An immigrant's story.
After "24" yesterday, we were watching the news. The big topic was all the Mexicans marching the streets of LA. Obviously everyone has an opinion on the subject of "illegal alien". I heard it all.
Here is something that you might not know about "Da Fevah". I too was an illegal alien at one point of my life. Yup. I came here as a traveler and just never left. I would not be an American today had it not been for Ronald Reagan. My family might be still illegal. In the year of 1986 Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to anyone who had a masters in Economics. My dad had one so that was how we got an interview. My parents applied for Green Card still not confident because we did not have a working Visa. We had a tourist visa and applied to get a green card. (let this be a lesson y'all, even when you don't apply what you learned in school education can always help) I remember my family going to an office for an interview with a guy. I remember a lawyer was there to represent us. But I also remember that man who interviewed us saying "You realize that you have no grounds on applying for a resident alien status. But your son looks like a hard working football player. So I will grant your status. Congratulations!" And the rest is history.
Had it not been for that specific interviewer, yours truly might have gone back. Maybe I should have gone marching with all those Mexicans and some Koreans.
One thing for sure is that here in OC, ain't nobody marchin here. It was business as usual. But the traffic was fantastic. Got to work in no minute yesterday.
I look back in my life and realize that I was meant to be here by God's grace. Had it not been for God, who knows where I might be.
You ax where I stand on this issue? How can I not support those who are in the same shoes that I was in. Imagine all the lazy Americans doing all the hard work that is done by the so-called "illegal Aliens". They will probably create an union to get paid outrageous amount of money for 3 hours of work and your vegetables will quadruple in price.
Why do we always pick on those that can't fight back? I say thank you hard working immigrants! Si se puede!
