A country that attacks its friends will wind up with none. I continue to be amazed how little value some "smart" people place on a peaceable border and a country that is our largest trading partner...trade that employs legitimately millions on both sides. Sure there are problems but to characterize as "invasion" "enenmy" and all that is over the top and counter productive. The problem with illegal immigration has been going on for nearly a hundred years...we need the labor..they come..if we didn't demand it they wouldnt come.
Now the respected Mr. Hanson comes up with theory that remmitances...hurt Mexico.... For goodness sakes these remmitances are supporting childern, families..he makes it sound like they are on the dole..like its some kind of welfare program. Worse he says because the laborer sacrafice we here have to "pick up the tab" this is making us the victim of the sweat and scarafice of poor workers trying to make do for their family.
Glib facts like "Mexico should reform"...are just that ..Mexico is a capitalist country, protects property rights and has now a booming ecnomny...its a poor country making enormous progress...
The enemny is are avowed enemies..islamofacists....not poor mexicans that want to wash dishes, pick fruit and clean toilets.
Mexico is a racist Narco-Kleptocracy, with a few thousand very wealthy people and a hundred million living in abject poverty.
"The enemny is are avowed enemies..islamofacists....not poor mexicans that want to wash dishes, pick fruit and clean toilets"
You forgot to mention stealing our wellfare, stealing our medical benefits, driving our cost of education through the roof.
These people are stealing from us to support their countrymen, they are very much the enemy, regardless of your good-hearted intentions.
Evidently not OUR property rights.
In all seriousness, a booming economy? That's why Mexican physicians come to the US? (And they do. I've met them, cleaning toilets.)
Can you explain the difference between the way Mexico treats illegal immigrants from Guatemala and the way they want us to treat illegal immigrants from Mexico? Don't Guatemalans do jobs Mexicans don't want to do or what?