Why doesn't  US send jobs to Mexico instead of China to relieve pressure on the border?
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it has less to do with the government than it does with big business and citizens. if mexicans can find higher paying wages in the US and get the US dollar which is stronger than the Peso, why would you care if big companies were in Mexico. Of course, there are plenty of Mexicans that would love a jobe in their home  country even though it pays less than the same job in the US. Thats where big biz comes in. The cost of hiring and maintaining a work force in Mexico is significantly higher than in China because China has so many fewer laws preventing abuse. In addition, you can pay workers in China far less because they can't hop the border into the US and find the same job that pays double. Make sense!
443905
I hate to be the one to break this to you but China's infrastructure is vastly different to that of the United States, saying that Communist China's government infrastructure is even remotely similar to the United States is absurd.\n\nMexico should not try to merely copy the infrastructure of the US mainly because the variables and situation is different. Mexico's plan should be to address the problems of the system in Mexico, even if that means you get outside solicitation in regards on how the system can be improved, maybe some demographic studies and forums be conducted to discover the problems in the existing system and work from there.
415632
Sure, Sam Houston beat the Mexican Army back in 1836, then the US military had beaten them again 1848. There is plenty of oil there to help out with growth not to mention the labor pool that has improved their skill in the past 30 years.  Mexico being added to the US would do wonders for the economy, then 70% of the poorest of the population would increase their standard of living into the modern world. But we would have to sink in tons of money in Federal programs to break up all the corruption, that in itself makes it not worth it.
572094
Either way, the money doesn't get used in the U.S. as any corporation of the size to be able to open sites in Mexico has a ton of tax shelters that prevent paying taxes.  Mexico benefits far more from both situations than the U.S. does.
502005
A better option would be to allow the Mexican public an opportunity to vote themselves in to a negotiated merger, or essentially a referendum on the performance of their government over the past century.  Of course the Mexican Goverment would never allow that any more than US Goverment would.  A huge amount of the reason that Mexicans come to the US looking for jobs is that the PRI managed to keep Mexico's economy from developing in a normal fashion during the bulk of the 20th century.  Some of the pandering of the US goverment to Mexico could very well be explained by a desire to see the PAN remain in control of the Goverment in Mexico, however in the long run the US needs to secure it's borders, punish US employers of Illegals and do what we can in helping Mexico provide enough jobs for their own population.  Though hypothetically combining the two countries does make some sense.
424632
Yes they do. Many people say it's because Americans won't do them. It's not that Americans won't do them, it's the companies they won't pay the money for the people to work so the CEO's and other big wigs within the company can put more dollars in their pockets. Illegals will do it because it's still twice what they would get back in Mexico.
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Actually, you are misunderstanding the relevance of the Zimmerman Telegram, an attempt at wartime diplomacy between Germany and Mexico in 1916 during the First World War. Germany had suggested that, if the United States entered the First World War in Europe, the American army would be sent to Europe and the Rio Grande would be almost completely unguarded. Germany felt that if Mexico could be enticed into joining the Central Powers, it would act as a 'force in being' and that the United States would then have to retain large military forces to watch their southern flank.\n\nGermany did not, in fact, offer to send substantial military forces to Mexico and thus eventually assume power, as you are implying. Germany was not able to send reinforcements to any of their existing colonies in Africa or China or the Pacific because of British naval superiority and the German squadron at Singapore had been destroyed at Port Stanley in 1915.\n\nSorry to rain on your parade, but your statement really is without merit.
