No, not about Latinos. What about Darfur, and Rwanda, and Kosovo?

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I was listening to CNN earlier this afternoon when it covered the march in Dallas. A young woman was interviewed, saying that they were not criminals. Her parents came to this country without appropriate papers and were going to go back to Mexico. Meanwhile they got four kids who are now American citizens and have stayed. And one of the organizer said that it was not about Latinos. They miss their families that they have not seen for 15 years and by then I really had enough.

If there are jobs that Americans do not want and if we think that we should open our arms to people who do want them, who do want to better their lives than what they have in their own countries, why can't we bring people from Darfur and from Rwanda and from Ethiopia and other countries which are in a worse shape than Mexico?

Let employers determine that they can use, say, 5 million workers who would be happy in less the minimum wage. Why not bring refugees who really are suffering, from whom such a job would be a literal life saving measure?

No, I am not kidding. Many here support the marches because... I am not sure, exactly. One reason, of course, is because the other side uses racist undercurrents in the argument and until now I would take my stand along the back door immigrants, too.

But if life in Mexico is so bad, imagine how, say, 8 million people who would stay there could affect the way things are done. Imagine if, instead of marching in the streets of the U.S. they would organize for a massive grassroots organization to improve the lives of so many poor and neglected Mexicans.

And if we think that we can benefit from an underground economy where many people do the hardest jobs at little wages and, of course, no benefit - by all means, let's bring the real tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

No, I am not being facetious. I mean it. I think that for people who are dying in Darfur and in other parts of the globe - working in this country at extreme conditions would be a real life saving.

OK, start flaming.