Posted on 10/13/2024 12:08:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve never considered “immigrant” my calling card, even though it’s one I’ve always carried.
I arrived here first as a 3-year-old boy in the mid-1970s, settling with my family in Northern California, in a small town with trees so thick that their branches mingled high over the roads. My mother introduced us around the neighborhood not just as a new family, but as a Peruvian family (she signed cards, “from your Peruvian friends”). It mattered to her that people knew, whether to convey her pride or pre-empt their questions. Even when you’re trying to fit in, you can’t help standing out.
She connected with other women in the area from Spanish-speaking countries, forming a group they called the Lovely Latin Ladies. The food, music, laughter and nostalgia infusing those Triple L gatherings remain among my most vivid childhood memories. It’s taken me this long to realize that in Spanish the verb for “longing” and the noun for “stranger” — “extraño” — are the same word.
I am older today than the lovely ladies were then. After some back and forth between Lima and California in my childhood, I’ve made my home in the United States for decades now — going to college and graduate school, passing the citizenship test, marrying a native-born American, even seeing our children born in the nation’s capital. I’m an immigrant, but over the years the label has moved lower on my drop-down menu.
Is immigration something you do or something you are? Is it a step on the way to becoming something else or does the passage itself forever define you?
The longer I’m here, the more it’s become a memory, an evocation of a long ago that I share with my children, much as we might construct a family tree.
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I’d like to know what she hears but it is behind a paywall...
I don’t hear what this asswipe hears
😂😂😂😂. WOW! The nyt is having a TDS field day this weekend. Uh, nyt———🖕
WRMF hears victory over evil douche.
Carlos sounds like a Carla.
Exactly. We’re all immigrants or descendants of immigrants, other than the descendants of Natives. Its not the Immigrant part we’re opposed to, it’s the Illegal part.
When I read something from the Old Gray Whore, I hear excrement plopping on the sidewalk.
Illegal Alien and Immigrant aren’t the same thing.
Calling both situations by the same word doesn’t make it the same.
My father joined the USAF for the softer billet after his brother & brother in-law were drafted for service in the Algerian War after they had already emigrated. His younger brother joined the US Navy, volunteered for the Swift Boats during Vietnam but was turned down after the Navy had spent quite a bit of money training him as a machinist.
They didn't expect an easy life, just more opportunity than what they had left behind. My father had both his naturalization certificate & his honorable discharge framed because he was very proud to have become an American and to have served his new country.
And they never got any signs in French or "appuyez sur deux pour le français" on the phone either.
The New York Times has been throwing temper tantrums for the last couple of weeks. They know what’s coming for the Harris campaign, even as their “blue flock” of subscribers continue drinking blue kool-aid.
“The Walls are Closing in on Trump”- Anti Trump Partisan
“Yeah....The White House Walls”- unclebankster
Exactly. For God’s sake Trump’s wife is a LEGAL immigrant.
If she’s so proud of being Peruvian then why did she leave Peru?
You’re in America senora. You’re an American now.
More crap from the NYT. They are trying hard.
“Its not the Immigrant part we’re opposed to”
Why does America “need” immigrants?
Just encourage big families. American families.
Instead of shrieking for more and more abortion.
ILLEGAL, ya dumb ass!
hey buddy! did you go through the naturalization process?
if not, you are an illegal!
Illegal Alien and Immigrant aren’t the same thing.
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Many citizens can follow their USA citizenship to their
or thru their legal immigration process. Illegals should
be shown a boat back to where they came from.
A lot of NY Times rants lately ... throw everything at Trump including the office coffee maker.
They may be trying hard, but they aren’t saying anything about their coverup of Brandon’s mental decline since 2020. Now they’re covering for Kamala and Walz.
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