Posted on 11/15/2005 7:51:33 AM PST by KeyesPlease
Every Sunday, the Rev. Moacir Weirich asks the group of Brazilian immigrants attending church services in Newark to say a few words about what they're praying for.
For Weirich's first three years as pastor, they prayed mostly over the trials of everyday life. "My sister Maria is sick," Weirich recalls a typical petition. Or, "I can't find a job."
About five years ago, he says, things began to change.
One man asked God to help his friend, who was locked in a house in Mexico until he could pay off the smugglers he had hired to take him to the U.S.
Another man asked the group to pray for his wife, who was making the dangerous desert crossing that claims hundreds of lives every year. Someone else asked the group to pray for a pregnant friend preparing to wade across the Rio Grande.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Just in time to lay anchor.
A: A Brazilian.
How many are there in a Brazilian?
I don't suppose ICE has any interest in this church. Naw, they're too engrossed with playing computer solitaire than doing their jobs.
LOL! It took me a few seconds, but I got it.
My brother actually married a Brazilian woman. She's one of the kindest, most generous and hardworking people I know. I have never been able to bring myself to ask if she was here legally before she married my brother. I did tell my brother the Brazilian joke, though. :-)
We have a lot of Brazilians in my town, and I find them to be good, personable, polite, hardworking people. I like em...
Same here, I've found for the most part the guys are friendly and the women are beautiful.
Does that mean that you're both ok with illegals as long as they are Brazilian?
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
No one here said that the Brazilians we were talking about were illegal. There are Brazilians who are here legally. My brother's in-laws are here legally.
Something kind of funny happened on Independence Day with my twelve year old son. We were at fireworks in an area of Massachusetts that has people of many different nationalities and he apparently took note of it. So, at one point during the evening he stood up and said in a loud voice, "Boy, there sure are a lot of illegal aliens here!" ROFLOL! I wanted to crawl under my lawn chair. He needed a little lesson on what illegal aliens are and that you can't tell by looking at them that they're here illegally. :-)
LOL!! I can guess what kind of conversations are going on at the cantfindagoodscreenname house! LOL. We have them here at the radiohead homestead.
When my son was 3 or 4, we used to watch Godzilla movies togther. One day I took him with me to school and there was a Chinese guy standing outside the door as we were going in. Across the parking lot, with little finger pointing away, my son excitedly yells, "Look mommie, there's a man like in Godzilla!" It never occurred to me that perhaps he hadn't seen an Asian in the real world before. I was pretty embarassed and hoped the other student didn't hear/understand what my son had said.
LOL! That was great! I told my kids this story and then I told them that I had told FR about what my son had said about the illegal aliens at the fireworks. Then my son said, "You didn't tell them I was 12 when I said that, did you?" At least your son was young enough to not know any better. :-)
I was thinking that, but I was too polite to say it. : ) At least, at 12, your son is thinking about issues like illegal aliens. Good for him.
No.
I apologize if I was mistaken, I did not realize this thread was about ILLEGAL Brazilians...I thought it was just about an influx of Brazilians into a small town.
Illegal immigration is illegal immigration (Unless, of course, it is the Swedish Bathing Suit Model Team that is trying to get into the country...they can stay at my house if the INS is looking for them...:)
That's what I thought. We agree on everything here...including the Swedish team.
The Brazilian influx into Ironbound started about 10-15 years ago. Since there was already a large and established Portuguese population, they had no problem with the local lingo. Most of the landlords and business owners in the nabe remain European Portuguese, though most of the folks moving in are now from Brazil.
Send some of your female Brazilians here. I will help to legalize at least one. ;-)
As long as they have Brazilians. And are hot. Yes.
(Tongue halfway in cheek).
I was a weird kid.
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