Then there is the other side — non-residents deserve no special considerations because they came here for temporary jobs — not BABIES and a FUTURE LIFE as somehow deserving of enhanced (U.S.) status due to nothing more than longevity (AND CHILDREN).”
And that was entirely the subject of my letter you published on May 29.
Well it’s been a common knowledge since 1986 when the influx of alien workers began after the local people chose to pursue a policy of maximizing the use of alien labor for garment manufacturing.
It’s not the alien workers’ choice to work in the CNMI — it was the choice of local business people, local government as well as local households who wanted to hire housemaids, farmers, etc.
I appreciate everything that Dr. Arkle shared in both his May 11 and June 1 letter to the editors, but he did make that statement regarding non-residents, BABIES, FUTURE LIFE and temporary jobs.
It is also the right of the local people to defend their land, their liberty and their right to run their own government as a U.S. commonwealth.
I hope and pray that the spirit of brotherhood and Godliness will ever increase forever in the CNMI whether or not federalization will be imposed on Nov. 28.
Long live the prosperity of the entire CNMI and its people!
PETE DELOS SANTOS
Vernal, Utah
