The New Americans Part 2 - Mexican Laborer (PBS Indoctrination), On Now

PBS ^ | March 30, 2003 | PBS

[NewRomeTacitus]

The Flores Family

Pedro Flores spends a lot of time on buses and even more time away from his family. He has been separated from his wife, Ventura, and their six children for the past 13 years, seeing them only twice a year for short visits.

Pedro works as a meatpacker in Garden City, Kansas. The Flores's six children, five girls and one boy, live with Ventura on an impoverished ranch near Guanajuato, Mexico—1,200 miles and a hostile border away from Garden City.

"I want to see my family. Sometimes when I come home [to Mexico], I don’t feel like going back up there. But out of necessity, I have to go back."

Pedro lives as frugally as possible in a Garden City boarding house, trying to save money so that his family can legally migrate to the U.S. Today, Pedro is on his way home from work. He hopes that when he returns, his family will come to Kansas with him.

[NewRomeTacitus]

On right now Eastern and Central Time, later for Mountain and Pacific.

Especially interesting for includint the story of a Middle Eastern man into the Mexican family.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Part 2 of three. Pedro Flores, a Mexican working in a Kansas meatpacking plant, sets out to bring his wife and six children to the U.S. The family has been separated for 13 years. (2004)

Six children on meatpacking wages, right...

Sub plot about how a Middle Eastern man marries into the Mexican family. Refugees from Africa are also looked at.

I'd give this a big barf alert but for the fact that it's all so ultimately tragic how we're expected to finance liberal desires to take care of the world and NOT expect immigrants to assimilate into society.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Now Middle Eastern women complain about America and tell us how they'd rather return home. "No freedom in America, back home I could do more things". Puh-leeeze!

[NewRomeTacitus]

Had to go "dust off" the PBS link to see how the TV guide is failing me. This is a five-vignette episode that bounces between the sub-stories quite a bit.

They are:

The Ogoni Refugees-Travel with two Nigerian refugee families as they escape persecution and resettle in Chicago.

The Palestinian Bride-Go from a West Bank village to the Chicago suburbs as a Palestinian woman starts anew in the wake of September 11.

The Dominican Baseball Player-Follow two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects with big dreams of leaving the barrio behind.

The Mexican Laborer-Journey across the border with a Mexican meatpacker struggling to reunite his family in Kansas.

The Indian Technical Worker-Come to Silicon Valley with an Indian couple who live through the dot.com boom and bust.

[Ciexyz]

I saw this on the schedule and refuse to watch PBS propaganda. All this diversity sh**, open up our borders and bring 'em in on welfare, they're determined to remake the fabric of American society.

[WHATNEXT?]

Can't stand it. So, depressing. We are drowning in unwelcome aliens.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Well, I was wrong to indulge in reinforced cynicism.

The Mexican man is NOT the average case. He insists on having the family wait at the hacienda until they can all come to America under legal status and gets back home when he can to check on them. He and his elderly father related how they used to farm until drought conditions made that unprofitable.

They could resume farming if the Mexican government would allow then to dig some wells (they reside over an abundant water table). If they dig them clandestinely and are found out mandatory prison time follows. They can have all the water they need if they can scrape up the government asking price.

I knew the Fox government was encouraging illegal immigration. I did NOT know he was exacerbating the problem by denying his people the ability to live off Mexico's abundant resources. The border must be closed for the sake of these people, to hasten the overthrow of the vile pirates in Mexico City.

One good thing: The Palestinians went back home. They just couldn't deal with our relatively hatred-free environment. Good lesson there.
Thanks for commenting.

[purplelagoon]

"Pedro lives as frugally as possible"

Except for the part where he had one kid, found he couldn't support that child, then had FIVE MORE. If he's too stupid to know how to exercise his free will (or keep it in his pants), whose fault is that? Not the US government, and not Mexico's government either.

It's Darwinism in reverse: the least fit are the ones breeding the most. And this cuts across ALL races. It's not your "right" to keep procreating without the ability to pay for it. (Why, there oughta be a law...!)

[NewRomeTacitus]

I agree with you about unchecked procreation. Many factors play into Mexico's predeliction for that other than loose zippers. Regardless, legal immigrant Pablo was hocking himself to the eyeballs to get those kids a better future.

I know he will have to depend on more public resources than he could possibly contribute to, and adds to the overall problem by doing so. I rail against this constantly. I'm just saying that I admired the man's loyalty to his (overly large) family and the way he stuck to the straight path to overcome his numerous obstacles.

He could have used his savings and brought them in via coyote express, but wanted something for them that he holds precious: eventual American citizenship. In a time when too many of his countrymen spit on our country and openly avow loyalty to Mexico (despite Mexico's treatment of them), Pablo is now the exception instead of the rule.

Yes, there aughta be a law, but the Nazi's legacy of enforced sterilizations and worse has left a lasting negative impression on that front.

[purplelagoon]

"I agree with you about unchecked procreation. Many factors play into Mexico's predeliction for that other than loose zippers."

Catholicism factors into that as well. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a problem worldwide, not confined to any one country.


"In a time when too many of his countrymen spit on our country and openly avow loyalty to Mexico (despite Mexico's treatment of them), Pablo is now the exception instead of the rule."

OK, fair enough. I don't care for the romanticizing of the illegal immigrant's plight, but I understand that a lot of them really are just trying to do what they can with a bad situation. Even without six kids (or even one), it's tough trying to earn a livable wage in Mexico. If only they'd put pressure on their own president to improve things...if only our own president wasn't bending over backwards to appease his old pal Vicente...

And that line about "there oughta be a law" was meant facetiously, since we have plenty of laws on the books on all kinds of things (such as immigration), and none of them are being enforced.