Taking candy is one thing. Taking money (candy) from people who are legal is another. The first sentence includes the word illegal. The last sentence includes the word candy. The remainder of the three paragraphs discusses what the rewards have been. Conclusion reached is illegal likes candy when a legal provides, and justification is rewards, fully legal. Excuse me ... this has made me ill, even though known to me was taking place.
“Excuse me ... this has made me ill, even though known to me was taking place.”
I posted this because it is a direct experience, not an article from some reporter that has passed through an editorial board. I doubt you’d find anything like this in the press.
I spent two weeks meeting people in Mexico and a stunning number of them work in California, probably illegally, and live in Mexico. The guide I hired when I toured (another family member) told me that if they closed the California boarder the entire Baja economy would collapse overnight. He said, “When Uncle Sam gets a cold, Mexico gets the flu.”
Someone else noted the implausibility of the government giving an apartment to teenagers. I agree. But the grandfather told me he was led from agency to agency by a “fat black woman” who told him, “Honey, I am going to get you everything to which you is entitled.” She told him what to say on every line of the form. Obviously, some of the information was false.
Incidentally, there’s a popular cable channel in Mexico which simply shows live video feeds of all the entry points and estimates the wait at each one.