Why naturalized immigrant are against immigration!!!

[magic_mail]

......................"Give Me Your Passport!"....................................[/B]
I am now traveling in the East Coast for a family emergency, flying from Minneapolis to New York. When I approached the Northwest Airline "Domestic" flight ticket counter for luggage check-in, a foreigner-looking ground personnel spit out "give me your passport." I did not even say a single word. I said "Excuse me?" She said "Where is your passport?" I said "Why you need a passport for domestic travel?" She said "I thought you were a foreigner?" I said "Do all foreigners have to give you a passport to travel within the country?" She just kept staring and took my driver license.
I bring up this story to ask immigrants to think about the image of themselves. We often talk about the country's xenophoebia, but even though I do not have specific statistics that I can cite here, there have been sufficient reports in the media that the people who have a negative image and even oppose the immigration are either permanent residents or naturalized U.S. citizen rather than native-born U.S. citizen. I am sure that number of readers of this message have experienced facing a person in the government offices or shopping centers who use fingers to explain without even hearing your voice. A lot of these people usually have an accent themselves.
It is sad that naturalized immigrants tend to have a negative image of immigrants. I remember that when "ISN" was a very popular website for the South Asian high tech workers, when someone posted certain message with my name, a China-born immigration lawyer in the West Coast posted a comment saying "he is nothing but a Korean lawyer." He was spitting on his own face and I lost any word on the comment. In the first place, I am not a Korean lawyer. I am an American lawyer born in Korea and naturalized in the U.S. However, I do have a "foreign" face. This is not the first time when I asked a question to myself as to why some foreign-born "Americans" or "Immigrants" have a negative image on the immigrants themselves. Whenever I read articles or comments in the electronic or paper media written or spoken by "foreign-looking" faces, I had to think twice what the meaning of xenophoebia was.

- source http://www.immigration-law.com

 

[gckajadoo]

......................"Give Me Your Passport!"....................................[/B]
I am now traveling in the East Coast for a family emergency, flying from Minneapolis to New York. When I approached the Northwest Airline "Domestic" flight ticket counter for luggage check-in, a foreigner-looking ground personnel spit out "give me your passport." I did not even say a single word. I said "Excuse me?" She said "Where is your passport?" I said "Why you need a passport for domestic travel?" She said "I thought you were a foreigner?" I said "Do all foreigners have to give you a passport to travel within the country?" She just kept staring and took my driver license.
I bring up this story to ask immigrants to think about the image of themselves. We often talk about the country's xenophoebia, but even though I do not have specific statistics that I can cite here, there have been sufficient reports in the media that the people who have a negative image and even oppose the immigration are either permanent residents or naturalized U.S. citizen rather than native-born U.S. citizen. I am sure that number of readers of this message have experienced facing a person in the government offices or shopping centers who use fingers to explain without even hearing your voice. A lot of these people usually have an accent themselves.
It is sad that naturalized immigrants tend to have a negative image of immigrants. I remember that when "ISN" was a very popular website for the South Asian high tech workers, when someone posted certain message with my name, a China-born immigration lawyer in the West Coast posted a comment saying "he is nothing but a Korean lawyer." He was spitting on his own face and I lost any word on the comment. In the first place, I am not a Korean lawyer. I am an American lawyer born in Korea and naturalized in the U.S. However, I do have a "foreign" face. This is not the first time when I asked a question to myself as to why some foreign-born "Americans" or "Immigrants" have a negative image on the immigrants themselves. Whenever I read articles or comments in the electronic or paper media written or spoken by "foreign-looking" faces, I had to think twice what the meaning of xenophoebia was.

- source http://www.immigration-law.com

Not sure why no one else commented on this but I just read this post. THIS IS REALLY TRUE. I happen to experience this several times. People who themselves are immigrant to this country (i am talking about the 1st generation) got a goverment job and when you talk to them they will look you down. Its funny to me and i m curious what exactly such people thinks of themselves? I would say its SHAME to them.

 

[LaborBadhi]

We know my friend... but there is no voice for immigrant in this country....

Can any american TV channel or news papers keep quite, if any application delayes more than year for so called "American Citizen"???

 

[blessed_by_INS]

partly true or more then true

Partly true experience. It is not just GC or Naturalizen but most of the immigrants feels that his/her coming to USA was special and deserving. Rest of the immigrants came here due to chance or accidents. Talk to some immigrants and you will enjoy how he/she will like to differentiate with rest of immigrants community .e.g. I did not come to USA thru body shopper , Bill gate had given me call thru my dean and pleaded to come to USA. So I came. Unfortunately H1B visa program does not make distinction between 90% marks throughout academic career or 3rd division score throughout career. But in resource constrained countries , this academic discrimination or some times caste/tribe discrimination is core values of the society. So even though H1B or similar visa makes us equal , we try to find ways and means to make ourselves unequal (special). That’s democracy which gives you equal opportunity to become unequal.

Not sure why no one else commented on this but I just read this post. THIS IS REALLY TRUE. I happen to experience this several times. People who themselves are immigrant to this country (i am talking about the 1st generation) got a goverment job and when you talk to them they will look you down. Its funny to me and i m curious what exactly such people thinks of themselves? I would say its SHAME to them.

 

[geofu54]

It is not just GC or Naturalizen but most of the immigrants feels that his/her coming to USA was special and deserving.

I think in some cases the flip side of what you said may be a deep, incessant sense of insecurity. Say, naturalized citizens can never be true insiders in relation to the U.S. born, and therefore, some may compulsively keep trying to make sure to themselves they are insiders. To do this, they need someone outer than themselves. Keep saying "you are an outsider!" gives them sort of reassurance that they are an insider.

U.S. born, on the other hand, do not have to do this, because they are an insider from the beginning, it's a matter of course, and they don't need any affirmation from anyone about this.