Immigration Diatribe
Wow! Last post April 7th!! And that one a frustrating one.
Glad to see that going by percentages yesterday's "work out" protest was a failure. I entirely get that 1) the immigrants are most certainly NOT "Mexicans." Yes, there are Mexican illegals among them, however it is really easy to call them Mexicans and equally uninformed. These are people from all Central American and South American countries as well as Mexicans. Just because you speak Spanish doesn't mean you are Mexican. My husband is a Mexican American. (That would more accurately be a Texican - and a HUGE Cowboys fan, as would be any other sentient being from San Antonio, Texas!!)
I am about as white a girl as it is possible to me (my soldier has commented to me when I was wearing shorts - "whoa, mom! You've got some of that Casper action going on!") and while on my mother's side my family has been here since revolutionary times, on my father's side I am only 3rd generation American. My father AND my sons are only second generation Americans. Immigrants are what we ALL are, yes go back far enough and even our so-called "Native Americans" immigrated here as well. There is much of great value that immigrants add to our nation. The key here is ADD to. Not demand that this great nation change to accomodate them, but what they can add to our nation to strengthen and enrich all of us. To become 'US' instead of "them." Bring your good values, your foods, your passions, your strengths. Come here - legally - come here and add to the system instead of leaching it dry by NOT paying taxes, not following the rules. I know some people who initially came here illegally from a South American country which shall remain unnamed - and they are working hard to be legal. They pay in to our system. They are good and decent and hard working people who only want to have a better life. They are active in the church community, they long to stay here and contribute, they struggle to help their extended family here, and to live the American Dream.
I guarantee you they were at work yesterday. They show up and do what is expected and work at learning English. Is it necessary to foreswear Spanish? Certainly not! It cannot hurt to know a second language! And to be able to help others in America to learn English - well wouldn't it help to be able to instruct people in the proper American if you can advise them some in Spanish? Of course it would.
I saw on Fox News the 'headline' "Does America have the right to protect its borders?" Well, duh - yes. So-called "liberals" - we must protect our borders from the few of the many - the few whose desires are only to profit by the suffering of others - drug runners, human smugglers, criminals who do not want to be here by the legit means because they would not be welcome. Do some innocents suffer? Unfortunately yes. However - the longing to be here is strong because the US is different from Mexico - Oh ho Vicente Fox you hypocrite - and other nations in that there exists the opportunity to actually improve your life, your fortunes, your very self that DOES NOT EXIST in so many other countries.
So yes, give us your poor, your weak, those longing to be free - but let's not make those here illegally be of greater value than those who are here legally.
Glad to see that going by percentages yesterday's "work out" protest was a failure. I entirely get that 1) the immigrants are most certainly NOT "Mexicans." Yes, there are Mexican illegals among them, however it is really easy to call them Mexicans and equally uninformed. These are people from all Central American and South American countries as well as Mexicans. Just because you speak Spanish doesn't mean you are Mexican. My husband is a Mexican American. (That would more accurately be a Texican - and a HUGE Cowboys fan, as would be any other sentient being from San Antonio, Texas!!)
I am about as white a girl as it is possible to me (my soldier has commented to me when I was wearing shorts - "whoa, mom! You've got some of that Casper action going on!") and while on my mother's side my family has been here since revolutionary times, on my father's side I am only 3rd generation American. My father AND my sons are only second generation Americans. Immigrants are what we ALL are, yes go back far enough and even our so-called "Native Americans" immigrated here as well. There is much of great value that immigrants add to our nation. The key here is ADD to. Not demand that this great nation change to accomodate them, but what they can add to our nation to strengthen and enrich all of us. To become 'US' instead of "them." Bring your good values, your foods, your passions, your strengths. Come here - legally - come here and add to the system instead of leaching it dry by NOT paying taxes, not following the rules. I know some people who initially came here illegally from a South American country which shall remain unnamed - and they are working hard to be legal. They pay in to our system. They are good and decent and hard working people who only want to have a better life. They are active in the church community, they long to stay here and contribute, they struggle to help their extended family here, and to live the American Dream.
I guarantee you they were at work yesterday. They show up and do what is expected and work at learning English. Is it necessary to foreswear Spanish? Certainly not! It cannot hurt to know a second language! And to be able to help others in America to learn English - well wouldn't it help to be able to instruct people in the proper American if you can advise them some in Spanish? Of course it would.
I saw on Fox News the 'headline' "Does America have the right to protect its borders?" Well, duh - yes. So-called "liberals" - we must protect our borders from the few of the many - the few whose desires are only to profit by the suffering of others - drug runners, human smugglers, criminals who do not want to be here by the legit means because they would not be welcome. Do some innocents suffer? Unfortunately yes. However - the longing to be here is strong because the US is different from Mexico - Oh ho Vicente Fox you hypocrite - and other nations in that there exists the opportunity to actually improve your life, your fortunes, your very self that DOES NOT EXIST in so many other countries.
So yes, give us your poor, your weak, those longing to be free - but let's not make those here illegally be of greater value than those who are here legally.
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