Posted by
txrose on Friday, September 14, 2007 4:24:34 PM
Does this seem familiar to you?
Almost all of the adults in the neighborhood do not speak English even though they were born in the United States
or came here as children. They cannot read Spanish because they are illiterate yet the government insists on
printing everything in English and Spanish. The children that are ten years old or younger have to translate if their
parents must talk to an English only speaker, no matter how adult the situation the parents are trying to handle.
These people do not work on the books. They do not pay income taxes, nor do they pay into social security. They
do pay sales tax once in a while when they must go outside of the neighborhood to shop. Most of their shopping is
done at the little front room in a house called tiendas that sell flour, milk and other staples and school needs, in
the bodegas and other little neighborhood shops, at flea markets and at garage sales. In other words, they are
living an underground existence right out in plain site.
These same people are being "enabled" in this existence by "well meaning" people in all walks of life who feel that
(and I have heard this a lot, even from school teachers and religious sisters and priests) everyone has to find their
own niche in life. To me, this is just another justification for creating an under, under class of people.
These same people who live in these neighborhoods, mostly the women, wear towels over their heads in the hot
sun to keep the lice from moving around because they cannot read the instructions on the medication that would
kill the lice or this is what their Mothers, etc did, so this is what they do in the same situation.
Do you think that I am talking about today or the future? Yes I am, but I am also talking about yesterday. This is what
I saw and lived among in Rio Grande City, TX when I was a child. I watched my friends try to cope with parents that
absolutely refused to learn English because, though they were born here, they still considered themselves to be
Mexicans. One of my friends had to try to describe her aunts rape to a police officer that couldn't speak border
Mexican....he spoke book Spanish. This was an eleven year old girl trying to make sense of what happened to her
Aunt after a neighbor made her call the police!
I look to the future and I see this situation magnified. Our children, their children and so on will have to deal with an
under class of primarily Latinos that are unskilled, cannot speak English and are being exploited by employers and politicians while at the same time, taxing the services of our country to a standstill. There eventually will be
no more "jobs Americans won't do" because there will be too many of these people here wanting these jobs and
not enough to go around.
They will be living in poverty because, thanks to the people that encourage them not to assimilate, they won't
have the tools to lift themselves out of the soul searing grind you into the ground poverty ( like they left in
Mexico) in which they will be living.
Crime rates will be so high because people need to eat and people want things and people are going to
justify their crimes by saying my babies need to eat, or I deserve what he/she has even though I didn't earn it
because this is what people have done all down through history.
We need to quit talking about amnesty. We need to do this because the word goes out and they start pouring
across the border hoping to become default citizens,
We need to come up with concrete ways to deal with deporting illegals back to whatever country they come from
and quit worrying about breaking up families. The 14th amendment was for children of freed slaves, not for
law breakers that reproduce simply to gain a foothold in this country. If a woman decides to tie herself to an
illegal whether by marriage or just by having a child with him, she has no right to later say,"You can't deport him
because you'll break up our family."
Two wrongs have never made a right.
Til next time
TXRose