So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from America by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I think the tone of this poem is angry or dissapointed because he puts a lot of questons in the poem asking how the Mexicans are taking away our jobs. Then he says that instead of saying the "Mexicans are taking our jobs" we should be saying "we aren't giving the children a chance to live", "were killing them". The first part of the poem talks mostly about how Mexicans are taking away our jobs. "Do they come on horses with rifles, and say, ese gringo, gimmee your job?" And do you "walk away?" After the forth verse he talks about how hard some people have to work in order to survive and then there's other people who are just plain rich. "I see this, and hear only a few people got al the money in this world, the rest count their pennies to buy bread and butter". Instead of saying that the Mexicans are taking our jobs we should be more concerned about our childrens future. I think he puts the poem it this way because he wanted to first write about what people think in terms of the mexicans taking over our jobs, but then leads into how some people have to work hard to get what they want verses the people who are rich. He says a lot of "we are", "America should", "I see" and also asks a lot of questions about how Mexicans are taking over our jobs. This makes me think that, its a general problem that he wants everyone to be aware of it and that when he puts "we" he includes you the reader as well as everyone else. The poem brings attention to some of the key issues that our culture is facing today. At the end of the poem it concludes that what we really should be worried about is our children and their future to come.