Solving the problem means improving the way of life in Mexico so that people don't think they have to come here in order to improve their lives and make a better life for their children. That's why most of us are in this country now - somebody back in the family tree made that decision.
So, if Mexico refuses to take care of their own people, maybe it's time for regime change in Mexico. Vincente Fox is not the answer, regardless of the question.
Vicente Fox WAS regime change in Mexico. Hard as it may be to believe for people who have only begun paying attention recently, Fox is a huge improvement over what came before. I can tell you don't remember Lopez Portillo and Luis Echeverria very well, not to mention Salinas or Zedillo and the PRI. Or how even more terribly dysfunctional Mexico's economy was as recently as the 80s. Only decent president in recent history was de la Madrid. In Mexico there are a million people entering the workforce each year. They simply can't gen up the jobs that fast. If we are going to have to wait until Mexicans enjoy the same standard of living as we do to solve our illegal immigration problem, we will never solve it. You have described and justified a policy of wait until we are over-run. Or perhaps you don't believe it is a problem. It is Fox's job to look out for the interests of Mexicans, it is our job to look out for our country's interests. I don't hold it against Fox because he's doing his job, and we aren't.
Yes, but you/yours left your country rather than stay and change it.
That's the problem with Mexico, predominantly, and many others from whence most illegal aliens originate. If the countries are so terrible, they should be changed but if the people there don't do it, why does or should the U.S. then be harmed by the problems?
The U.S. can only do so much and you can see what problems we have HERE that are difficult to solve, and yet we continue to try to do so...illegal emigration to the U.S. is not excusable to my view just because you find originating countries not to the liking. The changes have to happen by whoever is responsible in those countries, difficult, I agree, but the realistic response to the idea of the U.S. somehow going into Mexico to make it more to the liking of Mexicans in other countries.