Build the Wall

I just got done reading Chris Hedges Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. I knew the shadowy underground economy of undocumented workers was bad, but I had no idea just how bad it's gotten. It's unbelievable how we're allowing people to be treated who come here illegally. They have no voice, because they're living in the shadows and are terrified of being sent back, so the abuse just gets worse and worse. The people who would normally be fighting for them are too busy fighting to salvage what's left of the hollowed out middle class, which is just a shadow of it's former self. And the ones that do speak out, like Hedges, are drowned out by stories of rampant drug OD's, high suicide rates, rising crime rates, and what a grinding day-to-day struggle it is just to live a poor facsimile of the American Dream.

We can't let people come here illegally to be treated like the crop pickers in Immokalee county. It's modern-day slavery, and people have been prosecuted for actual servitude in Florida. We're not doing people any favors by having such a porous border. We're just making it worse, because the people that have the initiative and drive to change things in their own countries are doing everything they can to come here. Who can blame them? But if they're just going to end up being exploited by a new set of corporate villains, we can't let it go on anymore. Give the people here a chance to be citizens, and make it hard as hell to get in here illegally.

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