Posted on 02/24/2014 7:07:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If, a handful of years into the future, the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has fallen sharply or zeroed out, the president will deserve all the credit. Mexico’s president, that is.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, no stranger to the tough debate over the nation’s immigration laws, thinks recent legislation passed by Mexico’s Congress, a major priority of President Enrique Pena Nieto, may have set in motion a reversal of the flow of undocumented immigrants northward. In a short time, Perry said in an interview Saturday, undocumented immigrants may be streaming back over the U.S.-Mexico border, headed for lucrative energy sector jobs back home.
“The landscape on immigration is fast changing,” Perry said. “My instinct is that immigration and immigration reform are going to be substantially less of a flashpoint than they have been in the last several years.”
The change, Perry predicted, will come as private investors begin taking stakes in Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly. In December, Mexico’s Senate ratified outlines of legislation that would allow private investment in the company, which could eventually lead to complete privatization. Outside analysts believe the new rules will eventually make Mexico one of the world’s largest oil producers.
The new jobs that result from the energy boom, Perry predicted, will attract immigrant labor that would otherwise come to the United States.
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Do you think that Obama’s illegal backdoor amnesty for the “Dreamers” has anything to do with more “children” entering the US illegally? When you reward something, you get more of it.
Governor Perry tries entirely too hard to find reasons to minimize the illegal alien problem. His remarks on the issue tanked his presidentail bid in 2012 during the first debate or two in which he participated. A lot of “heartless” voters probably remember.
And here he goes again. If he could break this border state politician, pandering habit, he might become a viable presidential candidate.
I can remember years ago looking out from my house in Mass. surrounded by snow and miserable cold, and wondering why immigrants from warm climates would be in such great numbers in the Boston area.
What's the attraction? What's here that they haven't got in the warm area they left. The answer, Free money free health care, free rent etc.
Kalifornia is even better as the climate is much nicer.- Tom
...so, our fate of being a sovereign nation is in the hands of a failed state after all, not our own political leadership protecting America by enforcing its own laws. Thanks for clearing that up, Rick.
RE: We bring in 1.2 million LEGAL IMMIGRANTS a year, so even if there were a zeroing out of illegal immigration, we would still have major problems.
Depends on the type of LEGAL immigrants we’re getting. If they are entrepreneural, brainiacs, educated, law abiding, and willing to assimilate and obey our laws, I don’t see any problems with that.
They would just as soon see them go home as they would lay themselves off.
Something needs to be done about them first. I would suggest a great big tax cut, starve and shrink the beast, but after the past 6 years of government spending I doubt we'll see another tax cut in our lifetime.
I have a big problem with those.
But, in large part, they're not. Thanks to Teddy Kennedy's immigration law, they're largely third world relatives of third worlders who immigrated here previously.
And it really is the fault of George "New World Order" Bush and his two reprobate sons, Bill and Dumbya.
You mean Mexicans for Climate Change? Without question Obama will make their trip back very difficult.
Already the top language of immigrants is arabic.
Sound more like wishful thinking than fact.
I guess it comes down to how you define a ‘nation’. If it is almost exclusively defined in financial terms then let’s just do away with our borders. However if a nation is largely defined by its people and culture then Houston we have problem.
The numbers in the table are cumulative, about 40 million legal immigrants added to our population since pre-1990 through 2010?
Mexico’s economic growth rate is around 6% per year.
If they can get the violence from the cartels under control, they may have a problem with American illegals in a few years.
It seems to me that Mexico is encouraging its lowest strata of society to go to the USA.
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