It must be frightening and confusing to these people who are being debated about, not knowing how they will be affected. Many work long hours and don't get to see the TV news, many can't read well enough to read the newspaper. A very interesting article. DP
By EDUARDO STANLEY Pacific News Service
Berkeley Daily Planet : The House last week passed a highly punitive immigration bill, heightening the controversy over the issue of immigration reform. But even as the debate over immigration policy promises to be a divisive issue in the coming midterm elections, the voices of immigrants themselves are missing from the discussion.
“We’re not participating,” says Claudia (not her real name), a Fresno resident and mother of one. “We don’t know whom to talk to about it.”
“We are worried about what’s going to happen,” says Rosa (not her real name) of Madera, an agricultural worker and mother of four. To her, proposals in other bills for a new guest worker plan that leave out the nearly 11 million immigrants who are already here don’t make sense.
“We know they want to bring workers, so what will happen to us?” she asks.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
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