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REFRAMING THE OUTSIDE
by John M.
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by The California Department of Corrections (CDoC).


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Como Pajaros sin nuestros nidos o sin alas/Like Birds without our Nests or our Wings

Taxes en Imigrantes es un Robo/The tax on immigrants is theft

Ingrid de Leon/PNN Voces de inmigrantes en resistencia
Monday, February 15, 2010;

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Nosotros, los migrantes/imigrantes somos tratados como ladrones por que los residentes estadonidences piensan que le robamos los trabajos. Como una migrante/imigrante trabajadora  debo tengo que respetamente estar desacuerdo con eso, en verdad, la historia verdadera es, que muchos imigrantes han construido este pais. En mi pais de Guatemala. Tenmos un dicho, “Nadie en un profeta en nuestra propia tierra”.


Estamos en restaurantes, hoteles, tiendas, granjas, etc. Estamos en todas partes por que nosotros no le tenemos miedo a nada. Nosotros hacemos cualquier trabajo que requiere trabajar, aun que sea fisico o duro.


Haga se esta pregunta, quien limpia, quien cuida a los ninos, etc. “Los Imigrantes”. Yo pienso que no es justo que somos tratdos mal y que somos ignorados en esta sociedad, no somos mala gente.

Recientemente estado triste por la situacion de amigo. Desde que ha llegado a este pais el a estado pagando sus taxes, todos saben que en todos los cheques que el recibe, hay una deduccion en su cheque. El gobierno le regresa una miseria de cheque. Lastimosamente pero a los immigrantes no le regresan nada.
 

Mi amigo debia originalmente mil dolares en taxes y no pudo pagar esa deuda, ahora su deuda aumentado a cinco mil dolares. Tiene una fecha en que debe pagar ese dinero y si no paga esa deuda por esa fecha, le puden dar una multa. Yo creo que es un robo y un abuso de poder.


Yo creo que gente con un estatus legal son muy afortunados por que no tienen que dejar sus familias para sobrevivir como muchos de nosotros hacemos que dejamos nuestras familias en nuestros paises para buscar trabajo. Estamos muy lejos de los seres que queremos, tratando de construir una mejor vida para nuestra familias. Estamos peleando por nuestras vidas, para sobrevivir. Este pais nos hace sentir como pajaros sin alas o nidos.


DIOS nuestro creador nos hizo a todos igual, DIOS tambien es el dueno de el oro, plata y del todo el mundo, pero desgraciadamente nos estaos comiendo a cada uno. Es suficiente ya no queremos mas humillacion, somos seres humanos, somos seress humanos y e igual que todos los demas.


Engles Sigue


 

We, the migrant/immigrant peoples are treated as a thieves because US residents think we steal their jobs. As a hard-working migrant/immigrant I must respectfully disagree, actually, the real story is, a lot of immigrants have built this country.  In my country of Guatemala. We have a saying, “Nobody is a prophet in our own land”.

 

We are at restaurants, hotels, stores, farms, etc.  We are everywhere, because we are not afraid of anything. We do every job that we are required to do, even if it is physical or hard work. 

 

Ask yourself, who clean things, and takes care of children, etc. “The Immigrants”.  I think it is not fair that we get bad treatment, and that we are ignored in this society, we are not bad people. 

 

Recently I have been very sad at the plight of my friend. Since his arrival to this country has been paying his taxes, and everybody knows that in every single check that he gets, there is a tax deduction.  The government returns him a miserable check.  Unfortunately the immigrants don’t get anything back.

 

My friend originally owed one thousand dollars in taxes, but he couldn’t afford his debt, now his debt has increased to five thousand dollars.  He has gotten a due date, and if he does not pay it on time, he could get a fine.  I think it is a burglary, an abuse of power.

 

I think people with legal status are very lucky, because they don’t have to give up  their family just to survive like so many of us do when we have to leave our families and countries just to seek work.  We are so far from the people that we love, trying to build a better future to our family.  We are fighting for our lives, fighting to survive.  This government makes us feel like birds without our nest or without wings.

