I am not a Christian but I'll take the holidays. So much has happened, well really nothing.
Last week some events happened that are worth mentioning, Don't Ask Dont Tell was repealed which is good, all who want to fight should be allowed to join. But it also got me thinking, they must have too many gays in the military to be pushing this or they must not have enough soldiers. Either way it passed and many consider this a progressive issue. Lets clarify this, this is not a progressive issue. It doesn't bring minorities out of poverty, it really helps White people who seem to be successful middle class which eliminates the progressive rule and it really helps both conservative or liberal Whites who seem to be beholden to this issue. It just seems Whites have too many gays and they do not seem to be hindered by that, especially the Republicans which counters their core values when there is a segment requesting extra rights for bodily acts.
A second place which has too many of a certain people, was UCLA and other colleges. As the vote was counted for the Dream Act I couldn't help but notice that there were too many undocumented students anxciously waiting for the vote. Life must not be that hard if a student is undocumented and their parents can afford to send them to UCLA. I am an American by birth and I could barely afford to attend UCLA in the early 1990's when many of these students were being born in their countries of origen. So how does a population that technically does not have legality have the money to pay cash when my mother, also an American citizen could not afford to pay for my schooling nor me when tuition was much less. Granted in the early 1990's there was a major recession and I remember because I couldn't find employment as a young many in my early 20's and even with a USC degree in hand it did not help. Yet at the highest cost of tuition these undocumented students can.
I opposed the Dream Act because non citizens should not be given access over US citizens of any color, especially when it comes to Mexican Americans. These undocumented students are doing what took me 4 generations to do which was to complete college but they do it as an immigrant population. They are not even first generation Americans and yet they get through. Because the undocumented students who come from Mexico south to Latin America, can easily morph as a Mexican American, they easily by permission of colleges trumph Mexican Americans and really push us out. How is this fair to those of us born here with the mental scar of being raised American and segregated?
I have to realize that the longer we are in the US, the more psychologically we are harmed were we learned to self doubt even as toddlers. Immigrants don't have that history because they believe this is the land of promise and it's not. Especially, when their undocumented parents are employed and our American parents struggle for employment. The immigrant thinks the opportunity is the same when it's not.
I saw the tears on many students but I didn't feel pity for them because who has pitied or given me that hand of help. I would even argue that I have lost out to those that were amnestied in 1986 because they write their woe is me story and the system seems to always have a place for them while I as a person born in this country find myself looking in. The people who voted against them were not bigots they just felt that citizens have to be considered first by not bringing in more foreigners as permanent people. Foreigners cannot throw the racist card when they are not even citizens of that nation and are employed. If the Whites in Congress were bigots they would enact laws that made it impossible to be hired like in France.
I hear the clamor that they were brought here as children but birth is the sacredity of citizenship and that is what makes one a legal entity defined by space. We all have to abide by the law, when we drive we are to have a driver's license, when we apply for a job the id and social security card, when we travel a passport. There is nothing absurd about this and why should one be compensated for irresponsibility of the parents, who overstayed their visit. Maybe ICE isn't as bad as made out to be.
People might be against my opinions but truth of the matter, those of us born in the US should have a right to our opinion and truth of the matter, I don't have any relationship to these people. We are both of entirely different nationalities, I don't have any legal or even racial connection so why would I be guilt into supporting a group of people I believe are a direct competition to me and my friends.
The Senate did right by rejecting the dream act because ultimately, the country belongs only to those born here and not foreigners who show up because they are greedy and that includes the Naturalized. Lets have a Dream Act for the unemployed Mexican American who truly needs it as the LA Times reported that immigrants have gained 1.2 million jobs while US born Mexican Americans have lost 600,000 jobs. Who really has it bad? I have lost friends over this issue but if you were to listen to this unselfishly all would comprehend the dire crisis.
Congress needs to act more to ensure that US citizens are educated and employed first and the home countries need to become responsible for their citzens because I as a non citizen cannot petition anything from Mexico or Ecuador. Even though my name is Julian Camacho, I am still a gringo and a foreigner in Mexico.
