Testimonial from a Legal Immigrant

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Carmen Morales

My name is Carmen Morales. I am a Puerto Rican, but an American first. I came to the United States at the age of 3 with my grandparents. I am the proud mother of 3 children and they are the main reason that I decided to get involved and speak out against illegal immigration. My husband, Joe Perez is a Vietnam veteran and retired after 40 years working with a New Jersey printing company. I am a school bus driver for the Plainville Board of Education in Plainville, New Jersey. The student body is predominantly Hispanic with some African American, and almost no Anglos. Every day I see children disappear and re-appear, not knowing whether they are dropping out, returning to their home countries, hiding from authorities or being deported.

I am often asked to translate for bi-lingual teachers, who barely speak English, and teach their lessons in Spanish instead. I notice the children's books teach Mexican history of Pancho Villa, not America's own founding fathers, like George Washington. Every September, our school offices are jammed with families, mostly illegal. As I translated for these families to help their children enroll in school, I noticed a pattern of lies and deception. Mothers and fathers none of whom spoke English, seemed to forget important information such as proof of address, or even their child's birth date. They would frequently communicate with a third party on a cell phone who would tell them what to say. As a result of these waves of illegal immigrants, American children are being pushed out of their own schools; lost and confused in classrooms, cafeterias and playgrounds where Spanish is now the language of choice. I know this to be the case in my own school district and have seen it firsthand in the Plainville School District with 10 schools, all of them dangerously overcrowded.

Like many American families, I have more than one job to help make ends meet. I also work as a realtor, and one day saw something that changed me forever. I was excited to show a prospective seller a lovely old Victorian home in the historic part of town. When I got inside the house, I was shocked to see that it had been virtually gutted, and turned into ramshackle quarters for more than 60 illegal immigrants. Inside walls were torn down and replaced by a single piece of plywood to divide families. Even the bathroom looked like a makeshift bedroom and rooms designed for one bed were crammed with 4 beds and multiple families. I woke up that day and realized that America had a huge problem. If we didn't do something to secure our border and protect our country, we would lose America's spirit, our culture, language, and history…what made this country great would be gone forever. I have traveled the country to support this cause. I am here to tell our legislators and politicians that the civil disobedience that has taken over our streets and communities is designed to bully them into giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. The cost of that kind of amnesty for our families our children and future generations, is one that none of us can afford!

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