why do we not fix whats wrong with mexico so we won't need the wall good jobs?
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Mexico is a sovereign nation,  They should be able to fix themselves with little guidance.\nWe did not fix Canada and they have it figured out.\n\nIt would be great if Mexico had the same attitude as Canada.
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The only salvation for Mexico's corrupt society is to force the U.S. to take upon itself all the millions of Mexican citizens it cannot find jobs for, homes for, schools for, hospitals for, or prisons for. Mexico looks to the U.S. as a source of remittance income, the hugely valuable drug trade, and a dumping grounds for the societal problems it has no ability, stomach, or interest to tackle as any other respectable nation would.
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If you are talking about the US there are a few major reasons. \n\nFirst outsourcing is killing the US economy. The top growing job from what I understand is in outsourcing companies. \n\nWage scale has created a situation where white collar workers cannot retreat to trades or labor without suffering a dramatic loss in lifestyle. Ilegals have taken over whole industries. Trying to get a job as a framer for example in an area that has a large number of ilegals is almost impossible for a non-hispanic or even a Hispanic who does not speak Spanish.  By working for far less than most American's can afford to work the pay scale on such jobs has  dropped considerably. \n\nA sluggish economy and collapsing credit means there are fewer oppotunities to start a new biz and fewer new businesses are surviving. \n\nWe are falling behind on innovation. Education is getting more difficult to aquire, especially in math and sciences. Research budgets are being slashed or elimanated completely. \n\nTaxes are too high. My taxes two years ago would have paid for my car brand new. What I paid out in taxes over a five year period would have bought my house. How can anyone save when taxed to death like that? \n\nA 2 income family is a must today. Women cannot choose to work they must. This means a large number of families that might be a one income family are forced to be two income famiilies taking jobs from singles and lower income brackets that also need the same jobs. \n\nOther nations are finding their competitive edges. China and India in partuler are blooming economies that would compete with us even if we were not stupid enough to just ship our industry over to them. So the export market is getting tighter each year. \n\nThe US has for years traded favorable access to our markets in exchange for political concessions. We do not have the wealth to do this any more. \n\nNAFTA has left a trail of destruction in both the US and Mexico. It was designed for trade between the US and Canada and purely to not appear racist Mexico was included to the detriment of all. Both the US and Mexico has lost jobs over it. US highways are now less safe just to add insult to injury. \n\nUnions have made it economically cheaper to move many industries overseas. This takes away the factory and management jobs. It takes away maintence and building jobs. It also takes away service industry jobs that these people would have generated. \n\nCorporate stupidity. The obession over this quarter's bottom line is the biggest culprit. It has led major companies coming apart at the seems as little as five years later when a company chooses to make a profit this quarter ignoring the implications down the road. This is by far the biggest reason. Take outsourcing for example. Once you outsource enough of the IT jobs the next generation of software will be written over there not here. Who needs managers when all the jobs are over there? Would it not make more sense to hire managers who live close to where the actual work was being done. What exactly is going to prevent these workers from hijacking the knowledge they gained working for a US company and starting a competing company based over there? Nothing, this company will have a sudden huge edge over the stupid US company that gave it's ability to compete away. \n\nCompanies make deffective products, products which have engineered obsolescence. Companies feel like they can shove whatever they want down the consumer's throat and that the consumer will take it. Big Corps who are laying off workers then paying exec multi-million dollar bonous and other what amouts to theft from the company payments. The simple attitude that the consumer is somehow an enemy assures so many stupid decisions on the part of corporations. \n\nFixing this will be a difficult task as so many people will scream the second you try to make a real change. Big Biz and special interst groups have bought legislation to assure this outcome without
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we dont need a wall we need more acceptance of people coming\ninto this country
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Ally? We don't need Mexico. Mexico needs us.
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Mexico is shaking in thier boots because 1 thier secont biggest economy is money transfers from US to mexico if we cap off illegal immigration it will be a huge hit to thier economy---2 there is mass immigration from south america through mexico to get to the US if we do a better job on our borders they will be hit will a huge influx of illegal immigrant of thier own,which they dont have an economy to support,Looks like its time for Mexico to do some serious soul searching or they are the ones in big trouble
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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.
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so go home and be the country that has the most young people i think we will be just fine without illegals we still have the legals and we can take more as we need them but just to over populate and keep paying for these people is insane .  Mexico is NOT a poor country. It has the fifth richest economy in the world, and by sending its teeming masses to our country, that status keeps on rising. Mexico has more resources per square mile than the U.S. and plenty of money to take care of its own people. Why should the taxpayers of this country subsidize Mexico's corruption?
