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Bring me your tired, weak, poor, and hungry…
SO I CAN KICK THEM IN THE FACE!
Well that’s what the statue of “liberty” should say. When I think about our country, my country, I think about my dad going to fight a senseless war of imperialism. I think about the senseless war being fought now in Iraq, and the war being waged in Mexico so that we American’s can get stoned, lit-up, or disappear into a nod. Most of all I think of the people who die trying to hold us to our words inscribed on our communal whore: the lady liberty.
Why so angry you wonder? I’ll give you an easy answer: We are hypocrites. We in the United States that claim to be freedom loving upholders of democracy are exactly the reason why democracy is more of a fallacious ideal than communism. The United States is the largest consumer of the world’s narcotics and marijuana. We have created the illicit black market for things that offend religious ideals in a society that was supposedly built on “religious freedom”. It’s baffling the contradiction that runs rampant through every level and facet of society.
We tell the world to “bring us your tired, weak, poor, etc” and then when they try to get here we all but ensure their deaths. We lure people to tell them they can’t come in. We “Christians” hold plates of food out as alms to the poor so that when the neediest and most fragile come to collect we can pull it way; giving a quick blow to the head.
After the invasion of Iraq by the U.S in 2003, the number of people trying to emigrate to the U.S increased rapidly. The violence that we caused drove millions of people from their homes. Many wanted to come to the U.S and live a relatively peaceful life (much like they had under Saddam Hussein, believe it or not). Unfortunately, being the generous invading imperialists we are, we have let in only a small fraction of those seeking political asylum and refugee status. We
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The immigration issue with Mexico is very similar. The United States has used the country on our southern most border as a step stool for over 150 years. Since the Mexican American War, that ceded the west to the United States, people of Mexican descent have been discriminated against. Their property taken millions were driving south into a land they new as little about as the white “settlers” coming to take their land. Now as the United States continues a forty year love affair with various mind altering substances, they come through Mexico and are fought over with each foot being traveled. The drug cartels are the most powerful force in the country and they continue to grow. This is the fault of the United States who callously purchases and discards the people of Mexico for their cheap labor and cheap goods. But we do not let them live next to us. We can let them clean, cook, tend the yard, drive, etc but they are not allowed to be like us. They must either stay in the shadows or stay in a place that has no future, no safety, and no leadership other than the cartels. The United States refuses to accept responsibility for the problems it causes. I’m afraid that there will be a revolution in Mexico that is not going to leave the U.S in a very opportune place because we refuse to live up to our promises of the “American Dream” and the words written at Lady Liberty’s feet.
So it’s the internet and I can say whatever I want. I know where to find the sources and could give them to you if I wanted but I don’t. I think that I could be nice and give you the easy to understand… err easy to stomach… articles and news stories that detail the many problems to which I am referring, but I don’t feel like being nice.
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Княжева Елена Александровнана, Яковлева Ирина Николаевна
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