In Defense of Mexican Immigrants
I have had it up to here with Americans’ outraged over the gall of Mexicans and other illegal immigrants entering our country; as if illegal immigrants truly had a choice. Take the case of Mexico, for example, the birthplace of the majority of illegal immigrants in this country. The minimum wage is $4.50 A DAY, which according to statistics is not enough money to buy sufficient food for one person to survive, let alone their children. At least a third of all Mexicans try to survive on wages within $2.00 per day of the minimum wage. Labor laws in Mexico are a joke and unpaid overtime, shoddy conditions, and uncompensated injuries are the norm. Any reasonable person, faced with the same circumstances as these Mexicans, would do anything to escape their situation, including flee to a neighboring country, with a minimum wage 14 times higher than their own, to be able to work with dignity and put bread on the table for their children. How can we have such little empathy for their plight? ...