do you think that mexico was paid enough for tx, nm, ca?
609593
Yes, consider how much water Mexico owes, which we mostly wrote off. That amount of water mostly pays them back, plus factor in the assistance we give to THEIR citizens. Add the welfare, food stamps, cost of each childs education (20 to 30 grand each year) and everything else these immigrants cause us to incur. I think that figure might quickly deflate to zero and then negatives (they owe us in that case).
1109008
Yes, the mexican "legal" system has alot of flaws in it still.\n\nYou can offer a "tip" at the border to get accross faster,  and a "tip" to very nice police officers for varoius help.\nA good "tip" for a officer around the border would be about 20 dollars, but only about 5 or 10 if you are much further into the country.\n\nI lived there south of Mexico City for a couple of years, and our business owner ( from the US) would "tip" on a regular basis, the city mayor, the chief of thier police, and a couple of city people.\nIt made everything work very well.\n\nI found that I could get everything that way except a phone in my apartment, ( never did get one)  but since I tiped ( really tiped) anyone that came and told me I had a call on the pay phone by my house,  I almost always had someone standing there listing for the phone to ring.  ( sorta my own answering service)
1043637
Thank the pro-hispanic lobby on this one, what it largely seems to amount to is a 'shotgun wedding' between the US and Mexico, and american taxpayers are supposed to buy off on all this garbage and not bat an eye. Since the reverse effect is happening, well it kind of shows that the GOP's head and hind-quarters aren't very well connected anymore, or one has lapped the other, something like that...what this also brings to light, though, is all these other 'programs' that give money away all over the place, Matthew Lesko's dream-come-true, and the taxpayer's worst nightmare, wealth redistribution in the worst possible sense. I think if we're going to help Mexico, it needs to be a lot more metered, and done AFTER the border's nailed shut, so as to minimize the negative impact on american communities. I think when the House finally gets around to consulting the voters on this one, there's going to be a general consensus going back to washington that basically says 'fix the border, and forget the rest of it'. It's a nice idea to try and help others, but if that 'help' is just going to get abused, there's not much point to it. Necessity's the mother of invention, and a lot of the people that originally settled the United States didn't get much 'help', because there wasn't any. Let's not have any more of this 'give away the country to appease your 3rd world business partners' garbage....Mexico could be rolling in money(some already are, they just don't share out) and feed, clothe, and educate every last one of their citizens, probably just off their oil revenues, but instead they'd like to ride the american guilt trip into a split-level condo...time for voters/taxpayers to wake the hell UP and say 'no mas' at the polls, come november...
974265
Bingo, finally you found the answer, Mexico its not a poor country, its a rich country, where a small amount of people have the money and can exploit another big percentage of poor people, these exploited person only earn enough money to survive, so they can get education and progress. minimum wage should be enough to provide minimun needs(and its the minimun permited to pay by gov), but in mexico its a ridicolous amount of money, the money its for poeple that have bussines. and the Mexican gov its accomplice of this injustice approving to pay less than what people really need.
657262
Why not, after all the thirteen original colonies weren't enough, and that is why the states got Texas, California and among other states. What Mexico really needs is the death penalty, and then maybe the government wouldn't be so corrupt.\n\nIt's funny how everyone thinks that only Mexicans are illegal in the states. What about individuals from other countries....then maybe the whole world needs to be America, and we can all be a big happy family.
708703
Thank you, that was very informative.  I have a sister-in-law that is Mexican and one day I asked her, "how is it you keep telling me how poor all the people are in Mexico, that they all manage to come up with $2000 and $3000, (sometimes more) to get smuggled over here. That's more dang money then a good share of Americans can come up with if they had to." Never did get an answer from her that made any sense what so ever. Leads me to believe that things are not really all that bad over there.
565277
Mexicans will work for any amount of money, so what do you think?
