Should the US fund a Marshall Plan style project in Mexico?
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Not all the inmigrants are mexican. So, first you should have to make a Marshall Plan for Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and other countries.\n\nSecond, it's not true that there was no war. The US invaded Mexico, invaded the Dominican Republic (twice), invaded Nicaragua... Well, if you need an excuse to "pay" for what you destroy, they exist.\n\nBut, it's true that the US is running on deficit so they don't have money for a Marshall plan. You should have to start by ending all the militar cruzades in Asia. Then you will have money.\n\nTo continue, life is not so terrible, cruel and unbearable in all this countries. Point is... work is very very very cheap. So you don't have to spend money in infrastructure, you need to find the way to increase the income of this countries and reduce their debt.\n\nOne of the main sources of debt were the dictatorships that ruled many of this countries for an important part of the 20th century. Dictatorships supported by the US. So, another thing the US may do is stop supporting dictatorships and support elected authorities (even Chavez).\n\nBut another problem for this countries to develop is that their main source of income are commodities and the US (and Europe) are spending money in policies that help reducing the price of commodities. If the US and Europe stop this policies then commodities price should increase.
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Mexico is smart..they send us those who are "worthless" to Mexico...and keep the productive citizens at home.\n\nThey send out these "runners" and just sit back and rake in a percentage of the money that is sent back.  They don't want these people...so we get the "unwanted".\n\nNo wonder Vicente Fox is so desperate to keep everything going well!  He has certainly been desperate for us to NOT build the fence!
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I don't think Mexico has done anything wrong-- what would be the need?
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Will the Mexican invaders pack up and go back to Mexico from having a guilty conscience ? \nNo, no guilty conscience.\n\nWill Western Union stop bleeding the Great U.S.A. by sending money to Mexico ?\nNo, it is great business for them.\n\nWill Vicente Fox share his wealth ?\nNo way, actually the children of his wife are stealing even more than him, and no, they won't share either.\n\n Will Mexico stop being poor and corrupt ? \nYes. If there is cooperation with the US, this can happen in six years.\n\nWill Mexicans stop speaking the language of the people that conquered them ? \nWe are mixed, we will speak both Spanish and native dialects.\n\nWill a border be built that is serious about security ? \nNo.\n\nWill President Bush not be influenced by his Mexican born sister in law ?\nNo.\n\n Will the U.S.A. grow up and have a real immigration policy ?\nNo.\n\n Will the U.S. have a non Hispanic attorney general ?\nNo, for the next three years.
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August 24, 2000 ( < Notice The Date)\nWeb posted at: 6:12 p.m. EDT (2212 GMT)\nhttp://archives.cnn.com/2000/world/ameri...\n\nFox calls for freer flow of legal immigrants, investment between U.S. and Mexico\nLooks to open doors between northern neighbors\n\nWASHINGTON -- Mexican President-elect Vicente Fox on Thursday called on the United States to spend less defending its southern border and more on investing in Mexico so that Mexicans won't feel the need to migrate north of the border. \n\nThe Last Ten Words Of That Phrase Makes Me LMFAOff\n\n\nA close, personal friendship with President George W. Bush has given Mexicos President Vicente Fox the opportunity to purposely allow (or even send) Millions of Criminals, Thugs, Anarchists, and Potential Terrorists to swarm over our southern border in breathtaking numbers. \n(Nearly half of all Illegal Aliens currently living in the U.S. came here since Bush became president in 2000.) \n\n\nShort Answer - With Troops On The Border, Foxes Whole Plan Gets Shot To Hell\n\nHes Been Working Very Hard For 6 Years, \nSending His Poverty To Us, \nSo He Wouldnt Have To Develop His Nation\n\nHe WILL Be Very Vocal About This\nAs He Has Been In The Past \nRegarding U.S.Immigration Policies
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I may be silly to treat this as a legitimate question, however:\n\nTheoretically, I'd say let the Mexican's vote on it. I am absolutely certain that those in power would want to stay there and there would be war. However, again theoretically, if that could occur peacefully, and Mexican people wanted it, it might not be a bad idea. We have been able to leverage our natural resources into taking care of our people (and much of the world's overflow) well enough that people are trying to come here illegally in floods our immigration policy has determined to be too overwhelming to assimilate legally.\n\nIf we had all of Mexico's natural resources, I don't see any reason why we couldn't do the same thing there, after which they might be happy with their own land, and we would all love to visit them. \n\nI like Mexicans, when they aren't illegally draining education funds to support multilingual education to the point where it is impossible to educate my own kids to the level I am paying for as a taxpayer. I think they are hard working, have wonderful family values, and are warm people on an individual basis. I wouldn't mind at all being in the same country with them if they brought their natural resources with them so that we could leverage them to pay for the additional population, at an American lifestyle level.