to try to fix problems by smashing them.  It is even more natural to pick the most defenseless targets. But the way to build a healthy and equitable economic system is not to target one portion of our workforce.

Sure we can make it illegal to move to the place with better jobs and a chance at building a future. We can bar millions from ever becoming citizens.  If we want to we can bar their kids from becoming citizens for 3,4,5 generations.  We don't have to stop at blocking drivers licenses.  We could make it illegal to sell undocumented workers food or medical attention.  We could make it a crime to educate their children or rent to them or marry them.  They are criminals, right? They deserve what they get? Besides, if we treat them like humans they will just multiply.

That way of thinking might be natural, but we are better than that.  People who live here and work here and send their children to school here are a part of our community.  Marginalizing segments of our society only makes them more poor, less integrated, and a heavier burden on our economy and our national conscience.

This is clearly a case where irrational hatred and paranoia have overcome good sense.  I personally know several people who have died because Latinos and others, who often must drive to work but can't get licenses, are on the streets.

My Compa's baby sister, Cruzjesusita, an angel if there ever was one, died in a car wreck w/migrantes who--of course--fled the scene.  Other examples abound.  We are much better off if drivers--many of whom never drove in Mexico, but took busses--learn how to drive and are properly licensed and insured!!!

IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE!!!