Believe nothing you hear
And only half of sight
The common wisdom implores
Lies come at us often as
Those waves that lap at the shores
Not one sound do we hear today
That reveals the true ebb and flow
Of those who come to us from
Our neighboring Mexico.
And so the truth…
Their crime rate is one-half of ours
They’re quiet and well-behaved
They’re a family-oriented bunch
But they work like they’re enslaved.
Early to bed and early to rise
Out in the fields each morrow
They harvest our crops
And clean our rooms
For pennies on the dollar.
In a word they are respectful
They go to church and pray
In hopes of a better tomorrow
Or at least a better today.
They pay billions of dollars in taxes
Knowing they cannot retire
Still they do not complain
Come shine or come rain
They’re caught in the lines of cross fire.
Today their numbers are shrinking
As they leave on their own each day
Going home once again
Without fanfare or din
Back where their hearts know the way.
The jobs they need are too few
The pay they require is too low
The arrows and slings
Don’t mean a thing
As they walk back to Mexico.
Thanks for bringing this wonderful information to us through your poetry.
Here in Houston, our prosperity is tied to the unsung hard work of our Hispanic population, swelled by those who left their homes and braved perilous journeys just to be able to work at below minimum wages, long hours, with no benefits and save money to send home.
If you ask most of these, mostly male, young men, they will tell you that what they want to do most is to earn enough to make their families in Mexico happy and healthy and to return to their homeland when they have earned enough.
Our immigration laws make what they do very difficult. If we only would grant work permits to those that were willing to return after working in the United States with no intention of immigrating, our country would be much better off and so would Mexico.
We seem to want a better tomorrow for ourselves; but what about the others, the downtrodden, the poor, the lost. Your point is beautifully made and well taken. Well done.
Mexicans, like all others, have their good and bad. It's just now-a-days there are more and more people so there are are more good and more bad people. It just goes to figure.
Your piece is a sad, but a fact-checkable overview far too many deny, or worse, choose to lie about to further their agendas. Having lived in LA for 20 years, I can attest to all you say. Your reference to the crime-rate raises another question: why do so many choose to distort their own perceptive ability? I sometimes think we are irrevocably becoming a society of sociopaths, rather than honest beings.
Well done, Edward. Surprising hostility directed at them, as if we resent our dependence upon their hard work. Researchers have found that we have to hear a lie only twice before we start believing it. Imagine the steady drumbeat we hear from international corporature. But the same researchers say that true or not, needing to be told a thing only once or twice was once a genetic survival trait ... go figure.
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Here in Houston, our prosperity is tied to the unsung hard work of our Hispanic population, swelled by those who left their homes and braved perilous journeys just to be able to work at below minimum wages, long hours, with no benefits and save money to send home.
If you ask most of these, mostly male, young men, they will tell you that what they want to do most is to earn enough to make their families in Mexico happy and healthy and to return to their homeland when they have earned enough.
Our immigration laws make what they do very difficult. If we only would grant work permits to those that were willing to return after working in the United States with no intention of immigrating, our country would be much better off and so would Mexico.
Ron
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Jane
people are quick to jump.
To make it even worse,
we need Donald Trump.
Michael D.