[Winona Online Democracy]
Getting into the country legally is a much harder task then you might think. It is extremely different from years past - generations ago. The test that you have to take I think costs a lot of money to take and is very hard - I remember seeing a few of the questions a couple years ago and couldn't answer all of them - which you have to do. So the people that want to be citizens have to take expensive classes to make sure they know all the correct answers. I doubt that immigrants today do not want to learn English and get involved with their communities. I think the main obstacle in trying to do that are the people that for some reason are so against them moving here in the first place. As for jobs - Linda may be right about immigrants taking the jobs that most people do not want - my Great Grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland and started
as a meat cutter at Hormel in Austin - a job most people's stomachs couldn't handle. I have heard horror stories on what he had to go through as an Irishmen in Austin - the degrading things that the Americanized residents of the community did to him and his fellow Irish immigrants. Nowadays those meat cutters are Mexican, Somali and Hmong immigrants and they receive the same treatment. Do we not learn from the past? After all we are immigrants to this country of ours.
Jake Wagner
Winona
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