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No one ever asks the question what has easy access to the United States cost Mexico?
Would Mexico be in the condition it is in today if we had locked down our borders, and made it more difficult for those that crossed illegally to stay?
The citizens of Mexico need to fix their own country. The United States can help but we can not fix it for them.
Obviously, this article was based in pure emotion, and little in the way of facts.
If Mexico was such a paradise 15 years ago, then why did they enter the US illegally? Wouldn’t they have preferred the paradise?
I once read a very persuasive opinion piece about the effects on Mexico of allowing illegal immigration to continue unchecked. The opinion was that our leniency towards illegal immigration allows the Mexican government to remain corrupt, by acting as a pressure valve. If we were more proactive about reducing illegal immigration, those unhappy citizens would be pressuring their government to clean up its act. The result would be a better Mexico.
Perry’s and Newt’s natural constituents.
So you left the paradise of Mexico for the racist U.S.? What noble people, leaving behind the wonder of their native land to show us gringos "The Way."
The are Mexican citizens not USC's.
It’s their country, they need to rise up and do something about it. That’s what we did back in 1776.
increasing hostility to illegal immigrants?
meanwhile the press will NEVER compare our draconian laws to the ones in, say, Mexico
Even if you factor out the drugs and the drug cartels, your still left with a culture that embraces mass murder, kidnappings, bribery, extortion, child sex slavery, human trafficking, and terrorism.
If Mexico was an African or Middle Eastern nation, the rest of the world would be screaming for something to be done about it. As it is, Mexico seems to be immune from having to answer for any kind of crime, no matter how heinous. If Iran was guilty of half the stuff that is going on in Mexico RIGHT NOW, the U.S., Israel, and possibly even the French would have went in there years ago.
So, what do we do? We leave our borders wide open so that all the violence can spill over into the U.S. and since Phoenix is now the kidnapping capitol of North America, it's hard to say that the problems down south of the border aren't having an adverse impact on American lives and Phoenix is just one example of many.
Unfortunately political correctness and fear being labeled a racist trumps even the most vile human rights violation. Maybe one day after someone sneaks across the southern border and hits and American city with some kind of WMD will our politicians stop lying to us about the situation and do something about it, but I doubt even that will give Democrats or Republicans the slightest courage to deal with the issues south of the border. As an American General once said: "There are three nations that have the ability to take down America and they are Russia, China, and Mexico."
Even if you factor out the drugs and the drug cartels, your still left with a culture that embraces mass murder, kidnappings, bribery, extortion, child sex slavery, human trafficking, and terrorism.
If Mexico was an African or Middle Eastern nation, the rest of the world would be screaming for something to be done about it. As it is, Mexico seems to be immune from having to answer for any kind of crime, no matter how heinous. If Iran was guilty of half the stuff that is going on in Mexico RIGHT NOW, the U.S., Israel, and possibly even the French would have went in there years ago.
So, what do we do? We leave our borders wide open so that all the violence can spill over into the U.S. and since Phoenix is now the kidnapping capitol of North America, it's hard to say that the problems down south of the border aren't having an adverse impact on American lives and Phoenix is just one example of many.
Unfortunately political correctness and fear being labeled a racist trumps even the most vile human rights violation. Maybe one day after someone sneaks across the southern border and hits and American city with some kind of WMD will our politicians stop lying to us about the situation and do something about it, but I doubt even that will give Democrats or Republicans the slightest courage to deal with the issues south of the border. As an American General once said: "There are three nations that have the ability to take down America and they are Russia, China, and Mexico."
So why did you leave, Alejandro? If you wanted to emigrate, why not do so legally?
After 15 years in the United States ...
growing hostility toward illegal immigration ...
like many [illegal] immigrant families in the United States, ...
reunion with family was the right decision ...
He was wrong. [to invade the USA in the first place]
"This is not the Mexico I left 15 years ago,"
Cry me a flippin' river. Instead of invading a superior nation, and turning it into a third-world cesspool like their homeland, these commies could have stayed in their own country and voted in their own form of a constitutional government, and shaped their own nation into one that is habitable.
Like every other former Spanish or Portuguese colony, most being very rich in natural resources, the incestuous combination of corruption, communism, and Catholicism has been an ongoing disaster.