I'll shut up now before I fail geo.
Chloe Taylor, Overland Park
Ask a Mexican, May 24
Kids Incorporated
Kudos to Gustavo Arellano's response to the Mexican-bashing American. I am Mexican-American and have been here all my life. I can accept feedback and opinions, but ignorant ones I do not usually entertain. This ignorant one definitely ticked me off. I often get this attitude and it is hard not to feel racially discriminated against. To the Mexican-bashing American: What if your child was denied the right to an education that you worked so hard for?
I work with these kids every day, and it saddens me because they cannot get financial aid because they do not have Social Security numbers but have been here most — if not all — their lives. Now people are trying to deny them an education they are funding themselves? Doesn't the Statue of Liberty read Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. /Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. /I lift my lamp beside the golden door?
They left out the inscription "Unless, of course, they're Mexican."
Rosie Garcia-Muzquiz, Kansas City, Missouri
"Stop the Violence ... Later," May 10
Ticket Masters
I would like to respond to the comment of one of your readers regarding Peter Rugg's "Stop the Violence ... Later." The reader was wondering where the Kansas City Police Department is, that they are not working hard to stop the violence in Kansas City.
I can answer that question. I was recently caught in a "sting" operation by the KCPD. At 8:47 a.m., I was pulled over and given a traffic ticket for turning left at an intersection marked "No left turn between 7 and 9 a.m."
While I do not dispute that I clearly violated the law, I will have you know that there were two motorcycle officers and a police van that had been detailed to pulling people over — not just that day but all week. Just down the street about half a mile, there was a man selling drugs out of a duffle bag in plain sight.
I don't dispute that the city needs to be kept safe from reckless citizens like me who are carelessly making illegal left turns. But three police units? For a week? Give me a break!
If the police plan on devoting nearly all their resources on writing bullshit traffic tickets to fatten the city's bottom line, the least they can do is spend some of it on fighting crime. The police force doesn't need increased staffing. It needs more effective staff allocation.
Name withheld by request
Feature: "And God Said ... Be a Man," May 24
Trans Phat
Dude, Justin Kendall's story about Claven Snow was amazing. The dread is so freaking clear, from quoting prophetic Jeremiah to the drug regimen. Well-written tragedy of a lost soul with horrid misinterpretations of God's word displayed for all to see. I especially was shocked at the whacked view of "anarchist community" — frightening as SHIT!
T.H. Cooke, Overland Park
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In response to Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz's self-congratulatory rant to "Ask a Mexican", a column I personally find offensive, as if we here in America have an obligation to educate ourselves on Mexican culture...On second thought, to ALL who have written in on the issue of illegal aliens (not "immigration" as some may call it) -WHY should we feel grateful to those who overrun our borders ILLEGALLY, stay here ILLEGALLY, bare children on our soil ILLEGALLY, then expect we should simply turn a blind eye to it and begin shelling out public assistance?
We have a problem here in America, it's called corrupt government. We, The People, have been asking for a solution to this HUGE issue which impacts ALL American citizens from our local, state, and federal governments for many years, and nothing has been done. On the contrary, our government's answer to the issue has been to allow it to persist, unabated, to the point now where people like Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz believe illegal aliens should be entitled to a gift from the American people -in the form of automatic citizenship- for breaking the law! I, for one, say "no" to this invasion, the reasons for which have been discussed here and elsewhere at length. Somewhere in that discussion, much of our citizens' concerns are lost, drowned out by those who would call us racist for protecting our borders and national interests. Just because we share a border doesn't give the Mexican people the right to demand anything from our country unless they are willing to go through what other people do to obtain citizenship. We don't owe you anything, and contrary to current popular belief, this country wasn't built by Mexicans. Stop acting like you're owed anything from America. Come into this country LEGALLY, jump through the hoops and gain your citizenship LEGALLY. NO amnesty, NO automatic citizenship, especially for people who came and remain here ILLEGALLY.
In response to Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz's self-congratulatory rant to "Ask a Mexican", a column I personally find offensive, as if we here in America have an obligation to educate ourselves on Mexican culture...On second thought, to ALL who have written in on the issue of illegal aliens (not "immigration" as some may call it) -WHY should we feel grateful to those who overrun our borders ILLEGALLY, stay here ILLEGALLY, bare children on our soil ILLEGALLY, then expect we should simply turn a blind eye to it and begin shelling out public assistance?
