The fun just never stops...
I have been having a lot of work done on my house...a year's worth actually...my neighbors have too...this area is nearly a perpetual construction zone. So, there is something I have noticed about the construction and landscaping industries. They are 90 or more percent Hispanic. There isn't really anything wrong with that, all by itself...the work is hard...what IS wrong with it is the nearly total absence of people who speak English beyond Hello, Goodbye, Thank you...where is the bathroom???
So I asked my General Contractor, from a revered old Washington firm, if the guys who populate the jobs are actually here legally...he responded that his responsibility ended with checking for a greencard..if they showed him one it wasn't his responsibility to check if it was a counterfeit or not...I told him he was a greedy sack of shit, in it only for the money. I have come to find out from my painter, yard service, plumber etc. that this is how it is...this is the NORM...it is almost a "Don't ask/Don't tell" policy; only much, much more stupid than the original one.
One of the men who works for the GC, and who has been at my house to work so often that I know him well, asked me to intercede on his behalf in attaining citizenship...He has gone thru all of the wickets and maxed his test at the INS...for some reason there is a delay...so today he asked me to help...Immediately followed by his declaration that he would be marching next week (or when ever it is in April) with HIS PEOPLE...Apparently he see's no distinction between legal and illegal Hispanic's/Latino's because most of them are "nice people".
Consider that...talk amongst yourselves...
He wants to become a citizen, to vote, but he sees not one thing wrong with breaking the law to come here, to remain here...(sidebar: He is from El Salvador. Not exactly a hotbed of upheaval...other than it isn't a rich country)...
His is going to march to support HIS PEOPLE...yupper! HIS PEOPLE...so I guess becoming an American citizen doesn't have very much meaning to him...but HIS PEOPLE apparently DO have meaning...and NORTH AMERICAN'S apparently are not, nor will they ever be, HIS PEOPLE...
I told him to leave my property and never come back...I will make a call about him, but it won't be the string pulling endorsement he was asking me for...in fact, I doubt he will ever see citizenship papers in this lifetime.
Therein lies the problem friends (and enemies). There is no desire to assimilate and become a part of NORTH AMERICAN culture...only to live and work here where there is safety and money and goods and services, but still be totally a CENTRAL AMERICAN...
And you thought I was being farfetched about the Mexican desire to have large tracts of the US back in their hands...Apparently, it isn't just Mexicans, but all of the Banana Landers too...
I think it might be time to vacation in Canada...to scope it out in more depth...I already speak English and French, and I am well skilled...unlike the boarder jumpers from down below.
So long America, I'll miss you when go Spanish...
So I asked my General Contractor, from a revered old Washington firm, if the guys who populate the jobs are actually here legally...he responded that his responsibility ended with checking for a greencard..if they showed him one it wasn't his responsibility to check if it was a counterfeit or not...I told him he was a greedy sack of shit, in it only for the money. I have come to find out from my painter, yard service, plumber etc. that this is how it is...this is the NORM...it is almost a "Don't ask/Don't tell" policy; only much, much more stupid than the original one.
One of the men who works for the GC, and who has been at my house to work so often that I know him well, asked me to intercede on his behalf in attaining citizenship...He has gone thru all of the wickets and maxed his test at the INS...for some reason there is a delay...so today he asked me to help...Immediately followed by his declaration that he would be marching next week (or when ever it is in April) with HIS PEOPLE...Apparently he see's no distinction between legal and illegal Hispanic's/Latino's because most of them are "nice people".
Consider that...talk amongst yourselves...
He wants to become a citizen, to vote, but he sees not one thing wrong with breaking the law to come here, to remain here...(sidebar: He is from El Salvador. Not exactly a hotbed of upheaval...other than it isn't a rich country)...
His is going to march to support HIS PEOPLE...yupper! HIS PEOPLE...so I guess becoming an American citizen doesn't have very much meaning to him...but HIS PEOPLE apparently DO have meaning...and NORTH AMERICAN'S apparently are not, nor will they ever be, HIS PEOPLE...
I told him to leave my property and never come back...I will make a call about him, but it won't be the string pulling endorsement he was asking me for...in fact, I doubt he will ever see citizenship papers in this lifetime.
Therein lies the problem friends (and enemies). There is no desire to assimilate and become a part of NORTH AMERICAN culture...only to live and work here where there is safety and money and goods and services, but still be totally a CENTRAL AMERICAN...
And you thought I was being farfetched about the Mexican desire to have large tracts of the US back in their hands...Apparently, it isn't just Mexicans, but all of the Banana Landers too...
I think it might be time to vacation in Canada...to scope it out in more depth...I already speak English and French, and I am well skilled...unlike the boarder jumpers from down below.
So long America, I'll miss you when go Spanish...
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