¿Porqué no te regresas a tu país y haces que prospere? Fue lo que alguien le grito a un manifestante que participaba en una huelga de hambre en contra de la Ley Arizona en Washington Square Park en Nueva York. El manifestante titubeó un poco y respondió que tal vez, algunos de nosotros tenemos que regresar a hacer prosperar nuestros países...Tal vez esa es una pregunta que los que estamos acá nos debemos hacer pero es algo que un ciudadano estadounidense no tiene derecho a proponer.
¿Cómo pedirle a un trabajador indocumentado que regrese a un país que se ha empobrecido por seguir la ideología impuesta desde Washington? ¿Porqué los Latinos tenemos que regresar y los europeos que llegaron a Estados Unidos desde la llegada de Colon pueden quedarse? ¿Porqué ellos no regresaron a hacer prosperar sus paises? ¿Porqué los latinos no tenemos derecho a disfrutar de nuestros frutos en este país? Los trabajadores indocumentados trabajan muchas veces mas arduamente que los ciudadanos estadounidenses, este país ha prosperado en los hombros de los trabajadores indocumentados desde que empezaron a llegar, es su trabajo arduo y sus bajos salarios los que han hecho prosperar este pais. ¿Qué meritos tiene un ciudadano estadounidense además de el de haber nacido aquí?
Hay ciudadanos estadounidenses que piensan que porque los trabajadores vinieron aquí rompiendo las reglas de inmigración eso los deja sin derecho a nada. Es sorpendente que estadounidenses y también latinos dejen de mencionar que los trabajadores indocumentados rompen las reglas porque no les queda de otra, porque sus paises estan empobrecidos por seguir las reglas economicas que Washington con las mejores intenciones o las mas obscuras impone en Latinoamerica, que muchos agricultores, pescadores y transportistas mexicanos se quedaron sin trabajo cuando se puso en marcha el TLC porque Estados Unidos usa estratagemas para no tener que competir con los productores mexicanos, que si nos nos quieren aquí deben dejar de hacernos la vida miserable allá o al menos dejarnos cometer nuestros propios errores.
domingo, 1 de agosto de 2010
Why don't you go back?
Why don't you go back to your country to make it prosperous? That's what someone yelled at a person that took the microphone in a protest against the SB 1070 in Washington Square. The person in the microphone hesitated and then answer that maybe some of us need to go back and make our countries prosperous. Maybe that is a question we (Latinos living in the US) have to ask ourselves but it's a question Americans have no right to ask.
How an American asks an undocumented worker to go back to a country impoverished as a consequence of following policies imposed by the US? Why Hispanics have to go back and the Europeans that came before us get to stay? Why none of them went back and make their countries prosperous? Why Latinos have no right to enjoy the fruits of our labor? Undocumented workers work sometimes harder than Americans. It's their hard work and low wages that made this country prosperous. What's Americans merit besides being born here?
Some Americans think that because undocumented workers came to the US breaking the immigration laws they don't have any rights. It's surprising that Americans and Latinos alike never mention that undocumented workers break this laws because they have no other choice. They have no other choice because their countries are poor because they follow the policies that America imposes on them. Nobody mentions that many farmers, fisherman and truck drivers lost their jobs in Mexico because after NAFTA they had to face unfair competition and fight against unfair laws from the US. Nobody mentions that if they don't want us here they have to stop making our lives miserable back in our countries or at least let us to make our own mistakes.
How an American asks an undocumented worker to go back to a country impoverished as a consequence of following policies imposed by the US? Why Hispanics have to go back and the Europeans that came before us get to stay? Why none of them went back and make their countries prosperous? Why Latinos have no right to enjoy the fruits of our labor? Undocumented workers work sometimes harder than Americans. It's their hard work and low wages that made this country prosperous. What's Americans merit besides being born here?
Some Americans think that because undocumented workers came to the US breaking the immigration laws they don't have any rights. It's surprising that Americans and Latinos alike never mention that undocumented workers break this laws because they have no other choice. They have no other choice because their countries are poor because they follow the policies that America imposes on them. Nobody mentions that many farmers, fisherman and truck drivers lost their jobs in Mexico because after NAFTA they had to face unfair competition and fight against unfair laws from the US. Nobody mentions that if they don't want us here they have to stop making our lives miserable back in our countries or at least let us to make our own mistakes.
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