http://www.allamericacityaward.com/2010/04/05/welcome/ Just another WordPress site Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.allamericacityaward.com/2010/04/05/welcome/#comment-70 kevin Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:47:04 +0000 http://www.allamericacityaward.com/?p=1#comment-70 I just want to say how disgusted I was when I heard that El Paso, TX was a finalist for this award. I am stationes in El Paso with the US Army and have not felt very welcome by the citizens of El Paso. This town is so open to and more favorable to the citizens of Juarez, Mexico than they are to the soldiers being stationed there. My daughter for example was almost denied at a local elementary school because they were at maximum capacity for student enrollments. She finally was allowed to go there and to my surprise there are alot of students there who come across the border to go to this school. My daughter ,an American citizen, was almost denied a spot but they had all of these foreign students filling slots. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Also, the crime is terrible. I live in off post military housing and while I was deployed to Iraq there was a shooting two houses up from where my family was. El Paso is not at all what I would think of when I think of the All-American city. There are more illegal immigrants there than American citizens, it is full of drug problems and gang violence, and it is an absolutely filthy, horrible place to raise children. If not for the Army I would not be there and thank GOD I will be leaving there soon. I spent a year deployed to Iraq while stationed in El Paso and was not looking forward to going back there after my deployment. Whoever decides on these awards may want to take a trip to El Paso and see first hand what you made a finalist. I am quite sure that after spending a little time there you may remove them from the finalist list and never allow them to apply again. I just want to say how disgusted I was when I heard that El Paso, TX was a finalist for this award. I am stationes in El Paso with the US Army and have not felt very welcome by the citizens of El Paso. This town is so open to and more favorable to the citizens of Juarez, Mexico than they are to the soldiers being stationed there. My daughter for example was almost denied at a local elementary school because they were at maximum capacity for student enrollments. She finally was allowed to go there and to my surprise there are alot of students there who come across the border to go to this school. My daughter ,an American citizen, was almost denied a spot but they had all of these foreign students filling slots. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Also, the crime is terrible. I live in off post military housing and while I was deployed to Iraq there was a shooting two houses up from where my family was.
El Paso is not at all what I would think of when I think of the All-American city. There are more illegal immigrants there than American citizens, it is full of drug problems and gang violence, and it is an absolutely filthy, horrible place to raise children. If not for the Army I would not be there and thank GOD I will be leaving there soon. I spent a year deployed to Iraq while stationed in El Paso and was not looking forward to going back there after my deployment. Whoever decides on these awards may want to take a trip to El Paso and see first hand what you made a finalist. I am quite sure that after spending a little time there you may remove them from the finalist list and never allow them to apply again.

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