“It was the Mexicans who’d done this. Illegals. Goons with their hats turned backwards on their heads. Sneaking across the border, ruining the schools, gutting property values and freeloading on welfare, and if that wasn’t enough, now they were burning everybody else too. They were like the barbarians outside the gates of Rome, only theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: L.A. Gringo Blames the Mexicans”
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RKS Literature: No Work For the Undocumented Latino in Los Angeles
“Later Cándido stood on streetcorner with two hundred other men while she shrank by his side. The talk was grim. There was a recession. There was no work. Too many had come up from the South, and if there was work for them all six years ago, now there were twenty men for every jobContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Work For the Undocumented Latino in Los Angeles”
RKS Literature: Understanding Caravans and the Sense of Entitlement
“The right to work, to have job, earn your daily bread and a roof over your head and a roof over your head. He was a criminal for daring to want it, daring to risk everything for the basic human necessities, and now even those were to be denied him. It stank. It did. TheseContinue reading “RKS Literature: Understanding Caravans and the Sense of Entitlement”
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