Immigration: a curbside view.

With silent lips she says, "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What a beautiful sentiment. I know some of you have your theories and charts of how immigrants are tearing down our country. I only ask you to keep an open mind and use the Internet to investigate further. You will be surprised at the good things immigrants do for the United States.






















From another website I found, "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?"



Of course, he had an opinion: "If you want to come to America, do it legally, speak English and assimilate to our culture."



Then we'd not have any problem with you being here living the American dream.



I commented in the comment section:

I am not sure as an immigrant coming to America you might not want to keep your own language, values, religion ---culture. Should you assimilate to our culture, in five years you'll speak English and you will also: quit sending that money order back to your family in Mexico: you'll know all the gang signs; drink beer; beat your girlfriend, maybe your wife and kids too; carry a gun in your pickup; smoke cigarettes, quit going to church; you will have become Americanized. You will have more than you ever had in Mexico, but you will be on the lowest step of the economic ladder here. And you will feel the classism, racism, and hatred for the poor that makes this country what it is. You will no longer be hungry, but you will hunger for all those material goodies that were only a dream in Mexico. You'll have drank the Kool-Aid, and the Kool-Aid comes from the poisoned well of American culture. You will be advertised to from billboards, magazines, television, enticing you to consume. Consume for the sake of consumption, no matter if what is consumed is good for a human or not. You will become a consumer. You will start to be like the rest of us and life will become all about you and your stuff.