They should have an idiot alert with that thinking in a 9/11 world.
I believe in open borders ... but they must be open BOTH ways. Mexico cannot expect to export it's people to the USA with impunity without allowing the reverse.
US citizens should DEMAND to be able to move into Mexico anytime and work, buy property, own businesses, etc.
Yeah, sure, but in the meantime we should control who we allow in.
wow, thanks for the post. I knew they were nuts on this issue, now I know it goes back to completely open borders, which is plain ludicrous.
Oh really?
The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster
"Born of liberal ideology, the 1965 bill abolished the national origins quota system that had regulated the ethnic composition of immigration in fair proportion to each group's existing presence in the population. In a misguided application spirit of the civil rights era, the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations saw these ethnic quotas as an archaic form of chauvinism. Moreover, as Cold Warriors facing charges of "racism" and "imperialism," they found the system rhetorically embarrassing."
"Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that "our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone."
"America's current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50's, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture."
"In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a spasm of sentimentality on the Right and lies on the Left, we opened the borders."
To many, that is the ultimate goal.
I think that one day, The North American continent will be a gigantic economic and political powerhouse similar to Europe but I think that a lot depends on Mexico. They need to restructure their economy where to utilizes is natural resources in effecient manner. Mexico is a member of OPEC but does not use the oil revenue money to uplift Mexico's poor. Instead, oil revenue is in the pockets of the elite class. Also the Mexican Government needs to eliminate the corruption in all levels of government including law enforcement. They also need to give more money to educating its citizens where they can fully access the benefits of a middle class system. Mexico currently spends only 4 percent of their adjusted Gross Domestic Product on educating its citizens. To have a vibrant economy you need an educated class. Also, Mexico is the stopping point for drugs entering the United States. They have not done enough to stop the drug barons along the border. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that the members of the Mexican Army is aiding the drug barons. The Mexican Government has a long way to go before they can with a straight face convince the American people to erase the border lines. It is however a tantalizing and intriguing idea and could give the European Union a run for its money.
We should call the new country
Meximerica!
Or if we opened it up to Canada, too, we could call it
MexiCanMerica, CanMexAmerica, CanAmMex, or CanaMexAm.
or simply call the the C.A.M.
I like that. Sounds cool. Next time a foreigner will say "Let's go to CAM." It's a place known for its camping, cameras, Computer Aided Manufacturing.
The WSJ should open their website to show us the way. Bunch of hypocrites.
"ONLY THOSE ARE FIT TO LIVE WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO DIE."
Gen. McArthur.
Now all illegals will leave if Americans get some guts. Get your rotten, stinking, thinking and your heads out of the ground.
Crops can be picked and the illegals can go back home. The same was true in the 50's when Canadians picked my uncle's apple orchards. JUST SAY NO TO MEXICO.
Open Borders? Why Not?
I don't know how many times I saw people attacked on this forum for being a Libertarian BECAUSE of the open borders issue. Now many of those attackers use "free trade" as the reason for open borders. The lemmings in political debate will always be there, although I believed that "conservatives" believed in country first. I guess the real reason to hate Libertarians was that they refused to vote a straight ticket reliably.
How on earth can so many people think a merger with a 3rd world country would be anything but disastrous for the United States? Mexico's standard of living will increase somewhat while America's standard of living declines. The notion is pathetic.
Like the Senate, the WSJ sees this country as nothing more than a marketplace.