http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/12/10/weekly-diaspora-unemployment-feeding-anti-immigrant-sentiment/ Where Manifest Destiny Goes to Die Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/12/10/weekly-diaspora-unemployment-feeding-anti-immigrant-sentiment/comment-page-1/#comment-5396 Alejandro Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:40:36 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=6345#comment-5396 I'm an undocumented youth who grew up in America, and let me tell you... it sucks! I can write all day about it. Things were bad for us before the recession, but now they are horrible. The loading and unloading heavy boxes from trucks is not a job that is attainable anymore like it used to be for the undocumented. I'm not crushed by it, but when you need some cash, you need some cash. When you grow up in America though, and you do what you're supposed to, (getting good grades, going to college, staying out of drugs, gangs etc. etc.) loading and unloading trucks is not what you look forward to after high school, but that's all there is for a person like me. I'm not complaining about it, but I wish I could think of something I want to do in life, and do it without having to think if it's possible to do it or not, because of my legal status. I've had some opportunities that I couldn't take, because I don't have a social security. Sometimes I wish I was never brought over here, but at the same time I feel like this is home and like I should just roll with the punches (Strong, perpetual punches and walls) Fuck my life. Also, why does America let people like me go to school and pay for books and pay for an education, but it doesn't allow us to get the jobs that we were educated and trained for? Some bull shit! And why do they allow us to buy cars and use them, but they don't give us licenses? Bastards! Thanks to us, they have their luxuries, yet they treat us like shit. I'm out! I’m an undocumented youth who grew up in America, and let me tell you… it sucks! I can write all day about it. Things were bad for us before the recession, but now they are horrible. The loading and unloading heavy boxes from trucks is not a job that is attainable anymore like it used to be for the undocumented. I’m not crushed by it, but when you need some cash, you need some cash. When you grow up in America though, and you do what you’re supposed to, (getting good grades, going to college, staying out of drugs, gangs etc. etc.) loading and unloading trucks is not what you look forward to after high school, but that’s all there is for a person like me. I’m not complaining about it, but I wish I could think of something I want to do in life, and do it without having to think if it’s possible to do it or not, because of my legal status. I’ve had some opportunities that I couldn’t take, because I don’t have a social security. Sometimes I wish I was never brought over here, but at the same time I feel like this is home and like I should just roll with the punches (Strong, perpetual punches and walls) Fuck my life. Also, why does America let people like me go to school and pay for books and pay for an education, but it doesn’t allow us to get the jobs that we were educated and trained for? Some bull shit! And why do they allow us to buy cars and use them, but they don’t give us licenses? Bastards! Thanks to us, they have their luxuries, yet they treat us like shit. I’m out!

]]> http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/12/10/weekly-diaspora-unemployment-feeding-anti-immigrant-sentiment/comment-page-1/#comment-5382 Bryan J. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:43:18 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=6345#comment-5382 Good post. Sanctuary city is more like a city that isn't run by xenophobic goons. Good post. Sanctuary city is more like a city that isn’t run by xenophobic goons.

]]> http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2009/12/10/weekly-diaspora-unemployment-feeding-anti-immigrant-sentiment/comment-page-1/#comment-5381 Mack Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:12:57 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=6345#comment-5381 My parents, prior to WWII, were both migrant farm workers. Fruit and lettuce pickers, to be exact. I remember hearing from them that even in the years immediately following the Great Depression, anglo faces were a rare site in the fields. BTW, wasn't McCain the one that jokingly offered a cash bonus to any American that could make it through a single lettuce picking season? I always wondered if he had any takers... My parents, prior to WWII, were both migrant farm workers. Fruit and lettuce pickers, to be exact. I remember hearing from them that even in the years immediately following the Great Depression, anglo faces were a rare site in the fields. BTW, wasn’t McCain the one that jokingly offered a cash bonus to any American that could make it through a single lettuce picking season? I always wondered if he had any takers…

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