Is MEXICO TRYING To GET AMERICANS TO MOVE TO THEIR COUNTRY?
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I doubt it. Investment in Mexico by US citizens is strictly limited. Mexico dose not want immigration from the US and has resisted any measures to affect the drug trade significantly.  La mordida still rules in Mexico. In fact, native Mexicans look down on their American Mexicans cousins. Ironic isn't it.
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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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there are quite a number of communites in Mexico where people from the United States and Canada have retired. Among the more popular places are the following:\nLake Chapala near Guadalajara, San Migual de Allende, and Puerto Vallarta.\n\nThese three locations each have large populations of English speakers. However, be aware that it is likely that the current mayor of Mexico City is likely to be elected the next president of Mexico. He is considered to be very left leaning. Also be aware that in the past Mexico has frozen bank deposits and devalued drastically the peso.
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I can tell from your question, you have a good heart.\n\nBut there is a saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".  Consider what happens currently:  millions of Mexicans who come here are forever condemned to live on the margins of society because they are here illegally, and because they will not take the effort to learn English.\n\nThere are 11 million illegals here now.  Do you realize that is the same as the population of Greece?  Do you think we can just absorb that amount of people?\n\nThink of it this way:  by not using criteria such as education, skills, and the ability to speak English, we are like a football team giving away its first draft picks in the NFL.  People from all over the world, many highly skilled people who can make huge contributions, are trying to immigrate here.  And we're passing up on them.\n\nBy not stopping the huge tide of people fleeing Mexico, you are in effect relieving the pressure in a steam kettle.  Mexico is poor for one main reason: because its government is corrupt.  (people often pose the question, why is Canada rich while Mexico is poor?  The answer is governmental corruption)\n\nWithout enough internal rage from the Mexican people, the Mexican government will never change.  Mexico will always stay backwards, poor, and economically inefficient and socially unjust.\n\nSo, you see?  It's not so easy.
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Considering that a lot of people are retiring on a social security check that won't support them in the US, my guess is that a lot of people will be asking that question. The Mexicans can move up here and all the old folks can bring the US down there.
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You are so smug and self righteous I surprised you don't actually know this.\n\nMexico is changing from an agricultural to an industrial economy.  That displaces a huge quantity of the work force who come from farming communities where education wasn't a priority.  They don't have the educational background or general aptitude for a job in a factory and there are fewer and fewer farms.\n\nThe US went through this which is why immigration laws were enacted in the first place, to slow down the number of immigrants coming into the US and FDR came up with welfare to cover the people already here.  When it happened in Russia Stalin just marched 36,000,000 people into Siberia and off the map.
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It gives its people a map to get here.\n\nGood for Mexicans = Bad for Americans of United Descent
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First of all, I don't think the govt. will pay any monies to its citizens, due to the welfare issue......Trust me, they will find other ways to spend that saved monies.....But you make a great point, MANY MANY Americans move retire to Mexico every year, due to the lower cost of living....I find that hypocritical.....I mean its bad when illegals come here for a better life, but its ok when Americans retire overthere because of the lower cost of living....
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First of all, nobody sends people to anywhere unless there was a war, and the government sent somebody into exile. People migrate seeking better job, life and civil opportunities that in their own region. Besides, This is not a new phenomenon. Canada was filled also with fugitives, farmers, scientist, and workers, with something in common: Migrating people is always able-to-struggle. Everybody seeks the same. In the case of México, shortage of opportunities, misery and corruption fueled the ambitions of the émigrés. The situation is changing and now, better opportunities emerge in México. Still, there’s a lot to do in the agenda. This phenomenon isn’t just in America. You can put your eyes in Europe, too, among the eastern and western regions, -without considering African and Arabic people-.
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I know what you mean and you have a point there but..... Is not up to the USA government or up to the American Corporation to establish new laws in Mexico. It's up to the Mexican government to make their laws be obeyed and create new laws for the benefits of their citizens. The problem is not the companies that goes to Mexico looking for cheap labor and pay the lease of money or benefits to the workers, the problem is the Mexican government that don't give a shit for their citizens. They are the big problem and they are so inept and corrupted that they rather send their citizens to the USA illegally than to creat new laws for the better of their citizens. Mexico is what the government and the Mexican people wanted to be,,,, what you see.
