Cristina Jimenez
Grassroots Efforts for Long Island DREAMers
Charlene Obernauer, Long Island Wins guest blogger, writes:
When the majority of people in the United States think about so-called "illegal immigration", they picture a Mexican man crossing the border into the United States in the middle of the night. I don't have actual statistical numbers to back up this claim, but I do have the experience of growing up in Suffolk County, where the tensions over immigration sometimes boil to the surface...While I wholeheartedly disagree with the blame-the-immigrant discourse, one can surely ask, what about the children who came here with their parents?
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Posted at 4:12 PM, Jul 02, 2009 in Education | Immigration
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People are always looking to point the finger of blame in one direction or the other. When the job market is on a decline, it's because of the economy and immigration. When natural disasters or unforseen events take place; nobody reacted fast enough and whatnot. I'm just saying, that if all the Mexicans were sent out packing and all those jobs that they took on opened up; do you think Joseph or Thomas are taking over the ball? I think the Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc. would. It wouldn't make a difference, we're both wasting our minutes on keyboards posting irrelevently on things that will never change one way or another, due to inferiority/superiority complex and the flawed human.
Posted by: Terror Tango | August 11, 2009 03:37 PM
People are always looking to point the finger of blame in one direction or the other. When the job market is on a decline, it's because of the economy and immigration. When natural disasters or unforseen events take place; nobody reacted fast enough and whatnot. I'm just saying, that if all the Mexicans were sent out packing and all those jobs that they took on opened up; do you think Joseph or Thomas are taking over the ball? I think the Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc. would. It wouldn't make a difference, we're both wasting our minutes on keyboards posting irrelevently on things that will never change one way or another, due to inferiority/superiority complex and the flawed human.
Posted by: Terror Tango | August 11, 2009 03:51 PM
People are always looking to point the finger of blame in one direction or the other. When the job market is on a decline, it's because of the economy and immigration. When natural disasters or unforseen events take place; nobody reacted fast enough and whatnot. I'm just saying, that if all the Mexicans were sent out packing and all those jobs that they took on opened up; do you think Joseph or Thomas are taking over the ball? I think the Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, etc. would. It wouldn't make a difference, we're both wasting our minutes on keyboards posting irrelevently on things that will never change one way or another, due to inferiority/superiority complex and the flawed human.
Posted by: Terror Tango | August 11, 2009 03:52 PM