Posted on 08/17/2005 2:58:48 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
Half of Mexico Wants to Move to the U.S.
Jim Meyers, NewsMax.comNearly half of Mexican adults would move to the U.S. if they could – and one in five say they would do so illegally, new surveys reveal.
Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005
These same surveys suggest that America's problem with illegals will only get worse in the years to come.
Waves of illegals continue to wreak havoc on America's southern border, and this past weekend New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ordered a state of emergency in four of his state's counties that border Mexico "because of the urgency of the situation and, unfortunately, because of the total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress."
Arizona followed suit and declared a state of emergency on Monday.
Whether Mexico Gets Better or Not
The surveys of Mexican citizens by the Pew Hispanic Center also found that increased education and an improved standard of living won't dampen the stampede of illegals coming across the border.
The two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: "If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?" Almost half - 46 percent - said yes.
When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA "without authorization," meaning illegally, 21 percent said they would.
Showing that interest in emigrating isn't confined to the poor, more than one-third of Mexican college graduates said they would move to the U.S. if they could, and more than one in eight said they'd be willing to migrate even if they had to enter the country illegally.
"People with college degrees believe they have greater economic opportunities by migration to the U.S. – even illegally – than they would staying at home," Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research group in Washington, told USA Today.
Mexicans wishing to come to the U.S. are "distributed across the whole breadth of Mexican society," he added.
A Difference of Perspective
Six in 10 Hispanics born in the U.S. favor requirements that people show proof of citizenship or legal residency before they can get a driver's license, but only 29 percent of foreign-born Hispanics agree.
An estimated 10 million Mexicans now live in the U.S., more than half of them illegally, according to Suro.
The unfettered movement of illegals across our southern border is costing American taxpayers dearly:
"Millions of people are going to keep coming every decade unless we restrict it," said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which favors strict enforcement of immigration laws.
"That's the bottom line."
The other half is already here.
Time to annex Mexico, heck, we might even win a plebiscite.
If we were the old British empire..we would have to invade Mexico to stabilize that corrupt, cesspool. Why do not our leaders stand up and say.."This country cannot rule itself and we are fatigued and made poorer by taking their refuse. They are as is , a net negative society to the world."
It would be easier to annex Mexico, make it part of the United States. That way they would not have to move anywhere.
The two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: "If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?" Almost half - 46 percent - said yes.When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA "without authorization," meaning illegally, 21 percent said they would.
You beat me to it.
At the rate they're going, they'll make it.
Bush has not closed the borders.
#1
When you get here, go to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles or call (213) 680-5200
Ask for Roger. He'll set ya right up.
I wonder why that 1/2 of mexico does not simply say they want 1/2 of mexico to join the USA.
Would those mexicans accept US taxation?
Seems they are interested in looting not living in the USA.
" When you get here, go to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles or call (213) 680-5200"
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We did already (the northern half anyway)! Here's what Mexico used to look like before the Mexican-American War.
Those little boxes are U.S. Army General's names and the dotted lines their invasion routes.
Because they're money grubbing poltroons concerned only with their own political & financial well-being?
Plenty of cheap labor.....oil.......taxes.
Just as stupid.......
The elite of Mexico would certainly fight it, I wonder if applying for statehood would help resolve the corruption issue? Heck, I wonder if it might facilite two way border crossing and solve the problem of illegal entry (I guess it would be definition.) But the larger question would be would they vote democratic or republican?
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