If you want to get rid of undocumented immigrants, quit eating

title quote from a farmer in Alabama

"Especially strawberries, but especially lettuce, but especially carrots, broccoli, oranges, tomatoes, raspberries, cherries, and cucumbers, but especially onions." Posted by Jill on Facebook

Unintended Immigrants


We left no teeming shore in Europe, hungry and eager to reach the New World.
We crossed no ocean in an overcrowded boat,
impatient and eager to arrive at Ellis Island in New York.
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country,
and left us with the notion that the land was free,
even though Mexicans and Indians already lived on it.
We did not kill, rape and steal under the pretext of Manifest Destiny
and Westward Expansion.
We did not, in fact, come to the United States at all.
The United States came to us.

Luis Valdez quoted in “Fiesta in Aztlan - Anthology of Chicano Poetry”, edited by Toni Empiringham. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press

The territory that now comprises the states of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma, California, Texas, and parts of Arizona and Colorado, were part of New Spain until 1821, when they became part of independent Mexico after the Mexican War of Independence.

After the Mexican American War 1846-1848, the territory was ceded to the US.  New Mexico entered the Union in 1912 as its 47th state.  That is to say, Mexican citizens woke up one morning and were in the US!

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