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Comment on SB 2179 If you thought Arizona’s was Bad, check out Mississippi’s Anti-Immigrant Law by Frances May

Frances May — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:08:45 +0000

I am against these anti-immigration bills. They will encourage harassment , as if there isn’t enough of that already. These people deserve a path to legality. I’ve never known more honest, hard working individuals. Can’t someone sit down and figure this out. We don’t have to put them on public assistance like half the population is on. All they want to do is work and support their families. Oh, I forgot, and buy food, clothing and other economy boosting items. Paying for all of that with cash, too, by the way.

Comment on Mississippi Can’t Afford Alabama’s Mistake: Say NO to HB 488! by Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:45:15 +0000

@Frances…I completely agree with you. My husband is Hispanic and we have four babies together. If something was to happen to him, we would homeless. He is the soul provider of the family. I wish all of the world would think like you. The mexicans just want better lives for their families, and they THOUGHT that they could do that in America.

Comment on Mississippi Can’t Afford Alabama’s Mistake: Say NO to HB 488! by Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:44:37 +0000

Comment on Mississippi Can’t Afford Alabama’s Mistake: Say NO to HB 488! by Frances May

Frances May — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:23:36 +0000

We are against bill 488. Some of our dearest friends and coworkers are Hispanics. We established a mission at our church years ago and have made friends with so many people who came to America for a better life. People who work to support their families. If we could have immigration reform, where they could be here legally, pay taxes, have driver’s licenses, they want to do the right thing. As a matter of fact, so many have all the papers they can obtain legally, just waiting for “reform”, things to change. The people who are for this bill must not have had the good fortune to meet these undocumented workers who show up on time every day, work harder than any of their coworkers and have the utmost loyalty to their employer. It is our hope that one day something will happen to open the eyes of the “haters”.
We have always been Republican, but now we aren’t sure what we are, as we don’t support their views on immigration. Someone needs to stand up and deal with this issue that has a realistic view of our world as it is today.
Thank you for your time.

Comment on Beware! New bills are lurking… by mseducator

mseducator — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:11:02 +0000

As a Mississippi education official, I am appalled at what H.B. 488 requires our state’s schools to do. Section 4 of this bill, if signed into law, will require educators to ask questions of children and their families that are prohibited by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 decision in “Plyler vs. Doe.” For over a decade I have attended conferences and meetings sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Education in which our state’s educators have been warned against infringing upon our students’ educational rights and doing anything that might “chill” their access to the public schools. There is no doubt that our new governor would sign this bill into law should it successfully pass through the legislature. He, himself, advocated for these actions when he was state auditor. Now, as an educator, I will be forced to make a grave decision: to be an advocate for the students under my charge, put my job at risk, and refuse to be a party to what this bill would require; or to fully comply with this bill’s requirements and sit back and watch as we effectively “chill” our students’ access to our schools.

Comment on Alabama Style Anti-Immigrant Bill Introduced!! by Frances May

Frances May — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:39:30 +0000

Not everyone agrees with the anti-immigration legislation. We do need immigration reform, but this is not the solution. Politicians today , in Ms. and nationally are so out of touch. How did we ever bounce back from Katrina without the undocumented workforce that worked so compassionately helping the people of Ms. and La. I guess we are quick to forget times like those. I guess it is ignorance that causes hate bills like these to be created. Some of my best and most trusted friends are illegal Hispanics, who crossed the border as teenagers seeking a better life for their families. I have never known more trustworthy or truer friends than they are. I wish I could do more to help the cause.

Comment on Beware! New bills are lurking… by azileretsis

azileretsis — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:01:07 +0000

House Bill 488 (the Illegal Immigration Enforcement Bill)

Comment on A New Southern Strategy by Erasmo Andrade

Erasmo Andrade — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:15:23 +0000

Bravo, Bill; Brava, Patricia. Congratulations on MIRA’s challenging work on behalf of immigrants and your hard-fought success in Mississippi.
Bill also supported Mexican-American farmworkers in their long march from South Texas to the state capital of Austin back in 1967, supporting our leadership who sought to publicize the terrible working conditions and miserable wages of campesinos in Texas. His commitment and energy to help undocumented workers should serve as a role model for the mindless, xenophobic politicians of Alabama, Arizona and, yes, Texas.

Comment on New ColorLines Campaign: Drop the I-Word! by Joseph Mangino

Joseph Mangino — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:12:58 +0000

Really? When someone is doing something that is against the law of the country that they are “residing” in… what else do you call them… bending the rules? The fact is that ILLEGAL activity is just that… ILLEGAL. It has nothing to do with the fact that most ILLEGAL aliens/immigrants drive automobiles illegally and do not possess insurance, use the medical system and cannot provide funds for their medical care, send their children to our schools and retard the other students in the class because they cannot speak our language and get free lunches in most cases because of indigency…. need I go on? This has nothing to do with compassion…. purely economics

Comment on SB 2179 is Dead! by Giovany

Giovany — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:11:28 +0000

Que buena noticia, sin duda el Señor todopoderoso no permitió esta barbaridad en contra de toda la gente trabajadora indocumentada que vive en este estado. Dios bendiga a todas aquellas personas que lucharon encontra de esta ley; mil gracias………..God bless you all….