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Relates to: Jail time in store for all AZ crossers (starnet-local)"That's 30 days of income they don't have for their families"When we say we are 'Proud to be Americans' , is this what we are proud of? Imprisoning people who are willing to risk their lives to feed their family?Yet this is what the policy supporters are saying. Another supporter, Neville Cramer, is quoted as saying "[incarceration] keeps them from working to earn money to send back home" Is anyone even considering the situation that motivates people to leave their homes and cross the Arizona desert in mid-summer? Did you know that milk costs nearly the same in Mexico as it does here? Yet workers are paid about one-fifth or less of what a comparable job pays here. Try this site out - it lets you virtually work and shop in Mexico: http://www.ueinternational.org/shop/ NAFTA has not helped - it has depressed wages in Mexico. Money and goods are free to cross the border, but human beings are not - so human wages become more imbalanced while good prices equalize. Why do our legislators keep coming up with inhumane and vicious, narrow-minded short term solutions? This is the best they can do? To all who are so self-righteous in criminalizing migrant workers, take a look at where you eat and live. Can you say that your house was not built by illegal laborers, or that you are not eating food prepared by illegal workers? (And that includes the meat-packing plants of the fast food industry) Here is a proposal for a positive solution, please feel free to make any constructive comments or add to it. A Win-Win Solution for Immigration http://btucson.com/128920 If our representatives aren't going to make decent policy, perhaps we can."" |
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