Is anyone going to utter a word on behalf of legal immigrants? They're hard-working too, you know. And they've been totally neglected - by both sides - in the rhetoric that pits illegals against citizens.

Any immigration lawyer can give you horror stories about immigrants who followed the law and had their case ruined by all sorts of incompetence from INS/ICE - letters sent to wrong addresses, lost files, all sorts of bureaucratic snafus. All of which go unacknowledged by a bureaucracy that is massive and, at the same time, understaffed and underfunded.

We know why the right won't touch this issue - they really don't want ANY immigrants coming in. But why is the plight of these hard-working, law abiding immigrants seen by the left as less important that the of the illegals?

You must not be from Chicago. Or didn't attend last year's Mayday's event. If you had, you would have heard a number of speakers repeatedly raise the difficulties that documented immigrants continue to have with ICE-DHS as well - particuarly since 9-11. And you'd be familiar with the great work being done by literally dozens of community groups who represent immigrant workers from Poland, Ireland, Russia, the Balkans, all of Latin America and the Middle East who were present.

I am so tired of being dehumanized due to my race. I was accepted at Olive Harvey College Nursing program. I knew the program was a challenging one. I gave up my job which I had for 15 years to dedicate to this program. I wanted to be a nurse. I knew I had the dedication and determination. But... I did not expect the discrimination that I faced. Each day became difficult as my nursing instructors dehumanized me because of my race. Mentally, I am exhausted. Other classmates who were of Europeans, Asians, and Latinas were also dehumanized. The school administrators were familiar with our situation. Retaliation became our instructors answers. It became more difficult. The City Colleges of Chicago administrators: Angela Starks, Deidre Lewis, Chancellor Wayne Waston and James Tyree made no apologies to us. Which validated to me that they support their teachers' actions. I thought nurses were not suppose to be racist? I wonder what will happen if these same nursing instructors were taking care of a patient who are not of same race as them? Would they be able to fully provide the quality of care their patients deserve? I doubt it! I don't feel that this sort of behavior should be tolerated. Educators who are also nurses teaching making racial remarks to their students in the classroom. How professional is that? City Colleges of Chicago administrators offering no apologies. What a shame. The quality of education has gone down tremendously instead of focusing on teaching their students how to be a nurse, they are teaching discrimination instead.
I hope someone has some answers. Maybe one day, we will get an apology. I doubt it.