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| When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter. “I have nothing,” Mr. Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.” Two months later, Mr. Alejos is making between $600 to $700 a week, saving up to buy a used car and planning to move out of the shelter. “There is so much opportunity here,” he said on Thursday, at the end of a day’s work. “You just have to take advantage of it.” —The New York Times, September 18, 2022 |
“Immigrants are taking our jobs”
after he said that to me
I wondered how it could be true
that a person with little capital and
only the possessions they carried
was so powerful that
they could “Take” a job from someone.
Everytime I ever got a job
I had to ask for it
and a job was offered to me.
Talk about the capitalists who
are giving jobs away to
desperate people willing to accept lower pay
Inside our country or worldwide.
Talk about the capitalists who
turned their back on you and your family
to exploit a vulnerable working class population
the immigrants.
Follow the money and see
who is the real thief
Robert Wildwood, a poet from Duluth, Minnesota, makes his living as a nurse.
