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Catherine 07/27/2010 11:46:00 PM
Another good website for boats for sale by owner in Los Angeles is www.acewebads.com
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Catherine 07/27/2010 1:24:00 AM
I know this is a little off topic Alex, can anyone suggest a good website to find boats for sale by owner in Los Angeles?
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Alex 07/08/2010 2:41:00 AM
Didn't anyone ever tell you not to quote wikipedia?
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joe 07/08/2010 12:33:00 AM
"Mexico is now firmly established as an upper middle-income country"
"NAFTA has been positive for Mexico, whose poverty rates have fallen, and real income salaries have risen even after accounting for the 1994–1995 Economic Crisis"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Mexico
Mexican racists don't want the US to have open borders, they want to continue the sweetheart deal that allows them, rather dozens of far, far poorer countries, to dominate US immigration.
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Adolfo 07/07/2010 4:02:00 PM
* I like how you said.....
*But you said recently. U.S. has....
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Adolfo 07/07/2010 3:59:00 PM
Hahaha joe these conversations need to be conducted without getting angry or calling people racists, calm down. Mexico is not a rich country in the sense that you portray it. Perhaps it does have a per-capita income that is higher than countries in Asia or Africa (btw where did you get this information). However this doesn't mean that the people who live there benefit from it. If they did have all of this income then why would they want to leave. They leave because they aren't getting this income. I live how you said "what horrible injustices has the US committed against Mexico recently?" Why recently do you perhaps not want to look at the past, the immigration issue is one that is deeply rooted in history. But you said recently though the U.S. has exported jobs to Mexico under NAFTA and created a system under which Mexican people work for a mineable wage that can't support their families. In the border these maquiladoras allow for the exploitation of people and leave very little capital in Mexico. The Border Industrialization Program increased Mexico's dependence on the U.S. at the cost of you guessed it working class Mexicans. The list of examples can go on and on. The U.S. is wealthier than a lot of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but it does so at a cost of some of those people and when it starts to feel the effect (immigration) it complains. And it's not only Mexico it's other countries as well.
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joe 07/07/2010 1:41:00 PM
Adolfo, please, enlighten us, what horrible injustices has the US committed against Mexico recently?
Mexico is a fairly rich country with a per-capita income 10 times larger than that of many Asian and African countries. If you support having a rich neighbor being your primary source of immigrants and have "empathy" for illegals (most of whom are from the same rich country), you are complicit in a racism against those from genuinely poor countries. Adolfo, you seem like a racist.
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Adolfo 07/06/2010 9:03:00 PM
Great article. What's missing in a lot of stories is why these people want to leave their country in the first place. Believe me if they could stay in their countries of origin they would. Instead of coming here and feeling sub-human. Like Joe said people from Latin America come to the United States because of U.S. intervention in those countries. In the case of Central America it's all of the civil wars that the U.S. helped start and fund. However Mexico, where a lot of undocumented immigrants come from, has also suffered due to U.S. policies. So before we begin to get mad at them for coming here we need to look at what our country did to force them to come here and accept it. Only then will we be able to have a meaningful conversation about the issue. I don't want to tell the LA Weekly or the Village Voice what to do but I believe a piece that looks at this will really help put these stories in perspective because not a lot of news outlets choose to write a story such as this. I'm also certain that if you do you will do it in a way that humanizes undocumented immigrants such as this one.
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joe 07/05/2010 2:40:00 AM
This is a Village Voice Media corporate story, it has nothing to do with the LA Times. This corporate conglomerate belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, which supports an uncontrolled southern border and opposes E-Verify to verify legal workers, as it wants to drive down wages and keep workers docile.
I have a bit of sympathy for this woman. Yes she snuck into the country illegally, yes she birthed an anchor baby, yes she didn't bother learning English, yes she was working for a sub-contractor for a corporate conglomerate utility which has a monopoly in NYC, but she is from Guatemala, a country that is truly poor and has suffered due to US policies in the past, unlike the relatively wealthy state of Mexico, where the large majority of our illegals come from.
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Life is unfair 07/05/2010 2:37:00 AM
This may sound heartless, but her doctors should be counseling her on making preparations for her children when she finally succumbs to her illness. Thousands of uninsured Americans face similar situations every year. To leave her children unprotected and uncared for would be truly tragic. The children should also take part in those preparations so that Julia's passing can be handled with as much dignity as possible. It's not too early to make use of the services of grief counselors.
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Ryan 07/04/2010 10:48:00 PM
This is absolutely ridiculous. This story is sad sure, but as others have commented, there are thousands upon thousands of American citizens who are in the same boat. It's getting tiring reading about all these "woe is me", and the "plight of the immigrant" stories.
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Jerry 07/03/2010 8:31:00 PM
As sad as Julia's situation is, sadder still to deny an American citizen a place on the transplant list-that must not be allowed to happen! American citizenship is a precious gift and privilege. There is no way we can accommodate the tens of millions who want to come to the US for a better life. And doctors who don't obey the law should be fired.
Sticking the taxpayer with the bill for a transplant-no matter how badly needed- is the WRONG solution.
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Jen 07/03/2010 2:14:00 PM
There are also many LEGAL citizens of the USA who are in need of transplants. Where are the stories about them? I'm so tired of only hearing how hard life is on ILLEGAL immigrants. Life is hard for everyone these days, and a lot of it is because there are so many ILLEGAL immigrants draining the resources of our country and our states. I'm sorry for her struggles, but it really is not my problem.
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roger 07/03/2010 4:52:00 AM
with all that free time one would think she might atleast ATTEMPT to learn the language of the land that is trying to save her life.
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VIC 07/02/2010 8:35:00 PM
Here we go again, it seems to me that LAWEEKLY is only interested in finding SAD stories about illigal immigrants, from the "terrible" arizona law(AB1070) to this guatemalan woman that is costing AMERICAN TAX PAYERS hundreds of thousands of dollars for her medical care.
I'm so tired of publications like the LAWEEKLY trying to make us feel sorry for these people that is so obius in need of medical care before they leave their country.STOP THESE TEAR JERKER STORIES AND CONCENTRATE ON REPORTING ON REAL ISUES THAT ARE IMPOTANT TO THE AMERICAN SITIZENS.
