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Boycott Mexico? Works for me.

I was living in San Diego for awhile in the late 90's. Went down into the south part of the city to buy some boat parts and you can't believe the crap the 'immigrants' had painted on the pylons supporting the overhead freeway.

These aren't immigrants; they're colonists.

I come from a California farming family. And, yeah, to my disgust,we employed a lot of 'mojados' back in the 60's and 70's. They were great people and hard workers. Funny thing was, there weren't a lot of wets before 1964 when the US Congress, as a sop to Cesar Chaves and UFWOC, refused to extend the guest worker program (Bracero) which had been in place since WWII. The difference was that they would come up here and work for 3-4 years and go home with enough money to buy a farm, a house, or start a business. Co-incidentally, the left (bastards) started the welfare revolution in the early 70's. Guess what? they started bringing their fammilies. Duh. The law of unintended consequences? Hah! They planned this all along.

I've spent a lot of time in the country, recognize it for its great parts, and its negative side, have great friends (my daughter is named Alejandra after one of them) and had some of the best business partners one could hope for. But enough is enough.

Militarize the border if thats what it takes. Start demanding of the 'amigos' special oil concessions for a start. Slap them back into place. We've been played the patsy for too long.

Okay, better tin-foil up for this one...here goes.....

GW has been kissing Fox'x ass since 9/11 for one reason...CHINA! So what does China have to do with Mexico? (better really foil-up for this one!) We share a very large "border" with Mexico. If we start deploying troops along the Mexican border and generally start treating them like we should, they might turn to the OTHER country with a lot of money and big military...our good friends the Chinese! They are already running the Panama canal and Mexico can host a hole lot of troops from the other side of the planet. It would take years, but the Chinese are patient. IMHO, the last thing we need is to have China massing a presence in our own back yard when we are currently spreading out troops thin all over fighting terrorism. [/foil]