On one trip through the Navajo region of Arizona, I stopped in a local store. A few young Navajo children looked at me and smiled, their bright eyes demonstrating their curiosity and intelligence. I contrast that to a conversation with an alcoholic older man, who told me the exact same story twice in ten minutes. The American dream, not to mention life in general, had passed him by.
"A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as 'invisible' a deepening homeless crisis." She recently visited a Native American reservation in South Dakota. "You see total hopelessness, despair, very bad conditions. Nothing I have seen in other cities compared to the physical condition of the housing at Pine Ridge. Nothing compared to the overcrowding. They're not visible, they're isolated, they're far away. They're just lost," she said.
Liberals often bleat about how people who want to restrict illegal immigration are racists. Yet they and conservatives have completely forgotten about the only people who can claim that everyone besides them are immigrants. Before we allow more immigrants into our country -- whether via Mexico or the H-1B / L-1 visa process -- we should find jobs for Americans.
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