Culture of Illegal Aliens

Saturday, June 2: This post is closed to comments, but I still want to hear your stories. E-mail me at barbersview [at] yahoo [dot] com.

Scroll down for updates — readers respond — I forgot to point you to Just Another “Immigration Rant”

Please take time to read the comments. The stories are blood pressure-raising but important.

A commenter reminded me that the Social Security Administration can’t inform an employer that an employee may be unauthorized to work in the U.S. because of disclosure laws. I blogged about it here last year. Our bloated, taxpayer-supported agencies are not working together for America’s security.
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Now that conservatives see how serious King George is about passing an amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill instead of deporting people in the country illegally, they’re becoming bolder and beginning to talk about the cultural impact of millions of illegal, non-assimilating, non-English-speaking, foreigners who drink, drive, and kill people because of their “culture,” loiter outside stores, urinate in public, live 20 to a single-family house, park cars in front yards, litter, and…

Well, this conservative is talking about it. And so is Ann Coulter. Once upon a time, only “racists” and “nativists” talked about the importance of culture to a nation. And national unity. And shared language. And common values. And identity. Now it’s gone mainstream. It’s about time.

I won’t editorialize the point. I’ve done so here:

• Washington Examiner — Local liberals learning new lessons on ‘diversity’

I wrote about Carol Swain, a liberal who has a few words for the Congressional Black Caucus, here:

• Townhall.com — Low-Income Blacks and Illegal Immigration

After that, read Coulter’s A Green Card in Every Pot.

Importing a Slave Class is good, too.

I’m working on a project and need your help. I’m looking for stories about your experiences living in neighborhoods with illegal aliens and competing with illegal aliens for jobs. Most importantly, I want to know how the culture of illegal aliens (in this case, Central Americans) has affected your life for the better or for the worse. You may respond in the comment section or privately at barbersview [at] yahoo [dot] com.

Update: A commenter writes:

LaShawn, I had an experience two months ago with a woman who works for my local school district. I called the school district to set up an assessment for my youngest son who is somewhere on the autism spectrum.

I noticed the woman’s heavy Spanish accent when I called and informed her that my son had been evaluated 3 years prior. She set up an appointment a few weeks later.

I took my son to the appointment only to find out that he should have been set up for a different type of evaluation because he had been evaluated 3 years prior. This is the same information I had told the woman with the heavy Spanish accent when I called the first time.

I had to reschedule and come back weeks later for the evaluation I should have been scheduled for in the first place. But because the woman didn’t understand me, she wasted my time.

Read the rest.

Another writes:

Documentation on our school district website is in English, Spanish and Russian. We have a large population of Russian immigrants. According to my kids, their Russian classmates all speak English, their native Hispanic classmates do not, including one of my daughter’s lab partners (he didn’t contribute much to the assignment).

I always wonder about those legal immigrants who are just learning English but are not Hispanic. How do they manage when everything isn’t documented in their native language? Why, they must have to learn English or something!

And this:

Personally: Last year, Iowa had a mumps outbreak. The disease was brought into the state by unvaccinated “immigrants” (when you immigrate legally you have to provide proof of immunization). A friend of mine with a compromised immune system picked it up on a visit to the ER (at the time he was so sick he couldn’t even go to the grocery store; the only time he left the house was for the hospital). He’s doing OK, but one of the effects of having mumps as an adult is infertility. He’s not married but I know he wants to have a family someday.

I just don’t understand people’s unwillingness to acknowledge that illegal immigration puts everyone’s health and safety at risk.

And this from an American of Cuban descent:

As an American of Cuban descent born in NYC living in Palm Beach, Florida, whose family has assimilated (boy that was a mouth full!) you will not find a stronger opponent of this amnesty. So with that said, whenever I see a car/van full of what I know are illegals next to me, or more so behind me I get out of their way, because there is no way of holding them accountable for anything that may occur.

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• Hiring Illegal Aliens
• Gangs of Illegals
• Death Of The West And Other Tidbits
• California’s $9 Billion Albatross