Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1LNmb929874; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:48:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:48:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3A94531A.964B0353@adelphia.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Ahector <annhector@adelphia.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5599] I have to VENT here!! Re: house bill on amnesty X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Status: O Content-Length: 1751 Lines: 37 America allows convicted American prisoners to go to other people's country all the time! Chances are, if the immigrant prisoner is not in jail, he/she may not have done a serious crime. Why deport him/her for some mistake he/she has made in the past. Isn't America a place of forgiveness--what ever happened to our JudeoChristian forgiveness ethic??? or are we back to condemning everyone, especially immigrants--even if the Law has forgiven them--or even if they've paid their price for their misdeeds? Well?? Isn't our penal system into reforming people anymore? What about ESL for prisoners--should that be abolished too? It might as well be since we'll be wasting our time anyway. If the "misdemeaning" immigrant seems expensive--consider this: Bombing nations, and killing women and children are more expensive and more of a CRIME than some poor immigrant in the ghetto who is jailed for stealing bread and cheese! If we're into education, let's be educators. Immigrant crimes may be an indication of a larger problem that creates room for educational inquiry. If people who commit misdemeanors are "cast out," maybe we may be throwing out an important factor into understanding how we could help them better. It is through cultural understandings--and cultural investigations that we can gain an understanding or the cultural adjustment issues facing immigrants in this country. We are supposed to be a forgiving nation---if the immigrant didn't kill or rape anyone--leave him alone!!! (And) maybe, maybe, we'd be able to pay more attention to the possibility that "White collar criminals--" some of whom are American corporations--are robbing the immigrant's homeland, spurring the immigrant to flee to "the land of opportunity!" eh?
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