immigrants

Immigration rules should provide equal opportunity
Luck is the initial determining factor for whether an individual will be allowed to reside and work in America
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Derrick Skaug
The Daily Evergreen
Published: 04/22/2009  Read More »

Bilingual education. It sounded like a great idea to me for a while--especially since I have friends who moved to the U.S. at a young age and described what it was like for them going to school when no one speaks your language, and being forced to learn it really quickly.  Read More »

Last year there was a lot of debate and talk about what we should do with the immigrants that are in our country at this point. My opinion is that we need to look at all of the immgrants who have made it here and helped there families.  Read More »

I am against Prop 300 and I believe that all people are entitled to education. Prop 300 first of all denies many rights to illegal immigrants. My friend received a full ride scholarship and he can not even utilize the scholarship to it's fullest amount for school, because of Prop 300 and he is just a documented immigrant!  Read More »

A little background on the community in which I work: it is comprised mainly of hispanic immigrants from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, and Columbia. I work in an elementary school where about 90% of the parents are Spanish speaking only. When conversating with many of these parents, it has come to my attention that they desperately need/want to learn the English language.  Read More »

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Thanks for dropping by my blog and reading this.  This is my first ever blog so I hope I'm doing it right.

I am originally from Scotland, UK, but I moved here in 1998 after falling in love with an American.  And who can blame me??  What a sexy accent he had :)  It's funny, my whole life I had these rules about who I would and wouldn't date;  Read More »

Ok, so there's one thing that manages to rile me up every time. The issue of immigration these days. I mean, come on people, if there were no immigrants in this country, the economy would literally fall apart. Oh wait, we wouldn't have an economy! Because this whole country is made up of immigrants anyways!  Read More »

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