Posted on 06/22/2011 12:17:32 PM PDT by Baladas
One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my aunt and a family friend, I was introduced to a man I’d never seen. They told me he was my uncle. He held my hand as I boarded an airplane for the first time. It was 1993, and I was 12.
My mother wanted to give me a better life, so she sent me thousands of miles away to live with her parents in America — my grandfather (Lolo in Tagalog) and grandmother (Lola). After I arrived in Mountain View, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang. One of my early memories is of a freckled kid in middle school asking me, “What’s up?” I replied, “The sky,” and he and a couple of other kids laughed. I won the eighth-grade spelling bee by memorizing words I couldn’t properly pronounce. (The winning word was “indefatigable.”)
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Is that Klingon or something?
So I take it that this means that life in the Philippines really sucks. That's funny. I've never heard that before.
In the words of “Peanut”, the character from Jeff Dunhams stand up show....
“illegal,illegal,illegal, illegal, illegal, iiiiiillllllllleeeeeegalllllllllllllllllll.
This felon’s life story will not be complete until the legal and logical conclusion is reached...ship the b*stard back to where he came from.
He’s had enough time to become legal. He didn’t. He’s outta here.
And he can take all the clueless libs who backed him up whilst he was here back with him.
From what I’ve heard (anecdotally), it only sucks if you have the great misfortune to be a Filipino.
The only thing I want from this story is to have his Name, address, and any other identifying information that will help round his ass up and deport him. Screw him. We didn’t need him then and we don’t need him now.
“Illegal Like Me.”
Yeah, I personally wouldn't want to get authorization to work myself, or join a union in order to get a job, for that matter. But is it really worth turning a legitimate document into a fake one to avoid jumping through that hoop?
FWIW, my son-in-law (Japanese) has such a social security card, unaltered, of course. He is applying for full citizenship and thinks it a privilege, not an entitlement, to be here. He got his college education with some support from his parents, much work for himself and is a productive full-time taxpayer.
He also resents the hordes of illegals who can bypass the same process which he went through to earn his position as a green card holder.
Ping!
If he REALLY wanted to come to America, do it the right way: sign up for a tour in the U.S. Navy (they have a program that accepts Filipinos. . .)
He not only scoffs at the laws of the United States, he and his employers smirk and sneer.
A homosexual, Spanish-speaking, illegal-alien, Socialist newspaper man, this guy is a liberal’s wet dream.
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