Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Old Professions of the Undocumented



I came across a thread in the DREAM Act Portal Site where they took a survey of their members to see how many had parents with a college education. 52% of those who took the survey had parents with college degrees, not exactly the stereotype Roy Beck or Lou Dobbs like to portray of undocumented immigrants. In fact it's almost twice as high as the general American population.

This quote summed up the tone of the thread.

My mom was a doctor before we came here, graduated med school and all, and her first job in the states was at Jack in the Box.


Some of the professions listed

Accountant
Engineer
Judge
Professor
Nurse
Teacher
Chemist
Lawyer

Is it really in our best interests to have these people working as dishwashers or at Jack in the Box?


Click here for the thread

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