Rather than focusing on the fact that many of these gangs are made up of Mexicans, perhaps we should concider the fact that economics are to blame. NOT RACE!
Unless you personally plan on doing the jobs we are forced to take due to our circumstances, I really don't think you have the right to ignore the fact that your way of life is dependant on the cheap labor of illegal immigrants.
So, maybe if mexicans, and all other illegal immigrants were paid a living wage, we could get the education that is going to ennable us to get jobs which are engaging. It is true that a worthless job is worthless in stoping bullets, and until the people who contribute possitively to this community are accepted as valuable, other people of the same race will have no reason to aspire to anything other than violence. Because frankly, sometimes it feels like there's not much to aspire to.
How does saying 'deport them all' give this city any hope? Its unrealistic, nieve, and infuriating. You wonder why there are gangs? True, I agree completly that their tactics are misguided and destructive. But I hope that people realize that so much of this anger and violence comes out of frustration with the very mentality which you think is going to end it.
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Rather than focusing on the fact that many of these gangs are made up of Mexicans, perhaps we should concider the fact that economics are to blame. NOT RACE!
Unless you personally plan on doing the jobs we are forced to take due to our circumstances, I really don't think you have the right to ignore the fact that your way of life is dependant on the cheap labor of illegal immigrants.
So, maybe if mexicans, and all other illegal immigrants were paid a living wage, we could get the education that is going to ennable us to get jobs which are engaging. It is true that a worthless job is worthless in stoping bullets, and until the people who contribute possitively to this community are accepted as valuable, other people of the same race will have no reason to aspire to anything other than violence. Because frankly, sometimes it feels like there's not much to aspire to.
How does saying 'deport them all' give this city any hope? Its unrealistic, nieve, and infuriating. You wonder why there are gangs? True, I agree completly that their tactics are misguided and destructive. But I hope that people realize that so much of this anger and violence comes out of frustration with the very mentality which you think is going to end it.
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