why do think mexicans are illigaly the border?
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Armed men in Mexican military uniforms have illegally crossed into the United States to provide cover for drug smugglers, and have fired upon U.S. Border Patrol agents on several occasions, a congressional panel was told Tuesday. \n\nBorder Patrol Union President T.J. Bonner detailed three incidents since 2000 in which U.S. agents were chased and fired upon by what he characterized as Mexican soldiers operating inside U.S. borders.  Bonner testified before the House Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee on Tuesday.  \n\nThe Department of Homeland Security said there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military and law enforcement personnel into the U.S. since 1996.  \n\n“There is little doubt that the majority of these incidences are accidental,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas., chairman of the Security Investigations Subcommittee.  “However, there are several reports of intentional violations of U.S. sovereignty by groups, often smuggling hundreds of pounds of drugs, which appear to be associated with members of the Mexican military or police forces,” McCaul said.\n\nAn incident last month in Hudspeth County, Texas, along the border east of El Paso, pushed the issue of alleged Mexican military incursions into the national spotlight.  “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” McCaul said.\n\nOn Jan. 23, a group of Texas deputy sheriffs, acting on a tip, intercepted a group of drug smugglers and were surprised to find what they believed to be Mexican soldiers with automatic weapons and a military vehicle providing armed security.  \n\nWhen confronted by the deputies, the drug smugglers raced back across the border while men in Mexican military uniforms, driving a Humvee, “took up a defensive position” that Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West described as a "military maneuver." \n\nWhen one of the vehicles carrying drugs got stuck in the river, the uniformed men fanned out and took up protective positions as others unloaded the marijuana, West testified.  When the drugs were unloaded, the truck was set on fire “and still sits in the river where it burned,” West said.  \n\nMexican officials said Friday that, after an initial investigation, none of its military were involved in the episode.  A State Department official testifying Tuesday said that a separate U.S. investigation is still being conducted.\n\nNothing unusual\nMexican soldiers caught inside U.S. boundaries “isn’t a new phenomenon,” said David Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. Although the Mexican military has an “internal policy” that states they won’t operate within about two miles of the U.S., that policy is routinely violated or simply ignored, he said. “We often spot them” near or inside U.S. borders, Aguilar said.\n\nAnd on several occasions the U.S. has chased, apprehended and even detained members of the Mexican military, Aguilar said during his testimony. However, the U.S. has no concrete evidence that the Mexican military is in any way involved in drug smuggling, Aguilar was quick to point out.\n\n“However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued,” Aguilar said.\n\nUnion president Bonner asked Congress to treat the issue with more seriousness because the violence was widespread, leading to a “growing problem of armed incursions across the southwest border of the United States by current and former Mexican soldiers and law enforcement officers.”  \n\nBonner also urged the subcommittee members to hold Mexico accountable as well for not doing enough on its side of the border to help stem the problem.\n\nThe violence is escalating even as state and federal border crackdown initiatives take hold, law enforcement officials told the panel Tuesday.\n\nDrug smugglers have moved to sophisticated techniques and increasingly lethal weaponry, including machine guns, said West.  “And I’m afraid the situation wi
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I will tell you and everyone else why in my opinion they act the way that they do.\nBecause they choose to be criminal trespassers with the very first step they take into MY wonderful country. And once they have gotten away with that first criminal act, it just seems to come naturally to them. They still have all the basic needs of any person in a foreign land, food shelter, clothing, transportation, etc. How would you go about getting these things? Find "your" people, they will be sure to help you get the things you need, legally or otherwise for a price.Thats the problem, Americas lacadaisical attitudes towards criminal tresspassers, allowing them to flood this country with absolutely no penalties other than a free meal, some water and a free ride back accross the border 1/4 mile. We have created a criminal culture with our apathy towards these people, now we are all upset because they have finally become so bold as to actually demand to be recognized as citizens simply because they have been sucessful at remaining undetected for so long.\n       They are not "illegal immigrants", "undocumented workers", or any other of the politically correct terms they prefer to be called. \n        They are criminal tresspassers within the boundaries of a sovereign nation.  And all who support them, or aid them are to be considered traitors to this nation . \n        They are all criminals and no one will ever convince me otherwise. \n         They will remain criminals until they become inmates.
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This has been going on in Mexico for the past 150 years.  In this case they claim several things the main being that they are not happy with the results of the last election.  Was it really fixed,...duh  this is Mexico!.     The violence is much greater closer to the U.S. border but the instigators are admittedly different, Oaxaca involves more professionals (ie teachers).  There is very little respect for law in Mexico.  hmmm, seems to be a little of that slipping up north from there too.
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I don't necessarily think that everyone has a problem with Mexicans, but I do think most people assume every Mexican they meet is an illegal immigrant.  I'm a Spanish major at college, and one of my professors immigrated (legally) from Mexico.  She said a big part of it is the issue that the immigrants CAN'T become citizens legally.  That takes money, and Mexicans don't cross the border for the fun of it; they come to the U.S. when they're children are starving and they have no other choice.  If there was a way for them to come here legally, I'm sure they'd rather do that, then risk their life in the desert, and constantly hide from immigration.  I wish people were better informed on the issue.
