Re: Springfield Mall
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Lifetime resident
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Date: May 22, 2013 01:21PM
I've lived in this town my entire life. I remember my mom telling me that just a few years before i was born, in 1984, Springfield was predominately white, with a sprinkling of a few blacks and latinos here and there. Since then, this area has been crawling with nothing but illegals, and it sucks. I have absolutely nothing against people coming in to this country, as long as they do it the right way. I understand that most of these people are hard working, good people who are just trying to make a living to support their families. But I don't want my tax money paying for hospitalization and education for people who shouldn't be here in the first place. On top of that, all these immigrants have been adding on to their houses without building permits, making their houses bigger and uglier, bringing down the property value of other peoples' homes. Then they stuff 30 people in the house, most of them illegal. This is a big problem in the Crestwood/Lynbrook neighborhoods. Also, I used to live in the apartments on Commerce St for a few years when I was little. I remember seeing a lot of people walking around that didn't speak English. Now, almost 20 years later, I see some of these people around town. They still don't speak English! My mom is from Puerto Rico, and when she came here with her family, when she was about 8 or 9, she and her siblings didn't speak any English. They got stuck in school with a bunch of white kids and had to learn English on their own. There was no ESL, no "press 1 for Spanish" option when you called anybody, and thats the way it should be. Spanish people come into my work all the time, and ask, "speakeh spaneesh?", and I tell them "nope, sorry", and walk away. I don't have time to stand there and figure out what they want. Some of them actually get mad that I don't speak Spanish! Yeah, I'm half Puerto Rican, but I don't speak Spanish and I don't want to. Why should I have to inconvenience myself by learning another language to accommodate people who probably shouldn't even be here?