Posted on 08/17/2005 5:50:59 AM PDT by Santiago de la Vega
In the survey of 1,200 Mexican adults, conducted in May by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center, 46 percent said they would like to live in the United States if they had the opportunity. Among college graduates, 35 percent said they would head north.
"Even at the high ends of the socioeconomic characteristics, we see that the propensity to migrate is quite strong," said Pew Hispanic Center Director Roberto Suro in Washington. "Mexico's economy doesn't satisfy their expectations."
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The best immigration control is to change the regime in Mexico, driving out the corrupt PRI-based government and replacing it with one that encourages Mexicans to stay home and build their beautuful country, while also attracting nortenos to their gentle climate.
If the Mexican people can replace the fossilized regime they're living under, and give their country freedom and private property, we won't need border controls.
Immigration reform is really Mexican government reform. Drive out the crooked politicians!
DITTO.
This IS the problem. We have a corrupt government just to the south that feeds both parties to keep them from doing the right thing.
Mexico is a land with many natural resources, tropical beaches, and a lot of potential. But it has been governed by corrupt politicians since its beginning. People flee because there is no opportunity except for the white, Spanish and French based families.
The cops are corrupt. The military is corrupt. The people are starved.
Closing our borders to illegal immigration will allow pressure on the Mexican government to grow.
Isn't the alternative worse though?
More likely that a marxist government will come to power as in Venezuela
...and replacing it with one...
I'm here with you up to here. Now, with which one? Please don't say PRD ;)
In my opinion, this is very near the top of the Administration's reasons for not strengthening border security--perhaps a secret agreement with the Mexican government to keep what you said above from happening. If those peasants in Mexico suddenly have nowhere else to go, they'll revolt, many of them wearing Che Guevera t-shirts, btw. If fear of a Marxist Mexican govt.is the case, then I'll be very disappointed in our government's falta de huevos.
"If those peasants in Mexico suddenly have nowhere else to go, they'll revolt, many of them wearing Che Guevera t-shirts"
It isn't the peasants, that's what the PRI is as I witnessed in the 70s when the PRI had their political convention in La Paz. They were all over town in their Che Guevera shirts waving Mao's little red book.
Mexico is and has been a communist country in all but declaration for decades.
Do businiss there sometime and you will find it out real quick.
America's failure to secure the border and stop the invasion is defacto support for the corrupt Mexican government.
no, Spanish and Lebanese; and some corrupt, lucky or hardworking guys from other ethnical groups. I have to admit it the Lebanese played very well their cards, Carlos "Slim" Salim Helu alone is the wealthiest Mexican, but all the french inmigrants I have meet are at best uppermiddle class (in Mexican standards). dunno, I agree with the idea of closing borders as a way of political pressure atleast for the approval of the ecomical reforms the Mexican congress owe us.
a survey made only with the Mexicans in the capital. they should have made the survey in the rural areas of México.
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