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Understanding the illegals' experience
By Franco Ordoñez
[email protected]
Posted: Saturday, May. 23, 2009
Nearly two dozen residents, including mayoral candidate Anthony Foxx, participated in a pilot event Thursday night designed to simulate the illegal immigrant experience.
The role playing event, conducted at the Quaker Meeting House in North Charlotte, seeks to give non-Latinos a better understanding of why rural Mexicans migrate to the United States and the challenges they face here.
Denise Alvarez, an English as second language teacher, played a human smuggler capitalizing on the desperation of poor campesinos.
Bob Morgan, 39, a Charlotte graphic designer, played the role of a bean picker who felt forced to cross the border illegally to support his family.
It's one thing to hear something on a news report, he said. It's another to try and experience what these people are going through to get here.
Lori Fernald Khamala, director of the N.C. immigrant rights program at the American Friends Service Committee, hosted the event. She said the goal is to bring the program to other churches, schools and other organizations.
Charlotte City Councilman Foxx said city leaders, even those who may not agree with message, could learn from the program.
The way the simulation is set up, you see that people really have to want to get here, he said. People on all sides of this issue should be willing to see it from this perspective.
Bob Morgan, 39, a Charlotte graphic designer, played the role of a bean picker who felt forced to cross the border illegally to support his family.
Bob Morgan, 39, a Charlotte graphic designer, played the role of a bean picker who felt forced to cross the border illegally to support his family.
Im sure old Bob knows his illegal aliens. Has he ever been to a cockfight ?
He probably doesn't even have a cock.
Let the Memorial day lewdness begin !!!!
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
ya--I'm never forgiving France for that either. Let them take some huddled masses.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
ya--I'm never forgiving France for that either. Let them take some huddled masses.
do not confuse government measures against immigrants which have caused the social tensions you are likely to be implying with the freedom they have had to move there in the first place.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
ya--I'm never forgiving France for that either. Let them take some huddled masses.
do not confuse government measures against immigrants which have caused the social tensions you are likely to be implying with the freedom they have had to move there in the first place.
once again---in English, please.
do not confuse government measures against immigrants which have caused the social tensions you are likely to be implying with the freedom they have had to move there in the first place.
once again---in English, please.
I mean that when those news about France showed cars on fire and immigrant riots, what made those immigrants do that (even though their actions were unjustified) was new government regulation to restrict immigrants freedom and rights simply because they were immigrants.
once again---in English, please.
I mean that when those news about France showed cars on fire and immigrant riots, what made those immigrants do that (even though their actions were unjustified) was new government regulation to restrict immigrants freedom and rights simply because they were immigrants.
Were they illegal immigrants?
I mean that when those news about France showed cars on fire and immigrant riots, what made those immigrants do that (even though their actions were unjustified) was new government regulation to restrict immigrants freedom and rights simply because they were immigrants.
Were they illegal immigrants?
I do not know. What does it matter? Why is there a need for government to catalog who comes from where and why? Shouldn't people be free to move wherever they see fit? If you're arguing on the basis that they will be enjoying resources such as taxes and hospitals and etc then fine, they can pay taxes as well, it doesnt mean they should restrict how many go by the border
Were they illegal immigrants?
I do not know. What does it matter? Why is there a need for government to catalog who comes from where and why? Shouldn't people be free to move wherever they see fit? If you're arguing on the basis that they will be enjoying resources such as taxes and hospitals and etc then fine, they can pay taxes as well, it doesnt mean they should restrict how many go by the border
Immigration to the US is available. There are legal and illegal means of doing it. The article I posted was about experiencing the illegal method, and trying to garner sympathy for law breakers. What part of that did you not understand?
Understanding the illegals' experience | CharlotteObserver.com
Understanding the illegals' experience
By Franco Ordoñez
[email protected]
Posted: Saturday, May. 23, 2009
Nearly two dozen residents, including mayoral candidate Anthony Foxx, participated in a pilot event Thursday night designed to simulate the illegal immigrant experience.
The role playing event, conducted at the Quaker Meeting House in North Charlotte, seeks to give non-Latinos a better understanding of why rural Mexicans migrate* to the United States and the challenges they face here.
Denise Alvarez, an English as second language teacher, played a human smuggler capitalizing on the desperation of poor campesinos.
Bob Morgan, 39, a Charlotte graphic designer, played the role of a bean picker who felt forced to cross the border illegally to support his family.
“It's one thing to hear something on a news report,” he said. “It's another to try and experience what these people are going through to get here.”
Lori Fernald Khamala, director of the N.C. immigrant rights program at the American Friends Service Committee, hosted the event. She said the goal is to bring the program to other churches, schools and other organizations.
Charlotte City Councilman Foxx said city leaders, even those who may not agree with message, could learn from the program.
“The way the simulation is set up, you see that people really have to want to get here,” he said. “People on all sides of this issue should be willing to see it from this perspective.”
