Prove it
By Carolyn Hileman (04/09/08)
The online news hour has a story on there about how we are being just entirely to unfair to the illegal immigrant children who want to go to college and I will be honest I have heard this crap till I am ready to throw up. One of the kids actually had the audacity to ask why if they were all in the same classes, why they could get more benefits than they could and let me tell you the answer to that one is very simple the American citizen children in that classroom parents paid for those benefits along with paying might I add for this child to attend our schools even though he is illegal, they even paid for his free lunches and now he wants to know why the gravy train suddenly stopped. He wants to know why he can’t have the taxpayer funded grants; it isn’t his fault his parents brought him here, so why are we punishing him? If we wanted to punish him and his family he would be deported, this is not about punishing those children, it is about saving something for our children.
I got into an argument on the Voice a during the dream act debate with some people who believed I was cruel because I did not agree with illegal immigrant children getting even more taxpayer funded education, I was told how lucky I was that my child might have to get a loan to go to college, I was told I just did not understand the hardships they face, I was asked really stupid questions like does your daughter know what it feels like to have to drive without a license, yes, they actuarially said they had to, they also managed to tell me that they work harder and study harder than our kids and I know that is an outright lie. But now you can understand the mentality of a generation of children who were brought here illegally were handed everything without question, never forced to pay the piper and they expect it to continue.
They want to tell how hard they have it here in America, but don’t mention going home, I am sorry but I simply do not understand how they are so bad off when my tax dollars go to give them welfare, to pay for their babies to be born, pay for their children’s education, free lunches, free medical care all the while I am having to pay insurance that they don’t have to buy, paying my house note, paying my electricity bill and trying to afford food once I put gas in the tank and I am supposed to feel sorry for them, don’t think so. How about rather than marching in our streets demanding we give you something you have not earned, how about giving something back to the people who have been supporting you? How about rather than marching, pushing baby carriages that only remind us of one more we must feed, how bout marching with lawn mowers? Mow the lawns along the way, put down the signs and pick up rags and start cleaning up the gang markings on the walls. Give us something to make us believe you are sorry you came here illegally and that you will do anything it takes to make it right.
You want us to want you here, then take your group of protestors and go to the hospitals where you have gotten free service and offer to clean it for free for six months, then the schools who have educated your children on our tax dollars and offer to clean, to work off your digressions. Standing in the street yelling at us that you deserve something you have not earned will get you no where fast; it only manages to make us angrier, more willing to protest you and anything you want. All we hear is how you are hard workers, how you will toil long after the Americans sit down and watch TV, well how about we see some of that hard work instead of give me something free, if you are such hard workers prove it.
Carolyn Hileman
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