Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1LNrA900643; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:53:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:53:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <003101c09c7a$209d5960$374db418@ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "ujwala samant" <usamant@home.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5600] re: house bill on amnesty PLEASE THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 25 Thank you for a thought-provoking message. I find it extremely interesting that countries which were built by robbing, looting, killing natives, or which were prison colonies, now have the temerity to ask people, often workers who form a part of a country's invisible economy, to prove themselves worthy of living here! What an irony indeed. If high morals and good character were conditions for entry into this country, how many founding fathers would have made it here? Speaking of criminals being unwanted, how about starting at the top, with people like Marc Rich who I am sure has gotten richer in Switzerland? There are criminals who have gone free in this country, who have not been expelled. We, living here profit from sweatshops across the world and in our own backyards, yet when these people ask for fair treatment, we call in the INS. We value brainpower, so we issue temporary work permits for cheap labour and import them without a qualm for their families, sometimes left back home for three years or more. In New Jersey, I can tell you tales of very hardworking men and women at the local gas stations and in people's homes. The gas station workers work extremely long hours and have not seen their homes, wives and children for three years, five years, some even more. I don't mean to lecture, but we need to be slower to decide what to vote for. If ambiguous language means more such workers can get better working conditions, then certainly see it as a loophole which we can use to help people who have helped the US economy at their own risk. This is the invisible economy I am sure we're all very aware of and contribute to. As Anestine Hector said, "Let's get real here!"
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