Mex is all about payoffs and Calderon maintains that premise. The only thing that will ever get Mex to even consider reigning in their nationals is a huge industrial influx that trumps any and all cash sent to Mex by their citizenry embedded here.
Or, IOW, blackmail.
We need consider neither option and simply enforce our immigration laws and seal our border. But our current politicians are greedy opportunists with payoffs in mind and seem unlikely to consider the country’s well being above their own.
An important point to ponder-----not only did we, the people, slaughter the amnesty atrocity, BUT we also beat back the Mexican government (which was heavily invested in amnesty).
WE hold the winning cards, so we get to decide the rules of the game. WE DEMAND that Mexico stop aiding and abetting the invasion..........or else.
It's an outrage that US citizens are socked with the costs of subsidizing illegal Mexico's citizens, and are forced to put-up a multi-billion dollar fence, and hire law enforcement to keep these invaders off our land.
We get all the grief AND the bills---Mexico gets off scot-free. That has to end.
Keep in mind that the US (that's us, the taxpayers) provides the nuclear defense umbrella to protect Mexico, so that Mexico has no real defense expenses. We need to let Mexico know that we will cut off every penny in US aid unless they do something about border security.
Mexico can well-afford it. Mexico is a wealthy oil-producing neighbor and has eleven "Forbes" billionaires, more than all but eight other nations. Mexico has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia, Switzerland or Taiwan. It also has more than 85,000 millionaires. It's telecommunications king---Carlos Slim has displaced Bill Gates as the world's richest man.
According to a CNN report, Mexico sits on oil reserves worth about $400 billion, but Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, doesn't have the investment funds to tap those reserves, and Mexico's Congress refuses to allow foreign investment in Pemex. Some observers say this is due to Mexican gov't corruption, and the obsession to line their own pockets.
Adding insult to injury American taxpayers are subsidizing foreign aid transfers to Mexico from its lettuce pickers and hamburger flippers here. The percentage corrupt Mexican politicans are getting from this $30-40 billion bundle must be considerable (or else it would be stopped). America should mandate proof for all cash transfers out of the US and/or force all transferring agencies -- banks, credit unions, Amex, Western Union to collect a substantial withholding tax -- 50%, say -- on every unexplained foreign remittance.
The government of Mexico---with all of its oil revenue----needs to be pitching in to protect the borders (AND taking care of its own people, not "outsourcing' them as wards of American taxpayers).
Seal the border... shoot to kill anyone that trys to violate that border!
LLS
A 15% “transfer fee” on the total amount of the nmoney being wired for all Western Union (whomever) money wires etc., that could not show legal residence. Maybe that would be one good way to help things along?