Posted on 10/07/2012 7:00:00 AM PDT by Racehorse
When Pete Navarro showed up three years ago in this industrial city a few hours' drive from the border, he spoke barely a word of Spanish and hardly knew a soul.
The San Antonio resident, who went to Jay High School, lost his legal residency in December 2009 and was deported to his native Mexico. He hadn't been there since he was a child, and the only people he knew were his aunt and her family. He left his parents and two children in San Antonio.
“So when I got here, my two cousins were my best friends, because they could speak English,” Navarro said.
Navarro, 33, has taken part in a historic migration. For the first time in decades, more people are moving from the U.S. to Mexico than are coming to the U.S. from Mexico, the Pew Hispanic Center reported in April. Some, like Navarro, are deported, but the vast majority came to Mexico voluntarily, according to the report.
It can be difficult for those who come voluntarily and involuntarily. Many struggle with the language, have trouble in Mexican schools and find it difficult to integrate into Mexican society.
But they also find opportunity, often thanks to the English they learned growing up north of the Rio Grande.
It took Navarro only a few days to find an industry waiting with open arms to accept workers from the wave of more than a million people who have moved from the U.S. to Mexico in recent years: call centers.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
This is why, assuming Romney becomes Prez, one of the first things he should do is secure the border, come up with a sane immigration policy, and basically lock down our southern border. Otherwise, as the economy picks up, which it will do under Romney, it will once again become a magnet for illegals coming up from south of our border. This cycle of illegal immigration cannot begin again. It must be shut down.
Ellos no hablan Ingles .. only when police are questioning them.
“lost”- I wonder how?
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I, too, am puzzled by that one. Seems to me, the only way one would be deported under the Soros Administration e by committing some horrific crime.
e by committing = would be by committing
My mouse has taken on a will of its own in the last year or so. Without any warning, it highlights words, sentences willy-nilly, and, if I don’t notice the highlighting, words and parts of words get deleted when I type again.
The US loses those who are here illegally, making that problem easier to deal with, while easing the competition for the dwindling number of jobs and ever more expensive food and energy resources.
Mexico regains their educated and technically aware citizens, many with skills and resources.
Better for everyone, short and long term. Win-win.
ABSOLUTELY ZERO proof of this. The Pew "study" is based on the Soros-funded Migration Policy Institute, which relies on Obama deportation figures that the House GOP and Judicial Watch has shown to be fraudulent by a factor of 5.
Something about this story makes no sense. He was deported but left his parents in Texas? Why were they allowed to stay?
And if he was in the US illegally, he’s not an immigrant, he is a returning Mexican citizen.
And if this article is about voluntary immigration, then why choose an individual who is deported back home as your opening anecdote?
Man, journalists and reporting SUCKD these days!
“22 million Mexicans managed to swim or wade across a treacherous river, cross a blistering, deadly desert, dart across a highway and FIND A JOB in a country where nobody wants them and they don’t even speak the language... yet ghetto welfare queens cannot find a way to support themselves?”
Shhhhhhhh!
I’ve posted similar ideas here many times. Nobody wants to talk about it - not the politicians, not the tea party, certainly not the liberals. But the things that get all the press - heath care costs due to baby boomers, illegal immigrants - they are all what is called in football, “misdirection plays.”
When the second (and more violent) American revolution begins, it won’t be caused by illegal immigration or healthcare costs, it will be caused by the 20 million (and growing) population that WILL NOT WORK EXCEPT AT THE POINT OF A GUN. Send all the illegals home, let Grandma and Grandpa die in the street, and the cost of welfare will still be the cancer that eats this country alive.
.>>’’it’s a lot easier to start a small business there’’<<. Yeah, it’s amazing what you can do when bribery is the coin of the realm as it is in Mexico.
That’s funny. A myth.
Illegal squaters get everything they want free in the US and often times employment preferences because they don’t expect the same pay and benefits as middle class Americans. They about took over the building industry. Cheap, cheap, cheap labor. Free healthcare at emergency rooms in the US; subsidized in state tution, free public schooling, etc. Plus, they steal Americans’ identies and run scams on government programs and the IRS.
Obama’s people had a long series of meetings with Mexican officials to improve welfare benefits to illegals.
I lived in a small city in Morelos state for a short time in 2011. I was referring to the lack of licensing and regulation that hinders small business here.
There are business models that we have here that don’t yet exist there. Two that I noticed when I was there was pizza delivery and coin operated laundomats. I was paying $11.00 a week to have my laundry done because there were no coin laundries in the entire city. Man, I could have opened a business for nothing there and made a lot of money.
Of course, you have to factor in theft, kidnapping, and decapitation. LOL It really is a hellhole there but in some ways they are more free than we are.
I learned a new term recently, “financial child abuse”. Have an anchor baby, get a Social Security Number for it, use the SSN yourself to work and get benefits. There’s no credit history, but there’s no criminal record, either.
By the way, I don’t believe that more mexicans are heading the other way. My small city in Virginia has more and more every month.
When you live in a jungle then indeed you’re free. You’re no doubt aware of the term ‘’la mordita’’? Mexico is hopeless. It’s a criminally corrupted society at every level and the irony is that it’s corrupted at the highest levels.
No problem in taking money there and starting the business,...it’s the keeping control of the business part that is so difficult.
It is indeed hopeless. A Mexican I know always says the only problem with Mexico is that it’s full of Mexicans.
They say the Bahamas are like Mexico,..except without the Mexicans. {;^)
Reminds me of Montreal. I traveled to there on business a couple of years ago. There was some pretty cool tourist stuff there but the people suck. There were nice restaurants that wouldn’t serve us because we didn’t speak French. The guy spoke perfectly good English, so language wasn’t the problem, he was just acting typically French Canadian. Fine, dude, I was there because I was paid to be there. I don’t have to go back and that’s fine by me, go piss up a rope.
(From "Foreigners Around the World" by P.J.O'Rourke)
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