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A Cross They Can't Bear (long read)
St. Petersburg Times ^ | April 23, 2006 | MARY SPICUZZA

Posted on 04/23/2006 2:31:13 PM PDT by RightField

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This was the front page article in the St. Petersburg Times this morning. I searched to see if it had already been posted, but nothing came up on my search.
1 posted on 04/23/2006 2:31:18 PM PDT by RightField
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To: RightField

Same problems for a mother whose sons are out robbing banks. Any day they might get the terrible news that their sons have been shot or arrested. Moral of the story: Don't let your sons rob banks.

If the entire family went back to Mexico, then they would be reunited, with none of these problems.

One of the announced purposes of the NAFTA agreement was to improve the Mexican economy. Instead, Mexico seems to be as poor and as politically corrupt as ever. The solution to these problems is for Mexicans, somehow, to reform their government, put an honest police force in place, reform the military, and so forth. There was some hope that Vincent Fox would start to reverse 70 years of corruption. No such luck.

Isn't it time that the news media started to suggest that, instead of everyone coming to the US and bringing their problems with them, they should start solving them where they live?


2 posted on 04/23/2006 2:39:15 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: RightField
But it took time to earn the nearly $2,000 to pay a "coyote" to help him and Celestino get across.

I wonder what he did to make that money? Why couldn't he continue doing that?

susie

3 posted on 04/23/2006 2:45:41 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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The article is not factual regarding the money saved to pay a coyote. A local Denver talk show host spent a few days on the border in Arizona a week ago, and one of the interesting things he talked about was how the coyotes have accounts and the illegals wire money to them once they are in the U.S. and working to pay off the crossing fee. So, not all of the wire transfers are going to the families left in Mexico.

The typical fee is $2000 to $3000 for three attempts. In other words, if the illegal is caught on the way and returned, they get another two tries/trips under the coyote fee agreement.


4 posted on 04/23/2006 2:57:25 PM PDT by digerati
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Santos can rattle off a list of friends who have died while crossing, some of dehydration, others by drowning in rivers. Others have died in car crashes on U.S. highways. Several hundred people die trying to cross the border each year.

So let's see here: Mexicans who want to come to the US can run these risks, or they could take some English lessons and fill out some paperwork. Decisions, decisions.

5 posted on 04/23/2006 3:02:06 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: digerati

Interesting. I didn't realize that. So....you're telling me that sometimes articles in the media are not accurate?? Whoda thought....
susie


6 posted on 04/23/2006 3:02:32 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: RightField

I'm fresh out of sympathy for people who knowingly assist one another in breaking the law repeatedly (in this case a whole damn family of them), then howl and wring their hands when something finally goes wrong-what part of apply for legal immigration instead of sneaking over here don't they understand?


7 posted on 04/23/2006 3:05:41 PM PDT by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line..)
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To: Cicero
Isn't it time that the news media started to suggest that, instead of everyone coming to the US and bringing their problems with them, they should start solving them where they live?

Sure is! But, I'm afraid that would require the news media to be logical, truthful, etc.

8 posted on 04/23/2006 3:15:16 PM PDT by RightField
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- I wonder what he did to make that money? Why couldn't he continue doing that?-

Exactly. No dinosaur media expert would ever ask that question. And I believe $2000 is pretty cheap for some of those trips. If folks are starving, that $2000 would go a long way.


9 posted on 04/23/2006 3:36:39 PM PDT by AmericanChef
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the nearly $2,000 to pay a "coyote" to help him and Celestino get across
Wouldn't you think they would do something about the fact that Mexico is such a great place to be from!

10 posted on 04/23/2006 3:46:24 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: RightField

Its easy to remedy this problem.Just stay home in your own country and there will be No reason for people to die in the desert or risk the indignity of being robbed by the criminals along the border. Stay Home.


11 posted on 04/23/2006 3:57:30 PM PDT by puppypusher
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To: RightField
You forgot to tell us what the purpose for posting this.

An attempt to harvest sympathy at a continuing criminal invasion?
The romance of a life of crime?
Working for Vicente Fox?
What?

12 posted on 04/23/2006 3:58:21 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: RightField

I hate the St Petersberg Times. They never found a liberal cause they can't propagandize.

On the positive side, they got off their latest headline kick of complaining our taxes aren't high enough.


13 posted on 04/23/2006 4:05:11 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Gordongekko909

"Others have died in car crashes on U.S. highways"

Like the one that ran into the mayor's bodyguard and killed him last month.


14 posted on 04/23/2006 4:07:14 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Publius6961

Chill, dude. I think he just forgot the barf alert.


15 posted on 04/23/2006 4:23:58 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Gordongekko909
Yeah, silly me. Anything from the St. Pete Times contains an implied barf alert, but evidently not all Freepers are aware.

I recently moved to Pinellas County from the San Diego area, and was surprised to see the large writeup of Mexican illegal immigration in a Florida newspaper. We're used to sympathetic coverage in San Diego, but since I've been in Florida, I never cease to shake my head in wonder at what the St. Pete times puts on its front page as "news." To be sure, the same attitude prevails on the TV news also.

16 posted on 04/23/2006 5:14:54 PM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: RightField

Sounds like they need an ag exteniuon agent.


17 posted on 04/23/2006 5:57:04 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: I still care
Wonder if the St. Pete Times will have a comment on this event in San Diego yesterday?
18 posted on 04/23/2006 6:28:46 PM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

When I was still teaching, I had many students who were probably not here legally (altho we did not have any way to know, as teachers). I had one student who told me she had finished HS in Mehico, and she was just here to improve her English so she could go to college in Mehico and be bilingual. I don't know if she was telling me the truth or not, but she LOVED Mehico and had a Mehico flag on her notebook etc.

It was aggrivating that the American taxpayer was paying for her to get some extra education. Of course, her story may have been bogus, but she never wavered from it.


19 posted on 04/24/2006 5:45:25 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: RightField
Aw, stop it!

You are breaking my heart posting all of these Illegal Alien stories.

I can't take any more of these.

Pardon me while I run out and barf!

20 posted on 04/24/2006 8:43:36 AM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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