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They're starving in Mexico, and that's why they illegally enter the U.S.? This is the first I've heard of it.

I'll bet almost everybody posting here at F.R. has seen the same stock video footage on the news that I have of some of these illegals climbing over the walls to get into America. There's no doubt that almost all of them are poor, but none of them are "starving to death". There is no massive humanitarian starvation crisis going on in Mexico. I can't blame people for wanting to come here to get a better job than what they have down there, but the guys who sneak in through the desert and die out in the middle of nowhere have nobody to blame but themselves.

Well put, if there was an actual famine going on in Mexico, let's send in the U.N. and other NGOs to provide food for these people.

I thought that was the official reason for ratifying NAFTA.

"but the guys who sneak in through the desert and die out in the middle of nowhere have nobody to blame but themselves."

Do you buy products that are grown/made/sold with the assistance of illegal immigrant labor? If so, then they aren't the only one to blame.