I found your website through Google fast flip and I'm very glad that I did. It was interesting seeing people dressed as super heroes doing their jobs.

What are the predicted effects of the money being sent back to Mexico from migrant workers? Is it negligible compared to the amount of GDP increase they provide?

Good photos, and life is not easy for an immigrant. Pasaba unos meses trabajando en el estado de Washington, para que los inmigrantes sabian como ser ciudanos. Es decir: legal. Habian muchos que no podia leer en espanol.

I appreciate the work ethic and frankly, the humanity, of the people I worked with. But honestly, it's the people here, our laws, our hard work, our sacrifices that have made the economy so attractive for immigrants.

If they want to come here legally, like my ancestors did, so be it. I welcome you. If you are illegal, and live in the shadows, well, tough shit. If you plan on going home, and haven't fully commited to becoming an American, then make your money, and don't expect much else, except maybe a trip back home.

Ms. Pinzon sounds like an intelligent and capable woman. Perhaps she should return to her country -- it could use more people like her.

As for the tipical 'migrant' from Mexico, when a true accounting of services they end up using is factored in, they simply do not pull their weight. Let's take this pizza delivery guy. This job is best done by a teenage American, and yes they are our their and willing to work. By essentially importing a worker, this business puts additional stress on the public systems in New York, everything from the subway to the sewage system. If this guy brings his family up, as so many do, then we will have to foot the bill for the childrens' education. Sorry, but a pizza delivery guy isn't paying near enough taxes to ever cover that expenditure.

Given the recession and the cost of living in NYC, it is amazing to me that these individuals could send so much money home! The delivery person, it was stated, sent home $500/wk. This astounds me. These workers could solve our national deficit! To put a personal perspective on this, given all my expenses-all non extravagant-I barely manage to squeak by each month. I'm impressed, surprised and a bit envious of their collective and individual mettle.

This pictoral seems to be trying to infantalize the Latino immigrants. It's dressing them up in children's costumes in order to make those opposed to illegal immigration look like bullies picking on child-like innocents. It touches on the weirdly paternalistic racial undertones that are inherent in the socially left-wing pro-illegal immigration arguments.

I thought FP was a serious magazine addressing important issues with some thought and insight and at least a moderate degree of objectivity. This article is more appropriate to Newsweek which long ago gave up any semblance of intelligence and balance. Immigration, particulary illegal immigration is a maybe the most important domestic issues facing this country and the best this periodical can do is dress up immigrants in superhero costumes to demonstrate how nice and harmless these people are. This is one of the weirdest articles, including the title, I have seen in a long time. It must have been an interesting editorial meeting when it was decided to publish this nonsense.

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Firstly, I would like to know if FP fact check's articles before publishing, especially when they come from outside contributes? Perhaps FP doesn't think that it's readers might question the veracity of the statements made in such puff pieces? After perusing the photo essay, I was left with only questions. Ms Pinzon did not elaborate the "contributions" the illegal aliens she holds up as "heroes" make to the US, because they certainly aren't apparent. There is no worker shortage here, and US citizens have always and still wish to perform those jobs, what's more, I believe she assumes that readers might not be aware of the actual wage standard such workers earn, or contemplate how these low wage workers are able to afford such large remittance payments as they are credited with sending to their home countries.

What is the delivery boy delivering that he can afford to send home $500. per month? A waiter in Brooklyn sending home $350. per week, and a minimum wage, not working full time in a laundromat sending $150. per week? That's simply not possible, unless they are being subsidized by the taxpayer. I'm not a fool. Truly, given the fact that illegals have poorer citizens out, and NYC and the boroughs are filled with them, and we're forced to subsidize them, were they to all be deported, we'd see plainly that they aren't making any contribution, only bleeding us dry.

The facts are, that with the exception of the nanny, though we're not told if she lives in with her employers, there is no way that any of them could be sending those amounts out per week, if they weren't being subsidized by the taxpayer, and very generously I might add. When you consider the cost of living in New York, and the fact that our taxes have been rising enormously, and we're told it's still not enough, I can only assume that these illegal aliens are receiving welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, free health care and much more when you consider the increased crime, costs for schooling their children, translators, city & state documents in foreign languages, increased costs due to unlicensed, uninsured illegal alien drivers and the damages they wreak, unpaid emergency room bills, and so on. That's not even mentioning their part in causing the economic and mortgage collapse due to their taking out mortgages for homes they knew they couldn't afford, and not just in the sand states.

