Bitter fruit: An inside look at street vending

“They knew they were working illegally and they still agreed to be part of it.”

Agreed! They also know they are associating with criminals, the coyotes.

Californians!
Get On the Bandwagon!
Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010
Get The Petitions Pronto!
http://www.taxpayerrevolution.org/

“One reason to enforce immigration laws is actually to protect these people from coyotes. It is inhumane to leave them vulnerable to those who take advantage of their status to silence them about being abused.”

I absolutely agree. I'm convinced the ‘rich and famous’ like their illegal nannies, Gardner's etc. precisely because they don't speak English...it protects their ‘secrets’. However, those ‘dumb’ immigrants aren't nearly as dumb as the elite seem to think they are. Many of them understand what they want to.

This year there have been dozens of deaths in the desert, often deserted by their coyote. It would be far kinder to just shoot a couple drug runners, coyotes to get the message to the populace of migrant squatters to stay in the country of their birth that they relish so much.

“Until “conservatives” stop endorsing the practice of desperately poor people having babies when they have no legal or decent way to support them, this sort of exploitation and illegal immigration will continue unabated. This guy should be back in Mexico with no one to feed but himself.”

Really, do you see a lot of that...’conservatives’ encouraging immigrants or anyone who can’t support their kids to have more? I see much more of that attitude on the left. There are plenty of ways to control pregnancy without abortion if that is your point. BTW, the abortion rate among poor hispanic immigrants is a lot higher than the rate for US conservatives.

I see it a lot here on FR. Any suggestion that the high birth rates are at the root of the problem in third world hellholes, is met by an avalanche of comments about how wonderful it is for people to have lots of babies, and how rapid population growth fuels economic growth. These posters insist that it is only becasue of corrupt governments that these countries aren’t fabulously wealthy. What’s lost on them is that corrupt governments are the direct result of people being too desperate to feed themselves and their children to focus on cleaning up their governments. Desperate people are eager to believe the fairy-tale promises of socialist/commmunist political and revolutionary leaders, and they’re too poor to have any education to enable them to see right through these claims. And the way these people became desperate is by being born to parents who couldn’t afford to provide for them, and turning around and repeating the cycle by having babies of their own when they have no means to provide for them.

Mexicans sell on the side of the road, we're supposed to feel pity. Americans sell on the side of the road, even though they help our local economy, fine, tax and shut down. Maybe we should all claim to be Mexicans to avoid prosecution by our own government. ObamaCare Jokes Obama Jokes

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.