they are from Mexico. NOW do you understand where the racism from the Right comes in? All of the leaders of the Right have this same information available to them...and yet no one hears anything but "Mexican". Rest assured, none of the ones from Mexico come here to get "free stuff" and they couldn't even if they wanted it. The society they come from is not Socialist, and they are taught from the time they can walk that they have to work and earn whatever they want. The ones from the Socialist societies that DO come here and drain the resources are those from Cuba, for example. But as soon as they touch shore, they are NOT illegals. They are given protected status and green cards. India is also a Socialist leaning country. They have always had ties to Russia and the Soviet Union...they are one of the few countries outside Russia who are licensed to produce Russian MiG fighters. My wife came here as an illegal over 12 years ago, and she speaks 5 languages (European ones that is, not counting native Indian tongues). The United States, in its infinite wisdom, chooses not to respect her masters degree...unless she want to teach ESL classes, and then they will make her take more classes here and pay lots of money first. This even though she got her masters in one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Also her bachelors at THE oldest university in the Americas, the National Autonomous University of Mexico , founded on September 22, 1551, as Royal and Pontifical University of México (in 1920 changed its name to National Autonomous University of Mexico, when it was given the freedom to define its own curriculum and manage its own budget without interference from the government). As you can see, the date of its founding predates the founding of the United States by well over 200 years...as well as predating the English settling of the East Coast. What you propose and agree to is extremely fair...and in fact all people here from Mexico have been asking for. What they take issue to is the racism they are subject to...and this is not a modern thing either. They have been struggling with this since the 1800's, and even today the derogatory sneers continue. Maybe not from you personally, but from many of your party spokesmen, such as Mark Levin. I listen regularly to him, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh (as much as I can stand of Rush). Mark Levin I can only listen to in short bursts when he gets on his anti-Mexican rants. Sean seems to follow along with the anti-Mexican stuff without a clue to what is really going on. He wants to be compassionate, and he is Catholic like the vast majority of Hispanics, and yet still misses the fact that referring to ALL illegals as "Mexicans" is blaming 1/2 of the total for the problems of all, and singling out one ethnicity for retribution without taking their culture and values of hard work, pride and self-sufficiency into account.