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Illegal immigrants and an N.C. education
What history shows

I fully support the good and just decision to allow illegal immigrants to attend our colleges and universities. Our history reminds us that in 1838 a good chunk of North Carolina and Georgia land was seized from the first Americans by recent immigrants, who ironically had fled Europe to establish a nation with liberty and justice for all, this land of opportunity. The Cherokee Indians were forced to migrate to lands west of the Mississippi River. On this forced march, Trail of Tears they called it, more than 4,000 people died out of 15,000.

Opening our colleges is one of many opportunities we European immigrants have to atone for our sins. And perhaps we fear the new immigrants might learn the history lesson taught by the earlier immigrants: greed + power = violence.

Liberty and justice for the few is not what I read in our Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Moreover laws and attitudes that oppress people will be judged by God.

Duane Beck
Pastor, Raleigh Mennonite Church
Raleigh
http://www.newsobserver.com/690/story/819181.html

Sorry, Pastor...if you have sins to attone for do them on your own time and dime, not mine or any other Americans.

I actually have seen the Mennonites do some very good works, and if they want to provide services for the illegals - that's fine - just do it in their own home country.

They don't seem to understand that they are taking from others to give to these people who have shown no respect for this country or its people.

The benefits of a free country didn't just happen, they were bought and paid for with the lives, limbs and sweat of past and present Americans.

The freebies and education these people think they deserve are being paid for by working people whose own children will be getting less because of it.

If the Mennonites want to truly help Mexicans or any foreigner, they should encourage them to go back home and help them improve living conditions there.