Will Mexico always be a crappy country ?
399550
Mexico is actually a beautiful country with beautiful people.  After travelling the world, I can easily say that is one of the few countries I definately want to visit again.  And dont be so close-minded!!!
646212
I lived in Mexico for 12 years.\n\nTheir number one reason for the economic problems has been their political system, and the past presidents robbing their own people.
1072618
Just wait, it'll get better...my prediction is that more gangs etc. from Mexico will work on whittling away at america, bit by bit, through fun things like identity theft, maybe eventually they'll just have to cut the internet between the two countries...Mexico's bound and determined to get what they want, and they really don't have a lot of consideration for america/americans in the process of gaining that objective. Not very neighborly...
614745
Yes it is very bad. Asked my wife who is a RN in mexico and she said it could have a HUGH possiblity of killing him if they give him antistics.
145141
I could say it's Mexico, but i haven't lived anyplace else.\nI know we have insecurity, the economy is not very stable, the salaries are low, but if you stay away of Mexico, D.F., you can find a lot of great and beautiful places to have a nice life. \nIf you are asking in order to find out if there are some other options, i can tell you that Monterrey is a modern, vigorous, economically growing citty wich is not as insecure as the D.F.\nAnd there are many little and beautiful citties where you can do little business - not big money - but live a peaceful life, like Queretaro, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, wich are colonial citties; Cd del Carmen, if you like the ocean, Michoacan and Puebla that are sorrounded with wooded landscape. \nSo, i don't know if USA is the best country to live in, i've hardly been at Texas a couple of times, but i love Mexico and i've had a great life till now.
120089
Nothing, maybe Mexico will start taking care of their own people and not encouraging them to coming up to the United States.
567379
I think it summarizes the current situation quite nicely.  Unfortunately, at the rate the things are going, if there is an amnesty, it will result with more than half of population of Mexico moving to the US, which will undoubtedly destroy this country.  So, to use your analogy, the parasites will consume the host and take over it to basically turn it into a province of Mexico.  Throughout history, no country that did not protect its borders has ever survived.
949677
The southwest, Florida, and New York is where it is the oldest problem, but illegals are now moving toward the midwest and other areas. I read in the L.A times about a Mexican family who moved to TN because the wages and living conditions were now so poor. They said it was "too much like Mexico." They also said other Mexican workers drive down the wages, and it was much easier to send more money home to the family because the wages in Tennessee were so much higher than what they were used to. I can personally attest to wages being lower in the southwest. I've noticed that jobs in my area of Texas(on the border, no less) pay less than half what they did in my midwest hometown. And yet, the taxes for these people, who make very little are twice as high. Not to mention what these people are paying for medical care.It's insane.
491472
I don't think Mexico has done anything wrong-- what would be the need?
986126
First, stop thinking Mexico is a country stuck in the middle ages: it is not. Mexico has good colleges, good hospitals, good doctors... just like evere other does. The same about cuba. Cuba can be a doomed country but their level on medicine is quite high.\n\nYou go to a major hospital in mexico and you will get the same that in a major USA hospital, just that cheaper. And that goes for almost any other country in Latin America.
648412
We have strong institutions, wich have been built with a lot of effort by the mexican people. \n\nIs a shame to be creating this idea of the election of state, of the goverment having the power to buy all of the media, all of the survey companies, and all of our votes.\n\nIf we loose the confidence in our institutions, what will we have? anything. Is it the time for Mexico to become a country leadered by a dictator, since there is not anyone else around to trust? I don't think so, and i hope all of us are smart enougth to understand it.
595196
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.
864523
No, it would be best if you find a way back to mexico right now, it will be harder to walk in the desert with a baby.\n To bad you cant stay and take advantage of Americans\n Bye Bye
362000
Why should "we" have to fix Mexico? We didn't break it or cause its problems. It's corrupt government did that.
519038
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"
947319
Easy... can be summed up in two reasons\n\n #1.) Illegals form a significant flow of money to the Mexican economy (or politicans' pockets, same thing). \nThis is the thing that should dispel those lies that illegals are good for the USA, because if it were a good thing those illegals would at least keep all the money in the USA, but instead all those dollars are sent to Mexico.\n\n#2.) The more poor and dissatisfied that remain in Mexico, the more likely revolution or reform will take place as they eventually realize that they need to wake up and that their easy ticket is not easy anymore.\nI do not need to tell you that this would be bad for the current crop of corrupt imbeciles running Mexico.
557579
LOL trying to legislate the entire planet into the United States, are you? Face facts, that was then, this is now, and unless you really really want to face decades of nosebleed taxes to pay for overcrowding, more cops, more pollution, consider your choices wisely, because Mexico's just standing by for the green light...bone up on your spanish...of course, to be fair, it's not just mexico.\nProblem is, the more pre-load there is on your paycheck, \nthat eventually you'll be paying more and getting less in the way of any social services etc. A lot of people have developed an entitlement mentality these days, other people 'owe' them something, kind of like Sid Vicious's 'do they owe us a living'-type attitude. No one 'owes' you anything by virture of ethnicity, family name, or anything.\nMore people need to pull their socks up, and stop expecting handouts, and trying to paint our country as the mega-welfare agency. "Hey, let's go leech off america" isn't a good attitude, in my view. Lots of people just barely scraping by, out there as it is.\n\nAs hospitals etc. get overloaded, jail system gets overloaded, schools get overloaded, their effectiveness diminishes. People will demand that these services be expanded, and that the government pay for it. Well, you're part of the government, so again, vote with great consideration...\n\nI don't think the answer to global poverty is to make the United States a de-facto second-world country. Legal immigration is fine, illegal immigration is not, and as far as the indian thing goes, you're talking distant history, just like mexico losing the US/Mexico war, which they still apparently refuse to acknowledge? There's poverty in america too, and I think there's a general delusion, perpetuated by some rather unethical politicians, that blatant opportunism and cut-throat competition is the answer to the world's problems. Selling america down the river wholesale isn't going to solve any social problems, right any wrongs, and dumping another 100 million or so into the mix with impunity like the Senate apparently sees fit to do won't get the job done, either. \n\nI think it's time for people to dry their eyes, and look at the problems facing america, mexico and other nations in a new light, with an eye towards prevention and reform. You can't change the past. No one can jump in the time machine and go back and re-make the world or our country the way they think it should be. The strongest strategy, to my mind, is to try and improve what we've got. Mexico should be doing the same instead of just basically fleeing the scene of the crime...'blame america' just won't cut it.\nI have nothing against helping less fortunate people either, as long as it's 'hand up', not 'hand-out' etc...