Mexican leader knocks U.S. crime rates - Chutzpah or stupidity?

Yahoo news ^ | Sat Sep 23, 2:17 AM ET | By MARIANA MONTEMAYOR, Associated Press Writer

[JingoJim]

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that violence was a problem on both sides of the border and that U.S. officials need to work on their own rising crime rates.

U.S. officials have criticized the high murder and kidnapping rates in Mexican border cities and the danger they pose to Americans. The U.S. ambassador recently advised U.S. citizens to exercise extreme caution when traveling in Mexico.

[JingoJim]

It takes real balls for Mexico to ship 20,000,000 of its poorest and uneducated to the US, watch its own crime rate soar, and the criticize the US for a higher crime rate. Vincente Fox should be sentenced to perpetual waterboarding.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I think I read 50% of violent prisoners in California jails are Mexican.

[redheadtoo]

I don't know if it is as high as 50%. But illegals do represent a higher percentage of the criminals in California than their percentage in the general population.

[johnpannell]

We can make a significant dent in our violent crime rate -- including gang related violence! -- if we sent those 20,000,000 INVADERS back to their home countries; built a fence across the southern border, and then shot (to kill)anyone who tried to cross it illegally.

A nation that does not safeguard its borders is not a nation for long.

[nickcarraway]

Why wouldn't he say this? It's not like the U.S. criticizes or expects anything from him. He's the one calling the shots.

[johnpannell]

Then there's MS13 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha). They're originally Salvadoran, but are certainly recruiting from the illegal alien under-class.

[GarySpFc]

Yes, Presidente Fox, we are going to reduce our crime problem by shipping it back to you.

[BW2221]

From a thread posted last night:

{"2006 (lst Qtr) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigration

62% of all "undocumented immigrants" in the United States are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens, working without a green card.

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.

86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.

75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.

More than 380,000 "anchor babies" born in the United States in 2005 were to parents who are illegal aliens; making those 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayer.

More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

29% (630,000) of convicted illegal aliens in state and federal prisons—at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.

More than 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

More than 53% of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.

More than half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.

More than 43% of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens.

More than 41% of all unemployment checks issued in the United States are to illegal aliens.

58% of all welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens.

Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in the United States are illegal aliens."}

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Give him a break, he went to the University of Mexico... LOL!

[sgtbono2002]

Yeah: We have a rime problem, but at least most of the criminals are illegals or ne'er do wells. We dont have a police force thats full of them, like mexico.

Well Maybe New Orleans.

[the final gentleman]

Unbelievable.

And just who are the fine citizens who have elected the politicians who have brought this plague upon this once law abiding land?
We?

Unbelievable.

[SmoothTalker]

I see it as a slap in the face given that an ever increasing amount of our crime is caused by his citizens.

[SmoothTalker]

"He's the one calling the shots."

The sad thing is that on the immigration issue we are his lapdogs.

[SmoothTalker]

"Yes, Presidente Fox, we are going to reduce our crime problem by shipping it back to you."

If only the administration would do that. In reality they'd prefer amnesty and open borders and as much cheap mexican labor as flows north.

[nickcarraway]

On what issues are we not?

[BW2221]

One thing you have to remember about this immigration is that it is different from immigrations of the 19th and 20th centuries in a number of ways - the primary being that all the people in the current immigrations are from the underclass and Mexico wants us to take care of their support.

While many, if not most, in previous immigrations were poor, some were skilled tradesmen, tailors and even some professional people who came to the U.S. for a number of reasons (including religious discrimination).

[the final gentleman]

One thing you yourself might want to remember, BW222, is that the Mexican migration is not an immigration but an invasion.

The immigrations of the 19th and early 20th Centuries were legally sanctioned and turned out well for us all.

Why are you comparing grits with cream of wheat?

In other words...Legal vs. Illegal -- the fundament of all law.

[BW2221]

I don't disagree. What I attempted to imply is that Mexico is encouraging its poor, uneducated and criminal element to cross the border. those coming are not doctors, scientists or skilled tradesmen.

[the final gentleman]

Agreed.

George W. Bush with the big heart probably wouldn't have let them in if they weren't poor enough to better themselves by picking cotton and building houses. But so what?
No one would even care if their entry was legal and screened to keep out terrorists and drug smugglers and persons with communicable diseases.

Just what the heck was George W. Bush thinking?