Interesting movie

Saw a great movie. Heather Courtney, a UT graduate, did this awesome documentary you should check out. Here is a general synopsis of it. Its freakin amazing and definitely puts a face to the workers.

Letters From the Other Side

posted by PiratePenPen at 11:16 AM 0 comments

Fruit prices

Fruit prices are going to be going up this year like crazy since there is no one to pick the fruit. Damn, and I felt like a fruit salad.

http://blog.mises.org/archives/005658.asp

posted by PiratePenPen at 11:57 AM 2 comments

The Great Wall of Mexico?

I know many of you have heard of the proposed wall that will be going through the southern border of the United States. I was wondering if anyone viewed this as being blatently racist? If they are going to try and keep brown people out, why don't they build a 700 mile wall between us and Canada? Here is an article I found that talks a bit about the wall and the potential problems with it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/26/BORDERFENCE.TMP

posted by PiratePenPen at 6:59 PM 1 comments

No workers

I think its funny that people take for granted how much undocumented and documented work illegal immigrants do in the US. The fact that politcal figures can be chastised for hiring an illegal immigrant is stupid. Well, rather, they should do something about it if they want to continue having these people in their service. There has been a huge increase in "Immigrant Roundups" around the US and for some cities, might actually hurt them economically. Its so sad that they can't accept that some people really do want better lives. Here is an excerpt from the Chronicle this week.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A402949

posted by PiratePenPen at 8:06 PM 0 comments

Why I care.

So I've decided to go ahead and choose to discuss the Mexican immigration issue that has been debated recently. This has a direct relation to my life because my grandparents were illegal at one time. Without their sacrafice and vigilance, my family would not be where we are today.

My father is an accomplished lawyer and my mother is a teacher. They accomplished what their parents could only dream of and I am in college to continue it.

I am a 5th year senior (6th year technically because I took a year and a half off), and am working towards my degree. My parents didn't have the money to send me to college, so I am paving my own way like they had to when they were here. I am hoping through my hardwork I can make my abuelita proud. She is so happy that my sister and I are attending that she saved for a year to give my sister and I some money for books. We have 20 other cousins who have accomplished nothing, and we were the only ones to get her blessing.

posted by PiratePenPen at 6:43 PM 0 comments