Commentary: Immigrants didn’t cause your problems

Published Friday, March 13, 2009
by CNN

It’s a sad state of affairs when people who were born in this, the freest and most prosperous country on Earth — instantly becoming U.S. citizens, no less — with a free education and every other opportunity to improve their lives find themselves afraid to compete with a group of people who don’t have legal status, often can’t speak English, and usually have no more than a 6th-grade education.

My fellow Americans, stop your trembling. Show some dignity. If you don’t like competing with illegal immigrants, try making better choices. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Turn off those TV shows that constantly bash globalization and immigration.

Go back to school. Get more training. Move out of the comfort zone of your hometown to take a job in another state, if necessary. Take responsibility for your own life. And stop thinking the world owes you a living.