What’s fair when it comes to illegal immigrants?
This Friday, May 1, will again bring about marches from people who are in this country illegally and their supporters. Illegal immigration is a very contentious subject. This year it will be even more so as millions of Americans have become unemployed or are facing the "chopping block."
I always have been insulted when individuals who are pro-illegal immigrants try to logic out why one group of people can break one set of laws while the rest of us should be subject to the exact same laws. For example, the City of Chicago has proclaimed itself to be a sanctuary city. We have individuals who get upset if the police do stings and arrest and take the cars of people who are in this country illegally and driving without a license. Yet we recently had an alderman proclaim that the city should take the cars of American citizens who leave traffic court and drive after being told to not do so. Where is the fairness?
I recently spent several months working in a Chicago public school where the student population was half black and half Hispanic. As I walked down the hallways, the classrooms for grades kindergarten through third looked like something out of a movie prior to Brown vs. Board of Education. The classrooms for first graders, for example, had all the black children in one room while all the Hispanic children were in a separate classroom.
Why? Because six years prior, two children were born in the same city and same hospital. The black child went home where he/she learned English even if it was the Ebonics’ version. The other child went home with parents who didn’t speak English and may be in this country illegally. That child learned Spanish as their first language.
When the time came to go to school, the Hispanic parents were allowed to choose a bilingual education program, even if the child is functional in English.
Wait a second. If the Hispanic children are getting bilingual education, shouldn’t the black kids be getting the same opportunity to become bilingual by learning Spanish at the same time the Hispanic children are learning English? Where is the fairness?
Recently, a man testified before congress regarding his daughter who was killed while sitting in her car at a red light. Her car was hit by a drunk driver, who was an illegal immigrant. The father referred to the people listed on the ICE database of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds as "banditos." The father was subsequently chastised by Congressman Luis Gutierrez for using the term "banditos." Interestingly enough, it was not because the congressman could point to the term as being derogatory, but because he has chosen to pursue the interest of illegal immigrants over those of U.S. citizens. He was more concerned with how the illegal immigrants were being portrayed than he was about a U.S. citizen being killed by someone who shouldn’t have been in the country to begin with. Where is the fairness?
I have watched while a friend of mine lost his restaurant business. Every day he was visited by the city and issued fines for violations that had nothing to do with his food handling. Fines for signage violation. Fines because his video game didn’t have a current license even though it was unplugged and facing backwards so that no one could use it. Yet, every day on the streets of Austin, I am seeing unlicensed and unsanitary corn carts sitting on corners vending food. There is no running water to wash hands and, even worse, where do they use the bathroom when they stand on a corner for hours on end?
I saw on North Avenue, by the soon-to-be opened new Menards, a man cooking tacos on the city’s sidewalk. I am sure we have tons of Americans who could also put a BBQ pit on a cart and stand on a corner and sell food. Yet it doesn’t happen because the city enforces food-handling laws against citizens but not against others. Where is the fairness?
As this year’s marches occur, I am anxious to see how illegal immigration will be portrayed. As Americans have lost jobs, houses and their version of the American dream, will we as a country still be gullible enough to believe that there are jobs that we won’t do?
http://www.austinweeklynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=3&ArticleID=2231&TM=83059.65
I’m with you almost 100% of the time! I hope US citizens are beginning to wake up and are becoming so fed up with the bs as usual, they will take their anger to challenge the illegal marchers! I hope this year is the year of escalation which will prove the majority of citizens demand their removal and will do it themselves, if our government is not going to do so!
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I think they are very ill advised to demand anything during this tough economic time. If Americans and legal residents want to pursue policy changes in other areas they should not tie it to immigration and/or amnesty.
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I’ll tell you what’s FAIR. Activate every guard unit in this country. Do a home by home, city by city, county by county, state by state search across this country. Round up every illegal alien found. Ship them back to their homelands. Send their homelands a bill for the trouble. Get finger prints and DNA samples so they can’t come back illegally. Tell them if they want to come back to go through the legal channels in place.
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I agree with Joey.. There are those that will say the US can’t afford to pick up and ship out the illegals…What CAN we afford? Paying to school, medicate, house and incarcerate illegals instead? If they were sent home just imagine all that extra cash the US would have. We might even be able to properly educate our citizens instead of pushing them through so many failed public schools.
