WorldNetDaily reported today about the continuing protests over American immigration policy.
This time, the protest organizers got the word out to protesters that they should leave the Mexican flag at home and bring American flags instead. It looks like they figured out that the waving of Mexican flags in the first round of protests was counterproductive.
The article quotes a man who has been in the US illegally for twenty years:
Carlos Carrera, a construction worker from Mexico, held a banner that read: "We are not criminals. Give us a chance for a better life."
It makes me weary. Why are they protesting here in the US? Why aren't there this many people marching in front of Mexican President Vicente Fox demanding that he give his own people a chance for a better life? Why does the world assume it's our job to fix everything for them?
Come on! We can't be the only country that's capable of having a decent economy.
Instead of trying to figure out how (or whether) to assimilate all the illegals in our country, why doesn't our country--from President Bush to all the pontificating Senators and Representatives--work on helping Mexico get their economic act together, so their citizens will want to stay at home?
2 comments:
Middle and upper class Mexicans have been working on this system for years and have it just the way they want it.
Yes, Chris, I know.
I just hate the self-imposed blinders that our leaders (and Mexico's) wear. They don't want to see Mexico's responsibility to take care of its own people.
Vicente Fox has it made, and his policies only feed into America's vision of itself as Mighty Mouse to the world.
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