OPINION:
I know lots of folks from countries south of our border (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and others). Some of them are my neighbors, but others I’ve simply met at the supermarket and the like. I’ve been asking them their opinions of the recent and ongoing deportations of people (some from their own countries) who didn’t come here properly, the way they did.
Some of the responses I get can’t be printed because they include expletives, but the general gist is that it’s about time.
I’m told that the vast majority of Hispanics who immigrated to the U.S. legally have zero sympathy for what they call “line cutters.” What galls them the most is that many illegal immigrants aren’t even coming here with something valuable to offer our country — they’ve got little education, no professional skills and no money and they don’t speak English. They’ll have to get quite a bit from the U.S. before they can even begin giving anything back. And if you’re worried about the cost of goods going up, our own government is more than capable of creating the inflation that will do that.
As for the student protestors, my Hispanic associates see them as nothing but a bunch of misguided youths looking to vent some excess hormonal energy. Let’s have a protest and demonstrate against something — anything.
This is the kind of think you won’t hear on the news.
ARTHUR SAGINIAN
Santa Clarita, California
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