The opinionated argument thread about "issues".

[CFMM]

The way I feel about Mexican immigrants is largely pity. They come north to the USA because it's simply better than the alternative: further south. You go further south and there's really not much, things kind of haze together and get generalized and then you get to South America and from there I don't know how things go. The United States is basically a beaten show horse but it's better than extreme poverty in Mexico. Even though to the people here in this country there really is little to no "opportunity", when your only other alternative is living in a country more broken than this one I can see why they want to be in here so badly. Even bad places are still "lands of opportunity" if your homeland is worse off.

On a number of occasions I have come very close to moving out of this country myself, to better places that don't have their heads up their asses.