I think it's a mistake to discount and reject this individual's experience and story just because it's in a "leftist" publication (I don't know that it is, I'm taking your word for it, however).
Actually, consider that she's reaching those she needs to by having her story and words appear in a leftist source...more of those responsible for the current problems will read it, at least, hopefully.
If it'd been printed in a conservative source, only those already well familiar with the problem would likely read it.
I AGREE completely with this woman writing to the "mothers" in Mexico (and everywhere else, if they care to read this). And that is, that the U.S. is being inundated by people with problems created in and by their own homelands. They don't abandon the problems by illegally entering the U.S. but are proliferating the very problems here, in the U.S., after arriving here.
The focus has to now include the importance of those people staying in their own homes, wherever, and working to improve and change their own circumstances where they are. By just leaving for the U.S. by whatever means, it is harming everyone, even them.
Miller, axle is not discounting the story at all. Just surprised it is in a leftist rag. You are right, it is a good thing for this kind of story to be told to the left. Heck, it's many of them who own the businesses that exploit the illegals. They love having illegal labor pour accross the border, it's more money in their pockets.