NOT WHAT THEY IMAGINED

NEW YORK — For one 29-year-old Venezuelan woman, who left her two children and partner behind in her home country to embark on a six-month journey to New York City, America represented hope. 

There, she thought, she would find safety and the opportunity to make a living. But four months after arriving in the U.S., she says it’s nothing like she had imagined.

“It’s too difficult to come to a place where you don’t know the language,” the woman, who agreed to speak anonymously to protect her safety, told Yahoo News.

Speaking in Spanish, the woman had been standing along the granite wall of a bustling midtown Manhattan restaurant attached to the Roosevelt Hotel, which in recent months has been transformed into the city’s migrant intake center.

Like many Venezuelans who’ve come to the U.S. in recent years, the woman explained that Venezuela’s corrupt and repressive government had left her with few options at home. 

She embarked on the dangerous journey to the U.S. by herself, traveling through the perilous Darién Gap that connects Colombia to Panama, then multiple countries including Nicaragua and Honduras, by foot and public transportation. 

She stopped for weeks at a time to work only long enough to make enough money for the next leg of her trip. Since arriving in New York, she’s struggled to make money and obtain basic necessities while navigating the city’s shelter system. 

Eventually, she says, she hopes to bring her family to America, but she’s unsure how she will make that happen.  READ MORE...

Calling From Boats

A local support group gives out breakfast at a migrant camp west of Dunkirk


Just outside Grande-Synthe to the west of Dunkirk lies the encampment. Scores of tents straddle a railway track and curve around by a canal, wedged in between a main road and an industrial estate.


People have come from all over the world to be here - searching for a way to cross the Channel and start a new life in the UK.


There is a whole community of people whose lives are bound up with these migrants on their doorstep.


Eve-Marie Dubiez, a local to the area, is one of half a dozen volunteers doling out sandwiches and hot chocolate on Friday morning. Her group provides breakfast here twice a week, armed also with rain ponchos, socks, and sometimes shoes, when they can get them.


She is confident there will be a solution to the migrant crisis in northern France. "But these are the ones paying the price for the moment," she says, gesturing to the people collecting food from her colleagues.


Eve-Marie has spent the last 15 years working in camps like these. She says police regularly move people on, demolishing camps or pushing people further along the coast. "Everybody wants to get rid of them one way or the other," she says.  READ MORE..

Transformation of America

THANK GOD FOR THE LIBERALS...  except the Liberals do not believe in God or in the resurrection or in the life everlasting...  what they believe in is the HERE AND NOW...

BUT... back to the main point...  the LIBERALS are turning America upside down...  and, in the process they will destroy all the good that was the United States of America and believe me...  I for one am glad that they are doing this.

I may be white, but I am ashamed that I am white and I am ashamed that I was raised in a lower middle class family and I am ashamed that I enlisted in the military and I am ashamed that I have an MBA...  because all I can think about is that my life should have been given to a BLACK PERSON and I should have been raised in the ghettos of NYC or Chicago or Baltimore or Cleveland...

I am ashamed that I had an average life and through my own merits was able to live better than a black person.

I am ashamed that my white ancestors were slave owners and that they created a Constitution that favors white people...   and, I hope that the blacks will one day become our leaders and pay back the white people with the same abuse that they suffered...

THANK GOD FOR THE LIBERALS because they are allowing thousands of immigrants to enter the United States without kind of vetting...   and, it is my hope that these immigrants will stay in the United States for the rest of their lives and that our United States Government will financially take care of them and their families forever.  

It is my hope that our Federal Government will give them free food, free shelter, free clothing, free education, free healthcare, and a guaranteed annual income that equals the average monthly wage of our American Workers so that they will never have to work another day in their lives...

THANK GOD FOR THE LIBERALS...

THE AMERICAN DREAM: Individual Rights and Freedoms

Do you really think that we actually have individual rights and freedoms in the United States of America as it so states in the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights?

If you were to ask the BLACKS about this question, they would say NO faster than stink on shit and try to force you out of the way while they try to reclaim what the WHITE MAN CRACKER stole from them thinking themselves a little bit better than the Native American regarding their suffering during slavery and in their opinions well beyond.

If you were ask the POOR WHITE TRASH that live in trailer parks and work as janitors and on maintenance crews and who build our highways and roads and they would also say NO faster than stink on shit as well because they feel that the system is rigged against them because of who they are and where they were born and what they have to do to earn a living.

If you were to ask the immigrant who migrated into this country either legally or illegally and they would say a resounding YES quicker than stink on shit because it is a hell of a lot better than it was in the land that they left and they do mind doing anything at all because anything in the USA is better than being back home.

If you were to ask the Southern Rednecks and Hayseeds who had no choice but to enter into military service and fight and die for this country, they would say a unanimous NO quicker than stink on shit because of all the Confederate Statues that are being taken down because the BLACKS are bitchin'.

Individual rights and freedoms are a tricky business for our federal government and courts who are trying to please everyone who has the ability to INFLUENCE THEM and act accordingly in their re-elections, especially since this is a Democracy and the people elect who will govern them...  and, in the struggle for political power, we will always have WINNERS and LOSERS regardless of what the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, or the Bill of Rights says...

SO...  the AMERICAN DREAM can NEVER TAKE PLACE for EVERYONE...