 Re: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
It did work in the 80's. I work in the Hispanic community in Chicago, and the people who received amnesty are productive citizens. The amnesty in the 80's was 20 years ago and has little to do with immigrants today. Chance, it's easy for us to be in the US and call them criminals, but they are often forced to come to this country because they have no other way to feed their family that is in some tiny village in Michoacan, or in a tenement in Warsaw.
This point, however, is getting away from ban's original point in this thread. Anti-illegal sentiment, and trust me, around here, it doesn't matter how they got here, they are all seen as illegals, is at a really bad place in Chicago. I constantly hear of my Mexican and Polish friends being treated terribly on the street, in the grocery stores, etc. At my church of all places, I had to have a strong talking to with a woman I've known for years when she went on and on about how "they should all go back to their own country." The "they" she was speaking of were born in Chicago.
And out of curiosity, Chance, do you ask immigrants that you meet if they are legal, and then treat them according to their answer? This thread was not about how the government treats them, it's about how WE treat them. |