Thread: Waukegan:Facing Deport. but Clinging to Life in U.S. {sob}

January 18, 2008

Facing Deportation but Clinging to Life in U.S.
By JULIA PRESTON

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — She is a homeowner, a taxpayer, a friendly neighbor and an American citizen. Yet because she is married to an illegal immigrant, these days she feels like a fugitive.

Whenever her Mexican husband ventures out of the house, “it makes me sick to my stomach,â€

Whatever. Maybe my sob story can make a paper...ooops, probably not because I am not married to an illegal.

No sympathy from me... there are over 6 Billion People in the world and of that I would guess that 5 Billion of those folks at a minimum would love to live in this country...

These people Illegally crossed our borders and cut in front of those 5 billion people ... NO Amnesty; send them home.. one by one through enforcement...

Facing Deportation but Clinging to Life in U.S.

What a drama queen title for this article.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18 ... ref=slogin

Please take a moment to go to the link if you want to see an audio slideshow of my hometown. I am so frustrated to read in the article that they are afraid but not leaving Waukegan. What do we have to do?!

I could go to the corner store below and get some wine coolers and cry about it. But this fight has just begun. There must be something else my city can do...and I'm going to keep looking.

I've lived in Waukegan for 20 years. In that time, I've notice that illegals are NOT afraid of:
- marching en mass and blocking streets on May 1st
- jamming city council meetings demanding their right to drive without licenses and insurance
- filling the emergency rooms to get their free medical care
- standing in the welfare line to get benefits for their anchor babies
- picketing politicians private homes demanding consessions to their demands
- love this one - organizing a boycott against Waukegan stores until the application for 287g is withdrawn. Sales at Spanish owned stores dropped 60%. Way to go.

Give me a break! Live like a scared rat in Waukegan or go home to Mexico. You have a choice.

Originally Posted by fedupinwaukegan

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18hide.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Please take a moment to go to the link if you want to see an audio slideshow of my hometown.

I like they way they use the word "thrive" when describing Waukegan.

I also notice they didn't show the outside of downtown Waukegan.

I went to the link but I'm unsure where the slideshow is. More info?? Thanks - I want to share it since it is so far north of Mexico it's astonishing it looks like LA.
Welcome ReggieMay! Thanks for telling us how it is.

Welcome angela -you're not far from us! Are you experiencing any of our pain with this issue?

Sofedup, if you go to the NYT link and find the picture on the left of the torso/hands the link is there. Let me know if you don't see it.

Reggie, how long since you've left?! I'd love to swap stories.

Originally Posted by fedupinwaukegan

Welcome angela -you're not far from us! Are you experiencing any of our pain with this issue?

Not so much illegals. Most of the immigrants in this neighborhood seem to be legal, but they are largely Asian and Indian tech workers. I think that market was flooded with labor to purposely bring the prices of labor down in the tech field. I'm out marching on the Ron Paul lines with tech guys who are out of work, and they're not "losers" per se.

We looked at a home in Waukegan when we moved here. (I really liked that house, and still think about it. The hubby thought it was too close to the airport there though.) I hope you're not offended by my next comment, but we were shocked when we saw how "seedy" the town had become last time we drove through there. It really did look like I would except a medium sized Mexican town to look.

Maybe if they all go home the real estate prices will come back to earth again.