I have a story about a couple from Venezuela. ( a horrible place to live).
“Alex & Ana” came here illegally in 2015. Once here, they applied for the green card and got it.
They both work for the same cleaning company. They pay taxes.
During the last 4 years, they had to keep a low profile, as they were afraid of being deported.
(A co-worker had been sent back to Cuba, even though she had been here since 2006).

I met them last year. Both are about my age, and the sweetest couple I have met.
Alex is working a double shift, 6 days a week, to help keep the building sanitized from covid. Ana makes sure the bathrooms & offices are kept clean.
Ana still can not speak English, but Alex knows enough to make conversation. And when he can’t explain, he uses his translation app.

This couple are not drug dealers, rapists, murderers. They are not living on welfare or taking away jobs from others. They are not involved in human trafficking.
They are hard working people who just want to live a better life here in America.
I let their supervisor know that if they need a reference next year, I will be happy to vouch for them, when they apply to become legal citizens.

The point is, not all immigrants are bad.


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That is not correct.
The only people who apply to clean toilets for this company, are the Hispanics. In fact, the owner of the company is Puerto Rican, who has hired white people, but they never seem to last.

And as far as scholarships go, I’m pretty sure companies give them to people who work hard at their schooling.
My daughter has gotten a good share of scholarships. And has been denied others.
Her race had nothing to do with it.


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I can attest to that, at least from my own experience. Back when I was in college I answered an ad to be a hotel maid during one summer break to earn extra money. My god, I’m not sure I even lasted a month. People are pigs. The porn I’d have to toss from some rooms that had been left behind, and some of those bathrooms were indescribably filthy. I couldn’t stand it and I went into it with a good attitude planning to work at it all summer. I think I would have killed my self if I had to do that to make a living.

Fortunately, I had a friend who got me a part time office job filing but I salute all those who work to clean up the messes of complete strangers. I can imagine those jobs are filled by people who have no other resources which shouldn’t be an option for any American citizen who has the opportunity to take school seriously and isn’t that the plan for immigrants as well? They may have to do dirty work but the hope is that the next generation will have better opportunities.

 

The company that cleans the building I work in will hire anyone willing to work. Anita was the only white person to last the longest. One & a half months.
We are responsible to clean the cafeteria area, but the cleaning crew is responsible for the dining area. I’ll never forget the day she quit. She had a total meltdown.
She started screaming in the dining that she didn’t want to clean up after a bunch of slobs. (All she had to do was wash the tables, as Jose was emptying the trash bins). That she was better than that. She then threw her bucket of water/sanitizer at the big screen tv. Security had to come and escort her out.
I haven’t seen another white person work for them since.


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I get Anita. I was doing all that in my head though, lol.

 

You know thats not what I asked. Populous states have higher crime, homeless, dirtiness, etc. Every state has seen an increase over the last 30 years. Even Red ones. You can’t blame leftists when a Republican President had a Republican congress for the last 4 years.


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Lol. I worked sanitation at a zoo for 4 years. People are pigs when they don’t have to clean up their own mess. We had people of all races working there. While everyone complained, the Hispanics and Pilipinos seemed to work hardest and longest before getting fed up. None of them were illegal, so they didn’t put up with more because they had to. Its just culturally, they didn’t see the work as demeaning. Just work.


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I wonder if some cultures already think “Americans” are dirty people so cleaning up after their messes is expected. No honest work is demeaning in and of itself. What makes it so, IMO, is that people have no regard for those who work to make and keep public spaces presentable for all those who use them. It’s disrespectful to make someone’s job more difficult than it needs to be. How hard is it to throw your garbage inside the receptacle or flush the toilet or not pee on the seat or floor just for starters?
It gets to the point sometimes where you can just take so much and then you’re done.

 

That’s more of a story about lazy policing rather than “blue” politics. Mr. Frisky and I were in an automobile accident back in September. We were at an intersection and I was making a left turn when out of nowhere, a speeding teen came up behind me, crossed over a solid line in the road to pass me on my left and T-boned us. Fortunately no one was seriously injured, in fact my father didn’t have a scratch on him but the car was totaled. The police who sped to the scene along with fire, refused to issue that kid a ticket. If I had been the one causing the accident I’m sure I would have been ticketed at the very least. MM thinks his dad, who also came to the scene, knew someone on the force since they made all sorts of excuses for him, like he was “confused” about the lines on the road. Why the hell did he even have a license then, and just saying, this happened in a “conservative” suburb. Lazy cops. What good were they?

 

Perhaps the two events, the passing of prop 47 and the rise in property crimes is coincidental rather than causative.

I agree that the one woman was being a jerk. I hope the woman whose car was damaged got the offender’s license plate number at least so she could pursue the matter with her lawyer or maybe small claims court. Some pics would have been helpful too. I wasn’t happy with what happened to me but I got an insurance settlement.

 

I agree that getting your car hit by a shopping cart sucks but. It isn’t a moving violation and the damage is less than the threshold for prosecution. I think most states would have similar laws. Its not hit and run and if it wasn’t intentional, then its not vandalism.

Not prosecuting petty theft sends the wrong message but spending more on prosecution than the amount you can recover is also a no win situation. California may be worst in your opinion but it also had a huge growth. My point is population growth equals crime growth. Every state has had both. Higher population density equals higher crime. Rural states have always derided urban states crime rates. Nothing new.


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It is worse but its not the crime ridden, dirty, homeless haven you make it out to be. Big cities are worse. Most cities have had a slight uptick. People are leaving because housing is just nuts and salaries aren’t matching. No, tomato farmers were never going to afford 600,000 single family homes in a halfway decent neighborhood. We have a lot of big cities. Those cities have had big upticks. But its not crazy.


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