Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Immigration

Imagine our economy is in ruins. You lose your house, job, savings and your family becomes so poor you cannot feed your children. You've sold everything of value. You've tried waiting to see if the economy improves but it never does. You have nobody to turn to because your friends and family have no money and the government doesn't help either.

You wait years until your family finally is on the verge of starvation. You've heard that Canada has jobs and a much higher standard of living. You dream of going there to work as a dishwasher, anything, to feed your family. You find out there that there are no more allotments for people from this country to enter Canada. Someone tells you that there is a way to get in, that you'll find a job, and that you can send money home.

You love your children and decide that they are more important than some law that will keep you out of Canada.

Somewhere along the border, a group of scared Canadians is forming posses looking for people like you who want to support their kids and not starve. If you make it in, many Canadians will enjoy using the toilets you clean at below minimum wage while they threaten to kick you out.

Your kids are still starving. You're hungry too.

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