“...The reason why Mexicans are coming to the USA.....”
is because average welfare benefits in the US is greater than the average working person in the US. Life on the dole - food, housing, medical care (if only from the ER), cars, Obama phones, TV’s in every room, given vacation trips, and more. And the underclass throughout the world knows that if they get across the border, it is all theirs. Forget this poor, desperate, fearful lingo; it is all about the free stuff!!!
I know it is sacrosanct to say, but the welfare program needs to be streamlined to cover just subsistence. To do so would solve the immigration problem and make a dent in the national debt.
I stayed a few days at a camp ground in Alabama in 2005. I met a Mexican who was living there while contracted to paint for rebuilt homes post Katrina by an Atlanta business. He was being paid $4 an hour. I think the minimum wage then was near $5.65. I asked if he could find work at that pay would he want to be in Mexico. He emphatically said yes. I asked what he liked about the US. He said, “Here the police are honest.” I wonder how many at our borders would rather be in Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador if the police there were honest and stopped the killing, raping and extortion? According to one report 60% of the women from El Salvador had been raped. I have traveled through those countries and they have some beautiful places.