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04-14-06 EUR FEEDBACK: Joseph C. Phillips is on point on the illegal immigrant issue.
*Gloria Thomas (no city given)
"Kudos to EUR. you bring us fabulously diverse opinions on important cultural issues such as politics and entertainment.
Mr. Joseph C. Phillips wrote an insightful article on Black leadership and immigration with his 'Hello, NAACP' article (04-13-06 EUR). I agree with every point that he made and add my own.
The United States of American cannot be the pressure relief valve for south of the border countries. We cannot. I am not impressed by the massive rallies of foreigners who disregard our laws to come to this country and then tell us that they deserve the right to stay because they are American. Well, they are Central and South Americans but they are not USA citizens. They don't get to tell us how to run our country.
Our south of the border immigrants care about their countries and their culture. They need to understand that they can make a difference in changing negative conditions in their countries but not from the USA. Recently, HBO talk show host, Bill Maher asked a reporter from Univision why these folk don't stay where they come from and work for change. The reporter responded that it would take too long! That was a horrible response: as ancestors of American slaves, Black Americans know about long, hard efforts to make citizenship progress beyond mean-spirited racial stereotypes. It does not get handed to anybody. While Blacks continue to work through our own full citizenship rights, we don't want the added burden of fending off degraded quality of life issues presented by south of the border immigrants as there are many more of them than any other immigrant group.
Quality of life issues for US citizens occupy significant money, energy, and time. I am routinely puzzled by the lie of omission when anybody says that the immigrants do work that Americans will not do. After Katrina devastated the Gulf coast, immigrants were brought in by the truck load to remove rubble and begin building because they are dirt cheap labor. They were not doing work that Americans did not want to do. The quality of life for Gulf Coast U.S. citizens was destroyed and many of those citizens who desperately needed work were not hired because a cheaper labor pool was available."
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