Posted on 07/11/2014 11:28:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We are told that the children from Central America invading our southern border are seeking a life free of political persecution with opportunities to advance their educations. OK, I can understand that. What I can’t understand is why these children have to undergo the travails of threading their way through the iniquity and corruption of Mexico to attain their goals in the United States when there exists a very attractive alternative right in their own backyard.
Way back in the late 1940’s Costa Rica disbanded its army and promulgated laws to ensure that all of its young people were entitled to a free education. That national edict now extends to a college education at state expense. And these are national directives that the good people of Costa Rica take quite seriously. Drive down any highway in that beautiful country and you will quickly become frustrated with the too frequent Zonas Escuealas that crop up every few kilometers. But each and every one of those rural school zones are the seed beds for greater educational growth and national development.
So let’s look at a few positives for those youngsters abandoning say, Honduras, for a future in the United States. Costa Rica is much, much closer and you do not have to cross the lengthy and predatory state of Mexico. And, hey, you speak the same language so that huge linguistic barrier no longer is a factor. Then there is the cultural adaptation that will be considerable in the U.S. but will be negligible in Costa Rica, a country seriously Americanized while still maintaining its Tico culture. The food is still rice and beans.
So, if your goal is self-improvement through education free from governmental oppression, Costa Rica presents a very workable alternative.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Would they get all the freebies?
Because going to Costa Rica won’t help 0 destroy us...
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RE: Would they get all the freebies?
Read the article...
Costa Rica isn’t as open bordered as the United States of 0bama ...
http://www.costaricalaw.com/Immigration-and-Residency/residency-general-information-and-summary.html
I know (knew) a guy who did go to CR to earn his degree in Mathematics. I think he was originally from Ecuador though I’m no 100% sure. Later he went on to get his Masters and then eventually and legally came to the US. After he got here he lived frugally, and completed his PhD in Robotics and became a citizen. He worked hard to get what he now has - a good wife, two smart kids, a nice job, a nice house. He did it ALL LEGALLY. There is already a path to citizenship and it starts with obeying the laws of the US.
The article asks a rhetorical question:
Does that lovely little country down there in Central America offer you the opportunity to live on welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, free education and free medical care from the time you enter the country until the day you die?
My daughter-in-law and my granddaughter are both Ticas. Costa Ricans are not overly fond of their Central American neighbors. If there are crimes or bums in the neighborhood, it is always “those Nicaraguans”. I do not believe that they would welcome the influx of the “poor children”.
I did a search and apparently the distance from Honduras to Costa Rica is 384 miles.
The distance from Honduras to the US border is 2,040 miles.
So why don’t the “refugees” just walk south? (rhetorical question)
RE: I do not believe that they would welcome the influx of the “poor children”.
There ya go, you jsut answered the question in the article’s title. But the United States does. So... we now know the answer.
The first question upon entering CR is “papeles satisface” (papers please).
Oh, now I get it - this article is satire but not tagged as such.
The Costa Ricans won’t tolerate being invaded I imagine.
CR is basically a low-key socialist welfare state. Very nice people, a beautiful land, and lots of vida pura...LOTS of freebies for the takers and wannabees.
I have heard nothing but good things about Costa Rica from people who have been there. They tell me that the population is not Mestizo or Indio like Mexico and other Central American countries. The people look like Spaniards. They obviously don’t believe in open borders.
Infrastructure there sucks....
Government wheels turn more slowly than the USA..yeah hard to believe.
Veggies..and most stables are cheap. Traffic is a mess...
I could live in Costa part time....but not year round.
The population is very much Mestizo, a clear absolute majority.
Criollos(whites) about 20% of population.
Blacks 8%. Amer-Indians 2.5%.
One only needs to look at the national Costa Rican soccer team and compare and contrast to the Spanish national team.
Costa Rica has a rather large population of illegal Nicaraguans.
Maybe because the planes and ships hussein arranged for their travel weren’t destined for PR.
Even though they are mestizos and the government says they are a mestizo nation, the people themselves say they are white. We were taking a tour bus to Arenal volcano and the bus driver said “Look at the people. What makes us different from other countries is that we are white”. It was so strange to hear it said that way and with such obvious pride.
Never fails to amaze one how the National Geographic info of the late 1940's hangs on. Yeah, they look like Spaniards. short dark Spaniards. There are also significant groups from other Euro backgrounds ... Italians, French, Germans, English, etc., all of whom intermarry. It ain't all roses. Costa Rica has had what is for it an amazing population growth. It ain't your euro-based population that's doing all the growing.
Furthermore, Costa Rica's bad news neighbor to the north is Nicaragua, a much blacker, violent, criminal place the only export: apparently violent criminal Nicaraguans who infest Costa Rica as illegal aliens in huge numbers. CR has great welfare, health care, social safety nets, etc, but it's pretty low key and Nicaragua, a country with a big military and a lot of aggressive racial chip-on-the-shoulder intentions makes life in the border regions quite miserable. They actually seize and hold territory!
The Nicaraguans, in case you forgot, are also Fidel-type Marxists and also have territorial ambitions in Costa Rica, which with no military and a kind and gentle, lightly armed police force, are viewed as push-overs.
Nicaragua will definitely need the periodic slap up the side of the head it has always ungratefully received from the US. It's a CHICOM semi-colony now, and those wonderful folks want to build an alternative to the Panama Canal for themselves. With a CHICOM equipped and trained army, straightening out the Nicaraguan Third World excesses will not be a walk-over. Say, I wonder if they could use a gay Chicago Community Organizer?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cs.html
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