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That's because there are dumb idiots out there that think the U.S. borders should be open to everyone.  They think that the U.S. has no right to enfore it's borders because it's the land of the Native Americans and the U.S. took it by force.  More liberal bullsh1t.  At least your a conservative so you have a hold on reality.  Many liberals (not all) are screwy in the head.  They don't understand what's good for the country.  But I think most of those crazies make up a small percentage of liberals, not all of them.
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I think you are the gal having a legal mexican bf... Some of us do not forget the word illegal actually I say it and often and I do not agree on how some actions are being taken to solve this issue ,as well as on the american side as on the Mexican/ sud american side. To secure your borders is ok but the way some americans attack them and refer to them is unacceptable even those patrolling and shooting , or those who throw things to ppl while marching no matter what ppl are free to express themselves specially in USA , am I not right? You can not talk about 3er world mentallity and are just showing a bit of missinformation for you to know Mexico belongs to the 2nd world countries.Unfortunatly most of the ppl who cross are ppl who couldn´t really study much and americans do wrong by stereotyping every person cuz of a small group.Not all the ppl in USA have a first world mentallity I can tell I Live on a first world country. Anyway it is not a matter of pin pointing anyone it is a matter of making ppl understand on both sides that the best is to reach an agreement in which both sides will get benefits.
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that mexicans are stupid and that they should go back to mexico
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It's mainly Mexicans. Due to the fact we share a large border with Mexico, there are constantly people crossing legally and illegally. The problem is that the coyotes have ways of getting them across, they probably have connections with border patrol.
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It gives its people a map to get here.\n\nGood for Mexicans = Bad for Americans of United Descent
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isn't that what they are doing...in a clip mexican protesters were talking about having infantry...mexico has been educating it's citizens on how to swim across the border. so why wouldn't mexico want them to fight to stay here....it will happen if usa starts deporting!!! ppl need to wake up and realize that there is an invasion of usa!!!
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No.  You got it all wrong!  A border is just a border, but the real meaning is in the law.  One side of ther border is Mexico, and the other side of the border is the United States of America.\n\nIf Mexican people want to emigrate, they should do so in a lawful way.  You can't just say "this used to be Mexico" and cross the border illegally.  \n\nWhich part of "illegal" do you not understand?  Much of the blame falls on the Mexican government rather than the people.  The Mexican government should invest in its people and focus on the economy rather than depending on its people to just flee to another country.\n\nCan't imagine how much corruption there is in Mexico.
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That was a stupid question. They are the neighbors that border the US.
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Mexico wants to get rid of their poor. They personally don't care where they go just as long as they leave and send money back. These are very uneducated people and a major a drain on the Mexican society as they are on ours. Americans are very misinformed if they think our government, corporate America and small businesses like these people. Mexican serve a purpose and caring about them has nothing to do with it.
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Good point! I totally agree with you. And another thing that stumps me is when thy go around waving the mexican flag. I thought they wanted to be Americn citizens.
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Its not a Mexican issue with me--its a legal issue and a environment  and a budget issue. \n\nAnd many get angry on both sides and say things they most likely don't mean.
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The Mexicans are wanting to take over parts of the United States in order to claim it for their own country. Their strategy is to overwhelm our country's resources through massive illegal immigration, and they are winning. Their alligiance is to Mexico. They do not even want United States citizenship. They are demonstrating for amnesty just to keep from being punished for their crimes, not to get citizenship.\n\nA small sampling of the movement to Mexicanize America is in the following links. An example is in this quoted passage:\n\n"Even as organizers urged marchers to display U.S. flags, the theme of reclaiming "stolen" land remained strong. One popular banner read: "If you think I'm illegal because I'm a Mexican, learn the true history because I'm in my homeland." \n\n"We need to change direction," said Jose Lugo, an instructor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder at a campus march last week. "And by allowing these 50,000, 50 million [immigrants] to come in here, we can do that." \n\nThe revolutionary tone has surprised even longtime immigration watchers such as Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. \n\n"I've always been skeptical myself about this [reconquista], but what I've seen over the last few weeks leads me to believe that there's more there than I thought," Mr. Mehlman said. \n\n"You're seeing people marching with Mexican flags chanting, 'This is our country.' I don't think that we can dismiss this as youthful exuberance or a bunch of hotheads," he said. "
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Your question is, I think, why those politicians who claim that the Mexican border should be closed because of national security issues (instead of immigration issues) are not equally as concerned with the Canadian border?\n\nThe answer is complex, but I think that the main answer is that the "national security" rationalization for tightening the Mexican border is just an excuse. No would-be terrorist with half a brain would endanger a terrorist project that he and his cohorts have been working on for years by trying to cross the border from Mexico. That's preposterous. All the 9-11 operatives gained access into the country legally. Why not just slip through the Canadian border unnoticed? Or more effectively, why not just send over the guys who can get through our borders legally, or through legal borders with false documentation? The routes of entry are endless.\n\nAt the rate we're creating terrorists thanks to our mockery of a "war for democracy" in Iraq and the numerous human rights abuses our government has been engaging in, coupled with our self-serving, hypocritical, and uneven foreign policy in the Middle East, there's no reason that Islamic extremists wishing to wreak havoc in the U.S. should have to sneak across any borders to get here. There are so many of them by now, that surely Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit them easily and find easy legal ways to get them into the country without having to resort to illegal Mexican-American border crossings or other such nonsense. It's simply a matter of time.