should we as Americans expect the same freedom from Mexico if we went down there to protest?
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yes i think it is a double standard. It just shows that Mexico is worse on immigration then the US but they want every country to allow what they do not allow. they are a bunch of hypocrites
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You did a great job at summarizing my feelings too!  I definitely agree with you.  Remember, United We Stand, Divided We Fall.    And I thought the time spent in history class with wasted. I am beginning to see some similarities here.  I still don't understand how any red-blooded American can sit idly by and allow this to happen.  I have become very vocal with my congressmen, senators, representatives, etc.  And you know, they actually act like them are glad to hear from me. The more people they have telling them how they feel about the situation, the stronger our (We the People) voice will be.  \n\nP.S.  I would only go to Mexico and do those things you mentioned if I had a death wish!!
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I agree with you. I live in Texas and I remember seeing the protest and this one old mexican american women told the protesters " why don't you go to your own country and protest!" I couldn't stop laughing
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Maybe.  I heard a comedian say this and thought it made some sense.  The U.S. should just buy Mexico.  Or at least turn it into a U.S. region like Guam or Puerto Rico.\n\nThis would eliminate all the financial based opposition most Americans feel.  America needs the tax revenue that is being lost by American employers paying illegals cash under the table.  Mexicans need American jobs to feed their families over the border.  American companies need the cheap labor in Mexico.\n\nOf course this will never happen because Mexicans have too much pride to sell out and America is too prejudiced to treat Mexicans as equal citizens.
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Now, thats something I wish we could do. Protest the Mexican government.
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As a U.S. citizen in Mexico I can vouch for a lot of this info.  Mexico would never allow demonstrations like the ones in the US today (May 1st).  The illegals should be happy they are in such a free country and stop waving the Mexican flag!
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Does anyone other than me think it ironic that an illegal, waving the flag of their country of birth will protest for rights in America but not in their own country?
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MEXICANS WILLEVENTUALLY be Americans any hows no more hiding my ILLEGAL FRIEND we are free now with equal rights to vote and get money like ameircans do from government.
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There will be a small effect. Americans wont care about the protest but employers might care that they're losing work! And Maybe the politicians should make all immigrants SPEAK ENGLISH in America. Our Schools Teach kids Spanish here but do you think in Mexico they learn english there. Of Course Not. Learn English. Aprender Ingles.
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The media estimates that almost ONE MILLION ILLEGAL FOREIGN MIGRANTS  and their advocates Militantly Marched in the streets of America under the flag of Mexico. Their agenda is for our FEDERAL LAWS TO BE IGNORED , and their Criminal Trespass into these sovereign United States to be rewarded with unlimited benefits that include the rights of American Citizenship! \n\nAs these large mobs of foreigners marched proudly under the flag of a foreign country to demand the right to live and prosper in the United States, they claimed that the issue is immigration. But their own actions reveal what is in fact a determined effort to FORCE Americans to ACCEPT LARGE FOREIGN COLONIES  in our midst, and to pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. We have both the RIGHT and the moral MORAL OBLIGATION  to DEFEND AMERICA , and  JUST SAY NO !!!\n\n\nIt REALLY BURNS My *** That A Large Portion Of The Latin Community (Citizens And ILLEGAL ALIENS ALIKE) Are MARCHING On Our Cities Carrying The FLAG Of ANOTHER NATION , And DEMANDING The Rights Of AMERICAN Citizens... THAT Is The ICING On The Cake \n\nFolks .. You WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS Yet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... And You Expect ME To RALLY With You And SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. Perhaps You Should Realize Exactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... Because To ME It Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS With The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE\n \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag\nBy WAVING YOURS In My FACE\nAnd WALKING On MINE??? \n\nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My AMERICAN BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT
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I don't think that there are protest planned in New Mexico. \n\nAll immigrants should supports the May 1 boycott. Those people who say bad things about the people are just AFRAID that the U.S. government will find out what will REALLY happen without immigrants.
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Yes, absolutely! Someone has got to protect the American citizens from "who knows what" could be crossing that open door into the USA.  Illegal immigrants do it every day, why couldn't a terrorist? I am all in favor of building a wall or fence there.\n\n I believe the protests and the waving of the Mexican flag is a slap in the face of those of us who give our allegience to the USA. They do not have any plans of assimilating, their plan is to reconquor and I for one will join a 'vigilante' group and fight for keeping the USA way of life, if it should come to that. They are as much an invader as a terrorist. They steal from our future by abusing our country's Assistance programs. Programs we, as hard working legal US American citizens, provided for OUR future generations, not a piggy bank for thieves to steal from and abuse like it is theirs. If US Americans don't open their eyes, they're going to wake up one day and it's going to be gone, it will be too late. their grandchildren will be living like those illegal immigrants were in Mexico. The USA will be the same type of desolate poor country.
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I agree. If we were to do that down their, the Mexicans with be hating us. If you live in America, U wave the American flags.
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I completely agree.  We embrace those immigrants who came here respecting our laws, and rejoice when they become American citizens.  And I'll die defending them.  But what I see at those rallies is a bunch of people who skirted the law and now want preferential treatment over the LEGAL immigrants.  And I don't see people proud to be Americans.  I see people wanting voting rights, so they can take what they want, and tailor the American southwest to be more accomodating for Mexico.\n\nI won't let that happen.
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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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I never experienced anything quite like that when I went to Mexico, but I'm sure it's because I was with a Mexican citizen (my ex-husband--we were there to get his US citizenship). But we were badly over charged for goods and services many places we went because I was a white American. He was majorly pissed, but even he knew there was nothing we could do about it. I would not go back there because I know I would face a lot of prejudice, at this time especially. The violence against tourists from the US could eventually keep all of us away. But if that's what they want then I will respect it. We need to send their citizens back home to them as well. Respectfully deport them and enforce our immigration laws. We don't want to repay violence with violence unless we have no choice.
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THEN WE WOULD OWN MEXICO