May 1st is immigrantion boycott?

[PIAA310]

And I respect you for doing it the correct way.

Question are you a citizen now or just a resident alien?

I'm a citizen (blue passport)....

and ATLcenter, i know EXACTLY where you are coming form, heck it was the same way with us, but things went smoother with us since we had relatives living here and they were really willing to help out....now thats said, we have a 400K house and with 5 cars...everyone of my sisters and brother now has a professional job, and is paying taxes and everything, and where is that going? not to help us i can tell u...

[kcmh]

See you guys did it right and now are citizens. Way to go. Its just a shame ATL is such a bleeding heart liberal Now you guys get out there millions on welfare, and even millions more illegals are dependant on you.

[ptbodale]

To clarify for those of you who do not know Canada we are officially a bilingual country, French and English. The French got here first but lost the battle on the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

While a good majority of French speaking people in Canada can speak some English, French is predominate in some areas outside of New Brunswick and Quebec. French services are provided outside of these two provinces if the area has been designated bilingual or if there is sufficient demand.

With bilingual Canada above the U.S. and Spanish speaking Mexico below, you cannot say North America is an English speaking continent.

[kcmh]

With bilingual Canada above the U.S. and Spanish speaking Mexico below, you cannot say North America is an English speaking continent.

All 13 people that speak french. (I really do want to see Quebec and Montreal, Ca sometime soon looks great) Overall its a spanish speaking continet.

[avro_arrow_25206]

All 13 people that speak french. (I really do want to see Quebec and Montreal, Ca sometime soon looks great) Overall its a spanish speaking continet.

7.6 Million, to be almost exact Plus a few million or so bilingual

[ATLcenter]

See you guys did it right and now are citizens. Way to go. Its just a shame ATL is such a bleeding heart liberal Now you guys get out there millions on welfare, and even millions more illegals are dependant on you.

To my credit, the bleeding heart now bleeds only for those who really need it- I've become more moderate; none of this socialism bull.

And my old Canadian visa from 1994 was bilingual...in French and English. When I went to YVR in 2002, I saw more Chinese than French. I didn't realize there was a large French speaking population in Canada outside Quebec and that region perhaps. Why do people all the way in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary have to learn French to appease some bureaucrats in Quebec City and Montreal?

[ptbodale]

French and English are enshrined in the Constitution. While newer immigrants congregate in the larger cities there are areas of French speaking people. As you get further west beyond Manitoba there are not as many French speaking people. While it seems strange to have French speaking people in places far from Quebec it is the law.

I work for Air Canada and it is in the Air Canada Act that we have to provide French speaking services everywhere in our system. All of our manuals must be bilingual and we must provide French speaking Flt Attendants on every flight and bilingual Customer Service Agents. These restrictions do not apply to Westjet nor any other carrier in Canada.

My job is designated bilingual even though I work in YYZ and I deal with people around the world.

[JordanD]

Just because they're illegals doesn't mean we have the right to treat them like shit and say "Don't like it? Go back to Mexico."

[Chris Kilroy]

Just because they're illegals doesn't mean we have the right to treat them like shit and say "Don't like it? Go back to Mexico."

That's exactly what it gives us the right to do.

That being said, the only impacts I felt from the 'Million Mexican March' today were less traffic on the way to work, a shorter line at lunch, less people at the LAS viewing park (Mexicans like to park there and sleep during lunch), and less traffic on the way home. I'm not sure how that's supposed to make me feel about "illegal immigrants' contributions to society."

[ATLcenter]

Just because they're illegals doesn't mean we have the right to treat them like shit and say "Don't like it? Go back to Mexico."

Treat them like "shit"? Hell no. No gulags, no extermination camps, no violation of basic human rights.

Say "Don't like it? Go back."? Hell no. I don't see why they should really have a choice. Kick em back with an INS form tucked in their back pocket. That's the way it's done, and I'm really pissed that the people who value US citizenship more are those who had to work to get it. Jumping a fence is not the right method to do it, and the day this country does that is a sad, sad day.

[ptbodale]

The illegals are in our countries to do the shit jobs that we seem to be too proud to do. I'm not saying it is right to allow them to live here "undetected" but until North Americans get off their fat asses, lower their expectations and stop thinking the world owes them a living and do a few of the menial jobs then we don't have a reason to complain do we!

[ATLcenter]

The illegals are in our countries to do the shit jobs that we seem to be too proud to do. I'm not saying it is right to allow them to live here "undetected" but until North Americans get off their fat asses, lower their expectations and stop thinking the world owes them a living and do a few of the menial jobs then we don't have a reason to complain do we!

