Comments on: Fremont, NE Voters Pass Anti-Undocumented Immigrant Measure

By: Sumummabish

Sumummabish — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:12:00 +0000

How is 10% of the population being illegal immigrants a LOW percentage?!?! That is the whole reason the law was passed… one in every ten people is an illegal alien. Go through the proper channels and the law doesn’t affect you. By the way, nowhere in the law is an ethnicity targeted. A blonde-haired, blue-eyed German without documentation is subject to the same restraints. Become a citizen, get a job, enjoy America. Don, I thoroughly enjoy you calling the lawmakers and citizens racist, while you yourself are the one invoking race and stereotyping. I don’t care where you come from, or what your religion is, you make a choice to enter this country and FOLLOW ITS LAWS. Why should people be exempt just because they enter the country illegally?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:11:45 +0000

First of I would like to say that I am an American of Mexican decent . That said I think that these cities that are doing things like this are taking steps back instead of going forward . We will see what happened to the African Americans all over again just with Hispanics . I think that all the real illeagals are the whites who robbed the native Americans of they’re lands . Oh and guess what , where do you think native Americans came from ? Gee golly you got it from Mexico and central America ! AMERICA was built by imigrants for imigrants who ever does not like it can take they’re racist generations of families and move back where they’re decendants came from . Which by the way were most likely illegal . What I think needs to be done is have a Mexican American walking the streets with no Id if he gets stopped respond in only Spanish most likely he’ll get deported and have one of his famil member go to the border give him his papers come back and sue the hell out of everybody ! That will really prove that these laws are not just for imigrants but for anybody that looks hispanic that is being raped out of they’re constitutional rights !

By: magyart

magyart — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:17:16 +0000

Even if the unemployment rate in Fremont is low, why should even a single illegal immigrant be employed ?

Millions of legal immigrants and forgin workers use the legal pathway that has been established for them. Legal immigrants deserve our respect and support. Illegal immigrants don’t.

By: Illegal Reporter

Illegal Reporter — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:01:28 +0000

Go Fremont!!

By: ronk1957

ronk1957 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:12:57 +0000

I am in total agreement with the media calling them UNDOCUMENTED. I am writing this from my jail cell. I was just convicted of three rapes even after I told them that I was an UNDOCUMENTED sex therapist. And to add insult to injury they gave me another 10 year sentence for drug trafficking even though I explained that I was an UNDOCUMENTED pharmacist! I can’t wait to get out of prison and come to a town where UNDOCUMENTED people aren’t considered to be illegal. Maybe I’ll bring my gangbangers oh sorry I mean UNDOCUMENTED social workers with me. See you soon

By: David

David — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:22:42 +0000

Illegal immigration could be solved by making the penalty so severe for hiring or renting to illegals that employers and landlords would not risk the consequences. Coupled with eliminating government assistance to any person who cannot prove they’re a US citizen would dry up the migration. No job, No place to live and No free hands outs, No reason to come here.

By: voted no

voted no — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:09:39 +0000

I apologize for calling supporters “non-educated”. I honestly do not want to begin slinging insults back and forth. Sorry.

To: “Not a Solution”,
Thanks. (And I agree with you. I am tired of the white Fremonters that know how to work the welfare system.) Illegal immigration is a major issue for the United States as a whole and the federal government needs to address it. But – just as you said – THIS is not the solution. Fremont cannot afford to enforce this law, and the lawsuits that will follow.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:55:11 +0000

The fact that this law has passed disgusts me. I am from a town in Nebraska even smaller than Fremont and have seen the racism and bigotry in small-town Nebraska. I really hope that ACLU’s law suit being filed against the city helps turn this entire mess around. I am all for immigration reform, but I am not an advocate for laws that encourage racial profiling.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:50:28 +0000

Oh, and by the way – I have a PHD and have spent many years abroad in Europe. I am neither uneducated, nor am I a small town narrow-minded bumpkin. Maybe the truly uneducated voters are those who think it is OK to break laws and don’t understand it is not right to aid others in the breaking of them.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:30 +0000

I’m from Fremont and I would like to respond to a few comments

“Racism”

This vote had NOTHING to due with racism. Yes, it is a small town that has historically been predominantly white. BUT I have never felt it a hotbed of racism. I feel we are able to embrace immigrants no matter what their country of origin.

The important issues to most small town folk has nothing to do with the color of your skin, all we care about is if you work hard and follow the rules. As the article stated with a local unemployment rate of nearly ½ that of the nation it’s pretty obvious, immigrant or not nearly all of us in Fremont are hard workers. Which leaves the question of are the rules being followed? And if anyone is here from another country illegally, then NO, they are NOT following the rules.

Don’t knock Fremont citizens for wanting immigration laws to be enforced, if you don’t like it then change the immigration laws. But until that happens if you BROKE THE LAW just to get here then we don’t feel we should be required to aid and abed you while you are here in the US ILLEGALLY by providing you a home or a job.

Shoot, even my brother-in-law who moved to the US LEGALLY from Mexico City long before marrying my sister voted in favor of this ordinance. He is just as fed up with people moving into the US illegally and expecting everyone else to just turn a blind eye.

“Dying Community”

I think NOT, Fremont’s population has grown slowly and steadily from a town of 20K to 25K over the last 40 years. And, the packing plants were here long before illegal immigrants, so the whole argument that only an illegal immigrant would want to do the work is pure BULL!! For decades our community has considered a job at the local Hormel plant as a good job to get. In fact for many years it was near impossible to get hired there unless you knew someone.

Even if by some chance the loss of illegal immigrants caused the local plant to move to a more ILLEGAL immigrant friendly community. SO WHAT!? Fremont is located close enough to Omaha that a significant percentage of our residents already live here for the small town community and work in Omaha. I would be surprised at any long-term damage to the community, if we lost a business that was unwilling to stay in a community that enforced the National laws requiring them to hire LEGAL citizens.