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The Immigration Conundrum

I have been watching a Mexican family install a new roof on
Dean's house that he just sold. There are four of them. They worked yesterday from seven a. m. until dark. They are
out again today going at it full speed and will probably be finished by dark tonight. No white person and no black person will work that hard. You see them at every construction site doing the concrete work which is as back
breaking as any other labor that I know of. We need them
because they do work no one else will do.

On the other hand, they are flooding the health care system
and our schools and most of them qualify for assistance of
some kind. I don't know the answer but it seems to me an
inducement would be to waive the l,000 dollars per person
citizenship fee if they could read and write English. How is a family of six or eight or ten going to raise enough
money to attempt to become citizens.

We have ghettos here where nothing is spoken but Spanish and you feel as though you are south of the border.

We are going to have to come up with some solutions and not
the ones that Arizona is proposing. I think that our
libraries could have evening classes in English for adults.
It would have to be a volunteer based thing and perhaps
they already do.

It is most perplexing.


The signs are all in Spanish.


posted on July 2, 2010 6:22 AM ()

Comments:

R and I were just talking about this on the way up to the lake... it's a mess - but I am not sure what the right way to fix it... like you said, cheap labor and jobs no one else wants to do, but it's such a drain!
comment by kristilyn3 on July 3, 2010 6:50 AM ()
Yes,this is becoming a big problems.Somewhere,somewhat things has to get organized with these people.Yes!if they are planning to stay here they should at least try to speak some English.They are very smart in picking up a language and I know that they can do it.When in Guatemala every now and then we teach some of the kids a few words.Not too many but they learned very fast.These are children trying to make a living shining shoes.
One step at a time.They loved it.Their face just light up.They think that we are playing a game.These are easy to teach then the adults.But they try.
Mike and I know little Spanish as we respect their custom on this.
If these people who hired them for work should try to teach a few words.
Believe me they will loved it.I know that we do.
They do work very hard and appreciated.
comment by fredo on July 2, 2010 9:29 AM ()
I really appreciate their work ethic and I know they are intelligent. They want to better themselves. We just need programs for the wives and very young children to help them get a foothold in English before the
little ones start to school.
reply by elderjane on July 3, 2010 6:30 AM ()
It certainly is a problem and not all illegal aliens are from Mexico. My own mother entered the country legally from Germany, but after all of her children were removed by the state(she drank), she stopped registering. That meant she was here illegally for nearly ten years before she died.
comment by dragonflyby on July 2, 2010 8:04 AM ()
Since Ellie was from Russia, we went through the whole citizenship process
with her. Fortunately, she spoke great British English when she got here.
It is a lot harder than one would think to attain citizen ship.
reply by elderjane on July 3, 2010 6:33 AM ()
If we need them because no one else will work as hard at certain jobs, perhaps we should re-evaluate what we pay for these jobs. If they made a decent wage they could afford the fees. But if these jobs were worth more, than perhaps they wouldn't be available for aliens. We'd all suffer from that, because U.S. workers still wouldn't be working as hard and fast. It's a dilemma.
comment by tealstar on July 2, 2010 7:54 AM ()
It is a dilemma and employers would be forced to raise prices, the consumers would pay more and the work wouldn't get done as cheaply or as
efficiently if we hired U. S. workers. Surely there is a compassionate way to work this out. I just don't know how.
reply by elderjane on July 3, 2010 6:38 AM ()
Good one.
comment by jondude on July 2, 2010 6:54 AM ()
It baffles me.
reply by elderjane on July 3, 2010 6:39 AM ()

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