Posted on 03/20/2002 1:26:34 PM PST by FreedomSurge
MÉXICO CITY.- the National Council of Population (Conapo) predicts that during Vicente Fox’s 6 year term, around two million Mexicans will emigrate to American soil; a number that is equivalent to the emigration of the total population of the Mexican states of Baja California Sur, Campeche and Colima.
Family networks and interconnections
Rodolfo Tuirán, president of Conapo, in statements published in El Universal, said that the population of Mexicans (by birth or by heritage) that lives in the US comes to 23 million, of which three million are there without documents.
Tuirán says that these numbers represent eight percent of the population of the US and constitutes a key piece of the economic engine of that country, in addition, they do not displace American laborers and what’s more, they generate higher profitability for businesses by means of being a source of cheap manual labor; and most importantly “legal or illegal ", all the Mexicans pay taxes just like the other citizens of US ".
According to the study “The Mexico to United States Immigration – the best economic scenario” published by Conapo, by 2005 there will be an annual emigration of 380 thousand Mexicans to the US. Besides being necessary; the migratory phenomenon, " by its own characteristics, has acquired a strong momentum that is very difficult to stop ".
Francisco Alba Hernandez, researcher for the School of Mexico (Colmex), said to El Univesal that because of the dynamics that has been generated, the migratory phenomenon " is going to continue to last some 10 or 15 years because radical change in the near term is not anticipated ".
Meanwhile, Mónica Vera, researcher for the Center for North American Research (CISAN) of the Independent National University of Mexico (UNAM), emphasizes that migration has maintained constant flows throughout the years because Mexicans have managed to create networks and non-legal labor markets, through the multiplicity of contacts that they have established in both nations.
Nevertheless the experts claim that most migration revolves around networks of relatives and countrymen, which have been generated on both sides of the border. Currently out of 2,433 municipalities that make up the country only 93, claim to not have had anyone emigrate to the United States according to last population census in 2000
Mexican presence on the border
What stands out from the numbers is that 60 percent of the Hispanic population in the US is of Mexican origin.
The Mexican population residing in US territories can be divided into three groups: 8.5 million are immigrants, seven million people were born in the US of Mexican parents and, finally the rest, who were born in the US of Mexican heritage.
According to studies made by the population censuses, 90 percent of the Mexican population resides in 12 states of the US: in California 41 percent, Texas 25 percent, Illinois 6 percent, Arizona 5 percent, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Washington tie with two percent each and, Nevada, Georgia, New York and Carolina of the North with one percent each.
In addition the revenue from remittances constitute the third largest currency source for Mexico, only after oil and manufacturing exports, according to data published by the Bank of Mexico.
What? Do they all want to cut my grass too?
Oh whats the big deal. Its just like adding another major city worth of people, about the size of Chicago.
Also glad to hear that those same workers and their families are not using our medical facilities and other social services.
One last thing. Glad to hear they are not sending hundreds of millions of US dollars out of our country.
Only an estimated 9 billion dollars last year. Now some major banks are accepting the Matriculas Consulares cards as ID and are allowing them to open up checking accounts to make it easier for them to send money back to Mexico.
That is 9 billion dollars out of our economy. Go figure!!
Don't you know, there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant. No human being is illegal.
constitutes a key piece of the economic engine of that country, in addition, they do not displace American laborers and what’s more, they generate higher profitability for businesses by means of being a source of cheap manual labor; and most importantly “legal or illegal ", all the Mexicans pay taxes just like the other citizens of US ".
Actually I do not believe that at all but I do believe this article is representative of the official and unofficial Mexican beliefs.
A country that has a severe inferiority complex vis a vi its northern neighbor.
Because of that, there is a compelling need to take credit for the economic sucess north of the border whether true or not.
I could care less what their beliefs are if they are illegal. Officially or unofficially!!
Because of that, there is a compelling need to take credit for the economic sucess north of the border whether true or not.
Thanks for this little jewel. I am going to have to save and enlarge this and frame it.
Nah. That would be mean. NEVER be mean. Ask King Jorge....
Bush lies about this bill and gets a pass from the liberal media because they know who these illegal immigrants will vote for once they become citizens of both the USA and Mexico.
Bush lies about this bill and gets a pass from the liberal media because they know who these illegal immigrants will vote for once they become citizens of both the USA and Mexico.
The mexicans firmly believe that the growth of the US economy is based on the exploitation of the unskilled mexican laborer. That is how they justify coming over here illegally.
