What kind of live are the illegal immigrants from Mexico really escaping?
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What kind of country Is Mexico??? - a fascist state with a tiny minority controlling all the wealth and the rest of the people in abject poverty.
556817
well there are thousands of americans in mexico and they have all been welcome\nso if that is your plan go ahead!!\nperhaps that is one of the few countries where american life is not in danger,
416753
you can always come in illegally and then after a while the US government will give you legal residences...\n\nat least thats what they do to mexicans
456432
I'm not sure, but I know this...in Mexico, if you're an illegal and you get caught, they bus or fly you back to your country of origin.  In 2004, the Mexican government deported over 200k illegal immigrants that streamed in from their southern border with Guatemala.  If Fox thinks open borders is such a wonderful thing, perhaps Mexico might consider drinking a little of their own Kool-aid.
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Most of those are illegaly in America.. in other words.. they may live here.. but are not americans. \n\nI am mexican american by the way. I say shame on those mexicans who don't support the contry, yet get bent out of shape when we want them out of the contry. \nThey can come back.. but do it legaly.
228859
None. Immigrants are people who immigrate to other countries to live. However some are classed as Illegal immigrants who have gained entry to a country illegally. Most of the world is populated with the ancestors of immigrants.\n A note for Turkish gamer 13.\n What a ridiculous answer. You dont really know an awful lot do you?
310777
illegal aliens are humans, people from other countries who are not meant to be in your country, basicly illegal immigrants\n\nso they are the only real type of aliens
458192
Actually, there are some places in Mexico with large numbers of U.S. expatriates. If I remember correctly, in Mexicali, or in some other part of Baja California, there is a large community of retirees from the U.S. They go there, because the climate is pleasant and because the cost of living is low.
928251
Depends on where you are born (or live). I was born in Wisconsin, so I am American. I have a friend who was born in Peru, but he moved hear and became a citizen of the U. S. he is American. There are plenty of white people who reside in Mexico. They are Mexicans. There are plenty of people from Mexico, who now are U.S. citizens. They are Americans. There are also plenty of people from Mexico, who moved here and haven't become citizens. They are Mexicans, and should go back home.\n\n\nLong Live Jambi
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There should be no exceptions. Period. I say round up the ones who are here and ship them back to where they came from. They are a drain on our economy. I see them all the time sending most of their paycheck back to their families in Mexico. They live 20 or so to a house, so it's not like they're helping the real estate market. They're digging through dumpsters behind the grocery store adn the thrift store, looking for usable food and clothes. They're riding bicycles. Get rid of them and close the borders.
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From what I have heard it is working but Georgia isn't the only state that is imposing new laws restricting service to Illegal immigrants.\nI personally don't know why they need them if these all these great illegals are coming just to work. ha ha\nBig lie every state is subsiding these illegals. \nNo poor person can live on low wages. How can a anyone legal or illegal or citizen support a family on low wages:\nhousing, food, clothing, medical cost and still have money left over. \nFor Mexican they send money back to Mexico. Unless they are levitating someone is subsiding them. The tax payer. Now you do the math and you can figure out the economic of this. \nMexico benefits at a cost of the remittance of the money back from illegals. Totally from all illegals $54 billion a year. Great for the Mexico economy. To break it down just for Georgia, you can call your state finance dept.
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I do.\n\nI understand people who come fleeing political, religious and other types of repression - and seeking asylum.\n\nBut what it boils down to with the *illegals* is this:\n\nThe moment you get a job, you're stealing.  You've either stolen someone's social security number to get hired "legally" or you're getting paid under the table (yes, I know, Americans do this too, but they go to friggin' JAIL when they're caught).  \n\nWhen I hear that they send $20 BILLION a year back to Mexico, it boils my blood.  They're draining our Medicaid/Welfare/Food Stamp resources, stealing the MOMENT they begin "work" here and then they PROTEST because people don't want to become a country of people who break the law the moment they step across the border?\n\nMy grandmother and my mother emigrated from Germany in 1958.  They had a host family, my grandmother and grandfather had jobs lined up, they had enough money to live on for a couple of months AND they knew English.   They began working the week after they arrived.  \n\nIt just BURNS me that it CAN be done right.  If there's a wait to get in, then WAIT.  What kind of character does it show to just go, "Oh, well, you have laws, I really want to come over now, so I'll just come ANYWAY."  America's going down the tubes with regard to education, manners and work ethic.  I'm not real big on people whose regard for themselves is greater than their regard for how their presence can negatively impact others becoming a large part of this society.\n\nSend the illegals back where they came from.
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auntb93... has some good advice, I would listen.  Having lived in Texas off and on most of my life, I have had a good deal of contact with the Mexican culture.  I am fluent in Spanish and I think I understand them.  For the most part The Mexicans outlook of life is somewhat different than ours.  Their government has been quite corrupt for about 90 years, it is just now trying to enter the real world of the 21st century.  Their military is anemic, and local police are mainly available for purchase at the right price.  There is a vast difference between the rich and poor in Mexico.  There is a very small middle class.  Money talks, when all else fails.
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As a former Border Patrol Agent,  between 1,300 - 1,500 illegals per day actually make it into the US and another 500-1000 get caught by the US Border Patrol and sent back to Mexico voluntarily. I would say that 90 % of those crossing illegally are Mexican while the others, called OTM's (other than Mexican) are from Central and South America with some Asians and Middle-easterners sprinkled in. Many of these who are sent back cross again and are successful in making it into the US. Since President Bush has mentioned this guest worker program, the numbers of illegal aliens crossing the southern border has increased dramatically.
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Mexican illegals are almost in mayority poor people without education. People like these are always being taken advantage of by U.S. business owners getting the low paying jobs no american would accept, and by the Mexican goverment allowing them to travel in most cases risking their lives to the U.S. so that they earn some dollars and send them to their families. And sooner or later, directly or inderectly, mexican polititians get the money. Now that few dollars multiplied by millions of mexican workers becomes Mexico politiians´third largest income. \nThe illigal immigration is wrong, but it has been this way everywhere ever since there are borders; all rich countries have a poor neighbor, and they allways permit a number of "illegal immigrants" to cover all the unwanted jobs but when the immigrants become too many, then it becomes a problem. There is a price to pay if one wants a cheep labour force and the U.S. is paying it. White americans have not learned from the past, when they bought africans to be their cheap labour force once, and now they have had to learn to live with african americans, and that was the price. This time they permitted the Mexicans for cheap labour and now they they will have to learn to live with a large number of latin american immigrants. Now, remember that americans were illigal immigrants in the northern part of Mexico but with the help of a corrupt Mexican president payed a small sum, managed to keep all that territory that became California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. How much has the U.S. really gained from those states that were once Mexico??? Did Mexico not lose??\nNow, that is the way it is, and borders are the way they are,  but at least some U.S. citizens should not be so cruel when they talk about "illegal immigrants". These are just poor desperate people trying to survive economicaly since they have no posibility in their "pueblitos". A "funny" thing is that the cruelest comments I´ve read seem to be from descendants of poor immigrants.
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The Illegal Immigrants.
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How could mexicans walk around Illegally in their own country?\n\nDid you mean forefathers?  or fourfathers?\n\nAre all illegals Mexican?  \n\nAre all Mexicans illegal?\n\nReally, there is no simple answer. If you are genuinely concerned about this issue, I advise you to get as many facts together as you can.  Statistics, demographics, etc..\nRead various economic and cultural impact studies that would result from one type of action as opposed to others. \n\nThis issue is very complex, and you can not really provide a straight answer to a question blurted out of frustration.