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Quit Blaming Immigrants

Are you willing to do their job?

By Jessica SmithPublished 7 years ago 3 min read
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Immigrants are people moving from one country to another. Usually because they believe in the new country more. They think it will offer them better opportunities. I've never heard of an immigrant moving to a place where they think they will never be accepted.

And despite what die-hard 'Americans' think, immigrants built this country. All of us came from somewhere. Everything we have came from somewhere, and honestly, not a lot of it came from here. We buy expensive foreign designer clothes, wine, and cars, but blame the people for 'stealing' jobs and 'taking over' our country? Please.

How many of you would be willing to clean sewers for a living? Pick up trash? How many of you want to work in the food industry? Just based on personal experience, you'd get sworn at by customers at least six times a day, blamed for everything that goes wrong for a customer by that customer, at least twice. If you're a woman, you'll be asked 'is there a man there I can speak to?' or 'hey can I have your number?' (guy whose wife and two children are right there). Or the guy who brought his two kids in, left his wife in the car, and was furious because we didn't buy new utensils for his family--because of their religion. Then spent the whole time basically trying to get a blow job from me. Yeah, no.

Didn't think so. See 'Americans' are actually way up on their super-high horses. 'We're the greatest country! We're free!' without actually looking at the stats. When was the last time the US ranked first globally in education? Peace? Quality of life? You don't know? Wow that must have been a really long time ago.

So people from other countries come and take jobs cleaning your houses, mowing your lawn, when they go to school while you're getting drunk at the club, and get that higher-paying job with more education, experience in the industry, and real-world experience from having gone to other countries and learned from many different kinds of people while you sit in your backyard playing the same old songs and envisioning the land of gold, freedom, and opportunity from one- to two-hundred years ago, while working your hourly-wage $12/hr management position and complain that immigrants are 'stealing' your jobs and your country.

Your parents, grandparents, great-great(x however many greats) were immigrants too. Very few of us are 100% Native American. The ones complaining the loudest aren't generally native at all.

Immigrants come here and work hard to earn their keep. What's your excuse? That you were born here? Your parents and grandparents worked to build this country?

To the first: Wow, now who's entitled and lazy?

To the second: Maybe. And now those immigrants are in exactly your parents' and grandparents' former positions. Think for a second: If your views on immigrants had been implemented however long ago your family came here, would you live here? Might they have been killed if the US hadn't given them refuge?

If the answers to those questions are no to the first and yes to the second, then you're nothing more than a whiny, lazy, entitled hypocrite.

And if you don't like that image of yourself? That's what you're showing the world. That's who you're telling us you are. If you don't want to be called out, maybe think of changing your ways.

We shouldn't even have to fight about this.

People don't deserve to be prosecuted for who they are. People don't deserve to die because we don't want to 'lose' jobs we weren't working in anyway.

That's what's happening. Open your eyes. Those are human beings, not robots, not aliens. They have two eyes, two legs, two feet, ten fingers, ten toes, two lungs, two ears.

The difference is some of them have brains and they all have hearts.

We just all have internet.

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Jessica Smith

Just a college student trying to get by. I'm majoring in linguistics for my undergrad, and planning to pursue computational linguistics for a graduate degree.

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