I went on this trip called the Youth Migrant Project for a week and the trip totally changed my life! You got to go to a migrant camp and see what it was like and the houses are as small as a small bedroom. I saw one house that size and six people were living in it. We got to help the migrants by giving them food in a food drive we did. When I was passing out food to them I saw a baby with a growth on its head. I met a girl named Lefelia while I was there and she is fourteen years old just like me, but her life is entirely different. She has lived in California, Washington, all over the place! Right now Lefelia, even though she is only fourteen, is working in the fields for her family. She probably will not go to high school or college. She will probably never get a real home, her own bedroom, or for that matter even her own bed. Man, the conditions they have to live in, for all they do for us, with so little pay, that's just wrong. Some people think they are here to steal our jobs, but they aren't. They are here to provide for their families and they are here because this is supposed to be a free country where any man can get the money he deserves. If we send the migrants away, who do you think will be generous enough to switch their nice office job to go live in a house the size of a small bedroom and pick berries for eighteen cents a gallon? Not me. Not you. Fair trade is a solution that can help the migrants and their families. Fair trade products are sold and the maker of the product gets good money. Call or write a letter to a store near you and ask if they can get more fair trade products to sell. Go on trips like the youth migrant project. Tell people what you think about the migration issue. Speak out; it will make a difference.
I think they should all be shipped in very tiny boxes back to Mexico. Make it as uncomfurtable as possible for them. They need to learn our language...or get out!
This "fair trade" that the US government has offered is a joke. NAFTA is a joke. "Free trade" is a joke.
I support free and fair trade. The problem is that these "free trade" agreements heavily favor the United States... which makes it not free and fair. It allows US corporations to cross into Mexico, kick out all the competition, and pay the workers less than a dollar a day. The US government is not responsible for them, and the Mexican government is too weak to kick them out. It's not Capitalism, it's authoritarian economics.
What I mean is in America we are melting pot. The place where immigrants come to make a new life. We are all immigrants here unless you are Native American.
Frankly, the Mexicans are more at home here then most of us.
@ Spartan, that is pretty insensitive. Isn't this America...?
Yes, it is. I mean sure it's land of the free blah blah blah, but these people wernt even born here! They don't even understand our language, and all they do is take the jobs us lazy slob Americans cant do....
Who said America is sensitive? Although boxing them up like animals is a bit inhumane don't you think?
Yeah, a little intense, but I mean they deserve something for having to make our fine men of the law enjorcment waste there time in shipping them back!
What I mean is in America we are melting pot. The place where immigrants come to make a new life. We are all immigrants here unless you are Native American.
Frankly, the Mexicans are more at home here then most of us.
Yeah, I heared that crap when I was in 6th grade. We lived here much longer than they have. It was our anciesters that came and migrated here...not us, so we have more of a right to say about them coming in as they please.
I think anyone should have the chance to come to the USA to start fresh and have a better chance at life. I don't see why people hate Mexicans coming to America, I'm fine with it! As long as they do it legally, I'm fine, but if they do it illegally, it's worse. But, if they do it illegally then get a Visa and some work, I'd be happy!
