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"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large Southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll, but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing
funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America .
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less then 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc., Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tom atoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases
For me, I'll pay more for tom atoes.
Americans, We need to wake up.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15, that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about"political correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know
CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bot tom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) healthcare.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
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If you want to copy and paste those email chain letters that go flying around, it usually helps to at least attempt to format it in a way that gets rid of all the HTML tags. At least then you can try to pretend it's your own words and thoughts.
Got to love America. People can plagiarize another's words to try and look like they have a well thought out opinion, but still be too lazy to do it right.
If you want to copy and paste those email chain letters that go flying around, it usually helps to at least attempt to format it in a way that gets rid of all the HTML tags. At least then you can try to pretend it's your own words and thoughts.
Got to love America. People can plagiarize another's words to try and look like they have a well thought out opinion, but still be too lazy to do it right.
When will you be discussing what was in the "plagiarized e-mail" reproduction other than how it didn't suit you. What part of the letter did you read? Tell us all what is wrong in the letter.
If you want to copy and paste those email chain letters that go flying around, it usually helps to at least attempt to format it in a way that gets rid of all the HTML tags. At least then you can try to pretend it's your own words and thoughts.
Got to love America. People can plagiarize another's words to try and look like they have a well thought out opinion, but still be too lazy to do it right.
Hey azzwipe, I did not claim it was my words and thoughts, see signature at the end and it states at the beginning it is from a teacher in California.
the government doesn't seem to think that we have a "labor" problem. it's a jobless recovery!
that is what happens when your lives are so far removed from the lives of your constituents.
imagine that!
i suggest that these "representatives" who allow all of this unchecked illegal immigration to financially hurt this country (while looking the other way) are going to have a "labor" problem come election day.
the government doesn't seem to think that we have a "labor" problem. it's a jobless recovery!
that is what happens when your lives are so far removed from the lives of your constituents.
imagine that!
i suggest that these "representatives" who allow all of this unchecked illegal immigration to financially hurt this country (while looking the other way) are going to have a "labor" problem come election day.
I agree with you about election day. Let me extend what you said to say that if we don't swing some severe changes on that day we may be in deeper than we can ever get out of by the next election. Removal of Nasty Nancy from the Speaker's Chair is very imperative and getting rid of those who are willing to go along with amnesty is pretty necessary, also.
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