More than 350,000 Mexicans have returned home since U.S. attacks

The News (Mexico City) ^ | November 7, 2001

[sarcasm]

How many millions more to go?

[dennisw]

I am skeptical. But if true I am jumping up and down for joy. Illegal alien is illegal alien !

Get the bleep out of MY COUNTRY!

[patriciaruth]

Still, I think I'd prefer a booming economy and the days before al-Qaeda and anthrax became household words.

[wienerdog.com]

More than 350,000 Mexicans have returned home in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. but that figure doesn't represent an alarming trend...

Hmmm... I don't have any specific problem with it either.

[sarcasm]

Check this out:

The fate of 15 Kenyans arrested in the United States remained unclear yesterday, as it became clear that new immigration laws proposed by the American government would make it harder for students to obtain visas.

The Kenyans, from Boston, Massachusetts, who were arrested in Des Moines, Iowa, when they tried to claim social security benefits, were jailed pending trial after they failed to raise the $5,000 (Sh400,000) set as their bond.

[MissAmericanPie]

Eight billion of our money hemmorages from our economy into Mexico this year, Kenyans try to bleed our SS system, and we are suppose to find it alarming that 350,000 are leaving?

[OldFriend]

Wonder if any benefits they were collecting will follow them to Mexico? Would anyone be surprised if we were that stupid?

[Wonder Warthog]

"I am skeptical. But if true I am jumping up and down for joy. Illegal alien is illegal alien !"

Well, the article doesn't exactly say that these were illegals, and in fact implies that they were legals working on contracts. Of course, any chicken heart that leaves, legal or not, is no loss.

I'd go further--any illegal alien who shows up at a recruiting office and signs up for military service automatically has his status legalized, and given citizenship at the end of his term of service. Anyone who will do that DESERVES to become a citizen.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Anthrax is proving to be a useful human repellant. First, hundreds of congress crooks and their staff turn tail and run, now immigrants are returning to their country.

[FITZ]

Maybe they'll go and build up Mexico so it's not a country people have to leave. There's no reason really that a country so rich in resources should have that kind of poverty rate.

[FITZ]

they tried to claim social security benefits

We're such chumps that the whole world knows how easy it is to scam free money from us. Our government has been very irresponsible to the taxpayers, it takes 2 jobs per family to afford the taxes and they turn around and waste our money on an INS that did nothing and easy benefits for any foreigner who asked.

[SocialMeltdown]

The numbers amount to nothing and there is no systemic change in our policies concerning "migration".

[blam]

"How many millions more to go?

12.5 million?

[biblewonk]

Maybe they are just migrating south for the winter.

[nightdriver]

"Eight billion of our money hemmorages from our economy into Mexico this year, Kenyans try to bleed our SS system, and we are suppose to find it alarming that 350,000 are leaving?

We find it alarming if we are liberals who are intent on bringing down our free enterprise system and establishing a socialistic utopia with liberals in charge.

[Bikers4Bush]

Good, now how do we get the rest of them to go and then keep them there?

[Old Fud]

More than 350,000 Mexicans have returned home in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. but that figure doesn't represent an alarming trend

Why the Sam Hill would it be alarming?

[MissAmericanPie]

Not when you consider that those from India and other nations with residence status send for their elderly parents to come over on a six month visa so that they can file for SS payments and then return to India and the government will mail their checks to them there. It isn't Social Security but some offshoot that pays cash emergency or some such, SSE, OEC, I can't keep up with all the alphabet agencies.

[Texas Mom]

Did this article say, ALARMING?

I don't think I would have used that word.

How about encouraging?