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 not true. Most of them are getting aid.
Central Virginia has a large black population, maybe 35-40%. Yet when I am out around doing business I never see blacks working. Not in the stores or banks or anywhere. Yet I see tons of blacks out driving new cars and shopping etc. I haven’t seen a black teenager working in the longest time. Weird...
That is a more realistic view of illegals from Mexico and elsewhere. Uncle Sucker is a dead duck.
LOL!!
Don’t kid yourself illegals do get on welfare, food stamps, medical care, etc...they are a huge drain on social services, in some areas they are THE drain on social services.
Many illegals pay the coyote by smuggling in drugs.
Welfare people do need to get jobs, but that is a separate issue- at least they are “our” deadbeats.
My daughter-in-law is from Alberta, from Calgary. Been there, it’s beautiful but it might as well be the other side of the world. The gist I got from her and her family is basically the french-Canadians could go to Hell. And yet here in America we have no official language and foreigners , many of whom speak English demand and get to have us either speak their language or provide translators and documents, ballots, drivers license forms, etc. for them in their language at our expense. We’re nuts to allow it.
A citizen of a country cannot be an immigrant to that same country. The whole meme of the article is poppycock.
“Weird...”
No, no, no. You need to read the other comments more carefully. As soon as we send the illegals home, those same teenagers you see will be HAPPY to work hard under a hot sun as day laborers for $9 - $10 and hour.
Dream On.
As long as worthless deadbeats can receive $18-$20k a year for doing nothing (YES, that figure IS accurate) they will. And they will continue to be the MAJOR drain on the welfare and social support systems (SORRY, THEY ARE). And as long as the lamestream press can continue to make the play that to even MENTION this problem makes you a racists, the problem will get worse.
The good news is that it WILL get solved, probably in a decade or less. Even though people like clintoon “reformed” welfare by calling it different things and hiding it in different programs, the cost is there. And when it becomes unsustainable, it will get fixed, although the solution will probably with bullets not ballots.
“and Mexico will prosper as the U.S. gets poorer.”
Maybe so, but I am all for the “self-repatriation” of the illegals. Maybe they will have learned enough from us to take control of Mexico’s corrupt government and clean up the drug business while they build their “new lives” from whence they came.
Hear, hear.
From the article: “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,”
Horse feathers! No one with a brain is buying that!
“The Mexicans get no “Section 8”, welfare, food stamps “
What world are you living in? YES, they get that and more. IF there is an anchor baby, they qualify instantly, and there is usually an anchor baby or 3 or 4. They qualify for SSI, without ever working here and are eligible because they don’t speak English (considered a ‘handicap). Older illegal aliens in California get CASH subsidies, btw, more than my Social security payments!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330541/posts
I too thought something other than the use of the term “immigration” was wrong with this story. In order to be deported back to Mexico these days you have to have done something real bad more than once. So he’s a criminal of some kind maybe. The deportation may be some kind of agreement with the DA, who knows.
And I know many people that fit into the category of illegals and they do not want to go back to Mexico anymore no matter how bad things are here. They’re scared of that place and the criminal cartels that run it.
Many of the people that drain taxes through welfare and other social programs ARE illegals. Many who will not “WORK EXCEPT AT THE POINT OF A GUN” are also illegals- yes illegals that came here to get on the dole and/or criminal activity. Not all of them come here to work hard- not by a long shot. That idea is a liberal myth, don’t feel too bad many conservatives believe it also but it is still a lie.
Illegals drain our health care system, education, social services, courts, prisons, and jails. Illegals are the elephant in the room that needs to be addressed when we try to solve any of the issues with health care, education, social programs, court and prison reform. To not make the illegal issue a priority is denial and those issues cannot be solved with the huge numbers of illegals in the system.
If we had the will to get illegals out of this country then we could figure out what to do about our own deadbeats and criminals. We need to get rid of those that should not be here in as the first step to cost cutting.
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