"Today we march, tomorrow we vote"
Mass protests reveal growing Hispanic power in US
It was quite enlightening to see 80,000+ primarily Mexicans walk past my building this afternoon. Happily, I witnessed as many white shirts and nearly as many US Flags waving.
I haven’t seen ‘Nationalism’ or ‘Socialism’ mentioned in the articles or on the radio, but this seems to be the underlying issue. Are we protecting our borders from terrorism resulting in excluding the low paid workforce or are we somewhat accepting of the illegal people here because they do the jobs that citizens don’t want and will do the jobs for less? Are the jobs being offered for less money because of this legal situation which exploits the workers?
After months of reading the FT I see the words Nationalism and Protectionism quite often. Prior to this experience the arguments were still made, but the terminology seems much more prevalent in the European paper. Interesting.
posted by Matthew Horvat @ 5:57 PM
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I am with you. I still don't know that coming down on one side or the other, seeing things as black and white, is appropriate. We have a need, workers fill the need. We should be able to expect people to follow our rules, but we have millions of illegal aliens. We are being accused of not welcoming people, yet it isn't that hard to become a citizen. Should something so valuable as US citizenship be given away without value? Anyway, there must be a middle ground out there somewhere. - Cheryl
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