A day without a Mexican?
With apologies to my family...
Can the USA run without Mexicans? Who will mow your lawn, pick your lettuce, stock the grocery shelves, clean your office? A Mexican of course. Why is this a problem now? Because Sensenbrenner, Bush and corporate America say so. If it had been such a problem before now, the US Govt would have enforced the Immigration Act of 1986, which I have not seen enforced since 1987!
I see it as divisive and racist, on purpose. You see, we are dumbing down our schools, so where will our kids and grandkids work when there are no more Wal-mart of McD's jobs? Picking lettuce and mowing lawns. Corporate america will have succeed in keeping down wages, union busting, and the middle class will be gone.
Check out A Day Without A Mexican, the movie to get an idea of how it could be on May 1st when immigrants in the US and Mexico boycott the US. I say GO FOR IT you guys! Teach the US and corporate america a lesson.
...And yes, we have some proud Mexican immigrants in my family. However, my ancestors are Irish...remember the days when Irish need not apply for a job? Surely they taught you that in history class? It's a game played by the rich so that some poor schmuck immigrant group must always be at the bottom of the totem pole. Irish, Chinese, Polish, now Mexicans...the list will be endless until we see the value of the melting pot that we live in. [After all, you do like the food that immigrants bring to this country, right? Well, they bring a lot more value that that!]
Can the USA run without Mexicans? Who will mow your lawn, pick your lettuce, stock the grocery shelves, clean your office? A Mexican of course. Why is this a problem now? Because Sensenbrenner, Bush and corporate America say so. If it had been such a problem before now, the US Govt would have enforced the Immigration Act of 1986, which I have not seen enforced since 1987!
I see it as divisive and racist, on purpose. You see, we are dumbing down our schools, so where will our kids and grandkids work when there are no more Wal-mart of McD's jobs? Picking lettuce and mowing lawns. Corporate america will have succeed in keeping down wages, union busting, and the middle class will be gone.
Check out A Day Without A Mexican, the movie to get an idea of how it could be on May 1st when immigrants in the US and Mexico boycott the US. I say GO FOR IT you guys! Teach the US and corporate america a lesson.
...And yes, we have some proud Mexican immigrants in my family. However, my ancestors are Irish...remember the days when Irish need not apply for a job? Surely they taught you that in history class? It's a game played by the rich so that some poor schmuck immigrant group must always be at the bottom of the totem pole. Irish, Chinese, Polish, now Mexicans...the list will be endless until we see the value of the melting pot that we live in. [After all, you do like the food that immigrants bring to this country, right? Well, they bring a lot more value that that!]
posted by progressivegrannie at 5:05 PM
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