Chicken given ticket for Jaywalking..

Yes, Anti, you are right. There's no legal way of doing this, but the businesses say "fuck it" and break the law, since that involves more profit. Since the governments of both countries favour the sake of big business, then everybody wins that way... except the actual workers, that is.

If they had to legally report that they have illegal workers, they'd immediately have to give them all benefits and the wage dictated by law. However, since they're illegally in the country, they can choose between abuse and deportation.

 

God, I couldn't have answered Anti's question any better. Bravo Xerdo. They simply say, "Fuck it." It's funny how George Bush(not meaning to offend the Republicans, but I'm speaking the truth) states that the borders are being guarded heavily, yet there are more illegal aliens here than ever.

 

There are more illegal aliens than ever because they are gradually growing in number every year, not just because Bush is in office. They all didn't just show up over night you know.

 

nope, it's not only Bush's fault. The whole Neoliberal system (as they like to call the "modern" reinterpretation of free market capitalism), and the globalization of the means of production/capital accumulation system generally comes with population shifts - and so does the global economic crisis and the augmentation of the gap between rich and poor, along with the supernatural powers given to transnationals and big business thanks to lobbying and corruption.

Bush's government sure does favour this happening much faster - but so does Vicente Fox's puppet government (who obeys Bush's government) - and many other regimes in the world...

Depressive.

 

Bush approves of the migration of illegal aliens in this country behind our backs. Does the WTO sound familiar? That is what Bush is all about. The WTO wants to lower our standard of living by bringing in illegal aliens, and Bush is 100% with them.

 

I loled

 

Whoops, that didn't come out right. "Approve" would work, hehe, not promote.

 

Bush's and Fox's politics propiciate and provoke the migration - their faulty management of Economy/Business control/Access to quality of life has caused this debacle.
It's clear the system no longer works.

 

Yeah, this is true. But you gotta remeber that globalization goes both ways. The Mexican workers come over here to work for less pay, but our corporations also go over there and drive down the standard of living. The whole machiladoras thing, sweatshops just inside the border to take advantage of bought and paid for labor laws and politicians.

My thing is though that globalization doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, the problem with it is that all these trade agreements are being made behind closed doors without any public input, no protections for wages, enviromental law, etc. It would be better if we could raise the countries we trade with up to a higher standard of living instead of the "race to the bottom" we hear so much about.

It's not a republican thing (Clinton signed NAFTA after all.) It's more like an attempt by the elites to solidify thier hold via international law, the free unchecked flow of capital across international borders, etc. All this has been happening for several decades now, there's just a lot more talk about it becasue it's entering it's final phases.

But as I said, this doesn't have to be a bad thing. We can have free trade and prosperity and protect people and the enviroment too. Seems everytime there's some bad press about exploiting people here and abroad another bone gets thrown to us.

 

I have to deal with this problem everyday. The town I live in, or actually near, has a high Mexican population because there is Pilgrim's Pride (chicken plant), Tyson (chicken plant), EPI (Plastic mold factory), and Electrolux (Chain saws, trimmers & specialty outdoor products factory) all located in this one town. These places employ a large amount of the Mexican population, weather they are legal or not. I work at Electrolux, and I can tell you that 90 percent of the people that work there are Mexican. I don't really care though, I just do my job, even if I can't communicate with the people around me, and they do theirs. If there are any illegal aliens there, and I am guessing there are, I can't say if their pay is any different than mine. Who knows, I just can't wait until I leave that place to further my education, so I don't end up working in a place like that all my life -_-

 

It's really cool you'll actually get the chance to do so, Workshop. Make good use of it. Most of your work-colleagues never had it and their children never will. That's the permanence of the class-difference in the globalized world. And it's seriously worse in Mexico than it is up where you live.

Electrolux.... that's a pretty common brand name down here. I don't know if it's a ventilator or some lamp, but we've had several of your appliances. Not bad, if I recall correctly... Ah! yes, I remember. It was my mother's Vacuum Cleaner.
It worked for TWENTY years. It still does, actually, we just don't use it anymore.

 

I will, trust me. Although, I am forced to rely on scholarships and the money I make from my job. My parents make enough money to where I can't get financial aid, but they don't make enough money to put me through college.

Now that you mention it, Electrolux owns quite a few popular brands, and builds for others. Electrolux, Electrolux Laundry Systems, Electrolux Dito, AEG, Arthur Martin, Diamant Boart, Eureka, Flymo, Frigidaire, Husqvarna, Jonsered, Kelvinator, McCulloch, Molteni, Partner, Poulan, REX, Weed Eater, and Zanussi. We also build for Craftsman and Makita. The line I work on does only Chainsaws, and mostly Husqvarnas.

 

I feel your pain there, bro. I had financial aid - in exchange for the deed to my father's house. I got a 3 year extra extension to pay in exchange of staying for Graduate school and Teaching in the university.

I'll get it back when I give them 20,000 dollars I owe them. Doesn't sound like a lot, until I tell you that I (honour graduate, two jobs, going through graduate school) make 280 dollars a month.
They never tell you that. They tell you you got a "Scholarship", and then when it comes to the last semester, they sign you to the credit bureau so you can no longer get loans, you get stuck with payments and you have to put your house as collateral - while the rich kids get all the jobs because of Daddy's influence. The same rich kids that graduated thanks to "collaborative effort", meaning YOUR work to get good grades in assignments or lose your financial aid.
If you don't agree, they simply don't give you your degree. Good thing they tell you with one semester to go, huh?
Education is pretty good in Mexico - as you can tell.

Still, though, I'm very thankful I got that scholarship to the best university (yes, that's where these things happen. Imagine the middle of the road ones, or the worst ones) in the country and I had great teachers. I'm one of the privileged mexicans. I'm still going to have to go to the first world to pay my debts - but not to feed my family once I come back with a PhD.
That makes me like 0.01 percent of the population.

So, I think, even in my higher-middle-class suburban little bubble, I can sort of understand what my country is going through - and I don't blame people for going to the United States to get a job - to feed their family.

Sorry for the long-winded rant. It just makes me somewhat mad to have wasted my youth studying, and I will get it back these next 10 years, as much as I can.

 

Hey Xerdo, I understand. There are plenty of poor people here too, working thier asses off for next to nothing. Just hang in there, and play a lot of violent games to lessen stress and all.