Oh, I guess I could hold my own :-)
I don't think blue collar work is special. I think it sucks and I'm thankful that I don't have to do it. I like to get my hands dirty or bloody as the case may be but I don't want to have to do it for a living. I've worked on my own roof, septic field, plumbing, electric, garden, moving etc. It's hard dirty work. Since I have 9 kids to feed and one on the way, I can't afford to be prissy. I wish I was a lot smaller but I would have to stop eating. 210 would be a nice size.
Being from Kentucky I admit I have not had a lot of direct experience with Hispanics. Every one that I have ever met, here or elsewhere like Plano, Pheonix or El Paso has been very polite and appears to be hard working. Therefore, I have respect for them in general. I say string up the ones that steal, rape or murder just like everybody else. But then were are not what we once were. That is not their fault it's ours.
All of my ancestors were/came from poverty striken, blue collar or worse immigrants. My father's father came here illegally, reported himself to the police everywhere he went (he was German), and they ignored him. He launched a family of great Americans.
Anyway, may God bless you and have a nice day.
Which brings me back to my post to you.
That sounds like a man that has not lived with, drank with, and worked with illegals. Have you ever frequented illegal bars with your illegal friends and seen what that culture is really like? It is deadly brutal, and knife based.
Crossing deserts to get past our laws, casually living in a world of forged documents and escaping detection by the tax system and policemen, lying to employers, that isn’t noble stuff, that is the lifestyle of the least noble.
You are talking about people with a very casual attitude about morality and decency and the laws.