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Originally Posted by tomwed
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No big deal but if life is so good in Mexico why would so many leave their loved ones to work here. Three generations ago that's why my family left Ireland, Germany and Italy. Me and mine owe them a lot. Maybe we owe them our lives. How brave they were. I don't think I would be as brave.
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Listen, this thread is about amnesty for millions of ILLEGAL immigrants. I NEVER said life was good in Mexico. You made a statement about the minimum wage in Mexico City which had nothing to do with the thread.
I simply thought your statement with no backup or context needed some. Things said out of context can be construed a lot of different ways. I simply put your fiscal comment in the proper context. That was it.
I literally did not make the comment you attribute to me...that life is good in Mexico or even imply it....I simply think if you post something like that it begs for relativity and that is all I tried to do.
Of course people come here for a better life and future, but anyone reading your post about the minimum wage IN MEXICO relates it to here and that is not the case.
That is it...nothing fancy. Just conversations need to be in the proper context or they get way off the mark.
It is the same thing as to your remarks on past cost of college. That has to be put into the context of how much salary is today versus then. NOTHING is that simple.
PS...all of us have similar stories about past generations for sure. Did your family come legally or illegally. WE still have 4.5 million people who have paid money and are still waiting to enter the front door and do it legally.