Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The child living in a mobile home in Silicon Valley – Crisanto Street" video.

This story bugs me. I lived on this street working in Silicon Valley in the 90's, now own a home. I lived down the street from here on Escuela St. in the 80's when I was in college. Most of the people in RV's and living on the streets like this are Americans ... so why make this about illegal immigrants? Or immigrants at all. Without just luck and some training in the right things I might be out there myself or still might be someday. The game in the US is rigged, but bringing in illegal immigrants and making them the issue is just a distraction from the political evolution of this country.
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I used to live right on this street in the 90's ... there is a huge apartment complex there overlooking the train tracks ... and it is loud. I used to park out on the street there and not in my parking place until my car got run into. I feel for the people who are living on the street like this, and there are, and should be many places where they can park if they do not cause problems. They are doing their best trying to survive life in a very tough place. I do not support illegal immigrants, but I do not support harrassing them or exploiting them either.
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@suminshizzles6951 That is exactly right, not enough people to pay taxes, so what will happen is private interests will take over the government, as has been the trend for 50 or more yeas now. There will be no democracy and it will be, not slavery, but something no so far from it, only those who exploit workers will not even have the responsibility to take care of them. Stupid people have allowed this without being aware of it. The whine and complain but more people do not vote now than vote, and very few are informed or politically involved. They drag everyone else down. What is needed is regulation and progressive taxes, and the private interests and lobbyists already have so much power it is doubtful that will happen without a complete breakdown of the system, and more likely that the private interests will hold us hostage to gain more power.
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I agree with you somewhat in sentiment, but the fact is that the USA cannot allow everyone in the world to live here, and there is a lot of illegal immigrant crime. The existence of so many cheap laborers does depress wages of other people. My girlfriend works as a nanny, at below what I think of as a living wage. She has no hope to save or retire in this area because a lot of the other nannies she works with are willing to work for slave wages. They also have no education and training for the job - they are warm bodies that get exploited, and that exploitation can be followed eight up the chain to tech workers. The problem is aggravated by the property owning class that has access to demographic research to tell exactly how much rent they can squeeze out of the people living here, and then they also use political influence to limit the building of new houses and apartments. I agree with the sanctuary city policies, but we cannot just open the borders. With the prevalence of Mexicans here, and I have lived in this area for over 40 years, graffiti is all over the place ... of a Mexican nature. They buy diamond scribes and carve graffitti into shop windows and public restroom mirrors. it is more complex than just blaming immigrants for crime, because generally their crime rate is less than non-immigrants, but that also includes legal immigrants in the minority and poor communities, The statistics do not really tell the truth and are used to spin a story that is somewhat untrue. Just spinning all those positive words is a bit dishonest however good intentions might be.
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