美国新冠疫情日记07/16

Let Us Unite Our Immigrants’ International Community

After WWII, millions of people came to America through legal and illegal means to seek liberty and opportunity in this great land.

From coast to coast in New York, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Houston and Dallas, many immigrants created many communities like new Chinatown, Vietnamese Town, Thai Town, Russian Town, all these towns representing international cultures and all part of a very important economic engine in local economies.

The majority of the new generation had higher education and became professionals in many fields, but their roots were still very strongly tied to their own culture.

Today we feel very strongly because of the current racial issues. A lot of politicians are against immigrants. They want to change policies to block immigrants from coming to this country while they refuse the quota of immigrants. All of these moves really harm our community.

My friend and founder of CHI, Farouk Shami, when he ran for Governor of Texas, he said this to his audience, “Our society without Mexicans and Latinos is like the sky without sunshine.”

This really represents how important it is that those immigrants who work at labor jobs truly do help this country grow.

Dear brothers and sisters, this is the time for all of us to unite to fight for our own future because this is our home.

           移民社区自处之道

近半个世纪以来，世界各地之大批移民以合法或非法方式进入美国，大部份都选择了成为美国公民及安身立命的家。

我们从美东地区的纽约到美西的旧金山、洛杉矶、西雅图及美南的休斯敦、达拉斯，以移民社区集聚形成的中国城、越南城、俄罗斯城，如雨后春笋般到处可见，这些新的微经济体，成为当地社区之一大特色，更在经济上扮演了重要角色。

多年来，上一代移民之子女，多半接受了大专教育，在各方面有了非常优异的表现，虽然他们都走出了原来出生之地，其根仍然活跃在上一代生活圈，他们仍然喜欢上一代父辈的饮食文化。

今天我们处于一个非常不寻常之时代，我们赖于认同为家的美好社会，已经在政客对种族民粹之操弄下变了样，他们正在推动反对移民之政策，赶走到美国来求学的留学生，阻止优秀人才留在美国，延遅亲友移民申请时间，全盘否定新移民对国家之贡献。

我的好友美国CHI化妆品公司创办人福鲁曾竞选德州州长，他在其竞选大会上说了一段非常贴切而感动的话，他说：“今天我们的社会如果没有墨西哥及拉丁裔的帮助，就如同我们天空中没有了阳光，从劳工到后院花草，都是他们的辛劳工作。”

各位亲爱的弟兄姐妹们，这是我们移民国际社区团结起来的时刻了，让我们来共同揭穿政客的丑陋面目，这里就是我们的家。