[Vision2020] immigration: comment to RVcowboy

[James Reynolds]

Hey there Cowboy! I envy your retirement and am glad that you are keeping up with the news and getting involved. Congratulation for not letting the CEO's get your retirement but don't relax on the issue as I would think there are at least a dozen of the pathetic buzzards circling, looking for a way into your funds. I think that I agree with your ideas in general but have a problem with blaming illegal Mexicans for our problems. The border security definitely needs to be beefed up but the reason I believe so may be different from yours. I think that it is simply and absolutely stupid for our federal Government to spend the billions they do pretending to make the country safer from terrorist attacks and yet leave our borders wide open and our ports practically so. I would ask the Bush administration what the hell they are spending the billions on for security. I understand that they have a super duper phone and e-mail tapping operation watching us that probably cost billions but we aren't the terrorists, we are the terrorees. What is the Bush administration doing to protect us from anything? They are doing a fairly good job of protecting me from a decent retirement and my children from a decent future but I think we could handle that with our own mistakes. 
 
Anyhow the immigration problem started out as a border security problem and then morphed into this immigration deal where the illegal Mexican laborers are being set up as our terrorists. The Mexican workers aren't terrorists, they aren't our enemies, and they don't mean us harm. The mexicans are escaping from a nation that was taken over by the US corporate greed machine which only want to pay them $5.00 per day without any perks whatsoever, and a government that is crappy enough to go along with the scam. These people are just like us, they just want to have a decent shot at a good life and they have found that since our greedy manipulative corporate CEO's have invaded their country they can't get that shot at home any more. So they come up here where we are at least able to out maneuver the CEO's to some extent. In the long haul, I think it will have to be us working folk the world over banning together to fashion some coherent battle plan against the runaway corporate greed machine and the governments that deregulate the controls over the corporations so they can, without impunity, ravage our families and our countries.
 
I worked a few years with Mexican work crews and found all that I met to be like me. But at that time I was like them, dirt poor and only trying to find a way to make it. I have endured to some extent by never giving up and I think you will find the Mexican convictions the same. Even if the world is completely unfair most folk, no matter their race or creed, will try their best to make life work for them. Can you picture yourself in the shoes of a Mexican family working, the only work available, lets say at a Levi factory where you and your wife bring home 10 dollars a day with no way to improve your lot? If there was a chance to go somewhere where your family could get health care and you could make 10 times the money to support them, would you take the chance? I would.
 
If the Republican party continues in control of our government we will be in the same situation as the Mexican workers. Then we will need to reflect on the Mexican plight in a different light. We will have to look at them as our comrades in arms against a government/corporate tyranny. If you cut them they bleed the same as us.
 
James Reynolds
Moscow ID   
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