Luis G said:
1. What you believe is not the point, it is what is actually going on there.
2. What is your financial situation? What is your level of education? Where did you get educated?
3. There are people who do come here simply to cause trouble, but the vast majority simply come to work and in shitty jobs. I just love the "THEY'RE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, THE BASTARDS!!!!" argument. I have never seen a white person and only a few blacks wipe shit from floors and pick fruit.
4. Has anyone in your family ever had to look for a job? If it were easy to find work, they would stay there. You think they want to be living away from their families in a strange country where they are disliked?
5. When have you seen someone make $40 in a few hours?
It is not easy to weed out decades of corruption and ineffectiveness. If you think the uneducated, poor people who come here to work can simply stay there and easily change everything you are quite ignorant of your own damn country. People who are educated and well off cannot even change things there successfully a lot of the time. Imagine how people, who do not even understand how their government works nor have resources to try, would do. These people miss their home and would rather stay there, but they cannot if they want to survive. It is obvious you are not in their situation nor have contact with it and fail to understand. It is ridiculous to try and simplify what is going on in Mexico. If things were as easy as "staying there and changing it" the world would be a different place. Plus, the people coming over tend to come from the poorest states full of the most uneducated people who are completely ignored by the government. They feel powerless and don't have the means by which to change much. You people are oversimplifying it.
These people do not have the same rights we do either, you know. Civil society is in a process of growing. And it isn't just the very poor; the situation is so bad there that people with degrees cannot find work and have to turn to driving taxis or selling candy, for example. The situation there is not easy. Imagine losing what you have now and having to struggle to survive but not being too sucessful. Can you even grasp that idea? I'd like to see some of you living in those horrible conditions and trying to change the fuckers in government. You'd understand then.
You all sit here and talk and talk and talk very comfortably because you don't have to deal with such situations. You do not understand what it is like and you even fail to try to sympathize.
