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I happen to have been born in the USA to "Illegal" immigrants from Mexico nearly thirty years ago. You may have noticed my avatar, that should spell it out for you. The original reads Hecho en Mexico. You all know enough Espanol to understand it. If not you might have drank Corona beer at one point or another. Looking at the text on the label will tell you about it.
I went through the social abuse cycle much like illegal immigrants do today, my first language being Spanish resulted in a bit of an accent when attending school. Thus resulting in ridicule. This mostly from second and third generation Hispanics that did not ever speak spanish. Most of the time I am silent when commentary about Mexicans or Americans with Mexican heritage is mentioned even though it is insulting and demeaning.
I spent eight years in the USAF, earned a college degree and catapulted myself out of a fairly less than average socio-economic situation in the Hispanic Barrio into that which I am in today.
This forum's sympathetic comments lead me to think that most of the members here are fairly intelligent and worldly people. The positive comments about laborers from Mexico are a breath of fresh air. Agriculture in this country is entirely supported on the backs of Mexicans. The construction industry particularly in the Southwest is populated with Mexican laborers who are both illegal and legal residents in this country. The entire service industry in the majority of the country is manned by Hispanics, those from south of the border all the way to Chile and Argentina.
We are very quickly becoming more than just those annoying brown people that talk funny and turning into a political force with the momentum of a downhill freight-train.
'So-called' illegal immigrants are the bedrock of this country. They pay taxes on their earnings. Taxes that are never returned in a tax refund. The government knows the value of the illegal worker because of the huge budget surpluses. That $600 tax refund you got a couple of years ago is because of the money "messicans" don't get back. They account for an economy of billions of dollars due to their work ethic and desire to become Americans. Americans that don't just speak English but in fact speak hundreds of languages all the way from Albanian to Zwahili.
There is a reason that they are repressed, this is to weed out the ones that don't belong. They are chased by "la migra" and the ones that aren't smart enough to run away are thus expelled until they adapt and assimilate. If you make it to a 'legal residence' of seven years without getting into trouble you then become eligible for naturalization as a US Citizen through the regular immigration amnesty programs that occur every few years. You have effectively proven your ability to assimilate and obey the law in America.
When the Irish first begun mass (legal through Ellis Island) immigration to the USA they were the "Damn Mexicans". Then the Italians came and were treated the same way. They were followed by the Polish, and so on and so on. Every culture has gotten a taste of that treatment. Even the good ol' southern gentleman that perpetrates denigration and disparaging comments against Mexican immigrants is the product of a mixed ancestry that is a blend of immigrants with the following cultural background: english, irish, german, french, polish, scandinavian, spanish, native american and even Africans.
<span style='color:firebrick'><span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado were MEXICO until just over 150 years ago. The Mexicans were there first. It was called Aztlan and is still commonly referred to using that name.</span></span>
There is a movie called "A day without a Mexican". It is worth the watch even though it is obviously low budget. There are some very good points made in it.
I went through the social abuse cycle much like illegal immigrants do today, my first language being Spanish resulted in a bit of an accent when attending school. Thus resulting in ridicule. This mostly from second and third generation Hispanics that did not ever speak spanish. Most of the time I am silent when commentary about Mexicans or Americans with Mexican heritage is mentioned even though it is insulting and demeaning.
I spent eight years in the USAF, earned a college degree and catapulted myself out of a fairly less than average socio-economic situation in the Hispanic Barrio into that which I am in today.
This forum's sympathetic comments lead me to think that most of the members here are fairly intelligent and worldly people. The positive comments about laborers from Mexico are a breath of fresh air. Agriculture in this country is entirely supported on the backs of Mexicans. The construction industry particularly in the Southwest is populated with Mexican laborers who are both illegal and legal residents in this country. The entire service industry in the majority of the country is manned by Hispanics, those from south of the border all the way to Chile and Argentina.
We are very quickly becoming more than just those annoying brown people that talk funny and turning into a political force with the momentum of a downhill freight-train.
'So-called' illegal immigrants are the bedrock of this country. They pay taxes on their earnings. Taxes that are never returned in a tax refund. The government knows the value of the illegal worker because of the huge budget surpluses. That $600 tax refund you got a couple of years ago is because of the money "messicans" don't get back. They account for an economy of billions of dollars due to their work ethic and desire to become Americans. Americans that don't just speak English but in fact speak hundreds of languages all the way from Albanian to Zwahili.
There is a reason that they are repressed, this is to weed out the ones that don't belong. They are chased by "la migra" and the ones that aren't smart enough to run away are thus expelled until they adapt and assimilate. If you make it to a 'legal residence' of seven years without getting into trouble you then become eligible for naturalization as a US Citizen through the regular immigration amnesty programs that occur every few years. You have effectively proven your ability to assimilate and obey the law in America.
When the Irish first begun mass (legal through Ellis Island) immigration to the USA they were the "Damn Mexicans". Then the Italians came and were treated the same way. They were followed by the Polish, and so on and so on. Every culture has gotten a taste of that treatment. Even the good ol' southern gentleman that perpetrates denigration and disparaging comments against Mexican immigrants is the product of a mixed ancestry that is a blend of immigrants with the following cultural background: english, irish, german, french, polish, scandinavian, spanish, native american and even Africans.
<span style='color:firebrick'><span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado were MEXICO until just over 150 years ago. The Mexicans were there first. It was called Aztlan and is still commonly referred to using that name.</span></span>
There is a movie called "A day without a Mexican". It is worth the watch even though it is obviously low budget. There are some very good points made in it.
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