Writing Quote of the Day

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
John Dos Passos

Immigration and Kids

Some time ago now, I wrote about the fact that ICE had deported 3 kids, high school kids, on a raid on a trolley in San Diego. Well, more news have come out of that in that regard.

Those 3 kids have been readmitted to the US. They have come back in what is known as a humanitarian parole.

This is what originally happened.

The students, who were on their way to school, admitted to being in the country illegally after being questioned by federal agents and were voluntarily returned to Mexico, said Daryl Reed, supervisory agent for the Border Patrol. He said they were sent to Mexico after officials failed to find proper legal guardians for the teenagers in the United States.

This makes me question, were the kids trying to protect their parents by not revealing their parents to the agents. Wow, that’s a choice no kid should EVER have to make and yet, if that is what happened, they made a hard choice and took the fall for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

The kids are now back, and will be working with attorneys so that they can remain in the country.

My original post about the kids.

The article detaling them coming back.

State of the Blog…

I have to apologize for my lack of real posting on current events on regards to immigration or much of anything else. I have been going through a very hard time at home. My family doesn’t make my life easy. I always see my life as a war, a war to be fought on multiple fronts, always. Right now, I’m on the homefront and have been dealing with that almost exclusively.

You know, a lot of times, when I tell my friends that I get sad at the news of the fact that they go places and I don’t, most of the time they answer that I will soon be able to do so, when I get back to school. My college town has an excellent bus system that allows me to get around easily enough. But the fact is, having said knowledge doesn’t make me any happier. Why? Because of the simple fact that they have that freedom, the freedom to do as they please, go wherever they want to go for their own enjoyment, they can do so at whatever time they please. Some people go to the mountains, some people go hiking, others go dancing, others go to foreign countries. And I sit and watch it all unfold. I don’t blame them, or resent them because of it, or at least I would like to think that I don’t. So, what do I do on my summers?

Well, my mom found out that I was hospitalized. And so, in all her wisdom, she wanted me to leave the country right away. It was actually my plan, she was just going to facilitated, my friends don’t know that fact, I just told them that it was my mom’s plan. I spoke about with a few friends, they all wanted me to stay but in the end the choice came down to me. For now, I decided to stay for a while longer. I don’t know for how long that ‘while’ will be, it is to be determined. And I also have to deal with my parents on other arenas, they divorced a couple of years ago, it was a nasty divorce and have pretty much been dealing with that for the last 8 to 9 years of my life. I still do, to this very day.

And I’ve been receiving bad news on other fronts as well, the school one and just about everything else. Things fall apart.

Anyway, that’s enough of my complaining. Life sucks right now. Let’s move on. What do I do with my free time now though, since I’m not fully blogging. I’ve been reading lots, Inside the Third Reich, The Stand, fascinating books. And I finished watching all the Dexter episodes I had left and now got hooked on Lost. And The Wire should arrive by Netflix soon. Have thought about buying the entire series of The Wire but haven’t decided yet, it would cheer me up but it is kind of expensive. Decisions. Decisions.

So, I don’t know what’s going to happen with blogging aside from the fact that I will continue to blog minimally for now, until I get back to my own state and bits of my sanity return. I apologize for the bad content, I will try my best to fix it as time moves on.

MG

Writing Quote of the Day

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.  ~William Styron, interview

Writing Quote of the Day

Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.  ~Carrie Latet

Writing Quote of the Day

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.  ~Gail Hamilton

Immigrants in Jail

Well, it seems that now undocumented immigrants who go to jail will be screened to see if they are undocumented. Well, only the brown people, since, for the most part but not all, most immigrants of today are brown. This is happening in Texas, Webb county. See, does this effort even have a name? Is this secure communities? The 287g rule? What? Immigration, as always, being a mess.

Read more here.

Quote of the Day

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else. Anonymous

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July. It is funny, I’m sure most anti-immigrants who go on and on about the rule of law and illegal being illegal will be celebrating the time when a bunch of men decided to rebel against the law. That goes on to say children that just because the law is the law, it doesn’t always makes it right and can always be changed. After all, everything Hitler did was legal…

Quote of the Day

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches, we found that we were one tree and not two. -Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. “Love is the beauty of the soul.” –Saint Augustine.”

I am a Shadow

Here is a picture of me, as a shadow! How fitting, right? But yeah, that’s me. I have been unable to write real posts because of the fact that I moved to my mother’s and I’ve been having lots of talking with her about matters that I can’t go over on this blog. Needless to say, I don’t have that much time for anything.

I have spent a lot of time reading, mainly, Inside the Third Reich, a fascinating look into Nazi Germany.  Any who, I’ll try my best to have more than post and just not have a lonely quote of the day type of post for the day. Anyway, there is me, “Manuel”, at a local immigration event where I took pictures. And took one of me, haha!

No Money!

No money for Arpaio it seems. County supervisors turned 1.4 million dollars that would have gone to the sheriff’s department so that he could continue his battle against undocumented immigrants. It isn’t happening. Oh well, too bad.

Read more here.

Writing Quote of the Day

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.  ~Chateaubriand

A Response to the Haters

Well, it isn’t my response. A while back I wrote about a student named Leticia Garcia-Romo, a US citizen, giving up a scholarship of 40,000 dollars to the runner up, her friend Hector Rojas, an undocumented kid. She already had a LOT of scholarship money and thought that by giving up that particular scholarship, she could help her friend go to school, because otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to. Well, they have attracted lots of media attention, mainly the negative one.

But they have responded.

“I guess I was feeling a little down but at the same time it kind of drives me to work harder to show that I can do good for my community,” Rojas said.

“It’s freedom of speech, but I believe in education and being informed and I believe some of those comments were not informed comments,” Garcia-Romo said.

Here is a link to my original post about them, asking everyone to read the article.

And this is the link to the article where they respond. They have a video of them, watch it.

Writing Quote of the Day

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes