Mexicans, Guatemalans, the entire OAS & UN is going to show up in DC to complain about Arizona......too bad this M.D. can’t address our president, congress and the media!
El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/4/10
“Rejected once again” A full op/col by Alicia Vasquez, M.D., regarding Mexico’s now historic migrant problem: laying the blame where it belongs.
Enactment of law SB1070 in the State of Arizona has caused a great polemic, as much inside the United States as outside the country. It is labeled as a law that promotes discrimination, mainly about Mexicans, who are in that state without documents; it defines presence without documents as a crime, and allows police to detain the suspects. Americans themselves have expressed their disapproval, the fellow countrymen who reside in that state fear going out on the street for fear of being detained; in Mexico there is major indignation, there’s talk of a commercial boycott of the state, and bulletins are issued to keep Mexicans from visiting the state.
The number of “wets,” “illegals,” or however they may be called, began to cross the border toward the United States at the end of the sixties, after the end of the Bracero program, which started from 1942 until 1964. After the war, (the time) when the need for manpower was imperative and Mexicans became an important labor force for the U.S., they helped raise and improve the economy of the neighbor country, to be later deported toward the end of 1964; from there on, thousands of fellow countrymen cross the border illegally in search of opportunities, a phenomenon which decreased when the maquiladora industry [read: assembly plants] arrived in the country’s border, and they were able to find a reliable job and benefits.
But when the phenomenon of the maquiladoras deteriorated, entire towns faced misery. Without means of income for their families, migration increased to such an extent that individual monetary remittances sent by illegal employees, in dollars, are a significant income for the national economy.
That’s how we tolerate that at the same time, and on a par with drug traffic, the “coyotes” or “polleros” [read: people smugglers] proliferated, generating two of the most profitable businesses for crime, at the expense of the need of those who have to leave their country in search of what they cannot find within it, despite being victims of mistreatment, humiliations and putting life at risk.
Suddenly, the United States found itself with 12 million illegal immigrants, and in Arizona around five hundred thousand, who according to the new law will be treated as criminals.
It’s painful to repeatedly ascertain the suffering of our fellow countrymen who daily cross after the “American dream.” The insults and recriminations have not been long in coming from we Mexicans, and especially border area residents, against the Americans; without stopping to think that the main responsible party for that displacement of illegals to the United States is our own Mexican government, due to the lack of opportunities and misery in which they live, which pushes them above all to cross the border.
What has Mexico done to hold on to its fellow residents and to avoid having them cross illegally into the United States? If the maquiladora phenomenon lessened migration somewhat, why not use that example and create employment? Why not improve agricultural productivity? Why not offer equality of opportunity? There have been Mexicans mistreated in their own country, that’s why they emigrate, and once there, they don’t want to return, because they know the conditions in the country are not going to be different than when they left and they will return to misery.
We must accept that each country is sovereign and independent, and that the United States has the power to enact laws which may be favorable to them. Illegal immigrants, workers or not, are outside the law of that country, they crossed under the shadows and have stayed within them. We mustn’t be demanding better treatment for our fellow countrymen from the Americans, it’s here at home where we must give them a proper life so that they may not find themselves in need of leaving their land, their customs and roots.
http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=c79a17057c3b3b2778e689dc3c11fc12
All of those countries have tougher immigration laws than Arizona
They are criminals
It is good to see some in Mexico etc actually do understand laws.
I want to puke when I read that leaders of those countries are going to come to DC to whine about the USA not wanting their dregs
I look forward to the day when I can introduce you to my very valued friend.
You protest that you have "rights" in this country.....
I propose that you, if illegally here in this country, have ONE right.
That would be the right for me to remove you from my country.
You want to talk sh!t about Axtlan.....? You are going to take what back.....?
Cinco De Mayo? what a joke! A holiday invented by a beer company. And you have the gall to get pissed when the boys wear an American flag tee shirt?
This is MY country, dickhead! NOT yours! Remember, you are a criminal by being here........
My valued friend REALLY wants to meet your dumb ass!
You think you - and your extended family - can illegally cross my southern border and get paid for it.
That is illegal, a$$hole. Do it legally!
No, you are not going to get my money.
The only thing you will get is a quick, one way conversation, with my very valued friend. And his friends.
I am sick of you! Stay in your own country! You come to my country, illegally, and you ARE going to meet my friends.
Just know that I don't care what our Kenyan born President and his teleprompter say......that means nothing to me....
You are a clear and present danger.
And I can fix that!!!!
And I will.
I have been noticing the sleaziness of the open borders crowd. They claim they are really only worried about legal citizens or residents being profiled for race, not illegals, but yet pressed they all are for amnesty for illegals. They know sympathy for Americans of a certain race sells better than sympathy for illegals.
Obey our laws or get out!