Letter: Another view of illegal aliens (Feb. 5)
I am writing this letter in response to Jan Soto’s letter to the editor on Friday, Jan. 22, to state that I do not need Jan Soto to write a letter on my behalf although we are fellow Americans. I, too, am a Mexican and speak, write and read Spanish, but so what?
Not that I’m not proud of my heritage. But did you write the letter on behalf of fellow Americans of Mexican decent, or fellow American of the United States. Jan Soto, you should speak for yourself.
Illegal, according to the Webster’s New World Dictionary, first of all means not legal; not allowed by law; against the law, you defined it differently. Are you stating that the welfare system is breaking the law? Or the Constitution is breaking the law? Are the schools breaking the law by allowing, as you stated, all these illegal kids into our schools?
Is the WIC program breaking the law because, as you also stated, that it’s a joke — all you see with WIC are illegal aliens.
You mentioned Obama, but as I referred to our president, Mr. Obama, if he can’t cut the mustard, we need somebody else who will, and that’s the bottom line. That is not the bottom line.
Farm workers, you respect, because they are trying to do something for us. What are they trying to do for us? You stated that we have people that went to school, learned English, paid and became legal, which if I read it right that’s okay to you, but then you have most that want legalization to be handed to them for nothing. My fellow American, I really didn’t get your point.
I am an American of the United States because my parents swam across the Rio Grande River on the Texas border risking their lives so they could have children born in this great, prosperous country. They toiled the fields as farm workers and both of them would go to school at night to learn the English language. They studied about our Constitution and became naturalized citizens of the U.S.A.
My dad went on to get a job with the city of Sanger as a custodian for Parks and Recreation and the Police Department and other various departments which he performed diligently. My mom continued to work in the fields until they retired. They encouraged me to go beyond a high school education, which I did, thanks to their hard labor. My only sister is in the teaching profession and one of my two brothers got into law enforcement and the other one has had good jobs.
My story is one of millions with many similarities of people from all nationalities, from the birth of this country, that were seeking a better way of life and surpassed many obstacles and endured great suffering for a better way of life and the cycle goes on as I write this letter. It is the American dream.
I don’t know why there is so much animosity about illegal aliens in this country when it is the very foundation of our great land, although the early settlers are called Pilgrims, pioneers, foreigners, etc. etc. I might add, as most have read in the U.S. history books that Native Americans, Mexicans, were already inhabitants in this beautiful land, that has become known as the greatest nation in the world.
Jan Soto, you do have the right to speak your mind, to a certain extent, because the Constitution gives us the Freedom Of Speech, but you do not have the right to write a letter on my behalf expressing your view.
Juan Jose Jaramillo Uballe Cruz Ramirez,
Madera
Juan jose jarmillo uballe cruz ramirez, i do agree with your letter, Jan soto has the right to speak his mind but not to write a letter on expressing his view. Let them be ,
To the two anti-Americans, Uballe and Ramirez, and their letter to the editor of Feb. 5.
You didn’t really answer any of my letter, you just wrote what I said, so I am right — and you know that.
Your parents risked their lives to get here so they could work, these are the key words, to give their kids an education. I can dig that. They are from the old school, they didn’t come here for handouts and welfare, they brought you up to work for your family.
Okay, let’s say that your parents grew you up on welfare, grew you up thinking that welfare was the way to go. Then that is all you would know. This is the new way of life for immigrants that come here to the United States. They swim over here through the mud and the filth to get welfare, get a man or a woman, legal or not have kids, get on welfare, you got it made — money, good food, apartment — all so they can lay up and have more kids. And we are making this happen.
They even think they have rights. How can you have rights when you have broken the law? Answer that, Mr. Uballe and Mr. Ramirez.
If they have rights, then why do they have to swim to get here?
Answer that? Why do we have a border? I say to keep illegal people out. Now what do you say?
The school system is a joke. If you have 90 percent of the class that don’t speak English, where does that leave your child? Stupid, that is where that leaves them. Check on your child’s class, you will be surprised.
If you don’t speak Spanish, your job as a teacher is in big trouble.
Mr. Obama, I do apologize that I didn’t write that at first, but what I said still stands. Furthermore, let me refresh your memory: Mexicans didn’t vote for Mr. Obama; they voted for Mrs. Clinton; then, when she threw the towel in, they went for McCain. They did not want to vote for Mr. Obama, and don’t you think Mr. Obama knows that? He is crazy if he lets them get away with it; immigrants have a lot of nerve, they didn’t care for blacks, and they risked their lives, to fight for their rights, and they were already legal.
They want somebody to give them citizenship and they don’t speak English. They don’t even respect our flag. We will turn this into Mexico if we don’t stop this mess.
I have blacks and Italians in my family, and we are all proud citizens.
I still say keep farm workers, but make them show that they have worked for years, not that they have been working since they lost their United States job. And then went back to the fields, something we can’t do.
WIC, First 5, welfare, housing, is a joke; it’s getting to a place where if you’re not illegal you can’t get nothing. We have to have I.D., they don’t. How do they know they are giving the right name? Answer that. They could be killers, we don’t know, and they are some big liars.
The Constitution says, don’t break the law, you two are going against everything USA stands for, and don’t forget to write me back and tell me how I am wrong, and this time explain yourself will your?
Jan Soto,
Madera