Posted on 04/23/2006 2:31:13 PM PDT by 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?
I wonder what he did to make that money? Why couldn't he continue doing that?
susie
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.
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.
Interesting. I didn't realize that. So....you're telling me that sometimes articles in the media are not accurate?? Whoda thought....
susie
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?
Sure is! But, I'm afraid that would require the news media to be logical, truthful, etc.
- 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.
Wouldn't you think they would do something about the fact that Mexico is such a great place to be from!
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.
An attempt to harvest sympathy at a continuing criminal invasion?
The romance of a life of crime?
Working for Vicente Fox?
What?
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.
"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.
Chill, dude. I think he just forgot the barf alert.
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.
Sounds like they need an ag exteniuon agent.
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.
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!
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