CItizen workers were self supporting, they weren't afforded such subsidies and our taxes were much lower. Even if FP's readership had no feeling for their working poor fellow citizens, they should know that illegal aliens are a large part of the reason why our taxes are so high, including the cost of doing business.

Mexico, a very wealthy country with zero national debt encourages it's poor to come here, for the remittances I'm sure, but also because it helps keep Mexico's taxes artificially lower, as Mexico doesn't have to raise those taxes to provide services for them. Ultimately this will fail, if the US collapses, but it's president doesn't think long term. Even Canada has refused to be pressured into opening it's borders and dancing to Mexico's tune, because they don't want to lose jobs, and collapse their economy.

I meant to type, what is a delivery boy delivering that he is able to send home $500. per week, not month.

Lets not get tangled up and disproportionate here. The effects of the legal Latino population upon the economy are both considerable and appreciated, however this biased sentimentality is slanted and motivated skewing the picture at hand, which is maintenance of our country, and fair opportunity not just for Latinos, but for world wide immigrants.

What costume did Dulce Pinzon select for Diego Pillco, the murderer of Adrienne Shelly?

Ms. Pinzon is something out of a comic book herself. While in Mexico she is a castizo and enjoys the Mexican version of white skin privilege. Yet upon entering the U.S. she becomes a person of color, standing in formation with her new-found Amerindian and mestizo comrades. But not standing too close.

Indiered, As an indigenous US citizen, I’ve come to recognize comments like yours for the gross fraud that they are. You are either a very white left winger, or another example of the typical Latin American who attempts to exploit indigenous history as your ancestors exploited indigenous lives. Let’s have a history lesson, shall we?

First, the English and Dutch settlers who arrived here were welcomed by my ancestors. The situations between the indigenous and those settlers deteriorated and said English and Dutch have a lot to answer to, however, the reality is that those English and Dutch came here to start new lives, not to deliberately displace or harm native peoples. They were worlds apart from the Spanish forces that landed in Latin America about 200 years before the first English & Dutched arrived here.

The Spanish went out deliberately looking for gold and other wealth to fatten the purse of the Spanish crown and it’s aristocrats. Today’s Hispanic people in Latin America have attempted to whitewash their history, but it was well documented by Spanish priests who traveled with the conquistadores, they kept very accurate and honest records of the travesties committed by the Spanish which are that they committed genocide against the indigenous people in what is referred to as Mexico, Central and South America. After that, they invented the trans Atlantic slave trade, bringing over almost 9 million African slaves, and they worked almost all of them to death. They were the ones who introduced African slavery to what later became the US, and the Spanish and Portuguese controlled the trans Atlantic slave trade for almost the entire period it existed.

Mexican illegals are instructed by racist Hispanic supremacist, and Marxist groups to believe that they are indigenous and that the southwestern US belonged to Mexico, but that is just propaganda. Here is the reality. Mexicans aren’t “Mestizo”, in fact, that is a much abused term for a variety of reasons. Hispanic Latin Americans are by and large highly racist, and we’re not talking about the very white Hispanics exclusively, but of all shades of Hispanics. It’s highly racist and a sign of ignorance to think brown skin means indigenous. The peoples indigenous to our lands have bone structure and hair that is distinct from that of Hispanic and other peoples. There is no way you can confuse Hispanic people with indigenous peoples from these lands. The fair skin of some Spanish comes from ancestors who included the Vandals and Visigoths, but the majority of the people of Spain are dark skinned and have dark hair, the same can be said of Portugal. They are European, but not all Europeans are fair skinned.

Nor were there enough indigenous people remaining after the Spanish genocide against them, to provide a shared ancestry, with the Spanish. What’s more, the Spanish, both fair an brown skinned, were and remain so racist that interactions between the two weren’t possible. Indigenous peoples in Mexico, as well as the few surving descendents of African slaves, for example are discriminated against to this day. In 2004, during the mudslides that took place in Mexico, Mayan villages were being drowned in the mud, but the Mexican government refused to send aid to those villages, they sent help only to Hispanic Mexican villages and towns. The foreign press covered this, but the Latin American media ignored it. The big three revisionist attempts by Mexico in the last century to explain away the disappearance of the indigenous peoples of Latin America were the first, claiming that the Spanish lived in “peace and love” with the native peoples, until the English came and killed them all. That was so easily disproved that that lie was abandoned quickly. Then the Mexicans claimed that all the indigenous just disappeared, that too was laughable and abandoned. They settled on the lie that the indigenous didn’t disappear, but “intermarried” with the Spanish, and while that was laughable, and those same Spanish are quick to brush off claims of “Indio” blood in themselves, it was put in their textbooks. Even the “brownest” Latin Americans consider themselves white. When you examine the arrest reports of Hispanic illegal aliens in the US, you see them list themselves as white.

