La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for October 15, 2009

Missing in this dialog is any concern for individual rights.

As long as they’re not criminals or contagious, foreigners have a human right to come to any country. And the freer the country, the more that right should be respected. If we treat them as free and not automatic criminals, they’ll soon become as American as every other group that immigrated to America.

As for banning comics (or anything else), it is NOT censorship as long as it is private. A newspaper dropping a comic is the same principle as you chosing not to read it. Either way, it’s a right. On the other hand, if the GOVERNMENT bans it, that IS censorship and is wrong.

Redneck, bud, you ain’t big enough to get it banned. Too many of us gringos like it. Too many morons in this country forget that we were all “illegals” at one time!!!!!!!!! (Except the Natives.)

I have no problem with our southern neighbors coming to find work, but they should pay taxes like the rest of us. If I worked in Switzerland, I’d expect to pay their insane taxes too while I was there. Don’t you think that would infuriate the Swiss if we went there for work, benefited from their government funded services, but didn’t contribute?

There was discrimination against my illegal alien ancestors. They stowed away during the Irish potato famine, a little bit more illegal than swimming the Rio Grande or walking accross the desert. Both sides got over it.

Some of the nicest and hardest working people I’ve known are the hispanic laborers on our local farms. I’m sure many of them couldn’t produce a green card if asked, but I welcome them here for doing the labor that most of the rest of us won’t do.

If we didn’t want illegal aliens (Martians?), there would be no jobs for them and they wouldn’t come here. Stop the demand first. Pay a fair wage to farmworkers, non-union construction workers, etc. Then prices will rise. Of course, we could always just import those things from China. There is quite a paradox here and it will take thought, not slogans to work it out.

Signed, Hopelesslly hopeful barracho

Why is the character a southern redneck. Are there not rednecks from other states. Not that the south is not crawling with rednecks.