La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for December 01, 2014

Actually, around here, there are more “white” guys doing lawn mowing and related landscaping than not. It is difficult to say just because group A is seen as ubiquitously doing job A, doesn’t mean that group B can’t do job A also…

My son, Ignacio, a native Spaniard, was not able to get immigrated because the adaption papers came through after he was 14 years old(the immigration department does not reorganize adoptions after the age of 14). Yet 5 million illegals are to be admitted for one reason only. They represent a potential of 5 million votes for the Democratic party. There is no other reason.

Apples and oranges. The only thing Reagan did was encourage more to come

Wrong. Both Reagan’s and GH Bush’s executive orders extended amnesty to family members of people who were here legally. Just as Obama’s executive action does. Thus, apples and apples. Or oranges and oranges, if you like.

The fact that your facts are wrong isn’t terribly surprising, as it seems like you were simply looking for another excuse to go on a paranoid racist rant against Obama. Really? “Socialist communist”? What do you base this on? Evidence, please. Eugenics? Again, evidence, please. (This latter charge is especially bizarre, considering the population that eugenics has actually been exercised against in this country. Sterilization programs, syphilis experiments, etc.—all aimed against African Americans.

calypso Louis

Ah, now I understand where you get your “information.” We’ve got a Dittohead here, folks! Bona fide and (possibly) breathing! A dying breed for sure, but no less fascinating for it.

Mexico is an importer of corn, most of it from the US, and all that started when the country´s economy opened to the exterior in the late 80s and after the NAFTA. Just like that, many economic activities suffered with the globalization.The people more eager to take arms against the goverment, have already stated what they want, to get back to a centralized economy, and to kick out all the gringos et al and get their hands off te country´s wealth.

So they hardly would get the blessing and funding from the US, but all the opposite.

About the drug lords, in Michoacan there were a raise of people against them, and some of them were just people of rival groups. Now is settled, but they are still there,. As long as there is a demand there would be drug producers, just like illegal immigrants.

The real question is, why do Mexicans keep immigrating?

Why is this the “real” question? What about all those other immigrants?

With millions of people that could be a revolutionary force to combat the bad situation in Mexico, why don’t they do that?

What do you suggest be the principles of this revolution? And why is your suggested solution one that begins with guns? Why not, for instance, extend real, substantive development aid? Help build up domestic-oriented industry? That sort of thing?

They face life-threatening danger coming to America, yet they won’t do the same to repopulate their homeland.

Maybe it’s less life-threatening to come to the US.

There are millions of immigrants here who have turned their backs on their home and relatives just to find peon jobs in this country.

Probably because it’s better than the work they can get in their home countries, if there’s any work at all to be had there. Do you think this is a casual decision on their part?

In addition, there are a whole lot of folks who migrate back and forth to do seasonal work. Very different situation than the one you’re envisioning.

the repatriation of their homelands

They sent their homelands back where they came from?

Maybe instead of whining about the bad breaks immigrants get here, Lalo should be exploring the root cause and solution of his ancestral peoples’ plight.

You mean like a long history of US foreign policy based on domination and oppression in the name of US corporate interests? It’s not for nothing that Porfirio Díaz said, “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!” (Whatever you think about his ultimately dictatorial ways, he was pretty spot-on with this assessment.) While it’s obviously not the only factor, it sure is a strong one. Or hey, how about the illegal market in drugs we’ve created in the US with our war on some drugs? Legalize and regulate drugs, weaken the violent cartels. So, how about it?

Yeah, he did more, he signed a bill into law, as opposed to making up his own laws!!

unknown to you and foreign in your world of concrete and shopping malls

Says the person who knows nothing of who I am or where I live.

You show me your ignorance of the world of immigrants and immigration

Says the person who knows nothing of where I live or who I associate with.

every time you demand anything to help you keep your straw man from burning down

Incoherency isn’t an argument.

Read something other than an ultra-liberal publication

Says the person who knows nothing of what I read. The irony is that you accuse me of ignorance, yet everything you claim in this post comes from absolute and willful ignorance. Please come back once you’ve actually learned some facts that come from somewhere outside your own fevered imagination.

Well, a forest does consist of trees…just depends on what kind of trees they are…