This teacher wonders if the illegal immigrants are just trading one problem (lack of work at home) for another (deportation or prison here). Sounds like a terrible choice to me. - - Donna Poisl
By Tina Griego, Denver Post Columnist
Several years ago, I accompanied a teacher on her walk to school. Her class was full of the children of Mexican immigrants, some of whom were here illegally. She saw in her young students an eagerness to learn and in their parents a desire to give their children opportunities they themselves did not have.
Which is not to say she did not have her conflicts about illegal immigration. Most of us do. As we passed the homes of people she knew to be here illegally, she wondered what it would be like to be denied the exercise of one's full potential both in the home country and the adopted one, to exist in some in-between place. She wondered how they lived with the threat of discovery and what it would be like to risk so much on a chance at something better only to find the gamble comes at great cost.
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