A Nation of Immigrants
by Connie Schultz
More than six weeks have passed since federal agents knocked on the door of illegal immigrant Sayda Umanzor and tore her away from her nursing baby.
And still, the ugly responses from readers keep coming.
So often, the letters and calls begin with the conservative mantra: "What part of 'illegal' don't you understand?"
A word to the lemmings: Whenever you let a talk show pundit do your thinking, at least two minds are going to waste. "Illegal" does not ...
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Posted by: nancy kirk
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Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:12 PM
Here on Long Island, NY, the visceral hatred for "illegal" immigrants is just stunning. They all claim it has nothing to do with racism, it's just their outrage over the lawbreaking involved. Baloney.
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Posted by: cyncia alton
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Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:34 AM
connie stick to your guns i lived in cleveland for over 20 years and all over the country for another 25 . at this point i live in nebraska and work on the winnebago reservation trust me they have a very different view of imigration than the rasists in cleveland tell them acording to the HO-CHUNK ther'e all illegal imigrants. have a great holiday cyncia.
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Posted by: Peter LaFond
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:16 AM
it is not that I am oppossed to immigracion or lack compassion for illegal immigrants- I am married to a legal immigrant and have adpoted her legally arrived child- it's the attitude some folks like you have. I had to make serious sacrifice to achieve this, and I am tired of being made a fool.
I say this -you feel bad about this family why don't you do something? not use an agency but you do something personally about. Some years ago my mom's church was freeing slaves- they would buy them and then free them, sometimes even bringing them here- Have you every done anything personally to help someone or do you just help yourself , much less free a slave? ( intentional ad homineum ) And I mean help a stanger, not your family. You could have sponsered that family- fill out the forms and pay the fees
I know why people come here- theri countries are usually mired in the far past , have some caste system or at least a system of patronage, and don't allow ordinary people to achieve- oh and also the rest of the modern nations have harsh penalties for illegal immigrants and very demanding stipulations to acheiving a legal status.
Regarding the HO -CHUNK as of yet the fossil evidence shows a record of only modern homo sapian-sapian so even the Native Native Americans are immigrants. At least the writer of that missive seems to be actually doing something physical about something that upsets her kudos to her
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