My view of the world

The California pear crop started out looking like a record, now a lot of the fruit has rotted, because of a shortage of illegal aliens. The border is only slightly tougher to cross than it was. But, the number of pickers has declined, this is because many of the illegals seem to be staying in this country instead of returning to Mexico, so they have taken more stable, full time jobs.
The lack of pickers doesn’t bother me, the price of fruit and vegetables, in the store, is too high, the quality is too low, and most of it seems to come from outside of this country. What does bother me are the number of mainstream jobs that have gone to illegals. In the past, the braceros came here for the season and then returned to Mexico, now they come here, stay and have turned much of Las Vegas into “Little T.J.”

Obviously, not all illegals are criminals, in fact most of them are hard working people who didn’t have a way to make a living back home.
However, the culture is one of conspiracy, they bring friends and relatives into this country illegally and hide and feed them when they get here.
They see nothing wrong with breaking the law, and when the INS raided a local club that was a known hang out, for illegals, the Hispanic community, staged marches, claimed they were being discriminated against, and were making loud noises about filing a class action suit.

The basic problem isn’t the pear crop, or the jobs they take from hard working, tax paying Americans, it’s Mexico.
El Presidente objects to closing the border, because a great many of the workers who come here, send money home, and this means that the Mexican economy can survive a while longer without changing the laws there, and forcing the major companys to pay a living wage.

From what I’ve seen and read of Mexico, if a man was to run for political office and shook hands with each and every member of the middle class, he’d still have his afternoons free.
They may have broken up the giant land grants, but the “patron” attitude remains.
It’s just like this country, but on a much grander scale, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class, gets squeezed, so the rich, including the major oil companys, don’t have to pay their share of the taxes, and the “Old Boy” network rules supreme.

Canada, uses a temporary worker system that seems to work, why can’t we.
And to President Vicente Fox Quesada, your economy is broken, you try to fix it by sending your problems to us.
Why don’t you tax the rich, never mind, that’s you and your friends.
Well, Mr President, please remember, when I say Kiss My Ass, it’s an insult, not an attempt to make friends.