Fair Trade

I was in Wal Mart the other day, when I saw a guy, obviously illegal, with his wife and kids. He was standing by a buggy full of groceries with this dumb look on his face. As I watched him, I realized that he was dumbfounded by the amount of food he was purchasing. He smiled this weird smile and put his hand on his kids' heads with tears in his eyes.

I felt guilty about my illegal immigration stance for about three minutes until some tweaked out wetback nearly ran me over in the parking lot.

You see, we miss a lot because the good and decent hard-working illegals are usually busy working when we run into their asshole counterparts. Imagine what it would take for you to sneak across our Northern border so you could provide for your family. Life here is way better for a working-class family man than it ever could be in Mexico.

No, I'm not getting soft, I'm getting pissed.

Why is it that we can condemn some Haji dictator for being a monster ten thousand miles away and at the same time support a political and economic totalitarianist regime right out our back door?

Because there's money in it.

There are lots of good and decent people in Mexico who deserve better than they are getting. Just like there are anywhere else. What I don't understand is why they don't do something about it.

While I am no pacifist, I am hesitant to promote violence as a means of political change. It doesn't usually work out like people hope that it will. But damn, how much are these people going to take?

Oh, wait, they don't have to, do they? They can just stroll across our border and get a decent job.

Let's make a deal...

Here's fair trade for you-I'll trade every POS drug dealer, dope feind, and pedophile to Mexico in exchange for all of their hard-working blue collar types. Better yet, I'll throw in Congress and almost all of the press, too. They can get together down in Mexico and throw a little chaos party, while we can hire a whole new breed of Spanish speaking Border Agents who have definately taken all of the crap they care to.