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I think the illegal aliens were more welcome as invaders when they took jobs and the Americans still had jobs. They aren’t as welcome when many Americans are out of work and illegals take jobs. They will be as welcome as a turd in a punchbowl.
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maybe barry will ban ALL major gatherings as they have done in mexico to try and stop the spread of the swine flu………….
As for the gathering and the flag waving etc etc by the illegals I can tell you as a LEGAL immigrant to this country it really sticks in my throat to be honest………. if they want to be back there so ffffffing much then don’t let the door hit in the butt GO BACK!!!! But if you want to make progress and better your self then do it the legal way.
Honestly if barry gives this lot amnesty then OMG you have no idea how bad it will become, even more so if you add in the FREE medical he is touting for every person, NOT every citizen but every PERSON [big difference in my eyes]
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I’m with you almost 100% of the time! I hope US citizens are beginning to wake up and are becoming so fed up with the bs as usual, they will take their anger to challenge the illegal marchers! I hope this year is the year of escalation which will prove the majority of citizens demand their removal and will do it themselves, if our government is not going to do so!
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Immigration is a good thing. The very existence of the United States has shown that. Think about it. A nation made up of people that other countries didn’t want becomes the greatest political, cultural, technological, economic and military power in the world.
Immigration is a good thing.
On the other hand, illegal immigration is a cancer undoing everything that generations of legal immigrants have done to make this country great.
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I think illegals are partly responsible for the economic problems we are having now. But they have too much pull in this country now. Politicians are more worried about losing votes. The longer it goes on the more power they get. And pretty soon they will start doing outrageous things that make burning our flag look petty. When we will we organize a march against them? Something tells me that if we did we would get arrested or worse shot at. Where’s the fairness in things? When I see Americans applying for bus boy jobs already filled by illegals. Or what about the ones cooking food for us that were never screened for disease cause they jumped the fence.
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for one, children of illegals BORN in USA should not get any citizenship-
shipped… they should be:
back home with mom and dad!
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Tell you what, I’ll give my answer this so called "your" question from Arlene Jones. I meaning seeing you took the time to copy and paste it for her.
Police do take the cars of illegal immigrants it does not matter if the illegal immigrant did nothing more than drive without a license. In the U.S. it is also a almost standard to take away the houses. accounts (money) and cars of drug criminals that are arrested and found guilty of drug charges and in some cases tax evaders.
But people that have been convicted of driving w/o or driving on a suspended a license for the eighth, ninth or tenth time continue to keep their cars. People that are convicted for their seventh plus DUI worry more about ignition locks, fines and jail time (usually with Huber) than losing their car.
We have Edward Bain School of Language and Art in Kenosha and I will assure anyone that classrooms here do not appear to be segregated in any way or at any time. Although some students speak Ebonics sadly it is not an approved language at this school.
I found about 343 duel language schools within the United States listing at least four from the Chicago Area, I’m also sure that most of these do not have segregated classes either.
http://ebsola.kusd.edu/
http://www.cal.org/jsp/TWI/SchoolListings.jsp
As much as the writer of your copied post might believe her reason for why the classes she saw seemed segregated, I personally do not accept her reasoning as valid. Read her opinion on taking citizens cars in another of her viewpoints
"Will the Olympic bid keep South Side beaches open?"
"So if the alderman and the city want to take the cars of American citizens whose licenses have been suspended, then how come the city and state sells anybody who pays for it plates, stickers and city stickers with no regard for their licensed ability to drive the vehicle?"
http://www.austinweeklynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=3&ArticleID=2214&TM=23158.14
As to the word "banditos" being used at a testimony before congress would it also be unacceptable and debated if some one used ethnically descriptive terms like; mafia boy, drunken leprechaun or nappy headed hoe?
When appearing in places like a city councils, civil court or even before congress the words you choose to use ought to be polite and civil.
I can not speak for what she states occurs in the city of Austin but in my hometown it is as easy as walking up to the cart and looking for the city issued license on front of their carts. If it is not there, I do not care if it is ice cream, hot dogs or tacos for sale, then a phone call will get the cart off the street, complaining in a newspaper viewpoint column is the long way of reporting.
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they have no rights. it sounds like they are going back to the 30’s, 40’s when whites and blacks had seperate educationn. why is our govt letting this happen. i think we need to start demanding our law enforcers do what is right. no matter what la raza says. we have our laws. that means license for anything they sell. when i lived in chicago i never allowed my kids to get anything off those carts. there was no telling if their hands was cleaned.
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