"I'm Optimistic"
By U.S. Ambassador [to Mexico] Antonio O. Garza, Jr.
March 26, 2004
At January's Summit of the Americas, 34 democratic leaders from the Western Hemisphere spelled out a common vision for the region. By 2008, they agreed to cut in half the cost of sending money from the U.S. back home...
U.S. Cites Importance of "Well-being" of Mexicans in America
Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State
March 23, 2004
-- Noriega said 23 percent of Mexico's population receives money transfers -- known as remittances -- from Mexicans residing in the United States. In 2003, remittances from Mexicans in the United States totaled $13.3 billion...
-- Noriega said President Bush's proposal for a temporary worker program, which the president announced January 7, will offer legal temporary-worker status to undocumented persons who were employed in the United States at the time of the announcement.
-- Mexican illegal immigrants represent the single largest nationality group among the U.S. undocumented population, Noriega said.
-- The United States, he [Noriega] said, will benefit from the labor of hard-working Mexican immigrants, while Mexico will benefit as "productive citizens are able to return home with money to invest and spend in their nation's economy."
You are to kind... actually none of this suprises me. The only answer to this issue, now that it has been allowed to degenerate to this point, will be one that the media will go absolutly @p8-&h1+ over. That would be to crate `em up and ship `em back.
It would break my heart to have such a thankless job, but SOMEONE will have to do it...