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Why not put it in writing, and call it the 'mexico needs to go home Act'? Bluntly spoken, that's what all this is about, not about foxes and rabbits, but about an indigent nation(well, not really, but they still screw their people regularly) trying to permanently ingratiate and integrate itself into the american fabric. Increasingly, americans are seeing a Big Problem with all of this, and already they're starting to work on things like recalls for pro-mexico politicians etc., with some degree of success. Hopefully, when the House goes national and starts canvassing the individual states through polling, the issue will be brought to a head, and dealt with, and in such a way that it sends the message 'don't go away mad, just go away' to Mexico.  Mexico fully has the potential to be independently wealthy. It's just that they choose to keep leeching off america in any/every concievable way, from trying to advocate 'growth'(open borders), more debt(more money for their people in america), and yes mexico's got advocates that are active in our american political system(see 'conflict of interest). At the end of the day, though, it boils down to a fair amount of incompetence, and no small amount of intellectual dishonesty on the part of our own representation also, along with sweetheart deals on behalf of big business that wants only more fresh mexican meat. Last time I checked, this country wasn't a wholly owned subsidiary of either Exxon, or Big Lettuce. Both can go to hell and have a GREAT day, for my nickel, we're talking about YOUR rights, liberties, citizenship, birthright, etc etc etc being sold down the river by a politician with a relative in the meat-packing industry etc. The more of THOSE clowns that can be weeded out prior to election day, the better off we are. \nThere's a workforce of approximately 150 million people in America. There ARE no jobs 'that americans won't do'. This type of rhetoric grits the teeth of most people that have worked for any measurable amount of time in america, and it's time to call some of our so-called 'representation' on the carpet about it, and get some reforms instituted so that Mexico understands FULL and WELL that 'the game is up' for their cross-border psuedo-law shenanigans.  \n\nCutting handout programs that practically encourage people to 'run for the border' would be a GREAT start. But, it's not the only step, another great step would be actual border enforcement that bars no holds, works as advertised, is publicly accountable, is provided sufficient external oversight by a disinterested 3rd party, is audited, and is equipped with the necessary wherewithal to accomplish its' job in a quick and efficient manner. \n\nTake the handout money, and buy a fleet of 2nd hand charter buses, and 10 airplanes. Hire top-flight mechanics and drivers, \nget the border fence(s) built, and take care of business. No more tap-dancing, no more excuses, no more half-ass half-measures,\njust get the job DONE. Take note of the people that bitch loudest, and see how many 'friends' they have in places like Mexico. \n\nThere is That Which Is America, which needs to be preserved and not sold down the river for $2,500 as the Senate would gladly do. And, yes, there are other countries that let their people go to america, they, too, can fix their own domestic problems instead of expecting america to do it. Places like Africa can discover 'birth control' and 'reading'...this isn't rocket science, either...
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Nothing, maybe Mexico will start taking care of their own people and not encouraging them to coming up to the United States.
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Now, you are a Mexican person that I can try to understand.  However, I also feel as Hayleylov does about your "loving Mexico."  If you love Mexico, why did you leave it?  If you love Mexico, why don't you go back there and try to help that country?  Why don't you just admit that Mexico is an awful country because they don't love or help their people?  If they did, their people wouldn't be making tracks to the USA for a better life!  I would understand you more if you said that you love your people and your culture, but that you don't love the government of Mexico and that you want to do something to change things back home.  I like that you seem to understand how the American citizens feel about the marching in the streets of the illegal immigrants and the waving of their flag while doing so.  However, you also say, "I want our country to thrive here and some day we can have mexican people in the senate and we can help more of our people and become stronger but not by hating them it wont happen that way my people lets me nice to them."  That whole sentence is offensive to American citizens!  No, you should want your country to thrive in Mexico, not here, and you should fix the government of Mexico, not state how you want Mexicans in the senate [in the USA] - that is not the way into the heart of Americans. That still sounds like you are "taking over."  Stop that kind of talk if you want to be accepted in the USA!  I, also, am from two countries - I was born in the USA and now live in Canada, having immigrated (legally) to Canada with my family many years ago and I have legal citizenship of both countries. I also love both countries very much!  However, I did not come to Canada saying that we Americans are going to take over Canada and place our American people into positions in the Canadian government, etc.,  Yes, be nice to the American citizens and talk about how much you love the USA and your mother country of Mexico and how you hope to make things better for your people in Mexico one day.  That is a much better and more acceptable way to be speaking when you have come to another country.  Believe me!