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It is definitely a stupid idea. A fence...really. I mean think about it.\nIf you have a problem with like this...there are two things you can do...cut off the SUPPLY (prevent the supply of people from getting into the US by building a wall) or cut off the DEMAND (2 ways to cut off demand- first being to help Mexico raise its economy to such a level that nobody wants to leave to find work elsewhere...the second being to raise wages for migrant workers here in the US so that US citizens WANT to take the work). Right now, evidently none of the millions of unemployed WANT to take migrant agriculture work. They would rather just sit and accept unemployment. Well, if we are paying unemployment $$ anyway, how about shifting it to subsidize some WORK. that's right...the unemployed that receive $$$ actually have to WORK for their money. A few things happen: 1) the jobs get taken by US citizens 2)The unemployed actually WORK for the checks they are getting 3)For the $$ the US is paying in unemployment -which they will be paying anyway- the US actually gets some WORK done 4) the unemployed gain a job skill 5) the unemployed may realize that migrant agricultural work is really really hard...and that may motivate them to look for something else 6) We save money on not building a wall, not having to patrol a huge border as much, not employing all the police etc to bring people BACK to Mexico, etc. What a great idea!!
726487
Seeing as how there's only two countries involved in this, the answer could either be the U.S. or nobody.\n\nIf every undocumented Mexican were granted citizenship, they would pay taxes for the money they made, instead of how right now only about 35% pay income tax, so you decide for yourself.\n\nIf you actually knew anything about economics, you'd see that if Mexico's economy was stable, its business partners would benefit (i.e. the United States). \n\nIf you're going to ask about who's responsibility it is to do things in the world, why don't you point your questions at the Middle East? Is it really the United States' responsibility to save the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein? Are our tax dollars meant for our government to democratize another? That's not what they were originally meant to do, but the money we spend will help out Iraqis (I know people who live there). Our tax dollars were not originally meant to help Mexico out, but the money we would spend would help out Mexico.
646583
You are right, Mexico should be a powerful nation. It seems they don't have the will power to force change in the right places. When a country builds it's economy from the currency of another nation there economic base becomes very unstable. Every U.S. Dollar that goes into Mexico serves only to devalue the peso. It has become a catch 22 for them. They need a person who is strong enough to break the strangle hold the drug families have on that nation.
303503
could be in less than 30 years if the trend does not change. They are human the same as us but need to follow the rules. I favor mining the borders and putting signs up to keep out or else tough sh--. We might as well take over Mexico and get things organized but of course that would mean we have to be organized.  The turmoil in this country has been caused by too many people stuffing their pockets instead of doing the jobs they were elected to do. That includes both parties.
353059
I think a big wall isn't going to stop someone who is welling to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to cross it. Tunnels are common on the border. There are also things called latters and with the right tools anyone with a little know how can cut break etc. an opening for a person to slide through.The WALL is Just a psychological barrier and jester from some "smart" politician trying to save his cozy little seat in the house or senate. The incentive to come to us isn't to "crusar el rio" crusar la frontera.It's the jobs,the almighty dollar. Yeah and I'm sure some greedy government contractor would love to pay undocumented workers to build a wall out in the f....ing desert for 6 bucks an hour screw the government for 16 an hour. Lets see what our politicians come up with next. This is the reason everyone able to vote should get involved and not just lay blame on politicians. We elect them if we vote. Guess who doesn't have that right? non citizens.
142892
Not at all, it shouldn't.\nIn fact, if it's been condemned by European countries, and Canada, Mexico shouln't have any other position about it.\nAltougth, we have to be very carefully about dealing on this matters because the dificulties on the Mexico-USA relation have been having on the last times.
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We've had a virtual open border for decades.  The problem is that the US is one of the richest countries in the world and Mexico is a corrupt, impoverished slag heap.  As a result, about 10% of the entire population of Mexico has fled, most of them illegally, to the US.  A great many of them are not the least bit interested in becoming US citizens; they are here to take what they can get in terms of social services, public education and such, at great expense to American taxpayers.  The illegal mexicans are parasites on the backs of American taxpayers, sucking away money and not paying taxes.  Several California cities have sued the government of Mexico for billions of dollars each in an attempt to recoup some of the financial drain caused by illegal Mexicans. \n\nThere is a mechanism in place for legal immigrants.  The Mexicans want nothing to do with it. Amnesty is a very stupid idea.  It would reward lawbreakers and encourange countless more to break in illegally.  If millions of Americans suddenly decided to rob banks, should amnesty be given to them just because there were so many? No. Same thing applies here. \n\nSpecial favoritism to Mexico will bankrupt American companies and drag down the US economy.  US taxpayers will pay and pay for the cost of illegal immigration. \n\nThe border should be slammed shut and illegals should be rounded up and sent back, no matter how much it costs or how llong it takes.  There should be a $1,000 bountry paid to any citizen who can capure an illegal Mexican and turn him over to the authorities.  One way or another, this scourge has got to be stopped.
