i know things are bad in mexico, but why not stay there and protest? why not force their government to fix the
613943
America is the only FREE country to allow protests, I agree that they need to leave thier flag in Mexico and fly OURS...I am A mexican -American and I LOVE my American flag and they need to learn to LOVE it too ! My hubby is from Canada and he has his flag up in his office but not flying it outside, this is OUR country and they need to respect that !!!
1025377
they have great illegal immigration LAWS in MEXICO,,, if they followed their own country's laws,,, they would all be in prison or killed
1052519
you are so right i can not beleive i am hearing this.for years i have been telling people we need to take careof our own problems first and then maybe we can help the world out.spreading democracy is important and like curing an illness it starts in the middle and spreads out illness may come from the edges but it is cured from the inside out .to cut of your arm is not curing the problem it is only slowing it down and curing it is the only real solution.so sending troops all over is only weaking the bodys abikity to fight of the infection growing at home .poverty illness lack of good paying jobs all in need of repair before we go troting off telling the world how to live .We need to include all the people in the countries around us if we are going to succeed so mexico needs to be fixed alot of good people are fleeing from oppresion and poverty so bad that being poor in america or in jail here is better then most people have it in mexico.i hate no one so please do not turn out to be a hater of people and know we must help all the people we can and it is possible if we try.
806781
Will wonders never cease? Mexico asks us to pardon a law breaker and give her the right to stay in America because one of Mexico's citizens broke America's Laws. \nThese criminal invaders and the Mexican government have no shame and Mexico wants our 'elected' who swear to 'uphold the law' in their oaths to American citizen to disregard that oath to America's citizens, and allow the criminal invasion to continue. I may as well not have a country if this woman remains and our elected approve of her remaining. 'Uphold the Law' - Throw her out. Let's 12 million of us go into Mexico, then demand that they press 1 for Spanish, and p!$$, whine and moan when they try to deport us, and appeal to the US government to make them keep us. And this boy should have been in school somewhere not hiding behind a desk in Mexico
869545
Well, you should ask the Mexican government.
674805
Amen.  If all these damn illegals from Mexico would spend as much time fixing what's wrong with Mexico instead of hopping the border and bitching about and costing America millions, the problem would fix itself.  All these illegals are too damn lazy to do anything to fix their own country, so they just come here and think they have a right to be here and gripe about everything and claim they have just as much right to MY country as I do even though I pay taxes and they don't...
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And how does allowing illegal immigrants into our County help them improve their situation in their country?\n\nRather than entering our Country illegally, they should gather together in their own country and demand political reform.\n\nThe Mexican peoples are intelligent, hard working and ingenious.  There must be grass roots leaders among them who can organize a political revolution.\n\nIt is not the fault of the U.S. that the government is corrupt; frankly, we have our own corrupt government issues to deal with.\n\nPeople do not have to be wealthy to make something happen; they just have to be united and determined.\n\nLook up the statistics ... the REAL statistics ... of how many in the U.S. live below the poverty level.  You might find yourself amazed.\n\nI'm sorry for the troubles the people of Mexico are having, but we have our own problems that need to be fixed and we are going to HAVE to concentrate on HOME for a while.
629043
It has always been to Mexico's politicians advantage to keep its people in ignorance, that is the only way they can maintain power and be corrupting. This why poor cannot get a higher education due to the cost.  Most of these elite politicians have been educated abroad, Harvard, Yale, etc.\nThe last protest in Mexico took place last week from  flower street vendors in a town outside Mexico City, called San Salvador Atenco the police force was brutal and killed a 14 year old kid and injuring many. Most of the vendors are now in jail.  Is it better for them to be thieves and criminals than to sell their flowers since there are no jobs in  country for them? So it does seem the Mexican government is pushing these people to be either criminals or illegals. Mexico is well aware that illegals are keeping \nits economy afloat. Fox even called them "heroes" because of the money they send back home. Bush needs to have a serious talk with this guy, instead of giving each other cowboy boots as gifts and riding around each others ranches commenting about horseshit.
