I'm Being Too Hard on Illegal Aliens - Illegal Aliens are too hard on Americans
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Since 04-20-06

March 31, 2006

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I am being told that I'm too hard on illegal aliens. I beg to differ. I think that Illegal Aliens are too hard on Americans.

Here in New Mexico, we have a really bad problem with illegal aliens. They are coming across the border by the hundreds everyday. They come across in vans that are overloaded, speeding like crazy to elude the police. Traffic in the mornings here is terrible, bumper to bumper, it takes an hour to get from my house in the desert to my workplace.

Then, the traffic is really backed up because someone driving a van full of illegal immigrants from Mexico just flipped over, spilling its occupants all over the highway. Not only is the traffic now at a standstill, there are dead bodies on the highway, no identification, so the police do not know who to notify. This happens regularly, not just once in a great while.

Add to that, the employment problems. If you are a scientist, engineer, or computer expert, you make good wages here in New Mexico, I'd say higher than normal. But, if you try to find anyother type of work, they do not want to pay you even minimum wage.

You go to a job interview and they offer to pay you $25,000 a year; when you protest that it isn't enough to live on, the employers tell you--"we can get the illegals to work for less than that so take it or we hire them."

People here are getting very tired of it. Illegals usually do not have the degrees to fill scientist, engineer, or computer jobs, but they will try to do anything else.

When I do shopping in area shops (large companies not small mom and pop shops) the clerk that waits on me speaks to me in Spanish. Even when I tell them that I'm an American and speak English, I get the dirty looks and ask why I do not speak Spanish like most of the locals do.

Even when I do shopping over the phone, when I tell them I live in New Mexico, they say--"Sorry, we only ship with the continental US." I'M IN AMERICA, NOT MEXICO!

Fine, you want to be an American------then do it legally, learn to speak English, and pay taxes like the rest of American citizens are obligated to do.