Father's Modest Dream Leads to Tragic Journey

Los Angeles Times ^ | 10-23-2002 | Richard Boudreaux

[boris]

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Father's Modest Dream Leads to Tragic Journey

Mexican migrant who hoped to earn enough to finish his home died in rail car.

By Richard Boudreaux, Times Staff Writer

LOS CONOS, Mexico -- Roberto Esparza was a skilled, hard-working young man with a welding shop in his mother's garage. He had a baby son, the joy of his life, and a modest start toward his dream: the mud-brick walls of a little home for his new family.

But one day in June, Esparza despaired of his limits and made a heartbreaking choice. Welding jobs in this poor farming village bring $4 on a good day, too little for building materials in addition to food, so he turned to a thriving local businessman for help.

[boris]

Editor
Los Angeles Times

Sir:

It is by now quite plain that the political-correctness handbook of the Los Angeles Times prohibits describing illegal aliens in any terms not glowing with approval.

Your latest contemptible case in point, the 1,474-word page-1 story "Father's Modest Dream Leads To Tragic Journey", uses the unmodified word "migrant" nine times, "undocumented" twice, and "illegal" not once. Unwillingness to use plain language shows a hidden agenda, a desire deliberately to mislead.

It is the common practice of scoundrels.

--Boris

[GovernmentShrinker]

Same old story. Start having babies, then try to figure out how to support yourself and them too.

[Chi-Town Lady]

That's one thing I could never figure out. If you can't house or feed yourself why in God's dear name would you have children? So you can watch them starve and die?