What’s Wrong With This Picture?

This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are NOT U.S. Citizens and who get the PELL Grant, which is a federal grant (no payback required) plus other federal grants to go to school?One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn’t want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL Grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover.She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT
CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which
is a special program (check it out – I did) for Immigrants and it pays for child Care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned
told me she was not going to be a U.S. Citizen because
she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday
and that she ‘loves HER country.’

I asked her If she felt guilty taking what the U.S. is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and
she told me that it doesn’t bother her, because that is what the money is there for!

I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a U.S. Citizen, you don’t qualify for their
program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education.

Something is wrong here. I am Sorry, but after hearing that they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish – enough is enough. That’s a real slap in the face. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation — not even close.

I don’t Care whether this offends someone or not but this is MY COUNTRY. IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP — please understand – I am not against immigration — I just expect immigrants to come through like everyone
else. Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the Past — and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

**As a footnote – having been a foreign missionary, other countries expect you to learn their language if you want to stay there.  – Pam Bush