If illegals were out of the labor force, then companies would have to pay more wages for those jobs. Then those people wouldn't feel the world owes them a living since they're earning one themselves. Would I clean toilets? Uh-uh. Why? I was smart enough to work to go to college. But the kid who sits next to me smoked pot for four years and he's graduating with a 2.1 GPA...if he passes English this semester. I am sure there are enough Americans to take over those jobs. And the related inflation? Inflation in moderation is not a large problem. Businesses pay more wages, so they raise the price of the product. Because they raised the price of a product, they can afford to give workers raises. That's what I picked up from the Barron's AP Macroeconomics study guide anyway

[janni-chan]

Denmark is flooded by immigrants too, thankfully, most of them are legal...

I get a bit miffed when they come into our country and some of them start demanding... telling us how much our country stinks and that they have the right to get this and that... they don't... we offer them freedom, safety and a great country, and their way of saying thank you is to tell us that our country stinks and we're infidels (and that girls are easy here)...

That does piss me off... I am in no way a racist- I have a lot of muslim friends, and I'm not saying that all immigrants are behaving the way mentioned above... but the ones that are should be thrown out of the country- if they hate it so bad, it wouldn't be a big loss anyway, would it?

I also like the way most muslim countries tell you how to dress when you visit ie. their churches... then, when some muslims from these countries come to denmark, they put up a huge fight if we tell them to adjust to our way of living... why are they allowed to force things onto us while we can't tell them how they're supposed to live here?

[Longreach747]

Denmark is flooded by immigrants too, thankfully, most of them are legal...

I get a bit miffed when they come into our country and some of them start demanding... telling us how much our country stinks and that they have the right to get this and that... they don't... we offer them freedom, safety and a great country, and their way of saying thank you is to tell us that our country stinks and we're infidels (and that girls are easy here)...

That does piss me off... I am in no way a racist- I have a lot of muslim friends, and I'm not saying that all immigrants are behaving the way mentioned above... but the ones that are should be thrown out of the country- if they hate it so bad, it wouldn't be a big loss anyway, would it?

I also like the way most muslim countries tell you how to dress when you visit ie. their churches... then, when some muslims from these countries come to denmark, they put up a huge fight if we tell them to adjust to our way of living... why are they allowed to force things onto us while we can't tell them how they're supposed to live here?

come to Australia then...you come here illegally we ship you off to a pacific island, you don't even get legal access, your locked away for up to 4 years with your kids while your case is reviewed and your status as refugee decided.

we have one of the harshet illegal immigrant policies in the world, in a gesture to Indonesia our govt has recently imposed the same harsh restrictions on refugee's seeking to arrive here from East Papua...

[Airbus_A320]

I agree with ATLCenter, and PIAA310. People who want to come here, should do it the proper way. Immigrants from all over the world did it, my parents did it, they had to go through all the paperwork, and whatnot, and my grandfather was denied citizenship because he "didn't speak English well enough" (he was originally Ukrainian, but was coming from Argentina because that's where he went after WWII during which the Nazis took him from Ukraine), but these Mexicans, want to come here, and wave Mexican flags, and not speak English if they don't feel like it, are demanding amnesty... thats bullshit. Not to mention the fact that all kinds of gangs, and various other scum is filtering across the border too, and then it becomes our problem. And lets look at how Mexico and other countries treat their own people... But yet they call us racist and cruel, why don't they look at themselves.

For the jobs "nobody else wants to do", we could find people. Take all the general losers who are from here, who are now on welfare, assistance, low income housing, etc, etc, but are able to work, and not currently working, and tell them that unless they go out and get a job, they will get all their services taken away. And employers of illegal immigrants should have stiff penalties imposed on them, not a slap on the wrist. If you get rid of the reason for why people want to come here illegally, they wont come.

I also don't like how some people make it look like the U.S is against all immigrants, it's not. The problem is illegal immigrants. People that come here legally, get the same chances as everyone else that came here legally in the past.

That being said, the only impacts I felt from the 'Million Mexican March' today were less traffic on the way to work, a shorter line at lunch, less people at the LAS viewing park (Mexicans like to park there and sleep during lunch), and less traffic on the way home. I'm not sure how that's supposed to make me feel about "illegal immigrants' contributions to society."

So basically the organizers of this illegal immigrant protest day proved that we would indeed be better off without illegal immigrants...