Everywhere you look, there are politicians saying que son los immigrants that are this country's problem. That we are a drain on government money, that we take jobs away from 'real' Americans. And it doesn't stop there.
Plans are in the works to deny legal residents their hard earned rights.
Simply having a Hispanic surname makes us a target for discrimination regardless of where we were born. Excuse me for fuming, but I thought this was America. I say that if the government doesn't want to give us the social services we have paid for with our taxes, our social security withholdings, and FICA and all those other things they jam in to their tax rolls, maybe they don't want our money either. Por eso on September 16th, 1996. I'm going to celebrate my independence from racism and discrimination.