"We've given Mexico a great gift in providing them a place for their unemployed to come"

Dennis, Mexicans leave jobs in Mexico to come here. The jobs they leave pay so poorly they can't feed themselves but here they not only feed themselves but they mail most of their money home, and some of them have a wad of money to get drunk on Friday night as well.

Here's the story: I had a friend named Alice, who owned ten acres in Malibu where she actually had crops (mostly trees) and farmed her produce and sold it. She did this as a hobby because she actually had plenty of money. Well, she needed help so she drove into town, found a guy standing on the corner, picked him up and took him to her little ranch and set him to work. This fellow seemed personable enough and Alice always got to know the people who worked with her, so she chatted with him whenever she had the opportunity. What he told her, and she told me, was how in Mexico he had a job where he moved rocks for 12 hours a day. I don't remember whether she said they were large rocks or gravel rocks, but either way it's going to be heavy manual work and he's got to be exhausted at the end of every day.

His pay? One chicken, he said.

That's why they're here.

I could talk for a while about Mexico's aristocracy and the way their "system" (whatever it is) treats their serfs, er, I mean, peons. Same thing, but they might as well be slaves.