Posted on 05/21/2006 6:31:10 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Washington -- The current migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to the United States is one of the largest diasporas in modern history, experts say.
Roughly 10 percent of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15 percent of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States. One in every 7 Mexican workers migrates to the United States.
Mass migration from Mexico began more than a century ago. It is deeply embedded in the history, culture and economies of both nations. The current wave began with Mexico's economic crisis in 1982, accelerated sharply in the 1990s with the U.S. economic boom, and today has reached record dimensions.
It is unlikely to ebb anytime soon.
"There is no scenario outside of catastrophic attack on the United States that would make immigration stop," said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
The fierce immigration debate now under way in Congress focuses almost exclusively on the U.S. side of the equation. Senate legislation attempts to reduce the flow by hardening the border, sanctioning employers who hire illegal migrants, and expanding avenues for legal immigration. The House passed a bill focused solely on U.S. enforcement.
Yet whatever the United States decides about immigration will have a huge impact on its closest neighbors, especially Mexico.
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Somewhere in the last several years I saw a similar statistic about Canadians in the US.
I think there are more Irish in Massachusetts than Ireland.
Every now and then countries simply empty out and end up here.
Looks like it is going to happen again.
The fastest way to deport most of them is to ban money transfer by non citizens to any foreign country.
/not sarc.
Actually the best way to end ILLEGAL immigration is to fine the hell out of employers hiring them. Money talks - from either side of the border. Others - deport them for their crimes.
Fines will just be passed along to the consumer as part of the cost of doing business. Jail terms, on the other hand, can't be passed along for others to pay.
I don't know ... make them HIGH enough so that they price themselves out and tack on some prison time.
There is another way to make sure that illegals don't come here. Tax the money that they send back. Tax it the way the left wants to tax us. They will never come here. Not worth it.
Or, tax it heavily. Use the proceeds to build a fence. It's a no-brainer, taxing the electronic transfers would do no damage to our economy, only Mexico's.
Oh, but then they'll send cash through the mails! Woe is me, it might get stolen!
Yeah, somebody might break the law. Willing thieves willing to steal.
I went to the Home Deport here in Los Angeles last weekend and the illegals out in front ... 100 to 150 of them were positively agressive. I think the pro-illegal demostrations have made them this way.
I was almost afraid to drive into the lot.
USPS has been complaining they don't make enough. Here's their chance.
If this is happening, Home Depot is asking for trouble and a fat lawsuit. It won't take more than one customer getting roughed up.
Do they do the whistling and "Hey, chica?" thing. That's harassment.
It is particularly bad as they were forced by Home Depot to stay across the street. The city built them a huge facility where they can get social services as well. But they completely surround the Home Depot on the other side of the street against HD's wishes.
Thankfully, I drive with the windows up with the AC and music on. But they would run up to my car as it was moving and shouted and grabbed at the car.
They are animals. It's getting far, far worse than it has ever been.
Yup, hardworking people are seeking better lives for themselves and their families, because the United States is the last bastion of liberty in the world. Let them come and prosper as all have before them!
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.
And how stand the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after two hundred years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
- Ronald Reagan
I am beginning to believe the reason we don't deport the 11 million is because Fox told Bush he wouldn't accept them back. Can we prove they came from Meico (they're undocumented). Why has Mexico militarized their side of the border? We're stuck with them.
This is battery, a tort as well as a crime--there's no supervision, I guess, at this public facility?
It's not just happening in Mexifornia. The most distressing development in the rural mountainous south is a network of "godfathers" in smaller communities who funnel in and manage the flood of invaders. 5%-to-15% ESL in our schools in less than five years. Now my school, formerly rated highly, is on the sh*t-list for having too many dropouts. Well, d'uh!!! No illegal alien left behind, I guess that's it?
But the godfathers scare me. They are consolidating under the table and behind the scenes--dealing with crooked contractors and landlords. Soon they'll have a lot of muscle and will make Don Corleone look like a wimp--all in my little Mayberry-style town. That will mean they'll start pressuring and attempting to corrupt the police--how can the police stand up to something like this when Bush will not stand up for us? He'd come and give the godfather a big juicy hug, not kick his butt into jail...
San Mayberry.
I do not know where you are geographically but it does sound like it is happening elsewhere. That makes me angry.
I am a California native ... over 50 years. And I have never seen it this bad. I grew up in the 50's in Los Angeles and there were few Mexicans to be seen. Some but not a lot.
The facility across from Home Depot used to by funded by a faith based group. Now the city funds it although the illegals don't stay there but wrongly surrouind the store.
I used to go to a wonderful little Armenian bakery in Hollywood that made the best bread. Across the street was a building equipment rental place and was surrounded with dozens of illegals all the time ... every daylight hour. There was no way I (or anyone else) could get to the bakery without walking past howling catcalls from the illegals.
I was sad to stop going to the bakery. It closed after a year or two after being in business 15 years.
I have mentioned this to Home Deport (and to the bakery at the time) and they express exasperation. They don't like it anymore than we do. But they are helpless. One of the biggest irritants is law enforcement being unwilling or unable to prosecure and deport these people.
"The fastest way to deport most of them is to ban money transfer by non citizens to any foreign country. "
I actually think the best way is to target empolyers. If we really come down hard on those who illegaly employ these criminals, they reason Illegals come will dry up and so will the flow of them. Same thing you do if you find ants in the house. You cut out their food supply.
Ditto, but on the receiving end, until the shipping end gets taken care of.
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