by Michel R. Baylor

Created on: November 10, 2007   Last Updated: June 08, 2009

Undocumented and Illegal Immigrants do have a Road Map to U.S. Citizenship, they just don't choose to follow it. The road is narrow, it is a difficult and a tedious one to travel. In their urgency, undocumented and illegal immigrants take back roads risking their life and liberty in the pursuit of financial gain.

There is no other country in the world that would allow such an atrocity. Thousands of people have come to find work and the result is often at the expense of other people who are poor. There are several instances in history in which one culture comes and pushed out another. Fierce competition for jobs, goods, benefits, and services is common place.

Other minority peoples in border states, especially blacks, are often attacked by the larger number of undocumented and illegal immigrants asserting their power and forcing their way and their will. Some claim neighborhoods insisting that blacks stay out. They pulled up in an SUV with dark, tented windows. They brandished a large hand gun. They warned a little black boy to stay out of our neighborhood. This twelve year old youngster is known in the community. He is a playful child, always trying to have fun. He was simply on his way home from school and took a wrong turn. Many undocumented/illegal immigrants are affiliated with some of the most notorious gangs.

According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, At an alarming rate, Latino gangs are killing off an already weak black culture. The gangs (many illegal immigrants) are infiltrating poor communities and taking them over. The controlling drug cartels continue to filter crack cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, and other deadly drugs into underserved crowded American communities that are accommodating large numbers of undocumented and illegal immigrants.

The connection here is inequality, disenfranchisement, social dissention, and racism. Since there are a large number of undocumented and illegal immigrants (Spanish speaking) moving into poor communities, typically black, other minorities (Russians, Asians, Jews, Armenians) are affected negatively, pushed out and discriminated against by the new face of their communities. Racial tension, gang violence, drug sales and distribution are all part and parcel to illegal immigration. Many smaller minorities, feel the effects, converse in private gatherings and meetings, and share their concerns for changing communities that no longer cater to them.

Undocumented workers themselves are victimized

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