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 f1M0os902431; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:50:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:50:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3A9461D8.B369F61F@adelphia.net> 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: Ahector <annhector@adelphia.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5601] re: house bill on amnesty PLEASE X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Status: O Content-Length: 1814 Lines: 31 I agree with you, Ujwala. Well said! Anestine ujwala samant wrote: > 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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