The protests from May 1st from the Hispanic community has been for the most part, well organized, peaceful & strong. From Atlanta to LA to Chicago to New York City, people from ALL races came out in support of immigration rights. Smaller cities & towns like Champaign, Illinois, Garden City, Kansas and Tuscan, Arizona also had their fair share of demonstrators donning T-shirts reading "God Bless America" and singing "We Shall Overcome".
Read what the Los Angeles Times had to say. Parents kept their children out of school, took off work, shutting down many businesses & boycotted shopping for the day.
I was listening to NPR yesterday when the figure of an estimated 11,000,000 illegal immigrants came across the radio.
I'm not sure exactly what the answers are to this situation, but that's a lot of people who have come to this country looking for a better life. Coming to the land of immigrants...........face it, we ALL come from immigrants. Except, of course, the Native Americans, who we killed & stole land from, but that's a week worth of posts right there.
It hardly seems appropriate to criminalize these hard-working people. I think working to help immigrants become legal, would be beneficial to them & America. It's what our country's back-bone is---hard working immigrants.
Any thoughts?
Peace,
Deanna
2 comments:
As a great-grandchild of Hispanics that crossed over from Mexico(I am also anglo on my dad's side) I am proud of the way this group has mobilized..if only the Democraps could do something this well. I think going after the companies that hire and usually abuse illegals is the best way to solve the problem...which in reality will never be solved..To criminalize anyone over immigration is tantamount to heresy in my opinion..as you say,only the native americans are original here..the rest all came over from somewhere..and most of the time..thru the back door.
AMEN!
Peace,
Deanna
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