The Roots of Migration (Chapter 1): Intro

[EFerrari]

Run time: 00:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A1faTq9qmI   Posted on YouTube: May 26, 2009 By YouTube Member: mbar107 Views on YouTube: 1254   Posted on DU: May 12, 2010 By DU Member: EFerrari Views on DU: 300

 
The Roots of Migration (Chapter 2): Why are migrants leaving home?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xjVfgxXpA&feature=related


The Roots of Migration (Chapter 3): How does Nafta affect this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmD9z3huPv0&feature=related

The Roots of Migration (Chapter 4): What is happening to communities?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKgQsEjLPfo&feature=related

The Roots of Migration (Chapter 5): One migrant's story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lph2g6LeqXM&feature=related

The Roots of Migration (Chapter 6): What do you want to say to people in the US?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ojD13Ve_g&feature=related

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Segments are all about 4 minutes. I found this last night and thought it was well done. The Americans in this video went on a fact finding mission to Mexico and this is basically their report.
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[izquierdista]

1. They didn't need to go there

Just sit down and talk with any of the Mexicans (and Central Americans) that are in the US looking for work. The only ones who will tell you they want to stay are ones who already have lots of family here.

[EFerrari]

2. One of the group commented on the difference between

how they were treated in Mexico and how Mexicans are treated here. He wouldn't have understood that without going there, no?

[izquierdista]

3. Oh, that's obvious too

Mexicans who come here soon realize that Americans treat them like they treat Central Americans (which gives them pause). When I lived in Mexico, batches of American missionaries would come down on missions to "help the poor". They made a lot of commotion and usually left after improving something here or there, but it wasn't anything the Mexicans couldn't have done for themselves given the resources. That's the operative phrase here, given the resources. See, Mexicans would have those resources if they weren't sucked up by the opposite of "trickle-down".

But these pious missionaries are usually of the conservative Christian type, and are easily fleeced by Repub promises of tax cuts and keeping more of your own money. Mexicans can see it for the sham it is, since the big profits from maquiladoras don't go to them, but get vacuumed up by the haves and have-mores in the U.S. I guess it is good for them to go down and visit, but next time take away their air-conditioned church van, and let them use the micros to get around; take away their cell phones and see if they like Carlos Slim's calling plans. They are just on chapter one of understanding how NAFTA has screwed over Mexicans and sent them packing northward looking for opportunity.

[EFerrari]

4. I can't possibly disagree with that.

But I posted these links because it sounds like a large number of posters here think that it is widely believed these people who risk their lives to come here do it for the gameboys and BigMacs and not simply to survive.