http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/28/boycott/index.html

I'm just wondering, did anyone on cB hear about this? Cause i just heard of this like yesterday. And im just curious of what you guys think of it, and if you support the protesters or the government kinda people..

America would be like nothing without immigrants, and i think this is wrong. As for me, i'm not going to school on Monday My teachers are also not going to school either. Oh and im not sure if this topic should belong here or not. So if it doesn't belong, feel free to move (:

word. [/ghettoness]
if it was like end of immigration. like only 1/8th of the U.S. would be left.

omg same here!! my dad is an immigrant from korea but my mom now she did u.s. citzenship thingy.... ur same as me. interesting. but my dad doesnt work for the united nations...hes like a principal at this korean school and hes also a computer programmer.

a day without immigrants. tsk tsk.. it would be nothing without them. i agree too. we need those people!!!!!!

i checked out seattle news homepage called kirotv.com and it kinda pissed me off to see that lotta people doesnt want immigrants to work!!!!! -0-;; no wonder everyone choose kerry for president. -0-;;;; my dad lived in america for the last 13 years!!!! but still havent gotten a u.s. citzen *cough* -0-;;

We need the immigrants here. Really, the US is based on immigration, and it's supposed to welcome all people. The immigrants are a HUGE part of the workforce too, so we really need them.

what is happening to US ><

Alot of people in my high school didnt show up to school because theyre imigrants and they had no papers. Oh well no beaners=No tomatoes for a day LMAO.

*That was not meant to be a racial SLURR.

its only poor mexicans complaining about the law. its not our faults they're stupid and dont get themselves educated. we shouldnt feel sorry for them. according to social darwinism, survival of the fittest. only the fittest should survive.

i dont think that we need immigrants, but some of the jobs that we take for granted will be empty and noone will want to do them

Heather, more than half of the country would be gone if we didn't have immigrants. The Native Americans who came to the US thousands of years ago are thought to be from present-day Asia. Your ancestors, who I assume are of European descent, came here and even you wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.

So I suggest that you rethink that statement.

For goodness sake! This isn't about booting immigrants, it's about making them LEGAL. The sense I get from the news is that the majority of people haven't even read the friggin bill.

By all means, correct me if I'm wrong.

Yup.
The problem most people are having with is ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, not legal immigration, kids.

You are so annoying.

And personally, I think if it was a battle for survival between Hispanics and us White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, they'd win. Seeing as how these illegal immigrants do all the dirty work we won't do.

The whole thing is just really stupid. Nobody knows why they are protesting or what the bill even says. I read the bill, not just the summary of the bill but the actual bill. It's not called HR 4437 - Anti-Immigration Bill. Its called HR 4437 Anti-Terrorism & Illegal Smuggling Bill. It was never to hinder or stop immigration to America. It was to stop terrorism and smuggling narcotics and contraband. They're also cracking down on illegal immigrants that have criminal records. Thats why most hispanics that actually saw the bill are mad. But they are mad for the wrong reason.

I participated. I didn't go to school or buy anything.

Instead, I went and marched at the protest thing. I WALKED OVERR 50 BLOCKSSS in my white tee waving the mexican and america flag in the air.

yeeee.

Yeah & I was watching the news & they said that in one they they estimated a loss of 300 million dollars. I don't know that just what they said.

Oh yeah, My mom was talking about this the other day....
Its pretty crazy...

you're so fcuking ignorant. just shut the fcuk up.

A day without immigrants would be like a day without air.

Haha what a faggot.
Most of them can't get educated BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO OLD TO BE IN SCHOOL. dumbf**k. Lets see you trying to go to school at 34. While having a family to take care of, and money to be made to keep food on the table for you family. Plus, most of them couldn't get educated because they were in Mexico dumbass. Lets see, Mexico back then didn't exactly have Harvard style education to give out at schools. Today, it's not like it's improved a whole lot either. f**king idiot. And survival of the fittest, and only the fittest should survive? If that was true, you would have died YEARS AGO. Cause your punk-ass would have gotten run over by a f**king parked car or something. Yeah, thats how f**king dumb you are, you waste of air.

I think that this whole immigration thing is being blown way out of proportion. No sane person is saying all immigration is bad; the political fervor is mostly centered around illegal immigrants.

Yes. But also, with all this hype, a lot of kids people have been generalizing all immigrants, not just illegals.

That pisses me off.

honestly, i think its b*llshit. i resent illegal immigrants, partly because my dad had to work his ass off to come here legally. my mom and dad were separated for 1.5 years because my mom had to wait for her greencard after she was married. what makes all the illegals think they can hop the border and then petition for legality? its b*llshit! there are tons of people who have been waiting for years ahead of you, payed so much more than you, and still been rejected? help the economy? sure, i guess. but do they not think that we would have found other people assume those jobs without them? good f.cking lord. i'm so pissed off about that. i'm also pissed off at the government for providing illegal immigrants w. so many facilities. you know they don't ask for you ss or alien # to be enrolled in school? i agree, that certain circumstances compell a person to come here illegally, but do you think you're the only one? all the immigrants that were here legally were in much the same position as you, worked their f.cking asses off the pay the immigration fees, lived in those conditions till they were accepted, immigrated to a new country w. no connections, and worked their f.cking asses to make it in this county. example? my dad. what makes you so f.cking special. *glare* the immigration laws, imo, need to be stricter. if you think about it, most caucasian and asians don't even have a problem even though they're immigrants. know why? because US accepts most of them as student visa's first. why? because they only accept the smart ones and let them work ONLY AFTER they've completed their education or have choosen to pursue higher education. moral of the story? don't hike your ass here without having means to provide for yourself legally.

Anisha, you took the words right out of my mouth. :]

-Radhika

That's a lot of reading....

Wonderful.

What she said. Heh.

People are only generalizing all immigrants because they are protesting. There was no hype about the legal immigrants until they made a big deal about the bill.

Uh, hello? I am an immigrant, and you don't see me protesting. In fact, I agreed with agiri's opinion about the whole thing. All immigrants protesting, huh? I hope you see what I mean now about the hype and "people" generalizing legals with illegals.