[dennisw]

More money down the Azteca ****hole.

[SCalGal]

You know, if they'd allow American citizens to own land, they'd have no shortage of investors.

As it is, we shouldn't give them one single dime.

[thatsnotnice]

Mexico has a good amount of natural resources including petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, and timber. Seafood too. How about getting some $2.00/barrel oil, etc., headed north in exchange for all this aid?

[skeeter]

The American taxpayer is already carrying a good portion of the Mexican economy on it's back via tax free wages flowing south, medical and social services for migrants, etc.

Any significant amount of foreign aid offered as a 'carrot' should be accompanied by an illegal immigrant crack-down 'stick'.

Instead we're planning to legalize 'em. Jeez...

[Lion's Cub]

More communist wealth "redistribution". BTW, now that all these companies have cheap labor, no regulation, and US supported social services, why aren't prices any cheaper?

[glc1173@aol.com]

Has all the prior U.S. investment in "maquiladoras" reduced illegal immigration from Mexico?

The history of "maquiladoras" has been that at the same time that investment by American firms in "maquiladoras" soared, so did illegal immigration from Mexico. Here in North Carolina, we had practically zero nontransient Mexican illegals up until six years ago - and textile firms in this state relocated production to Mexico during that time.
"Maquiladoras" have actually incited illegal immigration by their comparatively-much-higher pay luring Mexicans to the border area - where they then see the still-much-higher living standards a couple miles away in the U.S.

IMMIGRATION resource library - with public-health facts of immigration!

[FreeTally]

I think a better idea is to deport Bush and his entire family to Mexico.

[hobbes1]

YAAAAAY! More T!tt!e bars in Tiajauna!

[AmericanInTokyo]

FREEPERS:

Think long and hard on this one, as you seal the envelope for your 2002 Federal Taxes and put it in the mail slot.

Think REEEEAL good about this.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

President Bush plans to direct $30 million to poor areas of Mexico over the next year

Nonsense! This money will go into the hands of corrupt Mexican government officials our president foolishly HOPES will distribute that money to poor areas. It will never get there. It will end up in the private bank accounts of those Mexican government officials.

The Mexican government is not going to allow the U.S. government to make direct investment in poor areas of Mexico. Those senior Mexican officials are going to get their greedy, thieving hands on it and that will be the end of it.