Note to self.

[salinn]

I haven't really picked sides, but my drive to our Monday morning breakfast meeting and then to work goes through a big hispanic community.

Traffic was so much better than it's ever been. Thanks for staying home, immigrants. Maybe you could have these protests more often?

Comments

[salinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for responding so quickly. :)

I guess my comment was coming from my friend complaining because her company has limitations on how many people can legally live in a small apartment, and also the disclosure for telling the apartment manager how many people are living there and how many are temporary guests. I remember when I lived in my apartment anyone who wasn't on the lease that was staying for over 5 days we were required to report it to management and they may deny you your guest. I guess the reason she was there is because they fired the other managers because they were overlooking those things and she had to fix them.

I think if you own your own house, maybe there aren't any limitations on who can live with you? I have no idea. I agree that our system is in some serious need of reform and I'm glad that people are finally doing something to point that out. I also agree with your point about how it lures in people from other countries with this "land of opportunity" stuff and then don't treat them well.

Although I don't consider myself an immigrant now, my great-grandparents on both sides were immigrants, and I don't know how our system for processing immigrants has changed since then (or if it even has).

[livinganthology.livejournal.com]

I don't want you to think I'm attacking you or your beliefs. I'm not. I really am not. Today was just rough... it always scares me when people who teach children (even "those Mexican" kids) harbor such hate for them.

Maybe it's because of my connections with people who are struggling to make their lives something, here. I just don't see it as any worse for an illegal person who try and make it then a legal person. People are people, and no one is an illegal human.

I feel like when we can draw lines about who is deserving of certain rights and who isn't, it scares me. There's millions of people who draw that line of me and my live, my fiancee, my job. And I'm "legal."