<p>“Unless your parents were somehow forced to move here, they are the ones with the responsibility for your future.”</p>
<p>…(and your present).</p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more with the raw truths in post 122 – truths that undocumented Mexicans living here refuse to acknowledge. No, it’s more fun to spew venom at U.S. civilians for daring to want to speak English & learn in English in their public classrooms for which they pay with their equally hard-earned money as any illegally arrived visitor/employee.</p>
<p>Who is responsible for the massive, entrenched poverty in rural Mexico, that pre-existed NAFTA by decades? The Mexican government. Who is responsible for the restricted economic mobility of the non-wealthy classes in Mexico? The Mexican government. Who is the most exploitative of illegal immigration to the U.S., by virtue of the direction of cashflow from those workers, southward? Who wants to sustain poverty both north and south of the border, because it benefits them? The Mexican government. </p>
<p>The <em>origins</em> of the plight & status of undocumenteds lies with Mexico, in Mexico. The sustenance of their plight lies with the Mexican government. Not with the U.S. gov’t., not with Anglo schoolchildren needing to learn to read & write in their own native language, not with CC posters, not with the U.S. public in general. </p>
<p>No. The MEXICAN government. Your civil and human rights to earn a respectable wage, enjoy the fruits of the modern, industrialized era have always lay, and continue to lie, in your native land, in the corrupt, neglectful, selfish, greedy (i.e., hateful) hands of those who have governed you. Not by some fictional “hatred” of the majority of mostly compassionate U.S. citizens.</p>