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I think your questions reflect the general confusion about the issues that a lot of the other people answering your question also have.\n\nFirstly,  the troops are not meant to stop Mexican immigration, they are meant to protect the US from security threats, in other words terrorists who decided to use Mexico as a springboard to come to the US.  Sure, they will stop illegal immigrants, but that's not the real reason why deploying the National Guard is being considered.\n\nSecondly, immigrants are not hurting the US economy.  There are approximately 11 million immigrants in the US, which is less than 4% of the population.  Immigration is actually good to oil the global economy and the American economy.  As economies develop, such as the US economy has, the citizens become more wealthy and better educated, which leads them to look for better paying jobs.  If you are well educated, you are not going to apply for a fruit-picking job, you'll try to become a lawyer, businessman or a college professor, for example.  Immigrants are the ones who help us do the jobs in sectors that suffer from labor deficits.\n\nThere are those who argue that if immigrants didn't come to the US, the minimum wage would be higher and therefore US citizens would be more willing to do those jobs.  That's nonsense, because of what I just explained: a better educated population does not want to work in agriculture, work as house maids or delivery boys!  If Mexico fell of the face of the Earth, other immigrants would come from other countries to take up the jobs that nobody else is doing.  In fact, that's what happened when most people came from Europe over the last 200 years.  Do you think my or your great-great grandaddy was the Duke of Earl?  He was likely as uneducated as any immigrant you meet on the Texas border!\n\nHaving said that, I understand the frustration that many people feel when they see immigrants coming to the US and getting jobs while they are having trouble getting jobs themselves.  However, that's not the fault of the immigrants, it's the fault of our politicians who have repeatedly failed to overhaul our educational system such that everyone has access to a good education.  \n\nYou know why not everyone has access to a good education, i.e. why some public schools are so terrible? Because property taxes are used to fund public schools.  If you are from a poor family, you likely live in a poor neighborhood where property values are depressed, and thus the tax the government obtains from those properties is insufficient to properly fund the public school you attend (i.e. to pay good salaries to teachers, train them properly, and maintain facilities).  A good solution (but please, do suggest a better one if you can think of it, the US surely needs it) would be for city governments to take some tax funds from the richer neighborhoods to poorer neighborhoods (and I'm not saying here "let's become Communist", I'm saying take a small percentage, say 10%) and this would contribute to the advancement of everyone.  This debate has indeed been brought up repeatedly in city councils thorughout the country, yet thus far the politicians have been unwilling to make difficult decisions because they are afraid their constituents will not vote for them again.  This is an American paradox, and one we need to solve to get poor people better jobs.  \n\nThus, instead of blaming your ills on immigrants, I suggest you write a letter to your congressman/woman and to your city couincilman/woman, and ask them what they are doing to provide good education for everyone in your town or city. Also, ask how you can help, don't expect everything to be served to you on a silver platter! In addition, I suggest you hit the books and get good grades, and luckily you'll get a good college education and a good job, and you won't even have to worry about immigrants, "the boogie man" or his brother.
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The fact is that the Mexicans have a country of there own to repair. If things are as bad there as some of you are saying then isnt it up to them to fix it?. The vast majority of Illegals in this country were gainfully employed in mexico prior to there illegal entry to the U.S. Some of you asked..."have you ever been to mexico"?..NO...why would I want to go there?
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Mexico is not a poor country, far from it ... they have oil, minerals, and a very healthy export situation ... what is wrong with it is that it is corrupt!  Mexico could well afford to look after its citizens, but it's more convenient to send them over to the U.S. and let the Americans foot the bill!  Don't forget that the 20 billion no doubt untaxed dollars these aliens send home to Mexico form a big part of their national income.  Who foots the bill?  You, the American taxpayer, does .... it is also not fair to compare dollar for dollar what these people earn ... a dollar goes considerably further in Mexico than it does here ... We couldn't exist on the money some greedy companies are paying the illegals, but that money buys one heck of a lot in Mexico ....
