{"id":526430,"date":"2010-04-13T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011594252_thousandsinpioneersquarerallyforimmigrationbill.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T18:58:23","slug":"thousands-in-pioneer-square-rally-for-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526430","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Pioneer Square rally for immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States has enough mouths to feed<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a response to \u201cThousands rally for immigration bill\u201d [NWSunday, April 11].<\/p>\n

Our representatives should be rallying for jobs for Americans \u2014 not illegals who have broken our laws, taken our identity, obtain fraudulent documents.<\/p>\n

We are not the ones who have broken their families; their choices did that. Every country has borders for protection. They are there for a reason, just like how we have police who patrol our streets.<\/p>\n

We are a country of laws. If our laws are not respected and obeyed, then we are lowering our standards to that of other countries that have no laws or laws that are not enforced. We have drug dealers, smugglers, kidnappers and now even murderers at our borders \u2014Washington still does not secure our borders.<\/p>\n

How many people have to be at risk for government to do something?<\/p>\n

We have 25 million people out of work and more every day. If we cannot keep our people employed, how could anyone think we could employ the world? American companies are sending all our manufacturing jobs to foreign countries so we have fewer and fewer jobs here. We are a generous country. We have a million legal immigrants every year, but to Washington, it is not enough.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathleen Bukoskey, Everett<\/em><\/p>\n

Unwarm welcome to immigrants unwarranted<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reading this story, I went through the comments people wrote and I truly was shocked by the majority of the opinions.<\/p>\n

They make me believe that I live in a country full of heartless, selfish people. All these people talk about obeying the law and why illegal immigrants expect this country to treat them differently than other individuals for breaking the law.<\/p>\n

But have they all really forgotten that regardless of whether immigrants come into this country illegally, they are human beings just like everyone else?<\/p>\n

Many immigrants live in very impoverished countries with hardly any access to drinkable water and food to eat, with corrupt governments where their lives are endangered. If you lived in these conditions wouldn\u2019t you do anything you could to establish a better life \u2014 not just for yourself but your children as well?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Daisy Flores, Pullman<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018I am a racist\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott believes my opposition to mass immigration, or immigration reform, is because of \u201cthinly veiled racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

If his definition of that is opposition to becoming a minority in one\u2019s own country, then yes, I am a racist. In fact, I would be as overt a racist as any other ethnic group member in a similar situation.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott Martin, Woodinville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United States has enough mouths to feed This is a response to \u201cThousands rally for immigration bill\u201d [NWSunday, April 11]. Our representatives should be rallying for jobs for Americans \u2014 not illegals who have broken our laws, taken our identity, obtain fraudulent documents. We are not the ones who have broken their families; their choices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}