Something everyone of us should see

If you are an internet junkie you probably have already found the following video. If not please check it out. http://tv.msn.com/TV/realitytv?GT1=7703 The video is the the full first episode of 30 days. It is wonderful. I have to tell a story about this subject so perhaps you can understand why I feel it is important.
My husband and I lived in San Diego for 7 years. During my second year in San Diego I was asked to go to Tijajuana with a missionary from a local church, to deliver clothes, and other donations from a local church. We were to go to a small village on the outskirts of Tijajuana. I had never been to a poor country before and had no experience about what to expect. On the way to the village I was told the people who resided there were mostly squatters and that the only people who owned any shelter where the minister and his family who owned a trailer that they parked on the grounds of the church which was also legally owned. We arrived in a place that was filthy, and poor. Most of the homes that people resided in were cardboard boxes or walls of buildings like the one shown in the film. The trailer that the minister and his family (wife and 3 children with a new baby on the way) lived in was a small travel trailer. Most of the people in the US do not even own a trailer that small anymore. They considered themselves lucky compared to their neighbors. They were gradually adding on to the trailer so it would eventually have separate rooms for two of the children.
We went to a grocery store to buy some items we needed and I discovered young children who begged to help you with your cart. They were paid in tips and often that was the only money their families would get for the day. Most of the schools in the area closed early so the children could work in this way to help support their families.
This trip to Mexico had a profound impact on me. We as Americans have no idea of the hardships that other people of third world countries endure. To deny them citizenship on the grounds of illegality is absurd! We as a country that is so rich as to be the "greatest nation" on earth should be the very people who try to make examples of ourselves through our humanity and our care. We should find a way to work more diligently with the Mexican government in helping to find economic stability for their people instead of using their economic worries to plunder the poor by providing substandard wages and offering substandard housing that is better than what exists but is not what American workers would even consider fair. It is time to make our corporations understand that the workers in third world countries are entitled to the same standards that we as American workers are and that the huge corporate economies that our corporations are declaring are profits earned through swindling the poor. Is this a standard that the United States is willing to accept? I as a citizen of the United States am not and I am embarrassed by those who are and who choose to defend the status quo as a usual means of business.
The fact that these companies can go into third world countries and offer this substandard fare is only due to a government that not only supports the corporations but refuses to be actively involved with the very governments that could help create an economically viable standard for their citizens thus decreasing the need to even address the problem of illegal aliens. Until our government stops spending the trillions of dollars on wars and starts working to address the financial instability of governments that are our neighbors we will never be able to address the issue of illegal immigration. It is time to put our dollars where they can best do the work and take the money away from a government that insists our boys are there to be targets and our money is theirs for the spending.
I guess that is all of my political rant for right now. Thanks for bearing with me. R