Progress Instead of Protest
A whopping 500,000 people turned out for yesterday’s immigration reform protest in Los Angeles, causing major gridlock at freeway offramps as drivers wondered where else they could buy fresh oranges (COME ON!*).
Imagine if those 500,000 instead spent just one day in Mexico trying to make a difference there. Some could teach classes in their areas of expertise while others built houses with Habitat for Humanity. They could all plug money into the Mexican economy and inform the pint-size entrepreneurs that it doesn’t matter how sad and pathetic they make themselves appear, Americans don’t want Chicklets. Time to update the merchandise.
For all the discussion of people wanting to come to America for a better life, many seem to forget that Mexico’s not some wasteland ruled by a cruel dictator. It’s a good country with great potential. If the US could succeed in sending even a few million illegal Mexicans home, their greatest revenge would be to turn their own country around to the extent that they have to expel illegal Americans.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
*Said in the style of GOB from Arrested Development
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So let me get this straight, you do or don’t hate the beaners?
I LOVE da beaners. My whole argument is a thinly veiled attempt to get a hot 6′3″ one with a couple stabbing scars (preferably one on the face- I really dig that) to ask me to marry him so he can stay here legally.
I dont think I got what was happening in the US about this till I saw the hate been throw at the protests. And all I could think was, isn’t a protest the sign of a healthy urge for democracy in a country where the government is ignoring the people.
Hate? :twisted:
How about instead a respect for the law? You know the law that says there is a way to come to America and if you follow it you will be a legal citizen.
You say “a government is ignoring the people” but the illegal immigrants are not “the people” and this is not their government.