The treatment of Mexican immigrants
Immigration is and always will be a global concern; however, Americans can improve this situation by first taking action at home. The website Migrationpolicy.org published an article entitled, “Mexican Immigrants in the United States,” which reported that, “since 1980, Mexicans have been the largest immigrant group in the United States. As of 2013, approximately 11.6 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States—up from 2.2 million in 1980—and Mexicans accounted for 28 percent of the country’s 41.3 million foreign born.” There are many Mexicans that have created a life for themselves and their families, but are still being discriminated and mistreated by the American society. The most common work that Mexicans do in the United States is agriculture. Cesar Chavez was a Mexican activist who fought for the farmer’s rights by being paid and treated better. But in modern day today there are less than 6.3 million farmers- compared to 1997 8.7 million. The Washington Post published an article entitled “We’re running out of farm workers. Immigration reform won’t help,” which stated that “studies have found that 23 percent of U.S. farm worker families are below the poverty line.” Nearly 1.5 million Mexicans suffer, but the United States does not provide aid because it’s beneficial towards their profit. That is why the amount of farmers has declined because Mexicans are not being paid well and the working conditions are hideous. In an educational sense, people can help students out by donating to scholarships. As we know, undocumented students can not benefit from financial aid from the government so these donations are a way of helping these students in need. As to helping workers, we can start by letting them work and giving them the opportunity to not be harassed.
Billionaire fast food restaurants are indirectly causing the injustice treatment of Mexican immigrants.The Grist website published an article entitled “Startling new report shines light on farm labor conditions — and they aren’t good,” explained that “between 2005 and 2009, about a third of farm workers earned less than $7.25/hour.” The article also explained the reasoning for restaurants low pay: “selling perishable goods to vast firms like McDonald’s and Walmart, farm operators scale up and strive to maximize production while keeping costs as low as possible. One way to slash costs is to pay as little as possible for labor.”This demonstrated that farm companies are exploiting Mexicans in order to satisfy the demanders needs while they make a huge amount of revenue.
Billionaire fast food restaurants are indirectly causing the injustice treatment of Mexican immigrants.The Grist website published an article entitled “Startling new report shines light on farm labor conditions — and they aren’t good,” explained that “between 2005 and 2009, about a third of farm workers earned less than $7.25/hour.” The article also explained the reasoning for restaurants low pay: “selling perishable goods to vast firms like McDonald’s and Walmart, farm operators scale up and strive to maximize production while keeping costs as low as possible. One way to slash costs is to pay as little as possible for labor.”This demonstrated that farm companies are exploiting Mexicans in order to satisfy the demanders needs while they make a huge amount of revenue.