Donna Poisl
Donna Poisl is President of Live & Thrive Press and the author of "How to Live & Thrive in the U.S. / Como Vivir y Prosperar en Estados Unidos".
She understands the problems immigrants face when moving to a new country and culture and wrote this reference guide to help them learn our system and succeed in this country.
She understands the problems immigrants face when moving to a new country and culture and wrote this reference guide to help them learn our system and succeed in this country.
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Articles by Donna Poisl
September 26, 2007
Everyone in this country will benefit if immigration reform is enacted and illegal immigrants are legalized. This even includes the people who insist they should all be deported. Almost every aspect of our lives will be affected positively.
We all agree that people should not be in this country ...
May 09, 2007
A few days ago, when this series started, I listed several areas where we will all benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. The first co...
May 07, 2007
A few days ago I listed several areas where we will all benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. The first column was about our economy,...
May 02, 2007
Yesterday I listed several areas in which every person in this country will benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. That column only ta...
April 30, 2007
Immigration reform is back in the news, and there’s a slight chance something can be done about it before fall.
Everyone in this country will benefit if a good plan is put into place. This even includes the people who are so completely against doing anything about the issue. The people who say a...
March 09, 2007
In many parts of this country it’s very common to see foreign language newspapers and magazines in the stores next to English language publications. I used to live in an apartment in Chicago and we could hear four or five different languages in the elevator every day.
But in most of the United S...
October 16, 2006
Our citizens who think English will disappear in our own country are worrying over nothing. People who want to pass laws making it our "official language" are wasting time and effort. I read recently that someone called the United States a "language graveyard". People from all countries with more th...
October 05, 2006
Achieving and living the American Dream requires knowing the language we use here. Immigrants who don't learn English, and even our own citizens who don't have a good grasp of the language, never reach their full potential. People who know our language are more successful, earn more income, move int...
September 09, 2006
There are several encouraging signs lately that there might be a solution soon to the illegal immigrant problem. At least, I am seeing news of groups, counties and states making proposals and passing legislation that show they are facing facts and are looking for something that will work.
I real...
September 04, 2006
Immigration reform and illegal immigrants have lost the top spots in the news in the past month or so. There is almost no chance of it being taken care of in Congress this year. Wars in the middle east and 10 year old murder cases are all anyone is talking about now.
That may be good news for bu...
May 13, 2006
Almost all of us who are not immigrants, are descended from immigrants. The United States was built by immigrants and it will always be a country of immigrants. When we think of Chinese, Italians, Germans, English, French, etc. we picture distinct people, cultures, food and languages.
When we thi...
May 13, 2006
There are several proposals for immigration reform being discussed now. Each one says it will solve the problem of so many illegal immigrants coming to and staying in this country. Some are offering amnesty, others guest worker cards, others temporary cards.
Some people are talking about rounding...
May 13, 2006
This country doesn?t need millions of visitors living and working here. We need millions of Americans living and working here. And what we really need is for the immigrants who are here to become Americans. The most important thing they have to do to become American, is learn the language that most ...
May 13, 2006
Everyone in the world knows that English is the language spoken in the U.S. and most immigrants are prepared to learn it. But when they arrive, many of them (especially Spanish speaking) find signs and other information in their own language and quickly realize that they don't have to learn more tha...
May 12, 2006
Few of the many suggestions swirling around the current immigration debate use much common sense.
The idea to build a wall along our 2,000 mile southern border is stuck in some peoples? minds but they don?t say who would actually build it or how long it would take or how much it would cost. They ...
April 20, 2006
Building a wall on our southern border is what many people want to do to solve the illegal immigration problem. There are so many reasons that make this a bad idea, I hardly know where to begin.
First, it would cost at least $2.2 billion. There are smarter, more efficient things to do with that m...
April 20, 2006
All the articles and opinion pieces by famous and not so famous writers show that most of them are as conflicted as I am. None have solved the problem of what should be done about all the illegal aliens here.
Yes, all these millions of people are here illegally ? we all agree on that point. But wh...