Saturday, November 17, 2007

A nation of immigrants

Apparantley there is a problem with illegal immigration in this country. People are sick and tired of illegals crossing over into this country and being given some of the same rights as American citizens. It is estimated that 2-3 million immigrants cross over illegally. Most risk their lives doing this. Hispanics are currently the largest minority population in the country with a 12.5% and blacks making up 12.3%. This is based on the census in 2000 and doesnt count for the illegals. Sounds like it could be a problem.
However, here is another problem, we as Americans dont want to pay $10 for a bag of oranges or strawberries. We dont want to take the dead end low paying jobs that illegals often take just to make it into this country. We have the whole pie and dont want to share any of it at all.
How many people reading this are Alaskan? Hawiian? Native American? If youre not, you are here directly due to immigration or indirectly due to your ancestors immigrating here many years ago.(Not counting the slaves forced here by our founders) And Christopher Columbus didnt discover America, he thought he was in India-which is why he called the native americans, "Indians."
This is a land of opportunity is it not? So why deny others opportunities that you would pass up without even thinking about it, I admit we do need to document everyone living in this country. We shouldnt attempt to stop illegal immigration by building a fucking fence! This is not the United Gates of America!! Stop embarrassing this nation by being so hypocritical about the very people that built it, The little people. The hard working people. The American people.

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