Hispanics and worker's comp:

As many of you know, I work in medical claims relating worker's compensation claims. A disproportionate number of the injured workers are Hispanics. This is unsurprising since Hispanics are more likely to work jobs involving menial labor, jobs which are more susceptible to on-the-job injuries.

Many injured workers wish to return to Mexico to live with their families again. I wonder how that goes. They're (sometimes badly) injured, they've given up on the dream of America as the place where they can earn plenty of money, and they don't have any skills to get non-menial jobs in Mexico. One worker wanted to set up his own business in Mexico, doing what he had done in the US, only now he would be the supervisor. But where is the capital coming from? Maybe they should get their disability in one chunk, so they can start over in Mexico.

Of course, these are the lucky workers. The ones who work sketchy jobs with no worker's comp are left with a pile of medical bills and no way of paying them and a debilitating injury and lack of education preventing them from any chance of making enough money to suppor ttheir families.