Japan is the second largest economy next to U.S., why aren't there any illegals from Mexico?
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Too hard to get there.
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Some Illegal Immigrant facts:\n\nCan't Vote LEGALLY\n\nSend $20B back to Mexico making it Mexico's 2nd largest income.\n\n21% of All US Illegal Aliens are in prison.\n\n29% of ALL US Illegal Aliens are on Welfare.\n\n5% of All Illegal Aliens pick crops.\n\nThe US LEGAL Taxpayer PAYS $69B for bills Illegal Aliens "Forgot" to pay.\n\nBtw---Illegal Aliens have NO rights in Mexico and are treated harshly. See Mexican Constitution.
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MAYBE BECAUSE OF THE 1.50 MINUMUM WAGE IN MEXICO. COMPARED TO THE 7.85 MINUMUM WAGE HERE.  WHAT WOULD YOU DO,  STAY THERE OR FIND A WAY TO COME HERE.???????????????
574730
There should be no paradox. It is more like a vicious circle. If countries integrate their economies, they should have less restrictions for immigration. As a result there should be less illegal immigration. The actual problem between Mexico and USA is that Mexico has a bad economy and the possibilities to apply for a legal immigration for a mexican citizen are too low. \nThe other question is that although we live in an open, globalized or integrated cooperative world, the nationalisms are coming very strong again and the people fell that immigrants are taking the advantages of what you built. \nThe goal of economic integration is that in the future the exchange of citizens could be de-regulated because the economic base (situation) of "all" countries is the same.\nLast but not least. Immigration has to be revised, reformed and that way countries will end with massive illegal immigration.... It is a both sides problem.
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It all comes down to the fact that Mexico's second largest income is money that Mexicans (illegal and legal) send 'home'.  \n\nIt's all....boo hoo, poor mexico and immigrants, coming to america for a better chance..boo hoo.  WHat about American suffereing?  Are there not americans who are homeless, americans who can not afford medical care for their children, americans who cannot afford food or clothes...fact of the matter is a lot of our nation's resources are being used by NON americans...who then send what they receive back to their 'home' countries.
158704
Being that the Mexican border is connected to our country it makes it very easy for people from Mexico to sneek here illegaly. They same could be said for Canada, however, because Canada is not such a poor country the people don't feel the need to escape their situations as much as the people in Mexico. So a majority of the immigrants in this country that have came here illegaly have been from mexico. It has been a hot political topic for so long now and in the eye of the media that when we hear "illegal immigrant" we automatically think south of the border. On the east coast however, there is more of a mixture of people from other countrys that are here illegally.
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You are right. According to the pew Hispanic research center the vast majority of illegal Mexicans were gainfully employed before crossing into America. I saw an interview on an Arizona news show. The interview was with a 16 year old girl who thought she could cross the desert. She was lucky the border patrol found her. When she was asked what preparations she had made for her journey she said none, then she was asked how far she had ever walked at on time before and her response was from one end of the mall to the other. When asked if she would try to enter illegally again she said yes.
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I don't know the answer to the question about targetting just Mexicans, but I do know that people from practically every country in the world are trying to get into the US, and I would wager that there are a large number of illegals from all countries including European countries. The US controls half of the world's resources, and has only a fraction of the world's population. From a purely logical and scientific point of view, wouldn't that make the US a magnet for large sections of the world's populations. Even if you take Japan and Europe which have very high standards of living as examples, they still have small land mass and high population density, thus making the US with vast amounts of land still very attractive for migrants.
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Don't think so.\nthere was a time that labour cost was cheap in Japan.Every developing country has a time with cheap labour cost that allows it develop.India is a good example too.A few years,African countries may experience this period as well.\n\nMore importance,the illegal immigrant from Mexico had more impact  on the job loss than cheap labour in America.
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Because it is a lot harder for Africans to get here since they have an ocean to swim across, not just a river and a border to jump on foot.  Also, they are truly more poor than Mexicans and Central Americans, so they don't have any money to even attempt to cross over illegally, whereas the Mexicans and Central Americans do, even the poor ones can scrape a few pesos and limperas together to buy food and bribes on their way up.
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They have a class system.  The do not want a middle class at all all those that are beneath the rich and ruling class are to stay that way.  But like most of cultures people continue to have babies, and those babies grow up and cause a drain on the rich and ruling class.  There needs to be away to feed, cloth and keep them settled so that they will not fight to overthrow a cruel and unjust government.  So what better way than to drive them out of the homeland and into that of another country.  For their government could care less if they lived or died (do you think there is water in the desert for those of us traveling to Mexico illegally) and much less what really happens to them here. \n\n Mexico is a corrupt government that only aids to the desparate state of being that their people are in.  Flying into Mexico City, by the way, which if very beautilful, one can see as far as the eye, roof tops of cardboard boxes.  One can drive down US Hwy 10 on the West side of El Paso and see conditions across the board that are just horrifing.  One can drive into Juazes and see the manison with their great walls around them, and people lining the streets in filth and hunger.  Their government does not want them there, so whats a few million, drive them N. and get them out of Mexico, so that we may have their lands and not worry about their existence.  Of course if we can use them ( the millions they drive from Mexico)in such a way as to get America to give us more and do more for us then so be it.  And if they can use them (with lies that they are entitled to something in this land), the poor driven souls to cause unrest in America then they are for that.  \n\nIts called all for me and none for you government.  There is a very small ruling class in Mexico, they rule with an iron hand.  \n\nKiss the ground you live and work on, for it is not like another on earth.  And those that come here both legally and illegally know this, that is why they still come!
671765
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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The problem with Mexico is that much of the country doesnt have much of an export/import like US and Europe do to provide the country with an annual gross income and many of the jobs in Mexico are farming and if you're lucky to work in places that are major tourist attractions like Puerto Villarta Cancun and Acapulco or even Cabo San Lucas. Mexico only has the tourist industry barely getting them out of poverty, but it's the laws that are keeping much of the country in poverty this explains why you see so many mexican nationals illegally crossing into the United States.
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That's why a lot of rich American business owners have vacation homes in Mexico or retire there.  American money goes a long way there.  You can buy a house right on the beach for less than $400k.  The same house here anywhere NEAR a beach here would be $2+million.\n\nBut let's consider this....a Mexican construction worker who makes about $8/day in Mexico can make $80/day for the same work here in the US.  That $8/day doesn't go very far when you're living there buying $4 meals.  He works half a day for a meal.  Kinda makes you understand why they come here, no?
982873
There aren't any committes on illegal immigrants from Mexico. There are committes on Energy, Agriculture,Education,Health Care,Defense,etc, etc,...
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The economy is the only reason illegals are here. If it weren't for them you would not have cheap products or wealthy business owners.
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In case U hadn't noticed, we can't invade Mexico because we ARE Mexico.  There R just as many Mexicans in the USA as there R down there.  The line that divides our 2 countries gets blurrier every day.  Our only course of action is 2 drag them up out of the gutter, upgrade their 3rd world status, fix them up like we did with Japan back in WWII.