why are our leaders so blind that they cannot see that its not mexico's right to say who stays here?
360277
Mexico is all for their citizens slipping into our country and 'earning' money to bring back to their country.. what better and easier way to bring in the bucks and help their economy? As a matter of fact, the Mexican government, for the past few years, has been issuing a pamphlet to it's citizens instructing them on how to 'avoid injury and possible death' when crossing the border to search for employment.  OUR government knew about this pamphlet all along but did nothing until just recently when American citizens began raising hell about it.  EACH illegal who comes to this country takes IN approximately $2700. MORE than they pay out in taxes.. IF they pay any at all.  That totals to somewhere around $10 BILLION dollars each year! OUR government.. WE taxpayers.. are shipping $10 BILLION to Mexico for nothing!  Illegals put a strain on our system that is very near to breaking it.. they stress our hospitals [they have no insurance], they stress our schools [we have no government allotments for non-citizens but they still gain something resembling an education] and they put a nearly choking stress on our penal and judicial systems. Where illegals gather, the crime rate jumps nearly 75% in some places.  And as if all of that weren't bad enough, illegals are solely responsible for actually bringing LEPROSY back into this country..among many other untreated and untested diseases.  We MUST do something!  Each one of us has the power to make a difference.. at the very least we vote out the members of our government who turn a blind eye to this problem.. but even better.. raise your voice! Write your representatives.. again and again ..for as long as it takes to make them listen.  If we sit idly by and do nothing.. then we have no one to blame when the primary language in this country becomes Spanish.
804440
That's Mexicos problem.  They can deal with it however they see fit or whatever their laws deems.
489953
Every country has a right to defend its borders. Nobody really cares what El Presidente thinks anyway. He should be working at fixing his own country and not worrying about ours. Oh and I wonder why he thinks it's okay to defend his borders.
1113184
Because they can't be seen.
299372
They shouldn't.This country is not overcrowded.Even if the whole country of Mexico came over they would still be a minority.This country needs them.Ppl are scared because this country and countries all over the world are changing.There is nothing anyone can do about it.Sorry guys.
350449
The Southwest belongs to the United States. It has since the 1800s. Why all of a sudden, are people claiming it belongs to Mexico? If Mexico wants it, then Mexico can just try to fucking take it. I'll be waiting for them, along with millions of other service members and armed citizens.
1114716
I am not Mexican, but my husband is and we have a house there too, I cant think of a way to be sure that he fulfills his promises, if you ask anyone in my husbands town in Tlaxcala, they will tell you that all politians lie. They have lost all hope for their government. I would suggest that people NOT let the government go back to PRI, what did they do for the people all those years that they were in office? It will take any person more than one term to fix the problems! I just worry that all this fence building is only going to seperate Mexico and America more, the tension was always there, but it is getting ridiculous!
765198
we're not traitors. Are we at war with Mexico or Iraq? If its with Mexico, then my husband and I would just stay out of it, maybe take a trip to Canada.
254740
The Mexican government is not sending them there. They go on their own free will.
981191
Well....all those people that live here illegally have had a taste of freedom, perhaps they should take it back to Mexico or wherever they come from and spread it around. We as a nation are not responsible for cleaning up the world. Sometime people need to stand up for themselves instead of running to another country and enabling their country of origin to continue with their corruption with the funds they send back.
350976
You look at the people who made Mexico "horrible", as you define it, everyday.\nIt's so enraging to see that most Americans have no idea of the large responsability their country has had in keeping most third world countries poor, through the thousands of murderous coup d'etats the US has supported, backed and even enforced (Chile 1973, Argentina 1976, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1948 - just to give a few examples), though abusive "free trade" agreements that destroy the local industry (NAFTA FTAA), through imperialist military interventions (the most recent examples in Haiti and Iraq), through proxy wars, "low-intensity" warfare, bombings and millions of covert and non-covert actions many US people (like you) are too lazy to learn about.\nThe US was built on the backs of the third world, so learn your facts before you speak.\n\nBesides...you may not want illegal immigrants in your country, but the corporate elite that rules the USA does want them, so that they can pay squat to them. \nRemember, illegal immigrants are not "taking american jobs", American companies are the ones giving them to them... If the US government would force companies like Wal-Mart to pay an equal wage to illegal immigrants, the incentive to hire them would be gone, and, in consequence, immigrants would find no incentives to move to the US (ie:no jobs for them). But you probably had already figured that out on your own, didn't you?
629043
It has always been to Mexico's politicians advantage to keep its people in ignorance, that is the only way they can maintain power and be corrupting. This why poor cannot get a higher education due to the cost.  Most of these elite politicians have been educated abroad, Harvard, Yale, etc.\nThe last protest in Mexico took place last week from  flower street vendors in a town outside Mexico City, called San Salvador Atenco the police force was brutal and killed a 14 year old kid and injuring many. Most of the vendors are now in jail.  Is it better for them to be thieves and criminals than to sell their flowers since there are no jobs in  country for them? So it does seem the Mexican government is pushing these people to be either criminals or illegals. Mexico is well aware that illegals are keeping \nits economy afloat. Fox even called them "heroes" because of the money they send back home. Bush needs to have a serious talk with this guy, instead of giving each other cowboy boots as gifts and riding around each others ranches commenting about horseshit.
628600
I don't think anyone wants to see 'guest worker' ANYTHING until about 1/2 million mexicans go HOME. After that starts to happen,then we can start talking about work permits and all that jazz....but right now, Mexico's got a problem, they forgot they LOST the war of 1848 and that americans are just going to stand idly by while they walk back in en masse. The border patrol says Bush's plan is horse%%%%,so we'll have to wait and see what's really going on with this issue, and whether or not this administration's going to carry off the kind of reforms that will make Mexico sit up and take notice...Mexico doesn't just want 2 bites, they want the WHOLE enchilada. They use their people as tools for their policy goals...hold the baby CLOSER to the camera LOLOL
399902
Mexicans are embarrassed of their own country. That is why.
994374
Mendi if you open your yahoo browser and put in 'immigration' and 'border security' it will come up.  I saw it on the main stream press.  They are trying to get help from their government.  It was such a problem the US started spending more to drop people further into the interior, to make it easier.\n\nhere: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060617/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_no_way_home_3
280003
They are very strict because the US makes Mexico have strict laws for people to go to Mexico so that they don't come to the US.
998360
This is actually a problem that has been going on across Latin America (Mexico, Nicauragua, Honduras, Peru, etc) for a very long time, and the reason the USA never seems to do anything is because as each of these nations changes its government from pro-US to anti-US to pro-US again, changes our official response to the action. When the government doesn't like us, this is the crime of the millenium, but when it goes back to liking us we tend to forget about it (Nicauragua, as an example). It doesn't seem to matter who is in charge of these countries, the indigenous people always seem to get the short end of everything.