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The main reasons why the Mexican cross the U.S border illegaly.
Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S. border illegaly,thinking for their "American Dream" and to improve their families situation regardles how are they going to be treat by reaching their goal.
The reasons why the Mexican people cross the border are as the following:
1.- This situation is due to the Mexican government and the police enforcement corruption and the way they handle and steal their taxes, they just care about their personal interests.
2.- Lack of information about the U.S country and their politic with the immigrant people specially for Mexicans.
3.- The EDUCATION from their home countries, Almost all illegal immigrants could not reach the grade 12 of Highschool.
4.- The DISCRIMINATION to get a job in Mexico based on age, sexual orientation, ethnicy and sometimes religion but the main reasons are the age and ethnicy.
Examples: If someone look for an Office Position and he/she belongs from an indigenist group the employer won't hire him/her and they do not even look at him/her face so that's why they ask for his/her picture by filling out the job application.
And if someone is a woman, married and over 30 yrs old the employer won't hire her and if someone is a man the age limit to get a job is 35.
For those 4 main reasons the illegal immigrant think that they do not have any choise to cross the U.S border because they need to survive.
The International Amnesty MUST pay attention and must put pressure on the Mexican government to improve the situation and set up laws to avoid the discrimination mentioned above to avoid the illegal immigration in the U.S.
There is not excuse for the Mexican government, Mexico shouldn't ever live a poor economic situation because that country has everything such as Petroleum, natural resources, nice weather, archeology, beaches etc . . . On the other hand the illegal immigrant should open their eyes and help to put pressure on the Mexican government to stop stealing the taxes (15%) and start improving their life styles.
How many Mexican has been killed in the U.S because of Racism? How many Mexican died by crossing the border? Unfortunately the economic situacion what the illegal immigrants have from their home countries takes them to cross the U.S. border il... more -
THIS IS MY WORLD THROUGH MY EYES!
All my life people told me that i betrayed my country
that i should one day go back...
but what is the point?
she doesn't even know i left.....
It's easy to talk specially when you haven't lived in my shoes
i don't expect you to understand
I only ask that you dont judge me....
I hope that you can only UNDERSTAND
why I WONT BE HOME AGAIN....
i want you to see my world through my eyes.
and understand why
I WONT BE HOME AGAIN........... All my life people told me that i betrayed my country that i should one day go back... but what is the point? ... more -
Tlilli, Tlapalli--mrf2
Our group concentrated on the Tlilli Tlapalli Consciousness as explained by Gloria Anzaldua’s Boderlands/La Frontera book. She portrays art as a communal activity that educates and inspires people. She criticizes the Western art tradition by stating: “Western art is always whole and always ‘in power.’ It is individual (not communal). It is ‘psychological’ in that it spins its energies between it self and its witness” (Anzaldua 90). Tlilli Tlapalli is a Nahuatl word for black and red ink, which represent writing and wisdom. This video was made by Chican@ Studies students at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). In our video, we portray different ways art is perceived in Western culture versus non-Western cultures. In the movie, the actress (Melissa) who plays Anzaldua falls asleep and has a dream about how her ancestors perceived art. They believe that art is meant to be alive, meaningful, and not enclosed in a museum. This dream frightens her at first, but then inspires her to continue her artistic work. Our group concentrated on the Tlilli Tlapalli Consciousness as explained by Gloria Anzaldua’s Boderlands/La Frontera book. She portra... more
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Taming the Wild Tongue TCW8
This short film basically shows the viewer what "taming the wild tongue" means. Three skits are used, each with a different example to show what is the taming of the tongue. The three examples portray this consciousness through the school, home, and work environments. This short film basically shows the viewer what "taming the wild tongue" means. Three skits are used, each with a different ... more
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Katie Couric is Becoming Lou Dobbs (Who Needs Facts When You've Got Prejudice...
As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems.
Weighed down by record-low ratings at the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News,” and by reports suggesting she will leave that post two years before her multimillion-dollar contract expires, Couric now has civil rights groups — mostly Hispanic — on her back.
And for good reason.
The CBS newscast that carries her name recently aired a one-sided and inaccurate report about illegal immigrant women who give birth to their children in the United States. The news story challenged the broader constitutional law of birthright citizenship and stated — without providing the correct context — that the births cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars annually. As if Katie Couric didn’t already have enough problems. ... more -
U.S. Stamp Commemorates Chicano Martyr
"Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 people) against the Vietnam War – was the historic nature of [Ruben Salazar's] journalism. Clearly, he was a journalist before his time and what he reported in the El Paso Herald Post and the Los Angeles Times, from 1955 through 1970, still seems relevant to this day. He covered an unpopular war; Vietnam. He also covered Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the upheaval in Mexico in the 1960s. He also wrote about the anti-war movement, black-brown relations, police repression, the border, the inhumane treatment of migrants, the trouble in the lettuce fields, and social and educational inequalities...