300804
Mexico is a rich country whose wealth is being hoarded by corrupt government officials. It's really a shame. Mexico could do so much for it's people if the government only wanted to.
322328
Mexico wants to get rid of their poor. They personally don't care where they go just as long as they leave and send money back. These are very uneducated people and a major a drain on the Mexican society as they are on ours. Americans are very misinformed if they think our government, corporate America and small businesses like these people. Mexican serve a purpose and caring about them has nothing to do with it.
456051
I think it would be a good idea to hold the big protest in, say, southern Texas. It would just be coincidental that a couple of battalions of the U.S. Army would be in the area. They are just holding maneuvers. Pay them no mind.
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I have said that before!  If they don't like the conditions in their own countries, they should stay there and work to make changes (protest in their own countries).\n\nTHE BEST THING TO DO in protest to the protest - is, when businesses shut down and walk-outs occur -- show them just how well we Americans CAN get along without them!\n\nI love America and people around the world, but crowding America because things are not right in their own countries is NOT the way to make their countries better.  And that's where the real problems are.  America has enough problems (of its own) without "illegals" taking our jobs and money.  [I'm not convinced they are doing jobs that "Americans won't do" and they are sending cash out of the country too.] \n\nWHY SHOULD I FEEL GUILTY ABOUT WANTING TO PROTEST MY HERITAGE?!!!  This "Day without Immigrants" is an outrage!  America has grown and developed and it's time to shut the borders!  How long will it be before America is in the condition(s) that causes people to want to leave it?  You can't screw up a country and then leave because you don't like it.  You need to change the country.  \n\nIf you're going to argue that "that's the way America started", well I say, "go find some other country that's uinhabited and live there!"       \n\nThis is a complicated issue, and my heart goes out to people that want to leave their home countries because they are under such duress -- but the solution is NOT coming to America.    \n\nMy blood pressure's up to high to go on...  :)
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There is really no way to explain why except to say that the government of mexico is totally concerned with what others are doing at the cost of it's own people. It is the type of government that would rather keep more than half of it's people below poverty and at the same time have legislative meeting to petition the American government to allow criminals to walk free in American society. The government of mexico and the people who put them there are NOT accepted as a world class country for just that type of reason.
346594
Mexican are not "allowed" to stay. The laws are the same no matter what - its what the government CHOOSES to do about it.
391046
The fact is that the Mexicans have a country of there own to repair. If things are as bad there as some of you are saying then isnt it up to them to fix it?. The vast majority of Illegals in this country were gainfully employed in mexico prior to there illegal entry to the U.S. Some of you asked..."have you ever been to mexico"?..NO...why would I want to go there?
860747
Someone's jealous \n\nAs much as I wish things would change for the better, I really dont see the president powerful enough to affect any change.  Mexico is still run by big business and drugs.  Money is king.
893300
The Mexican Government can very well afford to take care of all of its own people. Their oil industry is the second richest in the world next to Saudi Arabia. The Mexican government is exploiting its own people making things hard for them to survive at home and then encouraging them to migrate in droves to the United States. Their agenda is two fold. One is that they want to take back California and Texas and they are using their citizens to come here in such numbers that we cannot keep up with it. They are also organizing the illegals here to protest that we have a problem with their illegality (Mexico would never put up with us doing that to them) and with the financial burden they are imposing on American tax payers. The second agenda of the Mexican government in pushing out their citizens into the United States is that the illegals send back over a billion dollars a year to Mexico and that BOOSTS their economy BIG TIME. (It HURTS our economy BIG TIME). Too many people here have been fooled  into thinking that the poor Mexicans have no alturnative but to come here or starve. NOT TRUE!!!  Vincente Fox is a snake in the grass. He is greedy and uses his citizens to take us over and get richer and we don't even know it.  And we, as compassionate a country as we are, we still should not be used like we are bythe Mexican government.