Why don't we just make Mexico a state?  That way it would fall under our federal laws.  Wages would go up.  Federal dollars can be allocated to improve infrastructure, etc, etc...
201204
If we made Mexico a state this corp would have no where to go close by to get cheap labor. And then they would have to come back here and not get tax breaks for going to mexico. WE have a President who is in bed with Mexico and wants cheap labor to come into the United States.
601308
Oh heck no if that was to happen it would be the ghetto of the USA. I read in an artitical a few week back where Vincente Fox of Mexico was talking to some people of Columbia saying that the Mexicans were going to over rule our government. Don't know how true the source really was but as daddy says talk is cheap.
222261
No, it isn't. It's quite simply that in recent years it is getting out of hand. As the owner of a fairly large construction company, I can give you an example why people like myself have such an issue with illegal aliens. In 1995, the cost of framing a custom home was about $7.00 per sq. ft. . In 2005, the cost for the same job is about $3.25 per sq. ft.. This is DIRECTLY related to illegal aliens, in that they are highly skilled craftsmen who can do just as well a job, but because they don't have insurance, or pay taxes, they can cut a bid in HALF, and still maintain the same profit margin. Almost 30% of every penny the company makes goes to taxes alone. Add another 5% of each individual's income for worker's comp. Which illegal aliens can't get, nor can they get the bonding and liability insurance policies I am requred to maintain as a part of doing business. Their average income is $12 per hour. My average payout for wages is $18 per hour. That's per man. So do the math. How much house do you think I can afford to build at $3.25 per foot, at $18 per man hour with a 9 man crew per jobsite? Notice, the cost of housing (along with the price of fuel) has increase almost 150 PERCENT in the past 10 years, yet the income of TENS OF THOUSANDS of AMERICAN construction workers has been cut in half, just so they can compete in an open job market. So tell me mister, who SHOULD I be pissed at? I don't see any senators running the bottom out of my business. But I do support ANY efforts they can make to keep ANYONE else from doing so. The White House has had ZERO impact on my particular job market. The criminal activities of 10 million Mexicans HAS.
677217
We would already have half thier population already, so, whats the point in it??  :)\n\nI thought the quip, as President Fox visited the United States, that he should "turn the light out" because he was probably the last one leaving Mexico was a great one  LOL!!\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
266820
NOOOO. mexico is slowly improving. A revolution would only damage the gains the country has made.
271502
I agree.  The idea that you can drive over the border for a visit and then stay for a couple of days and have your baby here free, because they can't refuse them medical help, then they get free food stamps and everything else that goes along with it.  I have mexican friends who are legal here and they say that the ones who come in illegally know all the tricks to get money from the government that we who live here know nothing about.  Their friends show them the ropes.  This is wrong.  CHANGE Mexico first.  It is a great country with lots of resources but a corrupt government.  The people have to change it there first.  We are overrun with illegals here in TEXAS.
606943
If we get rid on Mexican works your going to see a whole lot of price increases.  I'm sorry but I have had two houses built and Mexican workers are the best hands down.  They work their butts off and do an excellent job.  In Texas they estimate that 80% of homes are being built by illegal immigrants.  If you took that 80% away no one could afford to by a house.\n\nDon't give me this crap that American's would do these jobs because they wont.  The ones that do will half ass it.  Americans expect lots of money for little to no work.
173572
Somebody had to do something. The federal government is all talk and no action. Do you have a link to these new laws? I haven't read them yet. Georgia was the perfect state to do something because no one can say this state was stolen from mexicans.
495666
I know what you mean and you have a point there but..... Is not up to the USA government or up to the American Corporation to establish new laws in Mexico. It's up to the Mexican government to make their laws be obeyed and create new laws for the benefits of their citizens. The problem is not the companies that goes to Mexico looking for cheap labor and pay the lease of money or benefits to the workers, the problem is the Mexican government that don't give a shit for their citizens. They are the big problem and they are so inept and corrupted that they rather send their citizens to the USA illegally than to creat new laws for the better of their citizens. Mexico is what the government and the Mexican people wanted to be,,,, what you see.
290926
Yes, consider how much water Mexico owes, which we mostly wrote off. That amount of water mostly pays them back, plus factor in the assistance we give to THEIR citizens. Add the welfare, food stamps, cost of each childs education (20 to 30 grand each year) and everything else these immigrants cause us to incur. I think that figure might quickly deflate to zero and then negatives (they owe us in that case).
575806
You're exactly right.\n\nLand has been fought over for centuries and the land was divided up before most anyone in the world alive today was born so get over it.  It's not your land.  It's the government's land and God's land b/c everything on Earth belongs to God.\n\nNo one deserves more land.  You're stuck w/ what you got.  Get over it.  The Mexicans don't deserve more land anyway.  They're sending all of their population over to America.  Mexicans fighting immigration laws - America should start a protest - We invade their land for a change - lol\n\nBesides, some of the Mexican tourist destinations are already unsafe like Cancun, Mexico...They are just greedy...\n\nAnother thing...\nPeople say Americans are greedy when we don't give other countries money.  We help out more countries and give the most money to others in the WORLD.  Nobody should say America is greedy b/c we aren't...We earned what we have and that's the end of it.\n\nRich People:\nWhy should rich people have to pay more taxes per dollar than the rest of us.  If they earned what they have, they deserve it...They're living the American Dream...If they inherited their riches, I don't think they deserve it.\n\nThere's some insight for you.
132600
It´s a lovely idea, but doesn´t sound like anything the current US administration would go for.  After all, while hyping the immigration issue in the media and, frankly, whipping up racism, they are also quite happy to turn a blind eye to US businesses using cheap illegal labour. It´s happening in all western countries at the moment.  The media, backed by the government, incites its citizens to be worried about illegal immigration, while the economy actually benefits from the black market economy working with it. I´m in Mexico now on holiday, but staying with family.  It´s a hard place, with a bad atmosphere.  It definitely needs some help, but everyone here says the corruption is so far reaching, there is no hope.  Your idea is nice but too socialist for anyone in today´s political arena and, like Iraq, would require serious investment, commitment and integrity..... never forget it´s all about the money.
417968
There certainly is merit to your idea!  It takes a lot of manpower to staff the DMZ.  In this case however, the US side will be the only side that would even bother standing watch.  The Mexican government doesn't seem to care.
239979
Mexico has EVERYTHING it needs to be a top notch nation. except desire. These people either lack the know how or desire to do it. I sense a civil war is going to happen in Mexico soon. The people there need to find their "Neo"
359353
No, if anything we should give the individual states more power to govern themselves. The federal governmnet already has too much power over the states as it is.
243126
Economic problems require economic solutions. Mexico has used the US as a safety release valve for too long now, it's time to pressure them to improve the lives of the people there.
159618
You are 100% correct.  As soon as the illegals become legal, they will demand more wages.  That puts us right back where we started.