Editor,
I oppose treating immigrants as criminals just because they do not have legal papers. I oppose treating people who compassionately help these immigrants as criminals. I oppose a fence and wall between the U.S. and Mexico. I support full human rights for all immigrants. If the U.S. wants to reduce the number of immigrants coming from Mexico and other nations, the U.S. needs to work for justice for the millions of poor and working people in Mexico and other nations. Instead, the U.S. government routinely and deliberately sides with the filthy rich elites abroad to rob and to kill the poor. Most immigrants would prefer to stay in their native lands if living conditions there greatly improved. If the U.S. wants to reduce the number of immigrants from Mexico and other nations, we Americans need to change our lives to live simply and fairly in the world family of 6.7 billion people. We need to stop glamorizing U.S. greed, cars, big houses and crazy consumer crap in U.S. movies and magazines that go to Mexico and other nations.
U.S. movies and magazines seduce people abroad to come here and get addicted to the stupid crap most Americans are addicted to.
Immigrants who have no legal papers often take the jobs that most Americans do not want. Many U.S. employers underpay these immigrants. Some U.S. employers call the U.S. immigration offices to arrest these immigrant employees just before payday. Some U.S. employers cheat these immigrants
on their paychecks.
I reject the term “illegal aliens.” All immigrants are our sisters and brothers. The U.S. invaded Mexico and waged war in Mexico more than 150 years ago. Besides slaughtering many people in Mexico, the U.S. stole from Mexico most of what is the U.S. southwest today. So today’s U.S. border with Mexico is illegal and resulted from the U.S. invasion, war and massive theft from Mexico in 1848. The only people in the U.S. who are not immigrants or the descendants of immigrants are full-blooded Native Americans.
Don Schrader
Daily Lobo reader
