I just got done reading an article in the independent (www.indyweek.com) about a girl and her brother that are from Columbia living in North Carolina who have been illegal immigrants most of the time that they have spent here in the United States. The older brother was lucky enough to have found a girl that would marry him so that he could get his green card and live here legally which enabled him to get and education and decent work. His younger sister is not as fortunate. She is very smart, does well in school and got accepted to UNC. Unfortunately she will not be able to go to school because she does not have access to any kind of financial aid because she is not a documented student, and even if she did get financial aid, she would still have to pay out of state tuition even though she has lived in NC for seven years.
I think that there is a lot seriously wrong with our country, when some that lives here works hard and makes a good effort at contributing to society and their community around them. Our country is no longer the land of the free, and does not welcome foreigners here with open arms anymore, much less provide opportunity to people that come here in search of a better life for themselves and their families. A lot of citizens of this country have become so intolerant that they place the blame for our problems here on the so called "illegal" immigrants that live here. They accuse illegals of being leeches on our society, and that they come here to exploit our country for whatever they can. I truly believe it is the other way around. Who is more at fault? The "illegal" immigrant that comes here to do the work that no one here wants to do? Or the actual citizens of this country that exploit them for their labor to increase their own profit margins, and hire and employ hundreds of thousands of illegal workers here in the US? If these citizens of our country did not employ illegal immigrants we wouldn't have this problem, I doubt Mexicans would be jumping the border to come here if there weren't people here that would readily employ them. The same people that lay a significant amount of blame on illegals are the same people that live in houses that were probably built by illegal mexican immigrants. In fact, considering the current epidemic of obesity, and laziness of the American public, I doubt that much would ever get done if the mexican immigrants that come here weren't working their asses off to provide all the things that most americans take advantage of.
The American public believes that are freedoms are being taken away, that our lively hood and our peace has been taken away, that the very essence of our way of life has been taken away from us by "illegals" and foreigners. But we are the only ones to blame for what has happened to our dwindling economy and the current problems that are plaguing our society. In our fear, we have given away our rights because we believe that we are safer if the government can decide what rights we need, and which ones we don't. We willingly shipped our jobs overseas, our own American citizens are the ones that decided we could make more money if we took all of our jobs and sent them to China, Malaysia, Mexico, and other parts of the world. We are the only ones to blame for all that we have lost.
I think that there is a lot seriously wrong with our country, when some that lives here works hard and makes a good effort at contributing to society and their community around them. Our country is no longer the land of the free, and does not welcome foreigners here with open arms anymore, much less provide opportunity to people that come here in search of a better life for themselves and their families. A lot of citizens of this country have become so intolerant that they place the blame for our problems here on the so called "illegal" immigrants that live here. They accuse illegals of being leeches on our society, and that they come here to exploit our country for whatever they can. I truly believe it is the other way around. Who is more at fault? The "illegal" immigrant that comes here to do the work that no one here wants to do? Or the actual citizens of this country that exploit them for their labor to increase their own profit margins, and hire and employ hundreds of thousands of illegal workers here in the US? If these citizens of our country did not employ illegal immigrants we wouldn't have this problem, I doubt Mexicans would be jumping the border to come here if there weren't people here that would readily employ them. The same people that lay a significant amount of blame on illegals are the same people that live in houses that were probably built by illegal mexican immigrants. In fact, considering the current epidemic of obesity, and laziness of the American public, I doubt that much would ever get done if the mexican immigrants that come here weren't working their asses off to provide all the things that most americans take advantage of.
The American public believes that are freedoms are being taken away, that our lively hood and our peace has been taken away, that the very essence of our way of life has been taken away from us by "illegals" and foreigners. But we are the only ones to blame for what has happened to our dwindling economy and the current problems that are plaguing our society. In our fear, we have given away our rights because we believe that we are safer if the government can decide what rights we need, and which ones we don't. We willingly shipped our jobs overseas, our own American citizens are the ones that decided we could make more money if we took all of our jobs and sent them to China, Malaysia, Mexico, and other parts of the world. We are the only ones to blame for all that we have lost.
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