We’re All Immigrants
I’ve been holding back on this subject. I don’t know why. It’s a subject that definitely needs to be discussed. It’s an issue that affects every single person on the planet. That topic is immigration.
Last weekend I was at a family gathering and was sitting with a group of people who got to talking about work. One of the individuals started talking about a Mexican coworker. He made an extremely disgusting comment “When it comes to the hard work, I make them do it, that’s what they’re there for.” I didn’t say anything of course, I bit my tongue. I didn’t want there to be a huge debate at a family get together.
This isn’t the only xenophobic comment I’ve been hearing lately. A couple of weeks ago I heard another individual talking about a work situation. They said that they were talking to their coworker about their boss and said “He’s working us like damned Mexicans.”
The two comments above aren’t the only ones I’ve been hearing but I could probably write an entire book on the xenophobia surrounding me. I am so sick of hearing it. I am so sick of people thinking that just because someone is an immigrant that they have a right to treat them as if they are slaves.
People in this country seem to have forgotten that at some point in history our ancestors were immigrants, too. Granted, some of us around here have Indian ancestors but for the most part we are all descendents of people who were of another country.
Many of the people who try to cross the borders illegally die. The reason they are crossing the borders illegally is because our government is doing an extremely terrible job at processing immigrants. The people crossing illegally need jobs to be able to help their families, escape bad living conditions, terrible laws, etc. It takes too long or they deny people for some petty, stupid reason. I realize we need to have border control because we need to know who is in our country. I personally don’t want drug lords in our country, well, more than there already are. At the same time I think our government needs to start doing a lot more to help people enter into our country because that’s how our country was started, by immigrants. I also don’t think our government should be murdering people who cross the border.
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