A Day Without Immigrants
i am quickly being confronted with the morality of taking pictures -
and thought these voices deserved to be heard:
that last message seems to be what its really about - from my perspective.
anyways - i sure was happy guapos was still open today - man that is some beautiful food. (don't skip the intro)
and thought these voices deserved to be heard:
that last message seems to be what its really about - from my perspective.anyways - i sure was happy guapos was still open today - man that is some beautiful food. (don't skip the intro)
posted by P3T3RK3Y5 for meltingearth
2 Comments:
Those pictures brought tears to my eyes.
So I'm confused... when the signs say things like "we're not criminals" and "we pay taxes too" are you saying that all those guys have green cards? Cause I didn't think there was a problem with legal Immigrants. I don't have any issue with the quotas on immigrants. Like Kate said, that's beeing going on forever. That was going on when "we got in the door." And lots of people almost died to get to Ellis Island and were turned away. Many other died on the way and still more died at Ellis Island. Immigration issues aren't new. I don't think it's an issue of "we've got in so let's close the door now." I think the issues have more to do with maintaining a balance... of finding a place were we can continue to let people into the contry without distorying the country in the process.
As for illegal immigrants... I have absolutly NO sympathy for them. They ARE breaking the law. Yeah, my father's family are immigrants but they followed the law, and they were legal immigrants. Well, for the most part. My grandma was the oldest child and they said she was one or two years younger than she really was so she could come in with her mother and father and her other nine brothers and sisters who were all otherwise legal. But they did go through all the red tape and the hellish conditions at Ellis Island. And they needed to include my grandma more as a maid / nanny than as a child.
Just because the illigal immagrents are poor, that's no reason to let them in. We're got more than enough poor people who were born here and we're not taking good enough care of them. Why should we increase the burdern? Let's get our act together and take care of own citizens who are working poor without inssurance and / or can't feed their own families, mentally ill, homeless, under employeed, unemployeed, disabled, etc., etc., etc. Let's take care of the plank in our own eyes before we worry about Mexico and other poor nations. And that's not to say that we can't engage in social, polictical, and ecconmic agreements with other countires to help them help themselves at home. But I think we have too many big issues and too big of a mess here already. We can't fix it for everyone (and we're not even fixing it for the people who are here already.) Just ask either one of my brothers. They can't feed their families or pay their electric bills without my assistance. Let's help them and the millions like them before we let in more people who can't feed their families either.
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