My posts will not always deal with Islam per se, but issues that certainly do affect Muslims. One such issue is immigration from immigrant sending nations to immigrant receiving nations. I was reading an article in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, about this woman who is an immigrant, who came to this country illegally from Jalisco, the same state as my father.

She arrived in Los Angeles in 1984, after 22 years of living here, she does not speak English. Her husband, who has been here for 28 years, speaks little to no English at all too. She has a total of 10 biological children and three children from her husband’s previous relationships. They live in a one bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles; her older children do not speak English that well, their reading skills are confined to picture books which visually aid them in reading and comprehending the words.