Green Card To Nowhere
By Elias Vlanton, a high school teacher in Prince George's County (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/05/06):
In my eight years teaching high school, I've had hundreds of conversations with the kind of students who are now the subject of our nation's intense immigration debate. In every class I pose this question: "If you could go back to the moment you boarded the airplane or climbed on the bus, and could either continue on to the United States or stay in your home country, what would you do?"
Whether from El Salvador or Sierra Leone, whether they came with visas in hand or stealthily crossed the Rio Grande, their answer is always the same: "I want to live in the United States."… Seguir leyendo »