Being that I can be somewhat high-maintenance, I get a pedicure and manicure every two weeks. I get these services at a shop in Alabaster- some of the nicest Vietnamese people you'd ever want to meet. Today, one of the women who usually does my nails told me that Friday and Saturday, she's going to Atlanta to take the U.S. citizenship test. She is so excited- she's only been here a year, yet she's been ardently trying to learn the language so that she can be successful with this test. I don't know this woman at all outside of the nail shop, but I am soooo very happy for her. She came to America, wants to stay, and is taking the proper steps to do so.......so that leads me to the question-
Why can't Mexican immigrants do the same? What's the difference with them? Is it because they merely cross a border on land whereas this woman crossed water? She crossed an ocean so that makes her want it more? Obama and McCain both want to give illegal immigrants driver's licenses....(if you don't believe it, look it up). So then, what will be next? Will they give them rights to an already shrinking social security system that barely gives my 80 year-old grandfather $600.00 a month? Will they give the illegal children (not the ones who were born here and who are, in fact, citizens) free financial aid to go to college when they don't even have social security numbers? I'll bet before it's all over, they'll be voting, too. Shame on our wonderful government.
My hat is off to Y.P. I say good for her for wanting to be here legally so that she can partake in everything good and progressive that our country has to offer. She is an example of the US being the land of opportunity and she is capitalizing on it.
Why can't the others follow suit?
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Christian, Educator, American- one who loves to see the lightbulb switch on in my children's minds and the love of Christ reign in people's hearts. Native of LA- lower Alabama, that is, and I am a Southern Belle of the New South....despite all that ails it, I love Alabama with all of my heart.
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