A few days ago I tried to have a conversation with an open boders advocate. He look at my like I was a racist, he could not comprehend how Mexican and a former illegal alien would have my views. He did not listen to reason or my point and my evidence. So in case someone ever reads this blog, I'm going to bullet point why I've come to my views.

1. Naturalization would benefits illegal immigrants by:

a. It would allow us to apply for student loans for college.
b. It would allow us to work for construction companies with federal
contracts, which will pay us more than smaller companies that do not
check for legal status.

2. If we could get better jobs by applying just the 2 reasons above, many of us
would be off government aid, which will than lessen the burden on states and
federal economies. Most importantly it would take away and arguing point
from people like me.

3. Hispanic activist NEED to realize that their movement is not doing our
communities any favors. All we have to do is look at how blacks somewhere
in history became dependent on the government and created sub-communities of
sub-citizens. It did not work for them, its not going to work for us. I've
had the opportunity to conversate with a few blacks whose parent formerly
depended on the government and well, they wanted more and did what it was
necessary to end their dependency. One of them went to school and the other
became a real state agent. They pay taxes now.

4. Mexican workers are some of the hardest working people I've ever known. My
father is an excellent worker, He makes much more than my all of us siblings
even than the one with a college degree and she makes very good money. I
often think, what if my dad would have gotten an education? even a technical
career.

5. We have the potential to give to this society so much. Like the Italians and
the Germans once did. If we want to stay here and enjoy its freedoms, we
MUST help its economy or when this country goes bankrupt, we are going to
have to go back from our dear, poor and corrupt countries. Are we going to
demand from the Mexican government for what we demand from the US? If we do
the government will not give us anything under the argument that we do not
contribute to the economy, of this I'm sure. To get what we demand we would
have to go to war with our government. Yes I do think that the Mexican
government currently exports its poor to avoid that very same thing, a
revolution. The 10% of Mexican citizens who have fled the country, are the
very people who could change it.