Word: mexicans
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...story on Mexican migrants who work in the U.S., send their earnings back home and exist uneasily between two worlds sparked a sympathetic response from readers who were critical of U.S. immigration policies. Others denounced illegal aliens for taking the jobs of U.S. citizens...
...Being a Mexican immigrant in the U.S. gives me pretty good insight into the immigration issue [Feb. 6]. It took me seven years to get a resident visa, and I am a college-trained interpreter. In my heart, there is always the dream of going back home. If a guest-worker program were in place, my fellow countrymen and I could go back to Mexico every so often, reaffirming our roots, and not remain indefinitely in the U.S. Since there is no such program in place, we have only one choice: to stay as long as we can and save...
Thanks for the extraordinary article about the many difficult aspects of Mexican immigration. Your story was a dead-on portrayal of all the pain, confusion and resentment in the quagmire of illegal immigration. There are many wonderful, hardworking people who are doing needed jobs in the U.S. and helping their families back home. It is unfortunate that there are also many migrants who are here to take advantage of American generosity. The core problem is that the U.S. has such an incoherent plan for immigrants that people on both sides of the border feel threatened...
There are two addictions here: That of the Mexicans to the U.S. dollar and that of the Americans to cheap labor. In addition, it plainly doesn't matter how long we Mexicans have lived in the U.S. We struggle and maneuver between two languages and two cultures and settle somewhere in the middle, neither here nor there. Everyone pays a price: for the Mexican, it is being away from family and home, probably never to return permanently, and for the American, it is having to provide health care and other services for this secret workforce...
DIED. PEDRO GONZALEZ GONZALEZ, 80, dextrous physical comedian and one of Hollywood's earliest recognizable Mexican actors; in Culver City, Calif. In 1953 the aspiring comedian won a spot on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. His goofy dances and witty exchanges with Marx led to a contract with John Wayne and roles in such films as The High and the Mighty and Rio Bravo...