Thread: Published Letters from Fed Up Citizens

Only celebrate 'American' holidays

Boy, is the Daily Southtown wrong on this one. To even suggest that any school should have off Cinco de Mayo before any American holiday is wrong.

These kids are not Mexicans anymore; they're Americans and need to celebrate American holidays. If they want to celebrate their homeland holiday so much, then they should be back in their homeland. We don't take off Boxing Day. We don't take off any holidays for Italy, for Ireland or Poland or any African holidays. We don't need to have any days off for any Mexican days either.

The only holidays we should be taking off are our national holidays and maybe for somebody who did something for this country, not a holiday so some foreigner can celebrate their homeland. If they love their homeland so much, then let them go back and stay there.
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September 21, 2007
Don't abet 'illegals'

What part of illegal does your newspaper and other media not understand?

You are aiding and abetting criminal activity with your articles.

People want our laws, rules, regulations and ordinances obeyed, not just by the American citizens but by all people in our country. The illegal immigrants broke our laws by entering our country illegally and broke more laws by getting false identification to get jobs here.

Many of them have several families living in single-family homes, causing overcrowding in the school and health care systems. Many of the illegals do not have driver's licenses or car insurance, which is required by law, but they drive anyway.

The illegals lie about their home address or say their children are homeless to get their children into better neighborhood schools.

The children of illegal immigrants should not be considered citizens of the United States because their parents are breaking our laws by being here, and many of the illegals came here to give birth to their children just so their legal children can get a good, free education, health care and other free benefits.

This is a slap in the face to all American citizens and legal immigrants. Years ago, to come to this country an immigrant had to have a sponsor, a job, a place to live and be in good health and had to register yearly with the government.

As for the cartoon showing U.S. Agriculture as a face and the nose being illegal immigrants with scissors about to cut the nose off in the Sept. 14 paper:

Our prisons and jails are crowded with people who can and should be working. Let the criminals pick the crops and earn their cable TV, medical insurance, three meals a day, library and workout rooms they have in jails and prisons. The graffiti offenders could use some time picking crops and seeing what it is like to work hard for what you have in life instead of costing the taxpayers millions of dollars to clean up their messes. Since gangbangers have nothing better to do than sell drugs and shoot people (many innocent by-standers), a little time in a chain gang picking crops might change their attitudes.

Come and live in communities where the illegals have taken control. Then tell American citizens how wonderful the illegals are and how they should be accepted.

Legal immigrants have fled the communities looking for a place where illegals and their activities aren't accepted.

Edithe Cavanaugh

Chicago

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/opin ... um.article

he only holidays we should be taking off are our national holidays and maybe for somebody who did something for this country, not a holiday so some foreigner can celebrate their homeland. If they love their homeland so much, then let them go back and stay there.
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We celebrate St. Paddy's day, but even my husband would protest taking time off of work in the US to celebrate. Actually, the celebration of that holiday started in New York. It caught on in Ireland later It makes me sick, kids are now attending school on MEMORIAL DAY but get CINCO DE MAYO OFF!!!!! That is an atrocity to put another country's culture before the celebration of the lives given so that we may be free too celebrate.

I am going to take this opportunity to rant about something. This year on Labor day, I had heard from a number of Hispanics that it is a day celebrating the illegals. It celebrates the laborers. It is proof of their right to be here. It makes me sick that they are trying to hi-jack one of our national holidays and twist it into something it is not.

No non American holidays should be publicly promoted in this country outside that particular ethnic group. I am an immigrant myself who was raised by Eurpoean immigrants. I learned to speak the language and the culture including holidays but it was mostly kept within our ethnic community. In Florida with the Hispanics, the Brazilians and Haitians it is totally in your face. You have signs about Columbian independence day, Peruvian independence day, Cuban this and Brazilian that. Then you have Haitian flag day where they all drive cars with Haiti's flag on it. Many people in South Florida are fed up with it and write about it on blogs all the time.

I recently happened to see the school board's meeting on public television. Now theres a shocker. The Hispanics will have their way no matter what. They will force the dumbest ideas into law because they want to. Once they get the power they have control. Its just like when they use Mexican materials from Mexico to teach kids in school. In their determination to shows whose boss they are reckless and foolish. It will only get worse. The more power they get the worse it will get. They will choose the holidays to celebrate, the materials to teach and the flags to respect. And it won't be Old Glory.