Posted on 06/20/2006 4:04:31 PM PDT by ChessExpert
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There are said to be 11 million illegals in the country. .... Why are they here at all? Most of them come across the Mexican border.
Now the truth is that the great majority of people, Mexicans included, would rather live and work in their native country. It is preferable to trekking across deserts, risking death by exposure and thirst, climbing fences and fording rivers in exchange for part-time labor in fields and sculleries in a land where they don't even speak the language. So why don't they stay in Mexico and work there?
Because they can't find jobs, we are always told. And inquisitiveness stops right there. No jobs in Mexico. But why are there not?
Why does the U.S. create millions of jobs every year and Mexico create refugees? In all the hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles I have read about immigration, I have not once seen this question addressed. What exactly is wrong in Mexico? Clearly Mexicans are effective workers, otherwise they wouldn't be in demand as day laborers here. Mexicans come with brains and muscles like everyone else.
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...because the US and other free nations keep giving big time cash to tin pot dictators.
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Foreign aid. The worst ideas since big government
Swiss Bank Accounts. That's why.
Because mexico is a corrupt filthy sh$thole and nobody wants to live there thats why.
..and Mexicans are in denial. Few will admit Mexico is a corrupt nightmare because of cultural "pride".
"worked along the Mexican border for many years. It always amazed me that Mexicans would use day passes to come across to American towns and go to K-Mart, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, etc. and enjoy the cleanly atmosphere we have and then go back across the border where, within a matter of a few yards sewage is running in the gutters (when they exist), stray dogs and flies are common visitors in restaurant kitchens and people just drop used toilet paper on the floor because the plumbing is done with 1/2 inch pipe - even the waste lines, yet they never seem to question why there is such a marked difference."
Sounds like pure stupidity to me.
..and Mexicans are in denial. Few will admit Mexico is a corrupt nightmare because of cultural "pride".
Yea, that's it, Pride. Even the Tidy Bowl man has pride as he sails his little boat in circles in the toilet.
Machisssssmo!
LOL
Go figure.
However, on a visit there in 1989, I went away from the tourist areas and walked into a disco where the locals hang out. It was full of young people in their teens and 20's. Most, if not all, of those with whom I talked told me that they were planning to come to the US, because there were simply no jobs in Taxco.
The United States for the most part have control of the criminal element and we are not a theocracy.
Theocracies don't run well in general and places like Mexico suffer their drug lords being in control of the government and country.
Kill lots of drug lords and things will turn for the better IMO.
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"Government is not the answer, government is the problem"
In many countries, government only aids and protects the elite class. Hell, we see a bit of this in our country.
If Mexico were to begin a path to formal, legal property rights, and then enforce it, Mexicans would be perfectly happy to stay in Mexico.
What's especially perplexing is the fact that we were told that NAFTA was going to result in all the jobs going to Mexico. Whatever happened to that?
We're told these people only come here to work. But if all the jobs are in Mexico that must mean they are here for something other than work.
Could it be the government handouts that are attracting these people?
If I remember correctly, 60 families own 40% of the economic output of Mexico.
Most 3rd world countries are ruled by oligarchies and one of the head guy's most important functions is to hand out state sanctioned monopolies to his buds.
Mexico could be rich, but it needs more avenues of wealth creation. Until that happens, nothing will change.
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