running, immigration

I've done quite a lot of reading recently during commute.

I was reading Runner's World, Business Week, and The Economist.

One article on the August's Runner's World about the life of two running coaches with the background of new illegal immigrant law in Arizona did touch me. The life of the illegal immigrates in the states are really miserable.  The poor kids from Mexico were brought to the states by their parents.  They had been living un underworld life without legal identity for 20 years.  They learned English and went to school, got paid in low wage doing labour works.  Only when they can get married with a US citizen can they be sponsonored a US citizenship. The two coaches had similar background and were runners in school.  Running made them strong. The story is weaven with running of the high school students and the immigration issue.  Sigh, the US legal identity is a nightmare to every immigrant.  Even people with higher education in the US had to fight for their "green card", being "slaved" by US companies for many years. I saw and heard a lot of similar stories about Chinese students struggling to get the "green card".

It's a big topic about the immigration in the US.  We are lucky to have obtained the immigrate status in Canada without too much suffers. Canada is a lot more friendly to immigrates then the States.