Too Many Immigrants?

I want to start off by saying that I would really like other peoples comments about this topic. More so than any of the religious posts.

So many of you might know, and most probably don't know, I'm working at Walmart now. Yesterday I started working with an associate that I had never worked with, but had worked there before. He was taking a break to go back home. He was on a break back home to see his parents, who are from and still live in Sudan. He's back at Walmart now, and I had the chance to talk to him him today on my break.

The reason that he moved to the United States is because of the war in Darfur. He had three kids and a wife whom he wanted to keep safe. Since then he has four kids here. All four citizens, because they were born in the U.S. I think it's very weird that we would call them citizens but not their parents, I mean they can't be here without their parents. I'm not saying "I don't want his kids to be citizens." Well kind of. But I don't think anyone should really be "given" the title of citizen. I'll come back to this later.

I work with a ton of people from outside the country. Mexicans, a guy from Asia, India, the Middle East, Arkansas. I have to say even though their English is a little rough, I like any of them a lot more than I like our American co-workers.

I've never had the chance to talk to any of the other associates, but if you ask the Mexican working on the road in your town (I don't say this to be racist, it's just the person whom I talked to) they are just here working to make their life better. I can't imagine somebody up and moving to a different country and leaving friends and family "just because." But here in America this is hardly ever what we think of. We think of over population, a hurt economy, and damn it they should learn English. We can break these down one at a time. But not in this post, later.

What it comes down to is that some people just live in a shitty place, and they want to try to make their life better; whether it's from Africa, Mexico, or any where else.

Right now I would say I'm not very patriotic, I don't always like being called American. The way other countries see us is embarrassing. (Whether it's arrogance, or our leader, whatever) I just "live in America." Not any different than and immigrant legally or illegal, does. We are all trying to make money to make it to the next pay check, and pay for cable.

Moving from Mexico or Africa or anywhere should be just as easy as it was for me to move to Lincoln. I found a place to live and a job, that's it. It should always be that easy, even if you do have to cross an Imaginary line drawn on a map, because the was a river or something. It's the some on both sides of the river.

It's natural for different groups of animals to try and protect their territory, most animals do it. They also poop outside. Damn it, we have the internet, It lets me play board games with people from anywhere, talk to them. They are the same as you and me, no matter where they are from, except they are better than you at computer games, but worse than me. So if we could all figure out that the titles citizen, immigrant, resident, etc. are just a waste of time we can get back to important things in life, like not having a protest to stop it, a protest for it, against, then for.

"Sure you have the right to your own opinion, but that doesn't make your opinion right"
--Jamie Whyte