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those damn illegals - 3/27/2008 1:58:06 PM

SeeksOnlyOne

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this was written to a local paper and is about a family i love. 5 of the 8 went to my school before this mess began.

take from it what you will, but i feel compelled to share it
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Bill,

This is a story about our nation’s immigration problem.   There are different sides to the immigration issue and I can honestly see both sides. Your readers can take the facts as they are and make their on judgments about what should be done but here is facts of one case that I am aware of and I am sure there are other immigrants in the same situation.

           Margarita was brought into the United States from Mexico by her parents when she was five years old. She had no say in this matter. Her father traveled from state to state working the farm fields. Margarita didn’t receive much of a formal education as her family moved often to find work but she did learn how to speak and write English on her own. She grew up in the United States and as she grew she also worked the farm fields beside her parents.
The men in her life were also immigrants and she had more than one relationship bearing eight children in all. Since they were born in the United States these children are United States citizens. The promises of the men in her life always proved to be empty promises. She was left caring for the eight children on her own but Margarita did the best she could. She found work making minimum wage as a hotel maid. At least it got her out of the fields.   Her meager salary did not buy anything extra but she was able to find a small home she could rent and provided the children with the necessities to live. She was helped by churches and people around her who saw her trying to do the best for her children. She put the children in school as she knew an education would at least give them the opportunity she never had. By those around her she was a good mother to her children doing the absolute best she could. The children were happy and doing well.
Margarita’s world came crashing down in December 2007. She was in an argument with a neighbor and the police were called. She was found to be an illegal immigrant and arrested. She had never applied for citizenship as the cost of doing so was simply something she could not afford. Every penny she made went to raising her children. Since her children were United States citizens they were placed in our foster care system were they are now distressed, cry constantly, and have not been doing as well as they were in school.   They want to be with their mother.
Margarita has been told she will be deported within two to three weeks back to Mexico. She can not afford an attorney to argue her case. She has no friends or family in Mexico and her children are to be put up for adaption here in the United States. This is the only country Margarita has known. There was never a question of this woman being a good mother who loved her children more than anything. She did the best for them she could. If this story was just about Margarita I don’t think I would be writing it but the real story is about a mother who was a good mother to her children is now having her children taking away from her because her only crime is that she could not afford the cost of becoming a citizen.
I don’t have the correct solution for our immigration problem and I am not trying to sway your readers one way or the other. I am simply stating the facts of one immigration case as I know it. I am sure there are other immigrant families in the same situation as Margarita and her family. I am saying we, as a nation born of immigrants, have to find a solution to this problem and ignoring it will not make it go away. What I know for sure is that taking a good mother from her children is not the solution. This true, and very sad story has to make the heart of every mother heavy. I have attached a picture to show there are little faces to this story.

Sincerely,

some one who loves them very much

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