It's total BS!!! I fucking hate immigrants who come to the US and get opportunities that LEGAL citizens can't get! I was born and raised here, pay high tax rates so all you whinny immigrant bastards can get on here and bitch that no one likes you!?!?! Gee did you ever wonder why? Maybe it's because you're a leech on society and we are sick of paying for your ass to have a roof over your head, medical care, and not to mention college tuition!! Fuck you all! I'm american, I am barely getting by, my husband continues to work even though his back is blown out because I am trying to get through school which I have to pay for out of my own pocket! No grants for me! And my house is in foreclosure, but because my last name isn't Coslov or Garcia I don't qualify for any programs to get back on my feet. Bottom line, immigrants don't feel welcome here, then you're FREE TO GO HOME!!! And shut the fuck up! | |
A lot worse.
You could be an immigrant.
By Jason Gale - March 3, 2009 18:00 EST
March 4 (Bloomberg)-- Until May 2007, Meera Devi rose before dawn each day and walked a half mile to a vegetable patch outside the village of Kachpura to find a secluded place.
Dodging leering men and stick-wielding farmers and avoiding spots that her neighbors had soiled, the mother of three pulled up her sari and defecated with the Taj Mahal in plain view.
With that act, she added to the estimated 100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians. Devi looks back on her routine with pain and embarrassment.
“As a woman, I would have to check where the males were going to the toilet and then go in a different direction,” says Devi, 37, standing outside her one-room mud-brick home.“We used to avoid the daytimes, but if we were really pressured, we would have to go any time of the day, even if it was raining. During the harvest season, people would have sticks in the fields. If somebody had to go, people would beat them up or chase them.”
In the shadow of its new suburbs, torrid growth and 300-million-plus-strong middle class, India is struggling with a sanitation emergency. From the stream in Devi’s village to the nation’s holiest river, the Ganges, 75 percent of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent. Everyone in Indian cities is at risk of consuming human feces, if they’re not already, the Ministry of Urban Development concluded in September.
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