For Time Magazine: Nathan Thornburgh/St. Helens, Oregon
April, 2009
Margarito has a decision to make: After more than a decade of living and working illegally in the U.S., is it time to go back home to Mexico? He and his wife lost their jobs recently (he from a pallet factory, she from Burger King, both for having invalid Social Security numbers). He has been looking for other work, but his search is greatly complicated by measure 5-190, a ballot initiative enthusiastically approved by his neighbors and former colleagues that will, if it survives a court challenge, impose a $10,000 fine on anyone in the county who gives Margarito — or any other undocumented worker — a new job.
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2 comments:
Of course people who illegally come to the US should head for home! They broke the law and should expect criminal charges and penalities. This is a duh. If they want a better life, do what we did and change the situation. How cowardly is it to simply change countries because you don't like yours? How much should Americans tolerate? If we want Mexicans to come here and live unfettered, we should make such the law. Otherwise, this civil disobedience thing ranks equil to war protestors: the things they do kill American soldiers and should be considered treason.
This is truly a case of whether or not we want Mexicans who come into the United States illegally to take jobs from American citizens who have been layed off and want to work anywhere. Why would we do that? We also need to consider that America is unworthy of being involved in international diplomancy. War is the failure of diplomacy. It seems that we Americans are willing to our mouths off about saving the world, but that is all we are willing to shoot off. Until we are willing to support aggresive action, we should keep to ourselves in world diplomacy.
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