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I need to come on here and vent my anger over this immigration issue with the Mexicans. Okay what don't they understand - they are illegals, do they not know what the word ILLEGAL means? Oh you know what, they might not since the US bends over backwards to kiss their fucking ass and spends how much of our tax dollars putting up signs in Spanish and American. Okay we live in Fucking America people we speak English. ***ADDED*** In the 50's when my Dad went for his driver's license he was told by DMV that he needed to learn English. They did not provide special books and he could not under any circumstances have an interpreter. Later on in life he was working for the state as a code enforcement officer making sure that group homes for battered women, orphans, juveniles, etc. were safe, and up to code. He did not need to have an excellent command of the English language; however, he did need to be certified and to have taken courses and be up to date on the laws regarding housing and whatever else code there may be to run these types of homes. He had proven his merit because he was and still is certified and trained with all the proper documents to be a NYS Code Enforcement Officer. To this day he still attends classes to stay up to date. However, the state required a Civil Service exam be taken - my Dad passed on all except the English portion of the exam. He was not and still is not familiar with our grammar structure. Does he speak English? Yes! Clearly? Yes! Does he write English? Yes! You would not know my Dad was from another country except his accent. He tried to retake the test, and again passed all parts except the English. Unfortunately because of this he lost his job. A job that did not rely on English skills but on law. But that is not my rant.
My beef is that they feel it is their given right to become citizens of the United States because we are the land of immigrants and it gives them the right to become legalized. Excuse me???? Come in legally, apply like every other fucking nation has to do. I am also so sick of hearing - 'well they do jobs that Americans won't take.' Oh really now, bull fucking shit. I live in North Carolina, one of the highest Mexican populated states - when my boys were looking for work - McDonald's, construction, yard maintenance - they were not hired. Why? Because the Mexicans were hired and at a cheaper rate than what they would have paid my boys - which by the way would have been minimum wages. So now are these people paying them off the books? McDonald's???? I always wondered this. I just got done watching the news and they were interviewing a contractor who builds houses and all his work staff was not on the job today because they were rallying for the right to become citizens. He was wondering what he was going to do because now he is losing millions of dollars and has no one to there work. He was saying "I pray they come back to work, please come back to work, please come back. Who else can I hire?" What the FUCK!!! How about an American citizen???? How can I just brazenly say that they weren't all American citizens? My Dad is a volunteer firemen, and at one time he was the chief and when they would come down we would drive through the new construction sites looking for houses to buy. On his vehicle he had his fire department lights and you would see people working on houses, we would turn the corner or get closer and POOF they were all gone. Hmmmm wonder why?
Some of you might be asking who the fuck am I to voice this. Where the hell do you come from that gives you the right, you have no idea what it is like to come to the US. WRONG!!!! I am an immigrant, my children are first generation Americans. My parents are immigrants, my aunts, uncles, great-aunts and uncles are immigrants, some but not all of my cousins are immigrants. We came here legally, we applied through the right channels. Some of my relatives came over by boat and stood in line at Ellis Island where they had other immigrant Americans look them over and see if they were deemed "fit" to become Americans and immigrate to this wonderful melting pot we call America. We have had relatives apply to come to the United States to work and live and they have been rejected. Did we smuggle them into the US? No! Could we have? Yes easily. Instead they went back home and kept trying. One uncle never made it - after trying for 30 some years, he passed away in the country of his birth last year, never gaining permanent entry to the United States. What was his occupation? construction worker. Why couldn't he come over - he would be taking jobs from an American - he did not have a specialized skill level that an American didn't have and he couldn't prove that he would not be taking away any jobs from an American. Hmmm I see double standards here. I have also had friends that tried to gain entry into the United States - they had student visas, but when it was up - it was sorry back to your homeland.
Now some of you might be asking okay then where are you from? where were your friends from? The Middle East? Some other country that is or was off limits to the United States? No. How about Germany and England. Were we in war with any of these countries at the time? No. So tell me why the double standards?
Oh one last thing - I have heard a lot lately about how the Mexicans help our economy and that they are here to stay and do not want to go back to Mexico. Excuse me????? Someone cited a statistic that most Mexicans come here to work - they send the brunt of their money home to family and the rest they save because after working here for so many years (sorry forgot the number but it isn't a lot) they can go back to Mexico and live like king and queens with what they saved from working in the good 'ol US of A. Sorry it sickens me!!!!! Do it legally is all that I have to say.
Need to add one more thing - at most of these rallies they were not only flying the American flag but the Mexican flag as well. When you become a citizen of the USA you are told 'you are not a German-American, nor are you an Irish-American, or a African-American you are an AMERICAN!' which means you no longer have any allegiance to your home country. Only at one rally were the Mexicans told no to fly the Mexican flag because it would send mixed signals. LOL I received those mixed signals a long time ago.
