Posted on 05/02/2006 2:32:09 AM PDT by saganite
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Time and again we've heard rumors Mexico would tackle corruption and improve its judicial system. Outside observers and Mexican reformers alike were elated in 2000 when Vicente Fox's National Action Party defeated the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), which had held authoritarian control for 71 years. At last, it seemed possible Mexico would begin tackling its strangling bureaucracy, its rotten police, its corrupt labor unions (who did nothing for labor) and its anti-competitive environment.
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As the Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy magazine noted: "Mexico ranks No. 1 in the world for disappearances of women, No. 2 for kidnappings for ransom (No. 1 of countries not at war), No. 2 for number of narco-cartels, and No. 3 for murders per capita." In 2004, 300,000 people rallied in Mexico City to protest kidnappings by criminal gangs, which not infrequently result in death to the captive even after ransom has been paid. The police solve less than 1 percent of these cases. And, as the article details, even when the criminals are jailed, they can easily buy their way out of prison "with collusion of prison officials."
The World Economic Freedom Index says Mexico ranks 58th out of 123 nations in economic liberty (behind 10 other Latin American countries) and 88th in measures of legal structures and property rights.
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Those who obscure the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants overlook the huge burden illegals impose by their disproportionate criminality. As Heather MacDonald has discovered, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants are for illegals. A California Justice Department study reported in 1995 that the infamous 18th Street Gang (20,000 strong) is at least 60 percent illegal.
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Incredible, Mexico is far worse than I thought. Far worse.
The republicans should run on a "fix up Mexico" platform.
10 million jobs in Mexico in 10 years
priority to american illegals
fix the cause, not put a bandaid on a hemmorhage
tax breaks to companies who relocate in mexico
A $50,000 bonus to illegals when they go back to Mexico
A tough, no nonsense national ID swipe card in a national database that brings up a front and sideways photo.
Tough fines for all who break any laws. SPLIT THE FINES WITH THE WHISTLEBLOWERS!
This is the scum that the politicians want to give US citizenship to in exchange for their vote.
Those statistics are the primary reason I posted this. I didn't know it was that bad either. It helps explain the Mexican government's insistence on open borders. They're using us as a pressure relief valve to prevent La Revolucion.
10th? I'll take your word for it but it would have to be based mostly on their oil industry and that sector is so corrupt only the wealthy and the politicos benefit.
If the narco trade were included in that survey I'm betting Mexico would move up a few notches.
"Those statistics are the primary reason I posted this. I didn't know it was that bad either. It helps explain the Mexican government's insistence on open borders. They're using us as a pressure relief valve to prevent La Revolucion...
Yet, according to the CIA Factbook..."
Oil.
And nothing else.
Interesting fact that says it all:
Mexican Unemployment Rate: 3.6%
Percentage of Population under the Poverty Line: 40%
Mexico is a class system society where the lower class serves as slaves to the upper class with no hope of moving up. Mexicans that win the lottery (in the US) still are unable to move out of their class. In fact, the Mexican gov't confiscates property on a regular basis to prevent lower class Mexicans from living a better life.
This explains why so many want to come here. In the US, they can improve on their condition.
It is unfortunate that so many blame Americans for their plight as much as the Spanish that rule Mexico. Otherwise, they would probably make loyal citizens.
And these are the people our elected representatives want to cozy up to!!?? Why not just have "Take-A-Felon-To-Work Day and throw open the prison gates as well??
After over 200 years as a nation of l"laws and not men", is this what the elected political elites have sunk this nation to??
Time to re-load Congress!!!!
Why not just have "Take-A-Felon-To-Work Day and throw open the prison gates as well??
Considering that the dimocraps want felons to have the right to vote I'd say we're pretty close to that already.
Seems to me that the cure to the millions of illegals who persist in pouring into America across our southern border is to:
a.) Welcome them with open arms.
b.) Award them with immediate employment in:
c.) The new "United States Provisional Army of the Southwest" ('Congratulations Amigo, you have been drafted!').
d.) Inform the new recruits that they are marching on Mexico City in the morning with orders to depose Vincente Fox and hang him from the highest tree.
I'll bet Fox would close the border himself before he would let that happen. :)
Class system is right. I know of two young men, US college students, who came to the aid of a young Mexican woman being brutally attacked on the streets of a border town. They beat off her attackers getting some minor injuries themselves and took her to the local hospital where she was effectively refused treatment and then to a doctor who they paid to clean and bandage her wounds and then to the police who laughed at them. An English speaking plain clothes officer pulled them aside and asked them 'Are you crazy? She is just a Mexican whore. Who cares?"
RE, this idea, "A $50,000 bonus to illegals when they go back to Mexico " I don't know about the amount, but I'll bet we could design incentives to get them to go home, and I am sure that deportation is cumbersome and expensive. I have thought that we could get people to move, if we gave them enough money to start a biz or buy a home. A part of me thiks we should pay attention to Haiti and Mexico after Iraq. They are closer and have an impact here. I am also mystified by the antagonism to corporations. If one doesn't like a corporate enviornment, do something else.
Which side of the border were they on?
People like Bill O'Reilly are fond of saying that if they were in the same position as Mexicans they would sneak across the border to feed their family, too. I disagree. History and the Minutemen have proven that Americans would rather fight than sneak. Sure, we might sneak across the border for a few years, but we would've come back with guns and there would've been a revolution decades ago. Mexicans, on the other hand, are not like Americans. Instead they want to do for America what they've allowed to happen in Mexico. Americans are proving once again, by taking a stand against illegal immigration, that we value liberty and our standard of living and will not allow our culture and prosperity to be destroyed.
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