BK has just never been the same for me.
“We need to recognize,” she said, “both that there are migrant workers needed here in the U.S. labor market while Mexico, and other countries that participate in the U.S. labor market, have the supply of those workers.”
Horse hockey. What’s really happened is that Mexico has made it a tradicion to let us handle their poor. Even our lowest wages are better than the best they can offer their undereducated, underskilled workers ‘doing the jobs Americans won’t do.’ We aren’t sharing labor; what we’re sharing is global stupidity.
Translation: Mexico used the exportation of physical labor as a comodity to act as a safety valve for corruption at home.
BK has just never been the same for me.
If its a global labor market, where is the pressure on, say, France or Spain to receive these workers?
And, actually, it would serve Europeans to import Latin American immigrants rather than Moroccans or Algerians. The fact that their immigration policies do not tilt in favor Latin America is a huge mistake on their part.
Beyond that, if people want the services of Mexican workers, then the Mexican government should work on eliminating those factors that make it difficult for companies to locate their operations in Mexico. Specifically, the security issue. Given the choice between a country that is near its markets but its execs face kidnap and its truckers being hijacked, like Mexico, versus a country that is far from its markets, but your execs and suppliers are secure, like China or Thailand or Korea or Taiwan, companies are going to choose security.
Mexico is a natural, it is the most obvious place for companies to base their operations, and at one time there was a big move to base factories there. It hit a snag, though, and that snag is called “security”. Solve that, and Mexico will have labor shortages, and they’ll be forced to import workers rather than pushing them out the door by the millions.
When asked about whether Mexico believed it too had a responsibility to help police the border and prevent its citizens from crossing into the United States without proper documents, Gomez claimed that the Mexican government was working with federal, state and local officials to provide “an overview of the border” and that it is “aware that, in immigration and other issues that have bilateral impact, there is a joint responsibility.”
More `lip-service’ from the Mexicans. Their real position is admitted later in this paragraph.
Reuben describes himself as a Mexican American. I prefer to refer to myself as an American. If pressed on ethnic background I say that I am an American, of Mexican descent. Preferably I call myself a Westerner. I just think it is instructive that poor ol’ Rube calls forth the Mexican part first. His allegiance is still to those South of the Border...
What a SWEET deal for the Mexican oligarchy!... Mexico it is truly a beautiful country... great weather... two oceans washing its coasts... but BEST OF ALL... All the social problems of the poor is exported to the us!... isn't hat a great deal or what? :)
Even we have poor people... But think for a moment if we could send them all to Canada! :)... Would not that be lovely?
Supply and Demand Ping?