They pump far more than that into the economy in terms of labor. And that is a minor disaster for the Mexican economy. The "23 million Mexicans" (I find it more than a little annoying that they're calling 13.5 million Americans "Mexican", but that's another story...) in the US are adding to our economy, not theirs. The $9 billion they get back is hardly compensation for the economic activity that stays north of the border.
Because of their much lower education levels, Mexican immigrants earn significantly less than natives on average. This results in lower average tax payments and heavier use of means-tested programs. Based on estimates developed by the National Academy of Sciences for immigrants by age and education at arrival, the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative $55,200.
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O hell man, for less than minimum wage you can hire someone to scrape the gunk from under your toenails. I thank God everyday for illegal immigration, cause I like having gunk scraped cheap. I met some Mex illegal the other day who wanted to sell me stolen gasoline. I politely declined and wondered to myself how F***ed up a society is when folks are walking around offering discounts on hot fuel products.
Are you actually trying to tell me that people that can't even spell computer, or space shuttle, or nuclear weapons (much less work on or produce such items) believe this?
If that is the case, they need to move south instead of north.
El Pasoans tell state of inequality in wages
Gary Scharrer
Austin Bureau
El Paso Times 03-19-02
AUSTIN - One way Texas can help lift the border out of chronic poverty is to pay higher wages for government construction projects in border counties, El Paso County Attorney Jose RodrÌguez and others told a state Senate subcommittee Monday.
The Senate Business and Commerce Committee is examining wage disparities that, for example, pay a carpenter $18.60 an hour for a government job in Austin, compared with $7.96 in El Paso and Laredo.
El Paso has gone into an "economic dive" during the past 50 years, the Rev. James Hall, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church and co-chairman of the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization, told the committee. In 1950, the average El Pasoan earned $104 for every $100 on the national scale, Hall said, and today, the typical El Paso wage has slipped to $57 for every $100 nationally.
Two of every three jobs in El Paso pay less than $10 an hour, which means less than the minimum living wage, Hall said. It's imperative that the public sector lead the way and set a trend for higher wages and benefits, he said.
In an amendment to a bill during the last legislative session, state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, got Texas to require higher pay for state jobs in border counties based on a complex formula of wages for similar work elsewhere in Texas.
The new law has increased the payroll on state highway projects by 3.5 percent in border counties, resulting in a corresponding decrease in road construction, Thomas Bohuslav, director of construction for the Texas Department of Transportation, told the commission. The costs of school construction also will dramatically increase, a spokesman for the association of builders and contractors said.
Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay, suggested that Texas taxpayers could save a lot of money if the state simply repealed its prevailing wage law, which now sets minimum wages for government construction projects.
EPISO and its sister organizations have made "living wages" a top issue and are still upset with Gov. Rick Perry for vetoing legislation last year that would have required border-area school districts to pay living wages at school construction sites.
"Any candidate who says they are pro family has to be in favor of living wages," Hall said after the hearing. "We're going to make it an issue in the fall (election campaign)."
The country's four poorest metropolitan areas are on the Texas-Mexico border.
"The state must take steps to reverse the negative economic consequences of maintaining a wage rate system for state public works contracts that discriminates on the basis of regional boundaries and prevents segments of the state from sharing in economic prosperity," RodrÌguez told the committee. "In the end, the state pays for its misguided policy through higher public assistance funding to economically depressed communities."
The state last year, for example, funneled $2.1 billion to school districts in the 14 counties touching the border because of low value tax bases in those property poor communities. It cost the state $621,546,714 to help finance public education in El Paso's nine school districts last year.
Gary Scharrer may be reached at gscharrer@elpasotimes.com
"Mexico has colluded with OPEC to keep oil off the world market to gouge the Americans who bailed out Mexico five years ago. So much for gratitude."
This only happened about a month ago. Not only do we bail them out (for some strange reason) but we have to support their people that are here in America illegally.
With friends like this, who needs enemys.
Yes. I find the question not being posed by the opponents of unlimited illegal immigration is How do the Mexicans justify breaking the law by sneaking into the US?
The justification is threefold:
Anyone who believes government numbers on the number of illegals or the number of illegal residents is just plain silly.
Well, you'all have convinced me. Let's just add Mexico to the U.S. Makes a good buffer! Then all that Yankee money sent south won't ACTUALLY be going out of the country. Problem solved!
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