Sunday, April 20, 2008
What are we to do?
Writing this blog comes from my feelings I experienced when we watched the movie in class about workers who come to the US temporarily or just to work. It upset me to see that the conditions they live in are unbelievable. How can the Mexican government lack so badly, it makes me ask, "what is a government to them." if they are letting thier people live like that then what are they even doing? Government is alive because of the people, to support their country and those who live in it! I understand the US didnt' exactly help their economy (to say the least), but wow, these people are living in 18th century conditions. No water, no roads, no true school system, no jobs, no medical, no libraries, the list goes ON. I can't blame those for crossing the border illegally, i would honestly do it as well (if i had the courage that those who cross do.) I feel that we are trying to stop the problem without helping solve the root of the problem. The issue is becoming a hotter topic day by day, it's time for change.... what change...? That I do not know.....
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Christy,
This is a deep blog post, but then again this is a very sensitive issue. I do hate how the mexican government doesn't do shit to help out their on people. It pisses me off to see this happen because we as Mexican are a stongly family based people and yet it seems that the mexican government acts like they have nothing to do with the country. WHo is to blame? The drug lords? the currupt government? Or the people that don't put an end to their curruption.
I do agree thta we need some type of change between immigration laws, but also need to get to the root of the problem because immigrations laws is only temporarily solution, but doen't solve the pandemic.
Can we really be at peace if their are countries that benefit from these conditions? and then point fingers to their government when our government welcomes what is happening.
Like Jesus says "immigration reform" will not solve the wage disparities and economic inequalities between both countries. Like I mentioned earlier we need to look at what EU countries did to solve the immigration issues by having the wealthier countries (Britain, Germany and France) invest in the poorer southern European countries (Italy, Spain etc..). We need to tak a hemispheric approach, not a nation-based approach to solve the immigration issue, because as one famour politician put it "its the economy @#@$$#"
It is true that mainly nobody know what to do to the growing crisis of poverty in our world, especially in Latin America. I can not help but to see the root cause of all of this is greed of course. America, Europe, China and Japan in particular are hogging the worlds resources and overindulging in them which is draining from the rest of the world. The only thing that I have seen to do some help was the anti trust act in America which defeated the monopoly. If only we could have a better system to limit the greed of people we could distribute wealth better.
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