Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs

Yahoo News ^ | 5/21/2006 | By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer

[ScottfromNJ]

MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.

Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies "xenophobic," Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.

In the United States, only two posts — the presidency and vice presidency — are reserved for the native born.

In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.

Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for "native-born Mexicans."

[coconutt2000]

They're afraid Americans might come down there, win elections, fix everything that is broke, and then ask for annexation.

[BunnySlippers]

The foreign-born make up just 0.5 percent of Mexico's 105 million people, compared with about 13 percent in the United States, which has a total population of 299 million. Mexico grants citizenship to about 3,000 people a year, compared to the U.S. average of almost a half million.

[BunnySlippers]

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Is Mexico on the way to greatness? All great people are exclusive. Interesting!

[Ptarmigan]

Mexican government is very nepotistic, in which elites run it.

[11th_VA]

More racism against Anglos Alert (/sarcasm)

[MissAmericanPie]

At least Mexico lives up to it's Constitution. They have a right to throw out foreign workers in favor of native workers. It is written.

Yet we are expected to ignore our Constitution, open our borders with them and Canada and enter into a Trade Zone umbrella via the treaties we have already signed, that our congress and senate claim they didn't read in it's entirety, who has the time? oops.

And now the coming FTAA treaty that lays us bare, broken, nation-less, sovereign-less, and completely bulldozed. Just keep singing "Don't Worry be Happy".

[backtothestreets]

Please read!

Some years ago I suggested we adopt a law that would grant immigrants and visitors from other countries no more than what our citizens could receive in the immigrant or visitors' native country (with the exception of immigrants seeking political asylum). It's a reciprocating foreign policy, but I really wish people could chew on the idea to see if it has merit.

It seems to me many of the solutions we are seeking in the way of welfare, medical treatment, employment, and immigration itself are already written if we adopt a reciprocating policy.

[WayneM]

Careful now. You are setting yourself up to be jumped on by those that believe only the US should have open borders.

I hear the pinging sound as I type.

[fishtank]

[Publius6961]

It's called Temporal Reciprocity, Tom Clancy introduced me to the concept many years ago in one of his novels, and it is an idea too simple and too effective to be ever be considered...

[backtothestreets]

Thank you for that. I'll have to delve further into Temporal Reciprocity.

It is simple, would be extremely effective, and I sure wish someone in Washington would float the idea to the public. At the very least it would expose the hypocrisy of many of the people coming here.

[BunnySlippers]

This article is really quite incendiary. I would have excerpted different passages which I feel to be quite revealing.

I hope people take the time to read this article in its entirety.

[Publius6961]

This article is really quite incendiary. I would have excerpted different passages which I feel to be quite revealing.

Knowledge can never be "incendiary". We are either aware of certain things, or we're not.

Incendiary is only possible when our ignorance angers us. Most new knowledge is simply verification of prior suspicions, or common sense.

All countries have their own self interest as central to their behavior. Ours seems to be the only one determined to self destruct.

For noble reasons, of course.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Just banning immigrants from jobs that Americans won't...

Oh wait, American doesn't ban immigrants from employment.

[Dante3]

Even though Mexico has become an enemy nation, I have no problem if we copied Mexico's actions towards immigrants. Considering the hordes or legal immigrants (many from enemy nations) and illegal aliens swarming across the land, deportations of all who break a law should be initiated.