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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it incredibly remarkable that poor people can travel over 3,000 miles from places like Honduras or El Salvador and find work here, managing with little more than the shirt on their backs.

And when they arrive here, they are finding gainful employment - we're not talking migrant workers here - we're talking regular jobs in construction, in restaurants, et cetera - even though they may have less than an 8th grade education and can barely speak English, if at all.

Jobs which pay well enough to get them an apartment, transportation/commute costs, food on the table and basic necessities, plus often enough left over to even send money back to their home country.  And that's WITHOUT all the benefit of many of the numerous subsidies and aid programs that US-citizen DC residents can get (which they as non-citizens cannot get many of).

Yet we have folks who live right here who somehow can't manage to find a job.

Very remarkable indeed.

In that light, the "want" you mention underlined above is a highly subjective and extremely relative term.  Seems apparent that they don't "want" it anywhere near as badly as many other folks do.  [/quote]

+1000.  Actually, in Mexico, the free public schools only go to 6th grade.  After that, there is no school unless your parents pay for it.  In reporting on last years teachers protest in Mexico City, NPR reporters noted that teaching positions can by union contract, be inherited or purchased, so the quality of public education is abysmal.

Despite these challenges, people from Mexico risk their lives for the chance to enter our employment market and rarely complain about "living wage" or the EBT they receive. [/quote]

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