if your people do not like the conditions in which they live, then it is up to them to make the changes within THEIR OWN COUNTRY and leadership structure.
Swimming, running, crawling, hiding in hidden compartments, digging tunnels, floating on rafts hoping for the right tides....does NOT give anyone or their offspring the right to speak, eat, live, breathe, work or make claim to be an "American Citizen."
This goes for EVERYONE! Mexican, Cuban, Haitians, Columbians, Africans, Iraquies, German, Chinese, Japanese ....E V E R Y O N E.
(except for Hungarian and Sweedish women
)
If we could turn back the clock a good 35 years and then "lock the gates" or "shut the doors on immigration" perhaps then our homeless and jobless Vets, who truley seek work and shelter may have a chance at those agricultural jobs or any of the others you mentioned that are currently dominated by the "latino" community.
We have our own problems like those biotches that abuse the system with welfare and child care abuses. Generations of women and communties that are taught that the more kids you squeeze out, the more money the system pays you. PHUK them... they should have six months to get their shiot together or else the money gets cut off!
There are LEGAL way to enter this country and obtain citizenship...either abide by it or getthfukout!
Our president and elected officials can't seem to find the time and money to educate our youth, pay our teachers and feed our own hungry....but we can search for imaginary WMD and hunt down people that will eventually show their face and get shot anyways. Let us feed our own people heal own own wounds and resist those that feed off our less than perfect immigration system and bleed us like leaches because we can't manage to keep them out.
I have seen places like Miami where the media ridiculed and bombarded the Coast Guard with words and rallies on thier enforcement of the law reguarding "rafters"....in which the ploicy states "if they reach the beach (get to land), then the Coast Guard cannot interfere." It's up to local authorities and INS to weed them out.
There was a day when the CG was using a water cannon to push back a craft away from from shore until a larger vessel could meet up and take the people into custody...no violence...no suffering...but the media was ruthless on it and gave nothing but bad press.
WTF is this country coming to? I also went into a BurgerKing (what's more American than that, eh?) for lunch one afternoon. There was not one word of English on the menu....and nobody on duty spoke English...hello..this is FLORIDA...not cuba not mexico!
I started to order by picture....but wound up using the only sign language I knew... I said
"this is AMERICA" and gave them the middle finger...and walked out.
there is so much to say about this topic that I almost had to bite my tounge and click away from it due to it's volitility. Yet by not speaking, it's the same as saying "it's okay"...and THAT is definitely NOT the case.
I am not personally taking away one's personal accomplishiments, but in light of your paren't "illegal" status..then you too in my eyes would be illegal, therefore not entitled to any of the rights and priviledges afford to you by my tax money...which include healthcare, education and eligibility in the armed forces of this country.
Consider yourself lucky our "lazay fare" attitude towards immigration of the last 5 decades has put you where you are.
It's great to have pride in your heritage...but if you want to explain it to other or share it, I suggest "going home" to that particular country or look for those "seeking" your information.
Frankly, if anyone that fits into my "narrow mind view" doesn't like it, then they should try their "immigration techniques" on a country like China or Vietnam or Russia...and see how fuggin far they get!
I have seen in the news this group that has lately been "stepping up" and trying to help fill the gaps of an otherwise flawed enforcement sytem on immigration...there link is here:
http://www.minutemanhq.com/
I would sooner support this group with whatever donations I felt comfortable with, rather than spend one dime on that rat piss they bottle and call "corona"
we in Florida should have a similar system...it should mandatory of all boat owners to spend at least one weekend a year "patrolling" our coasts.