My wife told me something interesting tonite. When she went to USC in the 60's, the saying of the Brown Power advocates was "Sal si Puedes" or "Escape, if you can", meaning leave the barrio (Sal si Puedes was the name of the barrio in San Jose where Caesar Chavez lived) and improve your life. That was quite a while back and I imagine some have done so but the real problem is we keep creating the barrio with all the illegal immigration.
So, I wrote the local fishwrap.
Too bad “Si se puede” didn’t mean “yes, we can” to these illegal immigrants when they were living in Mexico. Why should it be our laws that are ignored? Why not the laws in Mexico that oppress these people? Why could they not march on their own government, rather than break the law to come here and then try and tell us what to do?