I heard some news today bout a bill in Alabama that is supposedly the most strict thus far, on illegal immagrants. somethng about not hiring them, not enrolling them, not renting out a place to live, and then maybe something about transporting them. very interesting. sweet home Alabama.
here's a story about one of my new students. His mom left him years ago in Honduras and went back to Spain, then his father came to the states and left him with several years with a grandma.... now he's 15 and was sent via the business which funds Mexican drug cartel human trafficking up through Mexico into Arizona. He was left to die in the deserts of Arizona after something unplanned had occurred... so in order to survive he searched out someone to turn himself in. His hearing is in a couple weeks. but big deal, his father is here in okc and an aunt and several US citizen cousins...etc etc... likely he'll stay right? who knows. other new students are all from Mexico, mostly those who grew up here, went back to Mexico for a few years, then came back, or grew up there, lived here, went back, came back here, etc etc. blah blah.
IT's strange what with the employment rate how many immigrants are still choosing to live in the US. it's not just the jobs, it's the safety of not getting shot in the street by the drug cartel gangs. How much longer do you think US can live next to a country with no law or justice? Why do states need to create such severe laws on immigration when it's really the nations responsibility to enforce. We are sort of a country of convenient law and justice, only those that keep the money rolling in. Don't get me wrong I choose the freedom of this country any and every day, just throwing out ideas. You think Mexico will ever "clean up" it's lawlessness? is it our fault for buying all the drugs? or for selling them all the weapons. gee whiz...
no word yet from Administration about the opening I applied for. but that's cool, it's looking like it should be a pretty good year anyway with the group of kids I got this year... although after school today we were told our department was next on the list of turning into travelling teachers. oh no! don't want to lose my classroom that's for sure... alas.
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illegal immigration is a festering cancer and a national disgrace. complicated by our insatiable appetite for drugs and profits derived from arms sales to cartels it has been largely ignored by both political parties except as it serves their respective political agendas of cheap labor on one hand and a ready made voting block on the other. i just don't understand why we can't agree that the first and most important goal must be securing our borders. as long as they remain porous americans won't really welcome aliens already here fearing that evermore will follow.
Dan, living in Alabama, this new immigration law is on the news every night. All I can say is that we have some of the dumbest, most ignorant, and crooked state legislatures in the country. In the last election, Republicans too over the Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction, yet nothing has really changed. They are still taking bribes hand over fist, still trying everything they can to get in the news, and are still worried about stupid issues that are completely pointless. I can understand maybe somewhere on the Mexican border such as California, New Mexico, Arizona, or Texas having such a law, but Alabama does not have a huge illegal immigrant problem. My neighbors are legal migrant farm workers, yet this will be an excuse for the local corrupt police to harass them legally. Needless to say, I find Alabama politicians to be a disgrace. Sorry for the rant.
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