You're looking at the children of illegals. If you meet their parents, you might like them more. Most Mexican immigrants are young but adult. The kids at your school only got here because of their parents. Those are the people who have the motivation to survive here, not the kids.SealXo wrote:
I think the majority is to tell you the truth. IMHO. This kid Armondo i know who hopped the fence threw a rock at window to see if it would break at school....Turquoise wrote:
That's an odd analogy.... I think desperation is really the only reason why people go to such trouble to get here. For the majority of people in Mexico, life is shit compared to life here. If Mexico was in better shape (or if America was only marginally better), then this wouldn't be an issue. Even as open as we are with immigration, there are still more people in Mexico that want to work here than can be legally allowed. So, yeah, they do what they can to get in.SealXo wrote:
Go ahead and start teh thread i will back you on that.
I don't know. I guess is like the jews (im jewish so shut up) we are recognized as a smart race because all the ones who wern't smart died off. I think that the Hispanics that want to achieve seek citizenship and the half assed lazy ones just want it handed to them on a silver platter.
It's a shitty situation, but we have to be practical. We need a better fence and better enforcement of our laws.
I wouldn't say the illegals are any less intelligent than the legals -- they're just usually poorer and/or more desperate.
Look it takes some illegals a few years to loosly learn english. For fucks sake i learned loose dutch in a hour last week. Enough to get by in the netherlands.
Children of immigrants often have a lot of issues growing up. When you consider the pressures of adolescence that the average kid goes through and then add a lack of familiarity with a given culture to that, you're going to have problem kids. It doesn't excuse their behavior, but it does provide a context for it.