Immigration: the Debate

Submitted by twickline on Mon, 2007/10/15 - 08:58.

I have thought about this subject over the last couple days and had this drawn out short book to post here about my thoughts on Immigration. But ill spare everyone the pain and just post a short paragraph. For those of you who don't personally know me, I'm 37 years old, single and have only a select few loves in my life, and one of the loves at the top of the list is to travel around this most fascinating planet of ours. I'm not what you would call your average traveler by any common sense of the word, the places that I have had the opportunity to visit are some of the poorest places on this planet not to mention some of the most dangerous.

They say a photograph is worth a thousand words..... So here is two thousand.

The first is of me in front of a stream in the mountains of southern Mindanao Philippines, the fine folks in the background are bathing and doing there laundry on rocks.

The second photo is of a man who lives in a 1 room shack made of tarp and scrap wood, most of the people in this part of the world don't have running water or electricity.

So, why do so many people want to come to the USA?

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5517/img0199vf6.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/609/img0220wk4.jpg

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Fear of Others

Submitted by tarvid on Mon, 2007/10/15 - 13:41.

I think travel and exposure is a fantastic method for outgrowing xenophobia. I don't think we have that as kids but we pick it up along the way. I do think that is part of what Jesus talks about when insisting "except ye be as a little child, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven" and even "ye must be born again".

A water pipe and Apple

Submitted by twickline on Mon, 2007/10/15 - 21:56.

The water pipe

Have you ever ran into a spoiled child or even a grown person for that matter who had everything that they could possibly want or need but for some reason they were always unhappy and wanted just a little more?
maybe all they really needed was a water pipe, if you want to see the face of happiness and joy take a second to view the photo below.

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4700/img0302yf3.jpg

Love, happiness and joy isn't bought at Wal-Mart its found in the water pipes of this world............. yes that is there ONE and only toy.

The Apple

I rode the public bus most of the time while I was there, I wanted to live no better then the locals, ride the same bus, eat the same food, take a shower with a water hose out side, no air conditioning in the tropics... Try to experience there lives for three weeks.

While ridding on the bus I noticed the little children would have a single Apple and they were SOOOO happy, they would smile and look at there Apple and then glance up at me. I ask my host who traveled with me why the children were so happy. And she told me if they were lucky there parents would bring them to town once a month and buy them a present. out of my *ignorance* I ask where there present was.. She told me it was the Apple.

Now digest that.......

Here is a photo of a bus.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4026/img0322cz3.jpg

This isn't just the Philippines.... This is how the vast majority in the 3rd world lives, I have been to South America in the back woods of Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador where your average tourist never see's or thinks about. Also to the ghettos in Central America and Mexico just so your aware of that....

So I ask again, why do these people want to come to the USA?