I thought Matt crossed a line quite some time ago on this issue.  But I didn't come onto the thread to say that (I think?) because he is a long-time poster who didn't join this forum just to stir up shit about immigration and Mexicans in Arizona.  I can disagree with him on this issue (and I do!) without feeling the need to 'call him out' on it or start an argument.

In fact I can still be 100% supportive of him and anyone else on this forum whom I disagree with, even on something as fundamental to my worldview as this.  I do understand that the Arizona discussion is largely a hypothetical for myself, but Matt actually lives there and has a daughter. 

That doesn't mean I'm not active, politically, on this issue, since I do feel it also isn't a hypothetical for the 15 year-old boy who was killed, for the numerous others killed pretty much every day and left to rot in the desert, and for those 'landless peasants' in Mexico and Central America who, through no fault of their own, don't have any food to eat.  If someone implements a 30-year plan in my country to stifle local agriculture, transfer ownership of 95% of all arable land to multi-national corporations, mechanizes agriculture to such a degree that it only employs 1% of the workers it used to, grows 'exotic' food for export on that land, then tells the previous owners who have farmed there for centuries "Tough luck! Get lost or I'll have the army move you by force!", I don't know where I would go or what lengths I would go to to feed my family and give my children some sort of a future.  This comment isn't just about Mexico, the same thing is going on in Haiti and elsewhere.

Jody image

  When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
-- Ansel Adams