Congratulations to Meb Keflezighi, a great American, immigrant success story for a fantastic race today at the prestigious NY City Marathon. We are all very proud of you!
Posted on 11/01/2009 11:43:00 AM PST by NohSpinZone
NEW YORK — Meb Keflezighi became the first US man in more than two decades to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Derartu Tulu ended Paula Radcliffe's two-year grip on the women's title.
Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, earned his first major marathon with a time of 2hr 09min 15sec.
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Congratulations to Meb Keflezighi, a great American, immigrant success story for a fantastic race today at the prestigious NY City Marathon. We are all very proud of you!
Looks like the tiles I had the last time I played Scrabble. Too bad the rules wouldn't allow playing it.
You would have scored like 300 points if you landed on the triple word score.
From the article: “The USA gave me all the opportunities there is in education, sports and lifestyle,”
Don’t know a lot about this champion, but, it would appear that he and his family followed the “American Dream” in arriving here about 16, or more, years ago.
What is wonderful about America is that, still, people want to come here and BECOME American’s!
As a LEGAL immigrant myself who has prospered being in this country and love it so, I cannot agree more with Meb’s sentiments. It’s what made this country great. Now, if we can only impose a trade-in program, one lib out for every hungry, motivated, talent immigrant in...
I’ll be in training for my sixth Boston Marathon soon...I know what your buddy went through!!!
It sounds like you are living that dream and that makes me happy.
I read that over the next 50 or so years in the USA we will grow from about 350 million people to 500 million. Mainly from immigration. And that is the secret of America . . . 150 million new citizens who grasp the economic, political and social freedoms that many of us who grew up here don't grasp. They will climb the ladder of success and pull this great nation up with them.
Eritrea, Italy, USA.
Welcome to our country. And thanks for honoring us with your pursuit of victory.
"In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty with the goal of eliminating poverty in the United States. Since that time, the U.S. has spent over $11 trillion on anti-poverty programs, providing cash, food, housing, medical care, and services to the poor and near poor. Today, government provides a generous system of benefits and services to both the working and non-working poor. While government continues its massive efforts to reduce poverty, immigration policy in the U.S. has come to operate in the opposite direction, increasing rather than decreasing poverty. Immigrants with low skill levels have a high probability of both poverty and receipt of welfare benefits and services.[1]
Since the immigration reforms of the 1960s, the U.S. has imported poverty through immigration policies that permitted and encouraged the entry and residence of millions of low-skill immigrants into the nation. Low-skill immigrants tend to be poor and to have children who, in turn, add to America’s poverty problem, driving up governmental welfare, social service, and education costs.
Today’s immigrants differ greatly from historic immigrant populations. Prior to 1960, immigrants to the U.S. had education levels that were similar to those of the non-immigrant workforce and earned wages that were, on average, higher than those of non-immigrant workers. Since the mid-1960s, however, the education levels of new immigrants have plunged relative to non-immigrants; consequently, the average wages of immigrants are now well below those of the non-immigrant population. Recent immigrants increasingly occupy the low end of the U.S. socio-economic spectrum."
Our current legal immigration policies are destroying this country.
<to be an American you “just have to come and become an American”.
That puts me in mind of what someone once told me. She was a Chinese national married to a German, both were here as grad students. She wanted to stay here because in Germany, even married to a German, she said she would never be seen as German in the eyes of the natives. Here, she could be American, no matter what her ethnicity.
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