First off,I'd like to point out that the $35 per week these Mexican peasants were earning working the fields in the US was MUCH more that the young American privates storming the beaches in North Africa,Normandy,and the Pacific were paid. IF I remember correctly what I was told, a private going in the US military in 1941 was paid about $16 a MONTH. I doubt the highest-paid NCO in the US Army in WW-2 earned $35 a week.In other words,don't ask me to be feeling sorry for these people. They probably couldn't have earned $3.50 a week doing the same work in Mexico.
Secondly,this rewriting history crap has GOT to stop! These Mexicans are lying if they say they came here to "help us fight the war". They came for the MONEY. Mexico had diplomatic relations with the Nazi government all through the war,and Germany had a embassy there. This liar being quoted in this story says he was willing to "pick up a rifle and help" is lying. If he had wanted to do that,nothing was stopping him. LOTS of Mexicans did this very thing,and earned US citizenship this way. Of course,working in the fields paid about 800% more and was thousands of times less dangerous.
Finally,since it was Mexico who stole the money (I'm shocked,SHOCKED,I tell you!)that WAS paid by the US,how do they figure the US owes them the money now? Other than the obvious fact that it seems clear Bubba Bush would be more than happy to give them the money if he thought it might buy him a few votes. After all,it's taxpayer money he would be spending,not Bush Family money.
(I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!) LOL!!
You're right about the vote pandering.
Come to think about it, I was only making about 80 bucks a month when I went into the USAF. That potato picker was making almost double what I was making.