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Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2013

OBAMA ENDS RESTRICTIONS ON SAUDIS

http://frontlines2011.blogspot.com/2013/01/obama-ends-restrictions-on-saudis.html

The Muslim in the White House is leaving nothing to doubt.  He will be the Muslim dictator of America -
For those with short memories - the Saudis who you believe were responsible for the Twin Towers disaster were trained by the USA.  It's easy to put the puzzle together now, isn't it?

Sunday, June 24, 2012

IS CHINA ALREADY LAYING CLAIM TO AMERICA?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31687.htm

And I've observed something no one seems to notice...Chinese buffets.

If you frequent these wonders of gustatorial delights, you will notice the turnover of the wait staff.  If you engage them in conversation, they tell you where they are from - mostly from the interior of China, not Hong Kong.

And if you're a regular, you see them  for about 2 months and they just vanish.  Where do they go?  If you ask them, they've been to San Francisco, New York, major cities.  How can they travel?  The USA is a big place and travelling, even with a group, is expensive.  Where do they live?

Asked one very loquacious young man about his plans...well, his family was still at home in China, and he was traveling through the USA.  Had been in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Arizona.  He was quite young.  Wanted to be a soldier and was very animated and excited about it.

Just my observation.

What about yours?

Friday, August 15, 2008

The subject of illegal immigration...

The Fire Coalition has a presentation you might want to view - whatever your view on the subject is. Backtrack to www.firecoalition.com and you are at the home page.

http://www.firecoalition.com/30minuteeducation/


There are links to several other sites promoting LEGAL immigration. Go back and you'll find out that I am FOR LEGAL immigration.

But, you know that by now.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Press ONE for English!

More later on this, from the granddaughter of LEGAL immigrants.

OK, I'm back.

My maternal great grandparents immigrated through Ellis Island in the 1800s, in their summer white clothing, clutching the hands of three children and a parrot in a cage. They arrived in the dead of winter. They had been a family of great wealth from sugar, and privilege. I am proud to say they were rebels, and hid many slaves in their cellar to facilitate their journey to America and find their freedom. Francisco LaPiedra went to work on Canal Street in the import/export business and his sons worked for steamship lines. The daughter returned to Cuba. My grandmother was born here. So proud were they of being Americans, and eventually citizens, that they began learning the language immediately. They were not Cuban-Americans. They were Americans.

My father's family immigrated from the Abruzzi region of Italy, also through Ellis Island They came steerage. Grandfather Paolo was a shoemaker and came alone first. Grandmother Elisabetta, had babies and cooked a lot of pasta. Nine in all. Uncle Nunzio came with her; the others were born here. They loved America so much that they learned the language although by the time I came along, my grandfather had died, and my grandmother reverted to Italian, but I was not allowed by my parents or my grandmothers to speak anything but English. It was out of the question. I was, after all, American. My father could have taught me some words in Italian, but as I remember, none of them wanted me to have an Italian accent. My grandmother Decker spoke fluent Spanish, but never spoke it. It was a dead issue. No foreign languages. I was an American.

English is the language of this country. If you, as an immigrant, cannot accept that you are living in America, the country of your choice, whose language is different than yours, do not expect us who were born here and know the language, to learn yours.

Maybe I am old and crotchety. But I am an American and I speak English. If you are a naturalized citizen from a foreign country, I expect you to love your new country and honor its language. I respect that you will use your native tongue at home. But don't be a stranger to me. We are Americans. We speak English here. Be my friend and do not self-impose isolation by not learning your new language. Speak to me in English

You need to hear this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0