So heartless questions, comments, yet the beauty of freedom of speech...it breaks my heart to think you could deny a child education, because of his/her parent's legal status...many bring out the welfare issue, saying these families don't work and just reap government benefits...most citizen children born to non qualified aliens are entitled to benefits because their parent's income is under the Federal poverty level, meaning their wages are low, so low that even with both parents working, they still qualify...but some make it sound like they just don't work...
So what should America do with all those "Citizens" white/black/whatever coming into DSS offices driving Escalades and sporting Gucci purses and fresh made nails? (don't get me wrong, I am not pointing fingers, but it happens, we see it), so what should America do? approve them...of course, give them food, Medicaid services, day care services, TANF, etc...and at the same time deny services to children born to illegal parents? who earn $7.25 (now days, thank you uncle Sam for the increase, it used to be $5.15 when I started working) cleaning your next door neighbor's home, cleaning your the toilets at your offices and buildings, contracting with your HOA offices to keep your so beautiful neighborhood lawns, building your million dollar homes, those oh so good veggies you got from wegmans?...that have been harvested and touched by illegal hands, can Americans do this jobs? of course you can...but try doing it for minimum wages, that's the real challenge...
Many think we are here just because of your beautiful landscapes, or the beautiful green hue of the dollar bill, but don't realize that many of our parents came here, yes ILLEGALLY, trying to scape from war, from killings, from guerrillas, so that "we", the children you are hating so bad on would have the chance to be alive! and why not, a future...some of our families were wealthy families who lost all during the civil war that was by the way, financed in part by the US... many have come accustomed to the American living, many have become legal residents and even citizens as my family has, yet if you see me down the street i am nothing else to you than an illegal woman...
A lot of things said here have nothing to do with whether we have a Permanent Resident card in our wallet or not, a lot here is plain old racism, would you think different if all of us had a green card? ...me don't think so...
Open your hearts and let the charity and compassion enter you heart, put yourself in their/our shoes, what would you do? what would you do to provide safety to your children? what would you do if you saw heads hanging from trees, murderers coming into homes to kill and r**e? daughters, wives, mothers been raped in front of their husbands and son's eyes, babies and little children been burned in clay ovens? I hope you would do anything to scape such situations, anything, whatever it takes...it breaks my heart in pieces to think about it, to imagine it, while my own child is asleep right next to me as I type...what is she was illegal? what danger do illegal children have to endure because of the way you see things? ...while the situation may not be the same anymore in some countries,the after math still there, violence and poverty lingers around...are there Latinos who put us down by doing wrongful things, yes, there are, but you can not judge all of us because of them, just the way all of you can not be judged because what others within your own race or legal status do...
so while I know I will be mocked because if this extensive comment and my many misspelled words, yes, English is my second language, which I have tried to learn during the last 15 years... I've got to say it, I have come so far from been a child in the middle of the Salvadorean civil war, an illegal young girl in the US, now working for the US government full time, venturing into my own small business, raising healthy and happy children, teaching them the greatness of THEIR country, paying for my own insurance, my own daycare and my own food and living the "American dream" and whatever else, abiding by the law now that I have the chance because none of us WANT to be illegal, some have no choice,...I've come too far so that you can say I should have been deported with my illegal parents...open your mind, see the broad picture, don't just stare at the black dot on the white sheet of paper...there is so much to learn from each other...
Answered By: - 5/24/2010 |