We talk a lot about illegal immigrants - how about talking about the U.S. taxpayer-blessed governing elites of the wretched countries they come from?
We have family in South America - I once asked a maid there (age 50) why she voted for candidate so-and-so in the election. The answer: “Before he was in office, my family had to sleep on straw; now we have a mattress”. Nice.
“We talk a lot about illegal immigrants - how about talking about the U.S. taxpayer-blessed governing elites of the wretched countries they come from?”
What’s to talk about? We go with whomever is closest to our forign policy goals. There isn’t much more we could do than we ALREADY do, even if we wanted to.
How about people like your maid sticking around in their own (supposedly beloved) country and looking after it to the degree that it becomes something of which they may be proud? How about sleeping on straw for as long as she has to and persuing freedom for as long as it takes until the day that her family might own a mattress and home and all the other goodies? what did that mattress cost her family in freedom?
“We have family in South America - I once asked a maid there (age 50) why she voted for candidate so-and-so in the election. The answer: “Before he was in office, my family had to sleep on straw; now we have a mattress”. Nice.”
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Looks like democracy in the Southern Cone has only evolved as far as our own Tammany Hall/ward heeler stage of 125 years ago.