A few years back, an Afro Latino musician was interviewed on NPR, and he spoke to the extreme racism that exists in Latin America. A Hispanic writer, the man who writes the “Ask a Mexican” column for a Californian newspaper was invited to discuss the issue and he attempted to demean and slander the Afro Latino man. It was an ugly thing to witness, but only further proof of the intolerance of those who embrace the Latin American racist and corrupt mindset. Hispanic illegals are committing ethnic cleansing of black Americans from their communities from Los Angeles to Harlem, NY. They kill innocent black American children and adults and their victims are in the hundreds of thousands. Google the names Jamiel Shaw jr., Terrance Aerial, Dashon Harvey and Iofemi Hightower (Terrance’s sister Natasha survived, but was maimed by repeated machete wounds, raped and is now in the witness protection program, her life will never be the same)
Cheryl Green, Anthony Prudhommme, Charles Bowser, there are many more, but the local and MSM refuse to report these and other victims of illegal alien criminals who rape, beat and murder innocent US citizens, black, brown and white because they profit from cheap foreign labor. Nor will they report that such Latin American criminal syndicates like the Sinoloa drug cartel and the Mexican Mafia provide millions to illegal alien gangs to buy them weapons and support their ethnic cleansing of US citizens.

Perhaps Ms. Pinzon should have included Jose Lachira Carranza in her photo essay? Because he is an accurate representative of the reality of the negative, harmful "contributions" her advocacy is in aid of. We don't know how much in remittances Carranza sent home to Peru. Age 28, Carranza was out on bail awaiting trial in two separate cases related to a bar fight and the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl. Carranza is a member of an illegal alien gang, an initiation of 6 other illegal alien gang bangers, lead the attack on Terrance Aerial Natasha Aerial,, Dashon Harvey and Iofemi Hightower. Lined the four black US citizen students up against a school wall, and shot them execution style. They hacked at their bodies with machetes, and raped both Iofemi and Natasha. Natasha survived and id'd the illegal alien criminals who committed these foul crimes. Those four young US citizens would have been real contributors to our society. Three of those citizens lives were stolen, the fourth now lives with the hellish memories of that night, when they were doing nothing more than listening to music in a schoolyard near their homes, talking about starting college that fall.

Real indigenous Americans are offended when Hispanics attempt to infer otherwise, and speak up that Hispanics who talk about going back to Europe should be the first ones to step up and by tickets to return to Europe, because that is the continent of their origins.

When Spanish Mexico sought to expand it’s territory, they invaded the lands of the Utes, Apache and Navajo, enslaved some of them, to work in their mines and as manual labor. It was those native peoples that built the forts, and much of the Spanish mission architecture, the old mission style churches and monasteries that survive an the tourists flock to. When those Utes, Apache and Navajo attempted to defend themselves and their families, the Spanish would punish them by chopping off a heel or a foot. When those same native peoples sought to escape, the Spanish would shoot them.

When you contrast the histories of the result of the Spanish conquest and the settling and creation of what became the United States, there is no comparison. It’s been the people of the US who have willingly faced their wrongs of the past and sought to remedy them, while Latin Americans not only refuse to address theirs, they continue to be racist, corrupt and despotic.

Lastly, I know US citizens of Irish descent in Boston, who reported an Irish illegal alien to ICE and celebrated his deportation, and who laughed when his lies were caught during his hearing. The citizenry of the US are a good and generous people, they support legal immigration, but are overwhelmingly against illegal aliens, they want current laws enforced and illegals deported, irregardless of their race or ethnicity. Those who claim otherwise seek to violate the rights of US citizens and find the constitution inconvenient. They are the same sort of types that supported the slave trade and Jim Crow.

You aren't an Apache, no Apache would refer to him or herself as an "indian". You're either an illegal or a cheap labor open borders enthusiast". You're a racist who has no right to exploit the history of indigenous Americans because you're too cowardly to engage in an honest debate of the subject.

No, z duffy, you don't understand the subject at hand, nor did you read my comments in their entirety.

