Who Are Those "Scary Illegal Aliens"?

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https://chrisfloyduk.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/undocumented-illegal-aliens-the-republican-party-campaign-ads/

Posted in Commissioned Work, Editorial, Me Myself & I by Chris Floyd on October 8, 2010



The photo (above) is of three young Mexican men in a town square in Altar, Mexico. The TV ads, which are for the senatorial campaigns of Sharron Angle in Nevada and Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, claim that these men are aliens illegally living in the United States. The fact that these men were Mexican citizens photographed in Mexico kind of negates their claims.

The men I met that morning in the Altar town square told me that they were farmers from the far south of Mexico and that that season’s crop had failed, leaving them with nothing to sell and no option, they felt, but to make the journey north to America to seek work. At the point that photograph was taken not one of them had ever set foot in America, and I have no idea if they ever did.