Some Advice to Immigrants

The situation isn't fair, but the advice IS sound.

Some Advice to Immigrants

 

By Elton Camp

 

In general, advice that hasn’t been requested

Will be ignored or perhaps even hotly contested

If to a minority group some person does belong

All of them are smeared if he does any wrong

 

Is this fair or how people actually should feel?

Why, of course it is not, but yet it is all-too-real

When it is a “white” who we see acting unwise

To the whole community nobody will generalize

 

But if it is a Mexican who commits some crime,

Folks say, “They will do like that every time.”

Most immigrants here are a decent, honest type

But more than a few give us valid reason to gripe

 

In our town, there are some of them we see

Who seem to expect to get everything free

Wake up folks, you have to pay for what you get

So don’t be a bum and make others have a fit

 

Income tax is another thing that we have to pay

There’s resentment of any who avoid it some way

And this isn’t at all intended to be cruel or mean

It’s important to keep your yard and house clean

 

If Jose allows his grass to grow up waist high

“Filthy Mexican” folks say when they drive by

If I do that, they will say, “That man’s a lazy lout,”

But not that “That’s what whites are all about.” 

 

Immigrants with their new home have to comply

If not, they must expect to be greeted with a sigh

So to your conduct always give very close attention

Give to others only good things they can mention