Of course, you can not enter the room with a group of Hispanics and not expect not to address immigration. population. Jaime Palma does not care about fences, he is concerned about his fellow man. Palma came to America in 1985. Palma worked as a farmer. Working as a farmer, he was able to earn a work permit. With his work permit, Palma was granted temporary residency. This temporary residency allowed him to work on permanent residency to obtain his citizenship.
The process of obtaining his citizenship, was a long process and lots of documentation. For Palma that process took 11 years of the 20 something years he has been in the United States.
Although the process was long and tedious, Palma believes he got a chance to do what many in the Hispanic community who are undocumented workers are trying to do themselves. And that is find work to take care of their families. Palma suggest those who say Hispanic are taking work from others are wrong. Instead many in the Hispanic community perform work that many Americans refuse to do or do not want to do.
But one thing is for certain, Palma states the Hispanics are not here to harm anyone. Another speaker, Reole Vasquez concurred with Palma. The Vasquez spoke in his native tongue as he shared with the audience at the Hispanic Grassroot Leadership for Northeast Indiana, the commitment from the Hispanic community to the Southside of Fort Wayne. An area that has long been neglected.
Vasquez spoke of the degree of renovation that has occurred on the southside from the labor of the Hispanic population. For a city seeking to find solutions of reviving the Southside, reducing the obstacles for Hispanic to obtain licenses to do the work that others have long avoided on the southside would be a start.
It called the American Dream.
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