[LNewman]

Mexico's Congress refuses to raise revenues for social needs, and the country collects in taxes only 12 percent of its gross domestic product - barely a third of the figure for Brazil.

In addition, Mexicans believe they have every right to cross the border. This sentiment was evident in the results of a Zogby survey of Mexicans taken in May 2001. The pollsters asked: "Do you agree or disagree that the territory of the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico?" Fifty-eight percent of the respondents agreed, 28 percent disagreed, and 14 percent said they were not sure.

[BIRDS]

Those results illustrate the poor educational achievements by those polled. Unfortunately, looks like their idea of "it belongs to Mexico" is to make the U.S. as badly downtrodden and awful as most of Mexico.