Posted on 07/12/2009 1:05:09 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
CONCEPCION CHIQUIRICHAPA, Guatemala - Leaving Guatemala 12 years ago was the hardest thing Carlos Sanchez had ever done.
Until he decided to come back.
Sanchez still remembers the day he left home: saying goodbye to his parents; leaving his friends; that last tear-stained glimpse of his sweet mountain village in western Guatemala as the bus carried him over the ridge to an uncertain life in "the north." Painful, anxious times.
But not as hard as the return trip. When Sanchez, 36, arrived back in Central America recently, after living a third of his life as an illegal immigrant in suburban Washington, he stepped off the flight from Dulles International Airport into a cultural no man's land. He had been an outlaw migrant in one country; now he was a native-born stranger in the other.
For years, Sanchez had worked all the overtime hours he could handle as a supervisor for a granite counter contractor in Springfield. Last year, overtime slipped to part time and then almost no time. After months of looking for work, he started looking at airfares.
An expatriate's longing for his native land is often searing. But Sanchez, like thousands of Latino immigrants forced back across the border in recent months by the sinking economy, is learning sooner than he wanted to that going home again can be even more complicated.
Almost at once upon his return, he was felled by a bout of the turistas. His Arlington County-born toddler, Marvin, also took sick, and Sanchez nearly panicked at the difficulty in finding a doctor. His wife, Gladys, was no longer comfortable in the traditional garments of Mayan women, finding them heavy and stiff compared with the Old Navy blouses and jeans she bought at Potomac Mills.
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“See this? It’s the world’s smallest violin, playing for you, Guat!”
Hippies and illegals. You wonder why it smells bad in Takoma Park!
Guess what? The anti-illegal immigration movement contains racists ... lots of'em. This is unfortunate, largely for them.
I say "unfortunate," because it gives the crazed moonbats on the Left more ammunition than their cause of unlimited immigration as a key to Democrat Party power than it deserves.
However, Tabasco, the fact that many Americans are racists does not provide an excuse for the illegal alien invasion of our country from south of the border. Many Americans are not as educated as one might wish, and blame the immigrants for the problem, instead of their government. But millions upon millions are here, and they shouldn't be.
Neither does it provide you the excuse to wallow in unpatriotic sentimental pity for the plight of the poor immigrants who are forced, one way or the other to return to their homeland.
How would the authorities in Tegucigalpa feel if Honduras were to be invaded by a horde of illegal aliens from the Sudan, or closer to home, Haiti? After all, as hard as life is in Honduras, it is a paradise compared to those unfortunate lands.
Illegal immigration, and yes legal immigration, are wrecking this country and bankrupting many locales. Yup, racism is bad. But it is not as bad as your taking sides with "a class of people who on the whole bust their asses more to provide for themselves and their family members just to survive than you would ever have to endure in your entire lifetime."
These people are worthy of our respect. But it would be better if they respected our laws and stayed at home. And it would be best if our government did its job and kept them out. You are just as wrong to blame "racists," for these problems as the racists are to blame the immigrants.
ROTFLMBO!!
These people are worthy of our respect.
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“Go back to the Plymonth Rock.....Die, it is your duty to die. Even your own people say you have a duty to die...” (An illegal alien who is “worthy of your respect” speaking at a rabble rousing meeting in LA)
Gosh, Nana, I'd like to give our charming foreign visitor the benefit of the doubt and something to think about. Where does he live, again?
I understand what you are saying but have to respectfully disagree.
I have posted my own personal experience ad nauseum here and I'm not going to do it any more. I will say this as my final statement, there is no "honest good will" in corporate America, it's dog eat dog and may God look out for you should you have had the misfortune of being at the bottom of the food chain by working in the closed manufacturing plants which ultimately fed the corporate managers..........
You are so perceptive....I am indeed the Mancurian FReeper and you're the first to discover my true political affiliation.........Post Abuse and BAN ME
As long as you a polite, stick to the issues being discussed, don’t attack others personally, and don’t use profanity, you likely won’t be banned.
Conservatives enjoy a good debate.
Check out Terry’s site...
He plays the tape on his show sometimes...
Go down to Audio: Augustin Cebada of the Brown Berets
http://www.theterryandersonshow.com/
If what you're saying is that folks sin, and that some of them sin at work, by supervising others wrongly, by dealing unjustly with co-workers and subordinates (and even superiors), well, that goes back to the Fall, and I guess we'll have that until Jesus comes again.
But if what you're saying is that everyone who works in the corporate world abides by a “dog eat dog” mentality, well, I've owned my own businesses for nearly 25 years, and I just haven't found that to be the case. Some folks are good, others aren't. Some businesses act honorably, some don't.
What I have seen, observing businesses large and small, is that often, the folks who don't act honorably might prosper in the short term, but not so much in the long-term. There are exceptions (or perhaps, we just haven't observed a long-enough term to see them fail).
The most successful companies that I know generally try to do right by their employees, their vendors, and most especially, their customers.
That's what produces goodwill.
sitetest
Notice they’re not doing stories about the poor American guy who can’t get a construction job because the legion of illegals are doing it for half-pay under the table. The media that loves to take any shot they can at American business is mysteriously silent about the construction companies that make their living doing this.
If only we fined the H@ll out of those that employ illegals...the problem will soon end.
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