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A tale of two peoples

Saturday, October 20 at 12:00 AM

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By Sam Gallucci

My great-grandparents came to this country 100 years ago this year. My great-grandfather was a laborer and the Italian economy was a wreck. They boarded a steamship in Naples, Italy and crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at Ellis Island where they were processed by customs. Their final destination was the Delagua, Colorado; more specifically the Victor-American coal mine at Delagua. His brother came along and died by being crushed by two ore carts. My grandfather was born in Delagua a couple years later. My great-grandfather suffered injured by, but survived one of Colorado’s worst mining disasters in 1910 at Delagua.

My family from their beginning here has championed America. They have stood up and strived to be American. English was mandatory. “We are in America now. We speak American.” My family has a certain pride when it comes to patriotism. It was a privilege to become American. America stood for individualism and opportunity.

My wife and I moved from California to Colorado this year, in a way coming back to my American roots. And I have a warning to Colorado from my experiences in the state I grew up in.

Today there are over 20 million people in this country who mostly refuse to learn English, resist assimilation into American culture, and refuse to cast off the binds of the “Old Country.” An outlaw immigrant is one who evades the immigration process and takes advantage of American citizens by using their privileges without putting anything back; like the outlaw of the Old West. In other words, one who lives outside the laws of the land. Better than one in ten peersons in California are outlaw immigrants. The majority of these people are five to ten years new to the United States and growing in numbers. I do not want to see the californization of Colorado.

One way outlaw immigrants resist assimilation into our culture is tenement housing. The standard of living in many other countries around the world is considerably lower than ours. It is a way of life to have as many as four families living in one dwelling unit, each family sharing a room. This sort of tenement housing is necessary because of the horrid state of their economy. Outlaw immigrants who started coming to the United States during the last “amnesty” outbreak during the mid-1980s, saw no problem with sharing housing among several families. For example, a family would go to an apartment and rent a four-bedroom unit. Three other families would chip in for the deposit. The four families would live in the apartment and save a lot of money by splitting the rent. Landlords began to get wind of this and started charging more for rent. The four families would easily afford the increase.

Rents began to go up. The same happened to the housing market. The housing market in California was affordable to most middle-income families during the early 1980s. With a large portion of migration into California being outlaw immigrants since then, several families would get into a single home. These homes are jokingly called “clown houses.” The ability to pay more for a single home because of the multiple families’ incomes started the bubble that has recently burst in California. Oddly enough the burst coincides with a crackdown on the border. Middle-income Californian families can not afford a home. Americans would never fathom the idea of sleeping a family per bedroom. I am not saying that the ARMs bust did not created the burst, but the market slowed before it burst.

Because of their outlaw status, many of the drivers in California do not have a license and therefore are not compelled to get insurance. The State Legislature of California has been trying to issue a driver’s license to outlaws. Their claim is that by giving driver’s licenses to outlaws, it will compel them to get insurance. If these outlaws have been driving with no license or a fake license for however long successfully, why would they stop now and have to pay insurance? Outlaws also tend to be overly cautious while driving and will go the minimal speed ... not helping the traffic situation.

Outlaw immigrants also take advantage of our education system. I remember one week day about 15 years ago, I was taking the trolley (light rail) from San Diego down to the International Border. I was the only passenger in the car. It was about 2:45 in the afternoon. At a stop in Chula Vista (a few miles from the Border) school busses were dropping off a whole lot of students with backpacks and lunchboxes. These children rushed to the trolley and filled the car I was in. Not one word in English could be heard. The end of the trolley line is only 200 feet from the International Border Crossing. When we reached the end of the line, all the children got up and filtered through the Crossing. This happens every school day ... and has happened every school day for a long time.

A few months ago it was big news that emergency rooms all over Southern California were closing down. The main reason for this colapse was due to people having no way of paying and the hospital, by law, having to treat them. It is NO secret that the majority of these people are outlaw immigrants. The health care system in California was being drained financially by outlaws that would use their services without the threat of deportation. These emergency rooms were vital to many citizens who rightly deserved their services.

Every single outlaw immigrant in this country who trampled across our border has trampled across the dignity, national ethic and service to this country in three great wars, of my ancestors. They will hijack our political system by calling those who oppose them racist. In a way, hijacking the work of great Americans like Martin Luther King Jr. by using the “race card.” Through manipulating our health-care and education systems and our housing, outlaw immigrants will slowly turn our lifestyle into the depraved and corrupt society whence they came. Do not let this happen to Colorado.

Sam Gallucci is a resident of Castle Rock.

READER COMMENTS

Sam,
You said it very well, I asked a mexican kid last week, that is on many american assistance programs if he was an American. He said no I am a Mexican. If they are so proud of Mexico why dont they want to live there?

Posted by Mike on October 31, 2007 02:41 PM

Sam,I think the reason no one has commented is that you've pretty well said everything worth saying on the immigration issue,and given us as well a story about some stand-up relatives of yours who had the character to come to this country straight and legal in the face of enormous hardship,and make it theirs.And better for it.

Posted by Jimminy on October 22, 2007 11:37 PM