Angry because it's difficult to get citizenship in the USA they decided to do a walk out yesterday to show us how much we need them. They want the immigration laws changed to better suit them. Wasn't that a good time for INS to drive up, check them for papers and then right on the spot, ship them back to their birthplaces? Why didn't we do that, I wonder?
These folks insist they're not criminals, yet they came into the USA illegally, they're living here illegally, they're working here illegally, but they're not criminals? I'm all for a better life for everyone, but an American can't just be-bop across the borders of other countries and decide to live in one without proper papers. Try it with Mexico...you probably won't get shipped back here to the states, you'll most likely land in jail there for a long time, if not forever. We can't even visit another country without proper paperwork. Do it legally folks! Don't sneak in here and then when you get the numbers of an army try to change our laws, that's just rude!
In a small town closeby, a saw mill was cited and fined a few years ago for hiring illegal immigrants for far less wages than the men who were born in this area were making. This made the mill want to hire the illegals instead, and the local gentlemen, being laid off, didn't take kindly to it and reported the mill. The situation, as last I heard had been rectified.
I'm not against immigrants. Come to the United States, make good lives for yourselves and for your families. Do it legally. Millions have. If you're here illegally, you are breaking the law. I seriously doubt you'd have any compunction about breaking other laws as it suits you. Learn to speak English. Don't expect us to learn to speak your language to accomodate you. If you want to be an American, do it right. Doing it otherwise is just a slap in the face to all the immigrants before you who have struggled and worked night and day to legally earn their citizenship here. It's difficult, harder these days than ever, but it's not impossible.
The deal yesterday, the walk out, didn't effect this area at all. In fact, we wouldn't have known it had taken place if they hadn't mentioned it on the news. But you know what I look for now? I look for Sex offenders to march. To gather in numbers and march and whine and go on about the law requiring them to register so neighborhoods know when they move in. They don't like that law either. They say it disrupts their lives because once folks find out they're sex offenders they get harrassed (boo-frickin-hoo) and have to move. If you're a criminal in the United States, take to gathering together and protest! Change the laws that made you a criminal in the first place so you're no longer in the wrong! Good God.
Posted by juel at May 2, 2006 12:37 PM