Illegal aliens are NOT indigenous, nor was Texas or any other portion of the US southwest part of their lands, or Mexico, etc.. The areas that are now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Colorado, etc.. were lands were the tribal lands of native peoples like the Utes, Apache, Navajo, the Walapai, (indigenous to what we call Arizona today) and many other native peoples whose tribal names you wouldn't recognize. Those areas were THEIR lands, not the property of Mexico or the Spanish crown. The Spanish that settled Mexico slaughtered all but very few of the native peoples whose lands we now call Mexico. They weren't native to the tribal lands of the tribes who lived in the US southwest. Their languages were and remain different, their food, lives, dress and culture was and still is different for those few who remain. You seek to hide behind a lie, because you can't honestly discuss the subject. You seek to delegitimize the truth, because you can't win in an honest debate. The truth delegitimizes your claims, so you attack those who thrust the truth in your face. You're a coward, and you know it.

The vast majority of illegal aliens in the US are Hispanic, that means they are of Spanish ancestry. They do not look like indigenous Americans, their bone structure is European, as is their hair, language and culture.

Many of the posters here write about the first inhabitants of the Americas as if they somehow sprang up out of the ground. Here's a dirty little secret folks: the 'indigenous' peoples MIGRATED here by crossing the Bering Straits thousands of years ago from Asia! So, we're ALL immigrants here; quit trying to play the white guilt race-card (that mojo doesn't work anymore).

Maybe FP can have Dulce write about the Magnificent Victims of Illegal Immigrants (there's plenty of them in the ER's & crime scenes across the US). Don't forget to include some superhero pictures of unemployed blacks and teenagers (whose unemployment rate is at around 50%)....

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I was thinking about what to post against the RACISTS. And then, it occurred to me. There is no need to post. We are MILLIONS of immigrants who will be here FOREVER.

Pick a label. Argue for the best epithet. Fight agains them. Cry of anger.

We are MILLIONS and will be here FOREVER. In 30 years caucasians will be the minority.

God bless America.

HC

What is the delivery boy delivering that he can afford to send home $500. per month? A waiter in Brooklyn sending home $350. per week, and a minimum wage, not working full time in a laundromat sending $150. per week? That's simply not possible, unless they are being subsidized by the taxpayer. I'm not a fool. world political news The vast majority of illegal aliens in the US are Hispanic, that means they are of Spanish ancestry. They do not look like indigenous Americans, their bone structure is European, as is their hair, language and culture.

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Every time I visit the US I have this nauseating nostalgia of Apartheid South Africa. Just like in SA, restaurants are largely racially divided with the wait staff tending to be white and English speaking support by an invisible non-English speaking garrison of runners, cooks and kitchen staff.

Good on you DULCE PINZÓN - give these people a voice and a face (and the photos are arrestingly beautiful).

And as for the rest of America's consumers you should remember every time you stare in awe at how much cheaper service is in the states than it is in Europe or other parts of the developed world... this is only possible because you deny most of these immigrants any legal rights basically ensuring that they are under-paid, without medical insurance, largely abused, exploited and vulnerable.

Interesting to note that yesterday in post-apartheid South Africa a judge ruled that even when people are working illegally they have a right to the same legal (labour) protections as everybody else. A lesson to be learned?

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I don't get why Mary M for example is a racist since she hasn't criticized the CEO of AIG. Okay, if someone doesn't criticize something here, it doesn't mean he/she is not against it. What does this article has to do with the CEO of AIG (For instance) or some other cheating people?
Now can I blame you for not criticizing the actions of Israel but what does that have to do with this article?
Whether it's true or false that illegal immigrants are doing bad/good to this country, it doesn't mean if I'm criticizing them, I'm for every other thing and think everything is okay except this issue.
And to those who bring the Native American issue, okay let's say it's totally wrong and an evil act. Now what's your practical solution? Kick 300m people back to Europe? Let every other people in the whole earth to the US in a year? Let's say people occupied native Americans' lands, does this conclude that we should not prevent illegal aliens from entering the US?
I don't really get the logic of some of your arguments and the way you connect things to each other.

And finally my own comment to this article:
The best illustration of the American Dream can be found within these immigrants. Many Americans are too bored now to follow their ambitions but these folks aren't.

Why anyone would want to slander these people who are working and sacrificing in order to help others in need is beyond me. I would guess, Mary M., that the people in these photos are able to send money to those they love because they are saving it and doing with less themselves. That is what sharing is about. Supporting other people and rejoicing when others succeed is what a loving life is about. I can't say if any of the anti-immigrant posters on here are racist or not, but I can certainly say that they aren't people I admire. I don't "want what they have" as they say in 12 step programs. As for those in the photos, I want what they have absolutely.

Are these people wanting a future in the United States? If they send 75% of their weekly income will they be able to retire in the United States or are they just building up a bankroll to retire in Mexico?