Citizenship for aliens or what?

I am sure locals truly appreciate the alien workforce and what they have contributed to the CNMI. But the locals do not owe the alien workforce a vote in government that will surely outnumber the locals—that was never part of the deal to work here so let’s be real about this. FYI, to those who think the Legislature should be ashamed for creating a resolution, the members of the Legislature were elected by locals to represent, serve, and protect all U.S. citizens, not to promote alien workers. I want to pinch their dagans for ignoring the people’s decision and creating that casino bill and acting like they don’t work for mainland citizens, but I must commend them for the resolution. There is also nothing derogatory with the title of an alien worker and no one ever complained about that title until now when citizenship is on the table—some nerve. Furthermore, the alien workforce was paid for their contributions so there is no debt and allegiance to citizenship was not part of the contract.

The Filipino people are truly great Filipino citizens, not U.S., who work hard to send money back home to help their families, which is a quality I truly admire. But at the same time they are occupying jobs that our children are needing now and there is the real potential for the Filipino people to outnumber the locals when it comes to voting—so locals are afraid for their political future and rightfully so. Our delegate choose on his own to go out on this limb by himself as we the people did not get a chance to say anything—now people see why Kilili didn’t want a polling system. But if he was smart and truly for the people he would have instituted a polling system himself instead of saying he didn’t need one. Well, he was right for him but wrong to the people because it was the people who needed the polling system to tell him what to do and what not to do—now we see the proof as time continues to be on my side.

As for the racism, I fought to end racism in America and if this was about race and equality I think I would know. If we look at the true intent, which was to come here and work, then why are we even hearing citizenship? I have a lot of Filipino friends and I want to help them as much as I can to stay here but I refuse to stand by and watch the majority voting power of governing be transferred to a new group of people overnight. So I ask the Filipino community leaders to help in resolving this by asserting that you just want to stay and work with no interest in citizenship— it will do a great deal to resolve this in Washington.

I will say that our delegate did fight against bringing in so many alien workers when he was in the Legislature and the feds warned us and I even warned readers. But it’s like I keep saying, time is proving to be on my side again and I can only pray that one day, as my mother use say to me, our leaders and voters will start listening when I tell them what is going to happen before it even happens because I really don’t like saying I told you so like our parents use to do to all of us hard-headed children!

Prayers for all the people of the Philippines as I truly hate the timing of these discussions but it must be done.