Posted on 11/16/2006 2:19:49 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
I've heard anecdotal info that Mexico City is very crime-ridden too except for a few areas in the central business district.
Anyone else heard this too?
Mexico can be dangerous? No way! All day long I hear that they are nice and want to help us have cheap lettuce.
I sure couldn't see any drawback to letting 20 million of their citizens become U.S. citizens.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
I'd trust Mark in Mexico's on-the-spot reporting about Oxaca more then I would trust Vincente Fox.
Things aren't good there.
The other day I saw this movie called "A Day Without a Mexican." I couldn't sit through the whole thing, but I have to assume crime in Mexico City dropped to an all-time low.
And now, thanks to illegal immigration...
Americans hear a note of caution [to be careful anywhere in the United States]
..third world toilet...
And now you know what happens when they flush. ;-)
This is news?
By doing jobs Americans don't want to do!
By doing jobs Americans don't want to do!
The best advice for us is to stay home. I sure wish the Mexicans would too.
Do not get into a roaming VW taxi .
Hell yeah, so lets open our border even wider for Mexico.
Makes sense to me.
Mr. President, what the hell is wrong with you?
So tourism is (was) their one big income source and now they've fouled that up. Way to go!
and that we should open our borders and just let them pour in like water.../s
Why do I smell Hugo Chavez's hands in this???
I spent a few days there last month, somewhere in the central/western part of the city. My hosts advised I not walk the streets (even the short distance to the World Trade Center), and I noticed that around the hotels the stores were shut and the streets empty by 6 PM. Even ordering a taxi was *always* done through the hotel.
It is corruption at the top pure and simple. Mexico is the tenth richest country in the world. Their entire federal government and many state governments are designed to keep the riches in the hands of a ruling oligarchy.
I really do feel sorry for most Mexicans that come here. For about as long as it takes for me to remember that they are suposed to be a democracy and they should be able to clean up their own mess. But they know that as long as they can come here, they don't have to clean house back at the casa.
I'm sorry that landlords own most of the land. How many times has there been land reform in Mexico? Did real well didn't it?
I'm sorry that there are too many other untrained workers competing for the few factory jobs left that you stole from the US in the first place.
I'm sorry that foreign companies that could completely turn the Mexican economy around in less than a decade face heavy restrictions on how much and which industries they can invest in.
I'm mostly sorry that the largest city in the world (in a country that really likes baseball) can't have a pro baseball team because somehow 25 million people can't do what most cities of one or two million do in the US-- buy tickets. Of course they might have read the fine print that only the Yankees are allowed to actually make a profit.
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