I flew in yesterday from a 4 day conference revolving around the idea of Kinship. I was invited to talk on the struggles immigrant workers have to deal with when chosing to come after the american dream here in this great nation called los estados unidos.
What I did was contrasted my life to the my parents life and the different cost of the american dream between them and I. During the times I visit with my parents and pray with my mom I have asked my self over and over again why she would worry so mucyh about her future and it dawned on me. She is 66, with some illnesses creeping up, in much financial debt due to not being able to afford health insurance, no retirement fund, and over the 11 years she has worked for the same company she has gone from earning $4.something to earning $7.85 and hour. My dad is in the same boat but earning .20 less an hour.
It hurts to realize where they are at. I was discussing my troubles about this with a Christian friend last night and first response I got was it was ther choice to come here which is what I expected he would say. And I ask myself how to answer to that. The american dream has a different price for everyone.

Gotta run to class more later.