Mexico on the Brink!

The American Thinker ^ | April 4th, 2005 | A.M. Mora y Leon

[CitadelArmyJag]

This looks bad...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Chavez is the new Hero in Latin America!

[ClintonBeGone]

Fox absolutely must be reelected. He's got a corrupt legislature dominated by the other party. It's hard to expect him to do anything but hold the fort and hope his party will continue to gain strength. Until then, we must not throw him overboard. We've never had such good relations with Mexico as we have now with the Bush/Fox duo.

[Redbob]

"As a substitute for reform, Fox encouraged Mexicans to skip over the border to the U.S., to take up life as illegal aliens - and send dollars back to Mexico. Ten percent of Mexican voters now live in the U.S. legally or illegally, but they account for fifty percent of Mexico's purchasing power."

Here's the simple solution:
a tax on foreign wire transfers.

Say a flat $50 fee?

Remove the financial incentive to come here, and huge numbers will go (and stay) home.

[Mr. Jeeves]

This is exactly why the Administration is turning a blind eye to illegal immigration - hoping to "leaven" the socialist impulses of the Mexican populace by giving the malcontents a good capitalist example as a place to run to. It's all about forestalling a Communist takeover in Mexico. No other explanation has ever made sense, not even the idea that American business wants illegal labor and has pressured the President to get it. There are geopolitical stirrings in the works that very few people know about.

[reagan_fanatic]

Few free market reforms were undertaken, scant new jobs were created...

Why waste time creating jobs when you can just send your populace Northward across the porous, unguarded border of your rich neighbor and use his resources instead.

[1066AD]

The Interamerican Development Bank says they sent home $16.6 billion in 2004, up from $10.5 billion in 2000, the year Fox was elected.

That's 16.6 billion that ought to be spent/saved/invested in the US if we could control the border.

[El Conservador]

I have a friend in Venezuela who tells me that the lower-income Venezuelans are basically living off the government thanks to cheap food, REALLY cheap gasoline and plenty of government welfare checks. Theses people although mostly unemployed, frown upon work and say "el trabajo es para los colombianos" (work is for Colombians). The Venezuelan laziness is legendary. We, Colombians, don't run away from work, instead.

But all that is dependent upon high oil prices.

When oil goes down to $20/bbl, we may have something worse than Chavez in the works.

[RockinRight]

Fox's reforms were simply making it easier for Mexicans to go to America.

[TomGuy]

Fox was too busy exporting workers across the US border in hopes that they send $billions back to Mexico.

What will GW do without Vincente?

[sure_fine]

As a substitute for reform, Fox encouraged Mexicans to skip over the border to the U.S., to take up life as illegal aliens - and send dollars back to Mexico. Ten percent of Mexican voters now live in the U.S. legally or illegally, but they account for fifty percent of Mexico's purchasing power.

and the bottomline: And they send home enough billions in foreign exchange to make the government in Mexico very comfortable indeed.

[COEXERJ145]

Fox absolutely must be reelected.

I don't think he can. IIRC, the President of Mexico serves one six year term and that's it.

[sdpatriot]

LOL

yeah... sure. we all love neighbors who print up booklets explaining in detail (with pictures for the illiterate) on how to break our laws. with friends and neighbors like that who needs enemies.
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As a substitute for reform, Fox encouraged Mexicans to skip over the border to the U.S., to take up life as illegal aliens - and send dollars back to Mexico. Ten percent of Mexican voters now live in the U.S. legally or illegally, but they account for fifty percent of Mexico's purchasing power. And they send home enough billions in foreign exchange to make the government in Mexico very comfortable indeed. The Interamerican Development Bank says they sent home $16.6 billion in 2004, up from $10.5 billion in 2000, the year Fox was elected. Fox has called these people 'heroes' - encouraging U.S. banks to accept Mexican identification cards to ease money transfers in 2002 and permitting his government to print out booklets advising Mexicans how to get over the border illegally but safely by 2005.

[TXBSAFH]

We may need to deploy troops to the border, wait we have been needing to do this for awhile now.

[azhenfud]

"Fox absolutely must be reelected. He's got a corrupt legislature dominated by the other party. It's hard to expect him to do anything but hold the fort and hope his party will continue to gain strength. Until then, we must not throw him overboard. We've never had such good relations with Mexico as we have now with the Bush/Fox duo."

ROTFLOL!! You are hilarious!

[El Conservador]

Escape valve theory...

But if the US government simply stopped the flow the money, it'd be just a catalyst for that left-wing takeover of Mexico.

Dicey situation, if you ask me.

[Servant of the 9]

We have needed to add 4 to 6 divisions of light infantry equipped and trained primarily for policing, peacekeeping and border control since 9/11. This scenario makes is imperative to begin now so that they can be fully trained in good time.

So9

[traumer]

"Mexico on the Brink!"

That means the # of broder crossing 5 to 10x more....

[politicalwit]

"Until then, we must not throw him overboard. We've never had such good relations with Mexico as we have now with the Bush/Fox duo."

Simply amazing what George's butt-kissing has done to US-Mexico relationships. It's time to get rid of both of them and get real leaders.