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Originally Posted by nancy thereader
Most of the Mexicans who come here are only here to earn enough money to support their impoverished families.
They come from a culture where humility and love of family are valued. Many of us can learn from them.
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I might stand to be corrected on this issue Nancy, but I believe that most Mexicans who come to Long Island, come here illegally.
Day (or night) laborers, come from many South and Central American countries, Mexico is only one source of this migrating labor force,
a group of people who're gleaning the resources of our country without paying their dues. It may seem noble of them to offer labor at
those menial, unskilled jobs for second rate pay, but still and all, if they have no right to be here, they are breaking the law and that is
truly, the bottom line. One of the greatest problems with our system, is that we have rules of law that we are willing to overlook in the
respect of these illegals, we're allowing the weakening of our own society by turning our eyes away from the enforcement of these laws,
by taking that,
"oh well, it's alright" attitude. By degree, we mitigate their infractions and often do this by assuming a "live-and-let-live"
attitude, without understanding, that our society is eroding because somehow, we see no harm in allowing them to feed at our trough.
Whether it is done with a bleeding heart, and in the name of brotherly love, or with the mistaken notion that we'll always be the land of
plenty, it's the wrong way to think. The destruction of a well built house can come about, through failures on the part of the homeowner,
in dealing with termites. Analogously, illegal immigrants enter our country like unabated termites, coming from one corner of the house and
slowly but surely, finding their way to every room, chewing away at the support timbers of the house until it finally collapses. I'm not looking
to unjustly demean that segment of our growing population who're here illegally, but rather want to call attention to the real issue, to obey
law or not to obey. Although the Federal income tax may not be formally enacted by law, the obeyance to it is not arbitrary, disregard the
tax laws and see how far you get! Our immigration policy is made up of laws too, why should we accept a double standard as far as applying
and enforcing those laws?
As Americans, we too also come from a traditional culture, but it is a culture where respect for law is as equally important as the
valued, love of family. These attributes should be considered as openers and minimum requirements for any immigrant living in America,
the Mexicans certainly haven't cornered the market on humility, culture or, love of family. I have no idea of what it is that we here in
America can learn from the Mexicans, perhaps it is only their language, while we watch our native english compete with theirs, seeing
signs, directions and advertisements posted in public places and finding our government, printing documents in spanish, and as for the
learning,
I'd really be happy to hear, just what it is, that we could learn from them.
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