Mexicans: Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty

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Mexicans: Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty
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Sat, 10-17-2009 - 11:27pm

Poll: Mexicans say Mexican-Americans Owe Loyalty to Mexico Over U.S.

Nearly 70 percent of Mexicans surveyed said that Mexican-Americans – including those born in the United States – owe their primary loyalty to Mexico, not the U.S., according to a Zogby poll commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The in-person poll, taken during August and September, sampled 1,004 Mexicans across the country on subjects related to illegal immigration and amnesty in the United States.

When asked “Should the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans be to Mexico or to the U.S.?” 68.8 percent of respondents in Mexico said that it should be to Mexico, while only 19.7 percent said it should be to the United States. Another 11.5 percent of respondents said they were not sure.

Steven Camarota, director of research at the CIS, told CNSNews.com that the Spanish phrase translated as “Mexican-Americans” (“los estadounidenses de origen mexicano”) was carefully selected to ensure that respondents knew that it included those born in the U.S. He particularly stressed the Spanish word ‘estadounidenses.’

“It means ‘United States-ian’ — (that’s) how it translates,” he said, “and it’s understood by everyone in Mexico to include, clearly, people born in the United States of Mexican ancestry.”

Camarota also told CNSNews.com that just over one-third of respondents (36 percent) said that they would come to the U.S., if they could. Of that group, 68 percent said they think that Mexican-Americans owe loyalty to Mexico over the United States.

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Registered: 08-30-2002
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 1:47pm

**America cannot support everyone who wants to come and live here.



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Registered: 01-12-2004
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 2:54pm

The SS St. Louis was not sent back "because we couldn't handle all of them."

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 2:55pm

That is what corporate America would like us to believe. If it weren't for the illegal immigrants picking our crops for next to nothing, tomatoes would be $10.00 a pound. That's BS, and it's been proven. It is labor exploitation; no different from many of the human rights scenerios we gripe about in China or Thailand or other countries. And our government here allows it just like governments in other countries allow it.


It has gone on since the days the Chinese built the railroad or the Irish dug the coal mines or Africans picked cotton. Free or almost free labor has been the way of American business.


I have no idea about farm prices of tomatoes, but to simplify things

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Registered: 02-24-2009
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 4:42pm

Much of the mining in Utah was done by Greeks. They famously rose up to fight for better working conditions and many of them were killed in the process. Chinese crews famously worked on the building of the American rail roads.

BTW, quotas for immigration were introduced quite late.

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Registered: 02-24-2009
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 4:44pm
Thank you, not to mention that plenty of illegals are equally productive members of society.
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Registered: 08-30-2002
Tue, 10-20-2009 - 6:16pm

Agriculture goes beyond mere picking. It is a labor intensive process from soil preparation, planting seeds, seedlings or rootstock, the application of fertilizers and/or pesticides, herbicides, staking, mulching,



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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 10-21-2009 - 8:07am

I think it's a nothing more than the latest business scheme to MAKE money.

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Registered: 04-05-2002
Wed, 10-21-2009 - 8:46am
That's what I meant when I said it was interesting to see this discussion turn to one about illegal immigration when the OP never said anything about illegal immigrants.





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Registered: 08-30-2002
Wed, 10-21-2009 - 3:49pm

**The business I work for makes nothing; it is a service. In the last 2 months 3 people in the building I work in have been "let go" and those positions have not been refilled. Instead, more work is piled up on the people who remain and the business has literally MADE more money.**


The last business I worked for besides my own, was the propane industry. They started doing this. Eventually they started losing staff on disability claims, just plain fed up,



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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-23-2009 - 5:00pm
If the US didn't benefit from illegal immigration, you can be sure that a solution would be found forthwith.

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