Last year, I decided to check out some Mexican culture by visiting the Cinco de Mayo celebration on Olvera Street in Downtown LA. There were lots of booths and huge crowds. Many of the booths were selling clothing and books expressing exactly the opinions mentioned in this essay, including a quite unseemly hatred for the US.
I am basically a moderate on the immigration issue - I think foreigners should be allowed in as long as they are coming to work. I don't think of an illegal Mexican as any less welcome than, say, a high tech worker on the H1B program. We have a shortage of all kinds of workers in this country.
But even I have a problem with people who want to undermine our country and system. I'm not saying our system's perfect, but compared to what other nations have, it looks awfully good. I wish the Mexicans would stop and think why they are in America to begin with. Much of Mexico has charming, Carribean style climate and a far lower cost of living. We have a horribly high cost of living in Southern California, but we are very much the land of opportunity.
If I were a touch more violently inclined, I would wish that the army of illegal alien haters would fight a war with MEChA and the like, leaving only the reasonable nice people behind :-). That makes a nice joke, but I fear there would be too much collateral damage.
This article definitely makes me reconsider my radically pro-illegal views. If people are here, they should be here because they think it's better here than Mexico. I find it quite astonishing that they want the Mexican government to preside over their new nation, since the Mexican government has surely done such a great job with Mexico. In a blink of time, the new nation would acquire all the problems Mexico has, and descend into the swamps of the Third World. This isn't something anyone should wish for.
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Sorry, but there is a HUGE difference between'em. The H1B worker is working legally within the system. The "illegal Mexican" is a criminal. All such should be rounded up and sent home (and that INCLUDES the H1B types that illegally overstay their visas).