Mexicans feeling pinch as income stream from U.S. slows

Dallas morning news ^ | Sept. 22, 2008 | LAURENCE ILIFF

[AuntB]

I would like to hear just one of these foreign squatters say THANK YOU to the United States for giving them years of good jobs so they could have a better start in life in their own country!

[Slapshot68]

Boo-frickin-hoo

[AuntB]

SORRY!!

Better link here:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-remittances_23int.ART.State.Edition2.2706f83.html

[I still care]

Mr. Martinez, the trick is to work and vote to change the government of Mexico so it is more like the US.

Then you won’t have to come over here to get economic freedom.

The US didn’t get where it is by magic. It got here by having a certain attitude about government and freedom.

[nickcarraway]

Bush should bail them out.

[Watershed]

I am an ESL teacher of 100% hispanics. To a student, they say they are here for opportunity and the American Dream. There are many, many students whom have lost their jobs or work part time because MOST of these guys are in construction. The others are usually mechanics.

EVERY one of the students would rather be in Mexico, but there is no money there.

Our economic slowdown may be exactly what we need for these guys to go home. That's where they want to be anyway.

If the U.S. would stop giving them free health care, education, food, etc. there would be a steady stream back to Mexico.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

So Mexico isn't as prosperous as the US. The solution is to work to make Mexico more like the US and not make the US more like Mexico. But too few Mexicans are working effectively to achieve the former and too many Americans in high places are working to abet the latter.

[weegee]

Luis Martínez went from being a successful Dallas businessman to a struggling alfalfa farmer in rural central Mexico because of a North Texas crackdown on illegal immigrants. "You make $10 an hour over there..."

"Businessmen" getting paid $10 an hour. That's not much more than $8 an hour minimum wage and generally requires a degree and office wardrobe.

[ladyvet]

Makes my glass half full.

[weegee]

Too much corruption in the Mexican government, law enforcement, and military.

[GATOR NAVY]

Well stated.

[CaliforniaCon]

Re Mexicans “feeling pinch”.............

QUE LASTIMA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lynne2317]

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[Question Liberal Authority]

It’s been sluggish lately.

[gubamyster]

ping

[rovenstinez]

From the WHAT IT IS WORTH DEPARTMENT from a FREEPER SOUTH of the RIO GRANDE in OLDE MEXICO, wages have gone up over the last few years considerably here, and some of them are actually not doing that bad working here in the mother country....

[skeeter]

There is a silver lining to every crisis.

[tomkat]

well ain’t that just too buckin’fad ?

[Joe Boucher]

I don’t care how many chillin you had while being here illegally. I don’t care how long you’ve been here illegally.
If you came here illegally you should be sent back to from where you came. Get in line and do it in a legal manner.

[NRA1995]

Women and minorities hardest hit....Bush’s fault....