337081
I had heard that at one time, USA had thoughts of taking in Mexico but with all the poverty it would have just gotten USA too much in the hole.\n\nBut it all does sounds like a good idea.  Would be nice if we all could just be like one & help each other and have no wars.  God bless.  <><
1069147
No I'd rather have Mexico(its a good place for cheap labor)
949677
The southwest, Florida, and New York is where it is the oldest problem, but illegals are now moving toward the midwest and other areas. I read in the L.A times about a Mexican family who moved to TN because the wages and living conditions were now so poor. They said it was "too much like Mexico." They also said other Mexican workers drive down the wages, and it was much easier to send more money home to the family because the wages in Tennessee were so much higher than what they were used to. I can personally attest to wages being lower in the southwest. I've noticed that jobs in my area of Texas(on the border, no less) pay less than half what they did in my midwest hometown. And yet, the taxes for these people, who make very little are twice as high. Not to mention what these people are paying for medical care.It's insane.
343869
Listen, please don't feel sorry for all of those low payed posistions in the fields which the mexicans do.  I don't know if you have heard of ceasar chavez, who was a good man who helped organize the ufw union along with dolores huerta who is still active.  I wish I knew all of the benefits recieved by the workers was when they unionized, but i only know that since then, their wages have gone up well above minimum wages for union workers.  I understand that 7.00 to 10.00 dollars an hour is not out of the park.
595178
I don't think anyone would be satisfied by such an action.  After all, there is no special quality to the land in the American Southwest that draws Mexican immigrants.  Mexico is a physically beautiful country, no one leaves it because they like American scenery better.  What makes the American Southwest attractive to immigrants is the fact that it is American.  It isn't ruled by the incredibly corrupt Mexican government.  If we were to turn over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California over to Mexico we would simply see massive migrations to other US states.
1035848
yes, but president fox  (of mexico) should pay 1/2 the bill and the illegal employer the other 1/2, plus fines.  let's recoup some money for our needy (children, elderly, ill.) make a solid statement.  or it will continue to happen, just more covert.
1133408
To many Rats:\n\nDallas County Wants Refunds for Mexicans' Health Care \n\nCommissioners in Dallas County, Texas, plan to ask the Mexican government to pay for the medical care given to Mexican nationals at a local hospital. \n\nEach year, Dallas County taxpayers spend $15 million to treat Mexican nationals at Parkland Hospital - and that total includes only the first two days of the patients' emergency care, according to CBS 11 News in Dallas. \n\n"We will be sending a bill to Mexico's president to explain to him and to the embassy how much money it is costing the Dallas County taxpayer to treat their residents, and they need to reimburse Dallas County," said County Judge Margaret Keliher. \n\nJesse Diaz, local president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, complained: "Why punish Mexico? Mexico should not be a scapegoat ... the immigrants are paying taxes, buying homes and cars, and are contributing to the economy." \n\nDallas County will also send bills to nearby Texas counties whose residents seek care at Parkland - running up a tab of nearly $27 million a year, according to Keliher. \n\nDallas can't force those other counties to pay up. But Parkland's board chair Dr. Lauren McDonald said if outsiders don't pay their fair share of emergency and trauma care, it will have a devastating effect on the hospital and those who rely on it.
865956
Hey!!! Are you  ok,,,You could walk to Mexico, not to the others countries. Do you mean that the US government should make their government pay for their transportation. Yes,,, I do agreed with you.. even though the US government had try it and those country have refused. Like China, they don't even accept their own citizen back and the USA get stuck with the illegal Chinese.
1157359
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 ....
839720
It goes back to the US-Mexican War of the mid 1800s. A good part of the Western US was claimed by Mexico and not yet part of the US. The US fought a war and won and paid a pittance in reparations to the Mexican government - something like $20 million (Not sure of the exact amount, though.) The next year, gold was discovered in California and the year after (1849), California was made a state. The Mexican government has been bitter about this ever since, especially since the amount of wealth taken from the Sierra foothills in the Gold Rush was many, many times greater than paid to the Mexican government. There has also been some rumblings from Spanish radio that that is why there are so many Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles - that they're trying to take it back by culturally overwhelming the city. I don't know if that is true; I have just read about it in some mainstream media stories here in CalifonriMF \n\nMaybe you don't live in California or have heard this before, but it is a REAL sentiment among many Mexican-Americans. (I am not Mexican  American; I am just reporting what I have read.)