Mimi in New York
In actual fact, though I have a degree from one of the best universities in the world and a glittering career in publishing, the tightening of immigration laws and the reduction in the number of H1 work visas available after 9-11 have forced me to become an illegal if I want to stay, work and make my life in New York City. Prior to 9-11, I could have rolled up on a tourist visa, applied for a job, and three months later been sitting pretty in my Park Avenue office space playing with the back massager on my comfortable office chair and ordering the secretary off the phone to go and fetch me a Frappuccino...
This is what I find so endlessly fascinating—that this city is made up of people like my bartender friend and Gonzalo and Renatka and me, all invisible people. In some ways we are more New York than people who've lived here 20 years.
You know, you people out there can slam NYC all you want, but nobody deserves to have somebody this unimaginably smarmy, condescending, and irritating move into town. Not NYC, not Beijing, not even Paris.
Well, maybe Paris.
And that alone - in Mimi's mind I suppose - qualifies her for legal residence in our country? Of course, where else would this appear than in the Village Voice.
Considering the source of this article, I would view it with a critical eye.
These 'leftists' lie so much, truth is not something they come by easily.
Where I'm from, we call it the Village Idiot, and with good reason.
I hope it gets mugged.
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And she's so smug about her illegality here because her homeland can provide her with a "glittering career" ?
Major liar alert... if she's had such a glittering career why is she here working as a waitress ?
Yet another example of why I have no desire to visit the cesspool we refer to as the east coast.
How to crash George Bush's America?
Listen up skank. This is MY America, not just George Bush's America that you are crashing.
Listen up again skank. This is NOT your America.
We are sick of ungrateful people like you and the rest of the illegal alien lobby, thinking that America is just a giant candy store with a revolving door where anybody that wants to come here, can come and stay for as long as they want and eat as much candy as they want without paying for it. This whole illegal alien issue will be coming to a head this year. It's clear that our chickenshit politicians wont do anything about people like you so expect to see more Minutemen project springing up all over the country. The candy store is now officially CLOSED!
got any success stories from, Zing Zing, or San Quintin?
Ditto. The INS, or whatever it is called nowadays, needs to place this b-aitch on its' Top Ten list and then send her to Gitmo until she discloses all she knows of Gonzalo, Renatka et al. I think you're missing the point, Mr. Bush. I and my fellow illegals—whether Mexican, Slovakian, Haitian, Italian, Nigerian, Indian, Australian, British—we're not here to make your taxes increase, leach off your welfare system (I'd stay in the U.K. if I wanted to do that), or make "your" America an unsafe place.
So friggin' presumptuous! She doesn't even know the extent of her self-deception.
I read the works of British writers now and then, but they just aren't the same.
Dear Mimi,
F**K YOU!
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It is exactly this kind of a-hole who finds her way here from England or Eugene, Oregon or any spot between the two who gives NY its bad name. And no, idiot, you are not a NYer, sorry.
Time to call the USCIS and get Mimi deported.
In the meantime, let's find out where she's waitressing and go be her customers from hell.
This is, indeed, one of the biggest problems. It is far too common for unskilled "yutes" to expect Trumpesque pay and bennies for no effort.