We have a problem here in America, it's called corrupt government. We, The People, have been asking for a solution to this HUGE issue which impacts ALL American citizens from our local, state, and federal governments for many years, and nothing has been done. On the contrary, our government's answer to the issue has been to allow it to persist, unabated, to the point now where people like Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz believe illegal aliens should be entitled to a gift from the American people -in the form of automatic citizenship- for breaking the law! I, for one, say "no" to this invasion, the reasons for which have been discussed here and elsewhere at length. Somewhere in that discussion, much of our citizens' concerns are lost, drowned out by those who would call us racist for protecting our borders and national interests. Just because we share a border doesn't give the Mexican people the right to demand anything from our country unless they are willing to go through what other people do to obtain citizenship. We don't owe you anything, and contrary to current popular belief, this country wasn't built by Mexicans. Stop acting like you're owed anything from America. Come into this country LEGALLY, jump through the hoops and gain your citizenship LEGALLY. NO amnesty, NO automatic citizenship, especially for people who came and remain here ILLEGALLY.
In response to Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz's self-congratulatory rant to "Ask a Mexican", a column I personally find offensive, as if we here in America have an obligation to educate ourselves on Mexican culture...On second thought, to ALL who have written in on the issue of illegal aliens (not "immigration" as some may call it) -WHY should we feel grateful to those who overrun our borders ILLEGALLY, stay here ILLEGALLY, bare children on our soil ILLEGALLY, then expect we should simply turn a blind eye to it and begin shelling out public assistance? We have a problem here in America, it's called corrupt government. We, The People, have been asking for a solution to this HUGE issue which impacts ALL American citizens from our local, state, and federal governments for many years, and nothing has been done. On the contrary, our government's answer to the issue has been to allow it to persist, unabated, to the point now where people like Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz believe illegal aliens should be entitled to a gift from the American people -in the form of automatic citizenship- for breaking the law! I, for one, say "no" to this invasion, the reasons for which have been discussed here and elsewhere at length. Somewhere in that discussion, much of our citizens' concerns are lost, drowned out by those who would call us racist for protecting our borders and national interests. Just because we share a border doesn't give the Mexican people the right to demand anything from our country unless they are willing to go through what other people do to obtain citizenship. We don't owe you anything, and contrary to current popular belief, this country wasn't built by Mexicans. Stop acting like you're owed anything from America. Come into this country LEGALLY, jump through the hoops and gain your citizenship LEGALLY. NO amnesty, NO automatic citizenship, especially for people who came and remain here ILLEGALLY.
In response to Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz's self-congratulatory rant to "Ask a Mexican", a column I personally find offensive, as if we here in America have an obligation to educate ourselves on Mexican culture...On second thought, to ALL who have written in on the issue of illegal aliens (not "immigration" as some may call it) -WHY should we feel grateful to those who overrun our borders ILLEGALLY, stay here ILLEGALLY, bare children on our soil ILLEGALLY, then expect we should simply turn a blind eye to it and begin shelling out public assistance? We have a problem here in America, it's called corrupt government. We, The People, have been asking for a solution to this HUGE issue which impacts ALL American citizens from our local, state, and federal governments for many years, and nothing has been done. On the contrary, our government's answer to the issue has been to allow it to persist, unabated, to the point now where people like Ms. Garcia-Muzquiz believe illegal aliens should be entitled to a gift from the American people -in the form of automatic citizenship- for breaking the law! I, for one, say "no" to this invasion, the reasons for which have been discussed here and elsewhere at length. Somewhere in that discussion, much of our citizens' concerns are lost, drowned out by those who would call us racist for protecting our borders and national interests. Just because we share a border doesn't give the Mexican people the right to demand anything from our country unless they are willing to go through what other people do to obtain citizenship. We don't owe you anything, and contrary to current popular belief, this country wasn't built by Mexicans. Stop acting like you're owed anything from America. Come into this country LEGALLY, jump through the hoops and gain your citizenship LEGALLY. NO amnesty, NO automatic citizenship, especially for people who came and remain here ILLEGALLY.
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