Comments on: Walking the Prophetic Walk for a Pathway to Citizenship

By: Kareem

Kareem — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:14:58 +0000

With people who been here since little ofcourse but that large percentage isnt the majority percentage, you have people of all ages that has not been here since little crossing the border that overwhelmingly do not speak english and many more than not will live here for 20+ years and still will speak very little to none. I work with the public and wether they be Filipino, Arab, or Chinese the party will always have someone who speaks english if they dont but more often than not the Mexican nationals or what have you, the first thing out their mouth is “habla espanol?” and when told no they are all over the place asking any and everybody just holding up the line and its very bad ettiquette, then try to apply for work in the public sector and not speaking spanish can mean you not getting the job or not. This is working for the city or the county in the US and when that application says bilingual its not talking about punjabi or mandrian. Im not for any exploitation or deportation and learning the language of the land is not a unteasonable request or just having ettiquette.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:47:24 +0000

Who is to say people don’t speak English Kareem? A large percentage of undocumented people in this country have lived the majority of their lives in the US, speak english and in many cases have college degrees, especially the DREAMers. And how is their job discrimination? What this article is talking about is exploitation where people don’t get paid for jobs they work and the fact that undocumented people are easily exploited because they don’t have papers.

By: Kareem

Kareem — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:05:52 +0000

Learn english or at least have the etiquette to bring somebody that does like all the other immigrants. Its not right that there is job discrimination in the public sector against native US Americans for not speaking a language from a foreign land. That would go a long way to gain more sympathizers for their plight.

By: nb

nb — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:25:19 +0000

I dont get whats so good about citizenship?

By: Maryam Amirebrahimi

Maryam Amirebrahimi — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:47:52 +0000

Excellent topic of discussion…one that needs to be discussed in our communities much more often. Beautifully written article and life commitments. God bless you!