Illegal immigration a step back

As an immigrant myself, I could not refrain from participating in this new round of discussions over the ("illegal") immigration issue, triggered by the day labor center demonstrations a few days ago ("Protesters clash over center," Monday).

There is no need to be hysteric at the person-to-person level (the picture on the front page).

The illegal immigrants' (and their supporters') strategy to portray themselves as the rightful pursuers of the American dream is what the responsible forces for their miseries on the both sides of the border love these illegal immigrants to say.

We should not forget that the so-called illegal immigrants are people like every one of us.

They are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, etc. Most of these illegal immigrants are trapped in an extraordinarily shameful poverty.

They live in some Third World neighborhoods. Their day-to-day lives are full of Third World anxieties and humiliations.

So, please don't go there, and make the life more miserable for them.

There are industries which have been specifically developed around this magical spring of everlasting slavish labor.

These immigrants, as a group, are a product of a shameful affair between some industries (and interest groups) within the United States and the kleptocracies -- corrupt governments -- to the south, especially the fat one just to the south.

This hideous love affair between the greedy domestic interest groups and the kleptocrats to the south has created a grim regional dynamic resulting in mass movements of the most poor and unwanted from the south right into the miserable, modern day, indentured servitude to the north.

It is remarkable that the antebellum Democratic Party caused a war to keep the slavery in place, whereas the post-antebellum all-liberal Democrats shed crocodile tears for this new form of slavery, called illegal immigration.

A wolf is always a wolf, even if it wears a donkey costume.

This model, the benevolent-master/ the grateful-miserable-servant, where specific types of people always do the chores and the kind master-types always take care of the "important and prestigious" tasks, is against every thing that a healthy, Democratic, Republican system stands for.

The poisonous existence of a mild American cast system is a fact and the illegal immigration plays a central role in its continuation.

* REMO ALEXANDRI is a Glendale resident.