 

God our Creator made us all equal, God is also the owner of the gold, silver, and the entire world, but unfortunately we are eating each other.  It is enough we don’t want more humiliation, we are human beings, and the same as everybody. 

        

 

 

 

 




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Todos Somos In/Migrantes!/We are all Im/Migrants

Somos Madres Solteras/ We are Single Mothers

Maras y Pandillas/Gangs

PROPUESTAS MALAS/BAD PROPOSALS

We are all Arizona/Tod@s somos Arizona

Porque vine ala marcha?/Why did I March?

No Mas Aumentos/No More Raises

Robo y Resistencia de la tierra indigena/Indigenous Land Theft and Resistance

Poor People Must Ride/Los Pobrez Tienen que Raytear

Arte Politica/Political Art

Como Pajaros sin nuestros nidos o sin alas/Like Birds without our Nests or our Wings

UHAUL Desrespeta A todos/UHAUL Disrespects U All

Trans-Latinas In Resistance

La Epidemia del Robo de Sueldos/Wage Theft Epidemic

Dejando todos/Leaving Everything

Vigil for Justice/Vigilia para la Justicia

Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead

Mama, soy Illegal?/Mama, Am I Illegal?

Mothers Accuse Mayor Newsom and ICE of Child Abuse

La Empresa mas Corrupta del 2009/The Most Corrupt Business of 2009

Cuidando Nuestros Jóvenes Migrantes/ Caring for our Migrant Youth

Los Viajes- A Literary Anthology

Retomando la Tierra una Historia a la vez/Taking Back the Land..one Story at a time

De Yanga Al Presente/From Yanga to the Present

Estimada Rosalin/Dear Rosalin

La Terrible Realidad Policial/The Terrible Police Reality

Vivienda Deficiente o Quedarse sin Vivienda/Substandard housing or No housing at all

Matando Nuestros Hij@s/Killing our Children

Demandando los Derechos para l@s Trabajadores Domesticas/Demanding Rights for Domestic Workers

Eres Pendeja y Estupida,por eso tuviste a tu hijo!/You are Dumb and Stupid, thats why you had a child!

Esas Personas!/Those People!

Mujer, estas invadiendo mi propiedad/Woman, you are invading my property

Another Brown MotherF***ker i have to get rid of

Primero de Mayo Marcha / May 1st March

Quien es un Amerikkkano? / Who Is An Amerikkkan?

Educacion o la Bala / Education or the Bullet

Retenes Policiacos en la Mision/Po'Lice Checkpoints in the Mission

Peor que Animales/Worse than Animals

Empujando Nuestros Hijos a la Muerte/Pushing Our Sons into a Coffin

el Dia del Migrante Internacional/International Day of the Migrant

Es pura basura/Its Pure rubbish!

Fue la noche, una noche muy oscura/It was night, a very dark night

MUERTE LIMITE PARA TRASCENDER/DEATH To Transcend

Ahora todo lo que tenemos es nuestra memoria de el./Now all we have is his memory...

What NAFTA did to the Campesinos...

We Move

Melt the ICE

Amores Sin Fronteras

Criminalizing Poor People means criminalizing all people

21st Century Slavecatchers

The Violence of ICE

The Son of a Filipino Immigrant

They appeared out of nowhere and pointed their guns at us

Don't Run/No Corran-Una campana educativa de emergencia

Palabras de Resistencia de Medios/Words of Media Resistance

Derramando mas sangre inocente/Shedding More Innocent Blood

Imaginese si ese era usted

Las Gallinas De Ingrid-La Verdadera Historia! (Ingrids Chickens- The True Story!)

From Guatemala.. From East Oakland... The Journey of two poor mothers

Quien es un inmigrante/Who is an immigrant?-pt1 of the We-Search Camp "Truth Series"