Forced transfer to teacher of immigrants, legal or not....

I do not want to talk about how my heart swells to tears when I think about leaving my students. How I am crying and I know I don't want my next job but I feel forced to do so. I don't know how to deal with this! You think you have a plan and a passion given to you by God, then it gets taken out from under you. There is a price tag on everything in this country, except the war in Iraq. Borrowing and creating debt is not a problem to fight terror but it is unheard of when it comes to our children. In the education system, if the check for 1 million dollars comes in for XXX, money may only be spent on XXX, and YYY, and ZZZ. Oops, we don't have enough money for X, well that's okay. They can do without. These are not flavors of Haagen Daz, they are Humans. People complain because there are non-citizens in our schools. People do not want to pay for children whose parents are not contributing to taxes in this country. They call it unfair.

It is unfair then, that there are people who live in our economy, contribute to it, and rent our homes but are the first to have basic human rights taken away. Is it fair that when there is a 99 cent sale in school the students are the first things sold. And then the teachers can be thrown away. There have been major rivalries over the immigrant climate in this nation for years. What would YOU do to give your family a better life? Do you really think they are hurting you? Well, I bet that if you would open your arms there would be a lot more to learn than be hurt by. Being an adult means realizing that there are positives and negatives to everything, and that there are arguments that make sense on both sides of the immigration issue. But that when dehumanzing humans becomes part of the process, don't you wonder where our own humanity has gone? When did our citizenship become more important than another life?

I have an opinion: It's not. And, the "immigration culture" in this country. It sucks. It is full of hate, or worse, the apathy of the people that don't see anything wrong or even notice when they put white people first. For citizens and all the other humans living inside these walls. It keeps us from learning and growing. NOT the people, the opinions that breed the hatred.

It's a sad day in the US of A.