LSA Immigration Stories Panel, October 6, 2010

The Latino Student Alliance at UVA is holding a panel on October 6 at 6 PM.
Come out to hear personal stories about how immigration in the US has affected our own fellow students at UVA!

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[01KayC]

Tell your stories in most other countries (especially in Mexico) and see how far you get. The law, when originally written, obviously didn't factor in the pandemic that would eventually evolve as a result of Mexicans and their disregard for laws, among other things. Mexicans sure have no trouble reproducing offspring and relying on the backs of others to pay the bill.

[kris1490]

@01KayC So what I'm gathering from your comment is that Mexicans are a pandemic and it's their fault they want to improve their lives. How about the fact that we subsidize our farmers so much money that Mexican farmers can't compete with us. Or that the Mexican drug cartels' main source of revenue is where? the United States. Before pointing the finger at an entire country, we should take a look at our own policies first.

[kris1490]

@Federalistfarmer Agreed, no one called these people abominations, but when US representatives and senators began going on record saying that they would consider repealing the 14th Amendment because Lindsey Graham believes that these US citizens are merely "anchor babies" not worthy of their citizenship because their parents didn't get their papers in order, it's clear how these children grow up under the impression that the country where they were born thinks of them as subhuman.