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Just how pathetic is Mexico?
Modern Conservative ^ | Christopher Cook

Posted on 08/04/2008 8:30:00 AM PDT by connell

"How dare you send our citizens back to us"
By Christopher Cook

You can add legislators from the Mexican state of Sonora to the people whose sense of irony has been surgically removed at birth. It didn't make very big news when it happened (two weeks ago), but for those who missed it, it's a worthy showcase for chutzpah at its finest. And it's a tragic indication of just how absurdly pathetic our neighbor to the south really is:

A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona's new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state.

At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora - Arizona's southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns - cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money.

What? They are returning to their hometowns, for goodness' sake. They don't want people to return to their hometowns? People aren't welcome in their hometowns?


Oh, and they're coming home broke. What are we in America to do, send out an announcement that people planning to self-deport should stop by city hall for a little care package on the way out? Maybe a little taxpayer money to tide them over until the ever-so vibrant and healthy Mexican economy finds them jobs. Oh no, wait...nevermind.


And it gets worse, with this stunning admission:

"Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said. (emphasis added)

Think about that. Not only...

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1 posted on 08/04/2008 8:30:00 AM PDT by connell
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To: connell
I overheard on the local news this morning that Texas Hospitals are starting to deport illegals who are admitted into the hospital.

If it doesn't kill them, send them back ASAP.

2 posted on 08/04/2008 8:33:28 AM PDT by lormand (Don't vote democRAT, from either party.)
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To: connell
According to 20 Million plus, here illegally, IT SUCKS!!
4 posted on 08/04/2008 8:34:56 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: lormand
I overheard on the local news this morning that Texas Hospitals are starting to deport illegals who are admitted into the hospital.

Wow!. Excellent news!

5 posted on 08/04/2008 8:39:31 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: connell
I think that this is the hidden reason for the Feds previously not cracking down harder on illegals. Send back 10-20 million illegals, remove remittances, which is mexico's largest source of income and you have a major fubar. Calderon won the last election over a commie by a slim majority and we don't want a castro type state on our southern border.

We are basically providing a safety valve to keep mexico from exploding.

6 posted on 08/04/2008 8:44:14 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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To: connell
How pathetic is Mexico?
Close to 763.5 Square Miles (about 3 times the size of Texas), 108,700,891 people, Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007 est.): $1.346 trillion; per capita $12,800. Real growth rate: 3.3%. Inflation: 4%. Unemployment: 3.7% plus underemployment of perhaps 25%. Arable land: 13%. Agriculture: corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, dairy products; wood products. Labor force: 45.38 million; agriculture 18%, industry 24%, services 58% (2003). Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism. Natural resources: petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, timber. Exports: $267.5 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.): manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton. Imports: $279.3 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.): metalworking machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts.

And yet, with all this we still get a LARGE number of illegal immigrants from Mexico, and the Mexican government says they can't take them back without risking a civil war.

7 posted on 08/04/2008 8:46:15 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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If Mexico is a threat, we need a buffer state. Let’s make one out of Chihuahua and Sonora. Throw in Baja California too for good measure.


8 posted on 08/04/2008 8:51:33 AM PDT by Styria
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“We are basically providing a safety valve to keep mexico from exploding.” Send them back anyway and seal the damn border. We’re enabling their corrupt government. And maybe things will get better and maybe they won’t - long as the border is sealed - its their problem.


9 posted on 08/04/2008 8:52:40 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: connell

Amparano (Noglez rep) said the Mexican legislators are already asking the federal government of Mexico for help for Sonora.

Hey, now there’s a thought—Mexicans helping one another!


10 posted on 08/04/2008 8:58:00 AM PDT by tumblindice (Sonora's state bird: the bottlenosed housefly)
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To: Just another Joe

Mexico is a cartel country, with a peculiar blend of populist rhetoric and oligarchic politics. Most of the high ranking pols look very European; most illegals here are quite mestizo and very country.


11 posted on 08/04/2008 8:59:45 AM PDT by steve8714 (Curtis Strange ruined a man better than himself.)
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To: connell

Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems” it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said. (emphasis added)

And I should care about what?.....


12 posted on 08/04/2008 9:02:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: steve8714

Hidalgo is a word to describe the european immigrants who actually run Mexico, and to hell with the mestizos and indios.


13 posted on 08/04/2008 9:03:15 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: Styria
If Mexico is a threat, we need a buffer state. Let’s make one out of Chihuahua and Sonora. Throw in Baja California too for good measure.

Unfortunately, a "buffer state" wouldn't be enough: We need a true cordon sanitaire. Further, one could also regard Mexico as a staging area for Illegals from Central America.

Regards from Ba-Wü,

14 posted on 08/04/2008 9:03:48 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: connell

Not to go on too much of a tangent, but by historic human standards, Mexico is probably in the top 10% of countries.

We look at it from an American perspective, but for the vast majority of humans who have ever lived, life in Mexico actually looks pretty good.


15 posted on 08/04/2008 9:03:49 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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""Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems" it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs, she said."

Are they saying the Mexican government is giving free bus rides to the border, and encouraging it's citizens to violate the law of another country, exploit it's economy and send the proceeds home?

That is an act of war.

16 posted on 08/04/2008 9:08:32 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Citizen Blade
We look at it from an American perspective, but for the vast majority of humans who have ever lived, life in Mexico actually looks pretty good.

From the viewpoint of American do-gooders, every hell hole on earth is viewed from the American perspective. The simple concept that in order to help others, one must first be healthy, both financially and physically, escapes them. Spreading the misery and bringing everyone else down kills the golden goose, so to speak; sooner or later.

The other reality is that in order to actually improve the universal picture, the "helpers" need to outnumber the "helpees", or the system collapses.

Can the US of A save the world? No.

Can we do anything? Of course. But we do it on our own terms or not at all.

If we even contemplate having the "government" of Mexico, or even more pathetically, of Sonora dictate our foreigh policy and our welfare state, the American angry domestic mood will boil over. And there is enough of a historical trail to document the simple fact that this isn't merely a cultural excuse to eliminate the less fortunate or the "undesireables." The criminal culture in Mexico is very real, from the top down, and so is the threat of its importation.

Americans may be the most charitable people on earth, but there is a limit to everything, as we are constantly reminded.

Build the damned fence, already!

17 posted on 08/04/2008 9:19:30 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: Citizen Blade

” . . . life in Mexico actually looks pretty good.”

Since 10% of Mexico is here, they must have preferred what they read in the letters with the money sent home.


18 posted on 08/04/2008 9:20:37 AM PDT by tumblindice (Declare war on Mexico)
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To: alexander_busek
Unfortunately, a "buffer state" wouldn't be enough: We need a true cordon sanitaire. Further, one could also regard Mexico as a staging area for Illegals from Central America.

Would that be a Mex Kotex?

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19 posted on 08/04/2008 9:25:24 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: connell
Just how pathetic is Mexico?

If Mexico had been his daughter's intended, Jorge W. would have put aside the compassion crap and gotten out his shotgun instead.

20 posted on 08/04/2008 9:39:00 AM PDT by E. Cartman (My friend, my friend on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?)
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