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Everything you said is true true true. Also Mexico is not a poor country. It is just poorer in relative to us. Like you living next door to Bill Gates.\nIllegals are a product for Mexican government in remittance at a tune of $54 billion a year. Pres.V. Fox just gave himself a $28,000 raise. He make more then the presidents/Priminsters of France, Germany and Canada.\n\nThey need to stay and demand their country work. If they can get organized down there like they had up here May 1st they might make changes. \n\nGo to the Travel section of Q&A get into the Mexico site and ask the question there. I have met some real nice and smart people like Chess, Joo, Just Me and others asking questions there. Gypsy.
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quotas bad, mexicans good.  they have oil, why don't we take them over? then the whole questions is solved.
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To Frell with Mexico, Iraq and the rest of the world. We have our own problems in this country that aren't being addressed and people are to blind and to stupid to see it. \n\nIllegal’s are doing the jobs that we as (99.99%) Americans don't want to do. Most Americans are lazy and have no idea what a good day of hard labor is and how it makes you feel before, during, and after. I have worked the fields and know what it is like. I know where my fruit and vegetables come from and what is involved in getting them to the tables of America.\n\nWe like are fore-fathers are being tax with out representation. In state after state after state our money is being spent with nothing to show after it is spent. In Washington State, the elected governor was not allowed to take office because of the DNC bitched moaned and groaned because they didn't win and they went to court to get there losing candidate in office. When that person got in there, they raised the gas tax by 9 cents a gallon, raised vehicle tabs by instituting a weight class tax and put a tax penalty on all land subdivision under, in most counties of $20,000 per subdivision.\n\nThe National Guard, which was to take the place of the local militia and State protection, are being used for Federal use in places and ways that the regular Army is suppose to be used for. The men and women of our armed forces are acting selflessly in the support of a government and a majority of people that it is not worthy of serving.  \n\nAnd Mexico does not have as much oil as you might think. Venezuela has more oil than Mexico does. You want to go to war for oil go there. There are better technologies to run you cars and trucks with than Oil. Water for one. Electricity is another. People need to start doing for this country first and for most. Seal the boarders and start with America First.
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Good question. But you think illegal immigration is bad now? Maybe because they are a portal to Central America. If the economy fails in Mexico Maybe the rich honchos here in the USA would loose billions.
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Most people don't know what goes on at the border with Mexico. Minutemen nor fences are going to deter coyotes from trafficking people. The corruption is overwhelming,it has been a profitable business for Mexican Customs officials and even some of our own that participate in blowing the whistle where to cross. You are right, our government is attacking this problem all backwards, and just spending tax money fruitlessly. If these people can't find work, for sure they will return home. But as long as we give them a piece of the cake, or even some crumbs, they will still be coming in droves.
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Deporting and stopping illegal immigration will be great for Mexico actually. It will force the mexicans to change their ways and may be fix the problems of pollution, corruption in government, and overpopulation. They could become a normal country or another canada. then I would be in favor of some kind of open-border North american union thing.\nOr mexicans can live in the same hellhole they always were in.\n\nIllegal immigrants our loyal to Mexico and they made it clear. Saying things like "STOLEN CONTINENTS!" even though their ancestors were spanish (EUROPEANS) too. Also, mexicans' ancestors never lived in North america, the north american indians lived there.\n\nillegal Mexicans wave Mexican flags to basically say "we hate america and are loyal to Mexico, we're just here for the money and to leach off of your system!"\n\nIt is time for an Abraham Lincoln of mexico to rise up and heal central america and Mexico. Someone to end corruption. Stop illegals and yet at the same time get closer ties witht he USA.\n\n"I think there are alot of good men already in Mexico, I find it sad that you have never ventured there to find out. You'd have to get off your high horse first."\n\nreally? then why is there still a high crime rate, corruption in government, etc.. in Mexico? Where are these good politians in mexico you are talking about?\n\n"Why didn't those good men ( our founding fathers ) stay home and work to better their own country."\n\nActually, their colonies were apart of their country! New england belonged to Great Britian. So when they "immigrated" there they were actually still in their country and were thus trying to imrpove it.\n\n" USA didn't have to go over sea to find a country to help hell we drive there in a day . Only if Mexico had lots of oil..."\n\nRiiight. Actually the whole Middle East is sitting on oil. We didn't take any oil from Iraq (proven already). Explain why the oil prices are so high? High oil prices don't do any goood to USA.\nand lol, Mexico sits on TONS OF OIL! They supply USA with tons of it already. That is actually what causes a lot of their corruption to, if we can find an alternative source (Ethanol or hydrogen) then Mexico can't rely on rich Oil anymore!