\n\nHowever, we went into Iraq with all the best intentions (I hope), and look what happened there. We thought the Kurds and Shiites would magically bond to install a unified government, and never considered that our enemies in the terrorist world would be so threatened they would gather in Iraq to make life for innocent citizens there a living hell.\nI gave my confidence to our government when we went over, assuming they had more information than I did, and I still thing they did what they thought was best. However, when you remove the lid from a pressure cooker, things can blow up.\n\nIn a theoretical world, I think the idea is possible, if the Mexican's wanted it. In the real world, I think we'd better fix our crystal ball before we try to 'fix' someone else's country.\n\nHaving said that, I don't want our lifestyle to become reduced just because it is better than that of our neighbors. I think we need to set a reasonable immigration policy and enforce it. We can only absorb so much and still keep our culture recognizable. Granted that every immigrating group has added flavor to the mix, I don't agree one group should come in here illegally and try to dominate the home culture by their numbers. \n\nI do not speak of race. I am speaking of assimilation. I am also thinking of a balance of immigration which includes other countries besides those physically closest to us. \n\nSorry. Too long.
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Absolutely not.  The government in Mexico has all they can handle and they haven't done that well .
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No I'd rather have Mexico(its a good place for cheap labor)
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What the heck would we need with Mexico ?
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No and why would they? America had companies that slave labored their people and polluted the land. They then abandoned the Mexicans for Chinese Communist workers at half the price they paid the Mexicans.
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Na, but it would give the mexican space program a lift, some might say it might "blast" it off. i say go for it!
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I was looking I found this was interesting:\n\nRevenue generated from oil, gas and mineral development, agricultural leasing and commercial activity on trust lands play an important role in funding public education in New Mexico.( http://www.nmstatelands.org/ )\n\n\nIf I get a chance I will look for more.
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It is a good idea and it is my understanding that the US tries to recover expenses for jailing aliens and also for crimes by aliens and for their defense in US courts from Mexico.\n\nWe had a murder trial recently of a Mexican alien who killed several people and the Mexican government was forced to pay for his US defense lawyers
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This is a great question, and this is a great idea, as well. Besides, it's been done already, but there are lots of work that can be solved in that form yet. And of course it would reduce the immigration (not all of the immigration) but a part of it. \n\nMany of the immigration, either legal and illegal, is for people on the IT business, that's why some of the big IT companies in the USA, have asked to increase the visas for that specialized people.\n\nBut this idea involves a lot of work that must be done, by American clients, and Mexican Business as well. What do i mean. In Mexico, there are not a lot of solid companies that can provide TI outsourcing to that broad range of posible clients. We need to encourage the creation of that kind of business, and we have to focus the education on the analisis and design skills, and the use of the analysis and desing tools. \n\nIn Mexico, as providers, we are not used to use that kind of tools in order to comunicate with the client, or with the users, or with the business analyst. That make us that kind of work dificult.\n\nBesides, there must be done some efforts to increase the medium wages, so, the developers would have that as a good reason to stay here, instead of getting a job in the USA.
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It isn't just the superhighway it is an entire plan to put together a 'North American Alliance' which we know nothing about.  Congressman Tancredo has called for hearings on the plans, which are apparently to allow free passage of goods, services and 'low risk traffic [unlimited immigration??]'.\n\nThere are working groups from each country working on this.  You can find the names of the Canadian working group on their governmental web pages.  However, our own government is much more secretive.\n\nThat sort of idea might work with largely co-equal economies.  We and Canada might be able to make a go of it.  However, if Mexico is added Canada and the US's social services will end up supporting the poor of Mexico, based on looking at current immigration impacts.  That will leave our own people nothing to rely on ourselves.
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As much as I love Mexico City, no...\nVegas, baby, Vegas!\n\nIf they're gonna waste our money, at least waste it on something fun! Plus, Congress would fit in nicely with the other whores.
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Mexico and USA as far as know.