Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Response to "A Day Without A Mexican"
I thought the movie was entertaining and did an effective job of conveying the importance of Mexican immigrants to the American economy and way of life. The statistics and anecdotes really demonstrated what a loss it would be if all Mexicans suddenly disappeared. However I felt that the movie represented an extremely liberal view. Clearly Mexicans are essential to our country and there is no arguing with that, but undocumented citizens do use social resources without financially contributing through taxes. Without some sort of border patrol/documentation system there would be chaos. I don’t think we should be too restrictive of who is allowed to enter the country, but I think its naïve to claim that allowing undocumented immigrants free access is ok.
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Definitely agree with this post. I never knew, or stopped to thing about, all that Mexicans or Latinos did for this country, until I saw the movie. Even though, most of the jobs that we see Latinos working in are service type of occupations, they provide so much for this country. And as the movie demonstrated, without them, we as a country can not function.
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