While not an activist, his journalism brought the emerging Chicano civil rights movement to the nation’s attention. He defined for the nation – in language that mainstream society understood – what it meant to be Chicano." "Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 p... more -
Chicanos Celebrate 40th Anniversary of 1968 Walkouts
"When Mexican-American teacher Sal Castro and organized college students declared "Blowout" at East Los Angele's Lincoln High School in March 1968, students from Lincoln and five other East L.A. high schools responded by hitting the streets in peaceful protest.
They were fighting for civil and human rights in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which treated Mexican-American children as barely an afterthought." "When Mexican-American teacher Sal Castro and organized college students declared "Blowout" at East Los Angele's L... more -
MEChA Becomes More Inclusive, Less Radical
"For the past 40 years, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- or, Movement of Chicano Students of Aztlan -- has been criticized as racist and radical. Members sparked riots. Key philosophies, such as "For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing," even rejected non-Mexicans. But in 1999, the group declared Chicano a philosophy, not a nationality. All people are potential Chicanos or Chicanas, the national group decided at a conference in Phoenix, Ariz." "For the past 40 years, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan -- or, Movement of Chicano Students of Aztlan -- has been cr... more
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Would you like Jesus on your Tortilla?: Joe Bravo redefines Chicano Art
excerpt from the article:
"Bravo, 57, admits that he never consciously set out to do anything avant garde. the early 1970s, he was a starving art student at the University of California, Northridge. 'I didn't have the money to buy canvas,' he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. 'I was looking at some tortillas in my kitchen and was just tripping on the textures.' So Bravo painted five tortillas with Mayan codexes and hung them as a mobile in a school exhibition..." excerpt from the article: ... more -
GOP Immigrant-bashing is Hurting Their Party, Democrats to Reap the Benefits
This renewed xenophobia towards Mexicans will bode very badly for the GOP come the general election as Hispanics are the fastest growing minority and an influential voting demographic. And yes I say Mexicans, because the vast majority of "illegal immigrants" are Mexicans and this IS a RACIAL ISSUE--if you doubt this then you might want to ask yourself: why don't they worry about securing Canada's border? If you remember terrorists didn't go through the mexican border.
Mexicans are being scapegoated once more in the history of the United States. Know your history people, in the 1930's during the depression over a million Mexicans, including american citizens (sons/daughters of mexican immigrants) were "re-patriated" to Mexico a place that had become foreign to many of them (they WERE AMERICANS.) They were shipped in trains, boats, and many drove cars south. The journey was a dangerous and sometimes a disgusting one. Some people packed into trains having to stand in their own shit and piss for hours at a time (which eerily reminds me of the trains that took holocaust victums). Mexicans were humiliated and disrespected simply for the color of their skin.
Not to mention the way Mexicans were beaten, raped and lynched during the 1840's and 50s after the U.S. stole half of Mexico in the gravely unjust and undertaught Mexican-American War. If the GOP is so hung up on respecting the law then maybe they should honor the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo a lawful agreement, that respected Mexicans right to perseve their property, language and culture. But oh yeah, the U.S. only honors laws that align with their own ignorance, bigotry, racism and homophobia. So we see an UNNECESSARY rise in hate crimes against gays and latinos, because well, it comes down to one simple elemantry thing: they're different, and we dont like people who are different. Republicans GROW UP.
Sorry, I'm latino and I'm gay so I feel like I'm getting attacked for who I am twice as much these days.
You can read more about this history by reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Decade-Betrayal-Mexican-Repatriat... This renewed xenophobia towards Mexicans will bode very badly for the GOP come the general election as Hispanics are the fastest growi... more -
East LA Inc.?
Unincorporated East Los Angeles has poor media representation, one mainly stuck on the topics of poverty, crime and a broken educational system. As a precursor to an East L.A.-centric, immigration piece I'm working on, I thought the current cityhood movement deserved some attention.
East Los Angeles residents officially started a cityhood movement almost a year ago. Last month, the East L.A. Residents Association (ELARA) broke news that a financial feasibility report shows that East L.A. is sustainable as a city, generating $48 million annually. This short report from Saturday Oct. 13, 2007, was a benefit/awareness concert aimed at the youth of East Los Angeles, as organized by 'Cityhood for East L.A.' volunteers.
*Excuse the video quality, a result of YouTube! Unincorporated East Los Angeles has poor media representation, one mainly stuck on the topics of poverty, crime and a broken education... more -
Shoes, Chicana style
By genius Margaret Cho- east LA stylee, esse!
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