Isn't that the reason for most, if not all, immigration--the promise of something better?
Yes it was for both sets of my grandparents who came here for the better life. But they came legally. Like everyone who wants to come here should. If these Mexicans have the conjones to boycott and rally in American I suggest they go back home with the flag they love to wave here and fix things in their own country. We can not afford them. Our prisons are filled with illegals who deal drugs, are in violent gangs (gangs who support terrorists I may remind you like MS-13) rapists murders and so on. We have had schools and hospitals that have had to shut down. Sorry I have no feelings for people who knowingly break the law by coming here illegally. If they have no respect for our laws now do you think they will obey them later? Some of these Mexicans want us out of border states claiming we stole them. And who did they steal them from? Sure we need people like this coming here to cause trouble. I am sure there are many fine Mexicans who would be great Americans but they need to come here the right way. We need to secure the border ASAP. Oh yes, lets not forget about the idenity fraud that Mexicans are doing. One childs SS# was used hundreds of times. We need congress and our Pres to think carefully about what the American people want. And what is in the best interests of America. I will be damned if Mexicans will bully us. What about the other people who are trying to get here legally ? What does that show them about us? That a bunch of boycotts and rallies will force us to give them amnesty? This isnt what my father and uncles fought for. I am really disgusted with what I am seeing. Build the wall, deport and then lets screen anyone who wants to come in. Some homeland security we have.
On top of all the horrors you mentioned, think about Mexico. It's being depopulated. Whole villages vacant. One quarter of the population (the ethnic cleansing undesirables, poor folk, some illiterate, mostly unskilled), already in the US, and that's just what they admit to. From a recent Mexican poll, half of everyone left said they'd head north in a heartbeat. And that's their middle class. Not good.
Now widen the view and include Central and South America, then the rest of the world. Anyone unhappy with his lot in life has to think about heading here or Australia or New Zealand. (NZ has already changed their law about anchor babies.)