excellent points Mamita–that *any* Latin@ politician could be at this place and not screaming to any media they can get a hold of about this raids–even as the raids are happening!–is a disagrace and shows how little relevance so many of these ‘leaders’ really have.

I ask this one simple question. What profound wrong is the USA and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency committing by merely enforcing the law that all countries around the world enforce and most of them with more severe penalties? Compared to the way Mexicans treat Hondurans and Guatemalans crossing in Mexico you would think that these holier than thou human rights activists would be down there trying to make a difference where there are Real Human Rights issues not all this trumped up BS the ACLU spews

The US needs Mexican workers; people who aren’t afraid to work with the land, raise our children, do hard labor or show the beautiful colors of diversity. There should be no border and most importantly…

Separating families and putting both children and adults in prison will never stop the actual abusers – the Walmarts, large farmers and Gallo Wineries and the likes from abusing human life.

It’s our horizontal hate that keeps us down. There is enough money, food and resources for us to adsorb all the Mexican’s and Canadians that want to cross the boarders. All we have to do is stop supporting the debilitating policies of the rich that keep us down with the dream of going somewhere.

There is enough for everyone. There is enough for everyone. There is enough for Mexican workers and seniors alike. It’s all about distributing the wealth fairly. I’m very thankful for the ACLU if not for them we would be shooting our neighbors and their families at the border.

Freshignorant, I don’t know what world you are living in, but it sounds like you were possibly dropped on your head a few times as an infant. First of all we don’t need foreign workers from anywhere, including Mexico. The U.S. has millions of abled-bodied people living off government handouts and federal social services. Those people need to be denied these services and forced to find a job instead of living off the taxpayers nickel. These are the physically abled folks that can fill the jobs you speak of.

The E-Verify system will prevent companies from hiring people who can not legally work in the U.S. If the company fails to use the E-Verify system and hires illegal aliens, they should suffer heavy penalties including the loss of their business license. Every country has labor laws to prevent foreigners from taking jobs that could be filled by their citizens. The U.S. should be no different.

You either don’t understand what a dangerous world we live in or you don’t want the U.S. to remain a soveriegn nation. Wide open borders is a recipe for mass destruction and the deaths of millions of Americans. There are several radical terrorist organizations intent on the complete devastation of Western civilizations. You allow them easy entry by having wide open borders, you could be signing your own death warrant along with millions of others. For now and forever let’s keep America secure and not turn it into an easy target.

“There is enough for everyone”. What???? You must be delusional or you don’t support yourself. The U.S. has a population of over 300 million people, all using what few resources we have. Our oil supply comes from those that are not too friendly to us and we pay out the nose for it. Our economy is already on shaky ground and the dollar is devalued. You can’t buy today half of what you could just 10 years ago for the same amount of money. Allowing millions of more people into the U.S. would create the same type of economy that China or India has. People would be living in the streets and the crime rate would soar to unbelievable heights.

As for your lame idea of wealth redistribution, well it’s just lame and has never worked in any socialist country. It may start slowly, but eventually it would create a sub class of society that lives off the upper working class. If I work hard for a paycheck and the government takes half of my earnings to house, feed, clothe and support someone sitting on their ass all day, drinking beer and watching Oprah, why would that person have any incentive to ever go to work and support themselves? And if I were able to survive off of someone elses income, why would I want to work? So, eventually there would be more of the leaches of society and fewer workers to support them, That trend would continue until nobody would work and everyone would be on government cheese. Pretty stupid idea unless you believe the U.S. should be communist where the dictator has the choice to either take care of you or let you die or exterminate you like a bug.

Step into reality, get off the drugs, get a job and stop trying to live in your fantacy La-La land of unicorns and rainbows. Life is hard, get use to it, strap up your boots, and be an American our forefathers would be proud of.

OMG. The idiocy. What’s is fucking wrong with these comments?

First of all, I will tell you something about YOUR country. Your country is a World Power. One that colonizes and uses imperialism to expands its borders. One that is REALLY responsible for the awful situation in Latin-American countries. However you look at it, capitalism is a reality, and it affects every country in this world. We are bombarded with ‘white culture’ and ‘white products’ and guess in what country I live. I live very, very south in America in a country I bet you don’t even know the name.

Oh, you need to ‘protect’ its white people! Sadly, the poor, third-world people doesn’t have the same luck than you have to have a ‘document’ that says their are from a first world country. That’s why immigration happens. And yeah, poor brown people goes to work in works that no ‘white able bodied’ person would do, no matter how capable they are of doing. A hierarchy exists, and you are in the top of it. Accept it. Families are suffering violence and terror due to that hierarchy. And no, I’m not talking about those middle-class, white families that watch on tv, while sitting on their couches, that ‘terrorists’ will attack their country.

You are talking about how Maegan doesn’t focus on ‘every poor person.’ Well, if you are talking about ‘white poor people’, they have a lot of people that will talk about them. ‘Poor people’ means ‘white poor people.’ They don’t need more adjectives. You see, you can focus in a lot of things at the same time. She doesn’t need to talk about Guatemala to talk about the awful situations of immigrants in her country. Why don’t you do that if you think that those are ‘more important’ matters? You just don’t want to hear about latin@ immigrants in USA, so you think it’s better to focus on human rights violations in other countries. Why aren’t we talking about poor people in Japan? Well, we could be talking about them, and we could be talking about latin@s immigrants.

Wow. Just… wow. Those have to be the most bigoted, racist things I have heard this month. And that’s… wow.

I don’t know what to say. You clearly don’t know what capitalism is and how it works. What, do you think some poor people are criminals because that’s how nature made them? Do you really think brown people have poorer countries than white people because they… just are more incompetent? Do you think people like being poor, and being exploited by big corporations? So USA white-people are superior, huh.

And in addition to that foreign ownership of property and business has been prohibited in most cases and severly restricted in other cases for close to a century.

WHAT? what? AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh. That made me laugh.

I don’t know. I think this qualifies for a ban.

Cuchillofile, whatever the hell you are talking, you are fucking racist.

See, culture doesn’t have anything to do with nothing. Poverty has everything to do with it.

People in First-World countries are lucky to have access to the best education and the best quality of life in the world. Developing and third world countries don’t have the same resources, the same education, and the same life. You know why they don’t? Oversimplificating, because they lost wars in the past, they were colonized and exploited. Of course, there are pretty complex political and economical dynamics and relations that explain why some countries are far worse than others, and many of those dynamics have to do with race. But, again, I’m oversimplificating. I’m not going to explain it to you, I don’t have the patience.

And you know what? There are moral and ethical reasons why you, a man living a decent life in a rich and powerful country, attempting to be a moral authority to poor immigrants, or to people living in Third World countries set me on fire.

Envy, rage? Well, sweetheart, I’m not going to sound nice when you are spitting racist bullshit because you have free time and a computer at the people you are insulting expense. (And say that that isn’t true and USA is just all mighty whatever you want, everybody with half a brain can tell you why Capitalism is so successful.)