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It is not easy to get into this country legally, but most things worth doing are not easy.  As you said no other country, including Mexico, allows free and undeterred migration to their country so why should the USA.  The USA is a major terrorist target and we must KNOW who is coming into our country to protect our people and property from attack. It is about the greater good.  We could open our boarders and allow any and all who want to cross to come in but then how safe would they be after the bombings, gassing and killings started.
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Sounds like you're pretty fed up with millions of people coming into your country illegally and taking jobs away from your fellow citizens.  Why are you so angry?  Haven't you heard they are only taking jobs no unemployed, or Mcjob employed American wants?  You must be a racist to resent this invasion of your country, helping to hold down wages, draining the social services budgets, straining the healthcare & the school systems and raising the crime rate.   \nDon't you realize that the money these illegal people send home, draining our economy, is Mexico's second largest source of national income, second only to the tourist dollars Americans spend down there.  Surely you realize that, unlike people everywhere else throughout history, these people want to stay at the bottom and have their children stay at the bottom.  They will never become dissatisfied and rebel.   No, it will be a first time ever in history that a group of people will like to have no chance to move up in a society.   Of course we OWE it to them and not to our own citizens.  Where do I go to apply for illegal immigrant status and get my free lunch, medical care, lower student costs, and a chance to get a better life?
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Yes, but only to mexican citizens and they should complete the tramit to come here. It should be like EU.
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Yes, they are.\n\nThe illegal Mexican immigrants are invading this country trying to take it over. It's encouraged by Mexico and the American businesses who use them for cheap labor. Their loyalty is to Mexico. They proved that during one of the first rallies when they took down the American flag, hung up the Mexican flag, and then hung the American flag upside down underneath it. THAT is how they feel about America. \n\nhttp://michellemalkin.com/archives/004869.htm\n\nThen the people who want to appease them pull out the excuses about how people who are not even alive now, and haven't been for hundreds of years, 'stole' the land from the American Indians. Even American politicians are carrying out this traitorous attack on our sovereignty! If this keeps up, the United States of America will become a 3rd world country, just like Mexico! Mexico's problems are not the fault of Americans, but they are becoming our problems because the Mexicans are invading us and bringing their problems with them.\n\nThe illegals make up about 5 % of the work force. The unemployment rate is about 4.5%. Keep in mind that the unemployment rate does NOT represent everyone who is unemployed. It only counts those who are collecting unemployment. Everyone else's plight is ignored. The unemployment rate if everyone was counted would be tremendous. We do NOT have a shortage of labor, we have a large surplus. The more illegals that come in and take our jobs at minimum wage or less (often less) puts more and more Americans out of a job. Most of these Americans are never counted in the unemployment rate if they do not manage to get unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits are hard to receive.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits. \n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them. \n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing construction jobs that Americans used to do because the companies can keep more of the profits if they pay less for the workers. All that does is make companies wealthier and Americans poorer. Illegals are stealing jobs that Americans have done for years. \n\n"Mexico is waging war on the U.S. through mass immigration illegal and legal, through the assertion of Mexican national claims over the U.S., and through the subversion of its laws and sovereignty, all having the common end of bringing the southwestern part of the U.S. under the control of the expanding Mexican nation, and of increasing Mexico’s political and cultural influence over the U.S. as a whole. \n\n \nCultural imperialism\n\n \n\nWe experience Mexico’s assault on our country incrementally—as a series