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

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

[Paulie]

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

I agree. A lot of things I used to complain about now seem insignificant by comparison.

[thathamiltonwoman]

Best news I've heard all day but don't Mexicans typically start going home in November? Quite a few take a month or two for the holidays.

[sarcasm]

I say, offer all illegal/undocumented immigrants the chance to obtain a fixed-term, conditionally renewable work visas, now.

Check into the history of the Bracero program and the current situation in Germany with their "temporary" workers - there is no one so permanent as a guest-worker. You might also check into the history of "Operation Wetback" - the forcible repatriation of Mexicans who were admitted under a guest-worker program such as you envision.

Do you also plan to sterilize the participants in this program? Do you believe that they will not procreate and give us a crop of anchor children? What would be the cost of educating these children - the taxes that they would pay would not cover the additional cost to the taxpayers. How much would this program cost in TANF benefits?

Does your plan envision employer provided health insurance so that the cost is nor fobbed off on the taxpayers? Is so, would you extent this requirement to the native-born worker? Have you considered the effect of such a program on the average wage of the lowest paid American worker? What would be the cost to the American taxpayers of providing unemployment insurance and welfare payments to this group?

[ken21]

ducky, it displeases god greatly that you discriminate against other people.

she says that you need to start acting like a normal person, or she'll hafta send you back to jumping for peanuts at the local zoo.

[WarHawk42]

Hey, what happened to freedom?

I kept hearing those illegals sneaked into America because they love freedom.

You mean it was all about money?

It always has been.  On both sides of the border.  For both the mexican worker and the company that hires them.  The later being the reason our federal government won't close the border no matter how many terrorists come in.  Dollars (profits) trump security of our borders.

WarHawk42

[Landru]

"Quack. I cannot wear Levis. You humans have all the luck."