1071481
Have no clue. Maybe they're trying to bring Mexico here?
923105
Mexico does not put up with the illegal immigrants the way they want the United States to do it.\n\nThe Mexican government constantly hectors the American people about how we should treat its illegal migrants. President Vicente Fox, Foreign Secretary Ernesto Derbez, and Mexican consuls in the United States insist that Americans should be grateful for the hundreds of thousands of surplus Mexicans who break across our border each year. Without them, these leaders explain, the American economy would grind to a halt (never mind that Mexico’s management of its own affairs would seem to undercut the officials’ economic expertise). Therefore, as a token of appreciation for keeping us afloat, say the Mexican apologists, we must grant amnesty to the law-breakers and reward them for illegal entry with a host of rights.\n\nFine. If Mexico wants to dictate our immigration policy to us, let’s follow their example to the letter. That example is particularly relevant on this further day of protests demanding amnesty for illegals. Among the demonstrators in at least 60 cities nationwide will undoubtedly be thousands of border lawbreakers. What would Mexico do? The answer is easy: deport them on the spot. In 2002, a dozen American college students, in Mexico legally, participated peacefully in an environmental protest against a planned airport outside of Mexico City. They swiftly found themselves deported as law-breakers for interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs.\n\nIf Mexico was willing to strip these students of their duly-obtained travel visas, imagine what it would have done had the students broken into the country surreptitiously—not just summary deportation but undoubtedly howls of complaint to the U.S. government for winking at this double violation of Mexican sovereignty. Open borders propagandists in the U.S. constantly present deportation as a patent act of cruelty that no right-thinking person would tolerate. Yet Mexico has no qualms about deporting not just illegals but legal immigrants as well whom it deems fractious.\n\nIf participation in an environmental protest constitutes unlawful interference in Mexico’s internal affairs, how much more intrusive would it deem mass demonstrations to legalize immigration law-breakers? No issue is more central to a country’s sovereignty than immigration policy. Yet we won’t be seeing any statements by Mexican diplomats today urging its citizens in the U.S. to refrain from efforts to influence American laws.\n\nIt is particularly delicious to imagine what would happen if American students in Mexico ran the American flag up a flag pole over an upside down Mexican flag, as students in a Southern California high school did last month. An international crisis! Each participant would be promptly ejected and possibly the American ambassador as well. When President Ernesto Zedillo tried to revise Mexican textbooks in the 1990s to be more favorable toward U.S. foreign policy, Mexico’s pundits denounced him as a traitor. Yet Mexican consuls in the U.S. work mightily to disseminate Mexican textbooks in U.S. schools and they have raised not a peep of remonstrance against Mexican protesters carrying signs such as THIS IS STOLEN LAND and WE DIDN’T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED US during the mass demonstrations last month.\n\nEfforts to portray the student protesters in particular as modern day civil rights crusaders are laughable. Far from representing a sacrifice, cutting school is something of a tradition among Hispanics in the U.S., who have a high school dropout rate of just under 50 percent. Taxpayers must pay for the schooling of illegal aliens and their children, yet local schools get stiffed on their per-pupil payments from their state governments because truancy rates are so high. Immigration protests just drive the base truancy rate up higher. In December 2003, the school district in Santa Ana, California, the most Spanish-speaking large city in the country, promised t
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Because it will bring products more cheaply from Mexico to the US.\n\nWe are going to end up outsourcing and getting stuff from elsewhere anyway.  Anyone who that they can reverse this or stop it is just naive or uneducated.  So you have to ask yourself, would you rather import from our neighbors or Asia?