As you read this think of yourself as a farm worker...
YOU came into this huge and "rich" country at a really young age. YOU came on your own, YOU came with your family, or your parents brought you here. The only thing you came here for was to survive. Your beautiful country did not provide you with the resources or opportunities you needed to survive. You had no choice...You had to leave your home and you had to say bye to your mom and dad, your spouse, your aunts, and uncles, and cousins, but worst of all your children, your babies, your everything. You had to leave them. You left with absolutely nothing and came with absolutely nothing. YOU are nothing...
Oh and by the way while you were on your journey to survive you had the cross the border, but before that you were faced with Mexican and American assailants and kidnappers after your money, you were faced with heat, the sun, snakes and cacti, after your body and American vigilantes after your freedom, and border patrol after your records. Then you had to stay in a small dark and damp room with about 20 others oh and by the way you are dehydrated, and eating rotten food. You are unshowered...but wait the fun does not end there...You also had to go under a 7 foot barbed wire fence run across a sand road run across another barbed wire fence and keep running until you cannot breath...And then maybe you will make it through. Oh and by the way you had to pay for this 3 day vacation trip... (source Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth M. Holmes)
You see, YOU are opressed and your dignity is squandered therefore like Che Guevara said in his Motorcycle Diaries "they stop being father, mother, sister or brother and become a purely negative factor in the struggle for life and, consequently a source of bitterness for the healthy members of the community."
Guevara also says " The lives of the poor, unsung heroes of this battle, who die miserably in one of the thousand traps set by nature to defend its treasures, when all they want is to earn their daily bread."
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