Posted on 05/18/2003 8:29:28 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
Mexico is committed to reducing migrant deaths and improving security on the border, but the flow of illegal immigrants will continue so long as there is no organized and legal way to seek temporary work in the United States, Mexico's deputy foreign minister said Saturday.
Geronimo Gutierrez toured the border Friday and Saturday on behalf of Mexico's President Vicente Fox.
"Having mechanisms for migration that are legal, secure and orderly creates the security that is so much a concern to the United States," Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez also issued a warning to "coyotes," people smugglers, who, he said, bear the greatest blame for the border's annual harvest of death.
"It is high priority of President Fox to put an end to these bands of people traffickers who lie to the migrants, lead them into the desert, then abandon them," he said. "They will be pursued; they will be prosecuted."
Gutierrez spoke at a press conference here after a two-day tour of the Arizona-Sonora border. He said border consulates will redouble their campaign to warn migrants of the dangers they face.
But he repeated his government's position that it can do nothing to stop its citizens from traveling freely.
About 350 Mexican immigrants die every year trying to cross the border.
According to the U.S. Border Patrol, at least 145 people died trying to enter the United States through Arizona last year, although an Arizona Daily Star analysis of law enforcement, medical examiner, and Mexican Consulate records found more than 160 deaths.
How about this: "the flow of illegal immigrants will continue stop so long as soon as there is no organized and legal easy way to seek temporary work in the United States and people stop thinking they have to reward these criminals with jobs and government giveaways."
Ironically, the people who we are protecting our borders from their invasion are the true racists.
It's access to free US welfare checks and medical coverage that I object to."
I have a problem with them having access to U.S. jobs when our own unemployment rate is skyrocketing and Americans are unable to provide security for their own families. These people are usurpers and thieves in my opinion. It is simply a lie that they are only doing jobs that Americans don't want to do. Many of them have decent-paying jobs in the mainstream workforce. They have long since expanded beyond the service industries and manual labor. The big difference now is that besides having fewer available jobs to our own people, now many more Americans have to know THEIR language to be employed in the same markets, and all Americans are subjected to dealing with a growing population who cannot, or rather will not, speak English.
It is also a lie that illegals are good for our economy. The ones that aren't working for cash under the table are now demanding social security payments and what money they earn is largely being sent to family back in Mexico. How is that a benefit to our economy? It seems to me that the only contributions these criminal aliens are making is padding for the democRAT voter fraud rolls and lining for corporate pockets.
You couldn't be more right. It's OK for the Illegal Invaders to talk openly about their "Reconquista" plan to take over America's SW and forge a New Atzlan Nation--a Nation of Mexicans for Mexicans ONLY. But heaven help the Americans that express their outrage about this. Now THAT is Hate Speech.
We live in an Upside World these days. It's truly an Alice in Wonderland Experience. When will the madness end?
Exactly right. Bingo, bullseye. Furthermore, nothing will change until the U.S. Marines hoist the Stars and Stripes over Mexico City. Nothing else will change anything. The "elites" of Mexico all need to be arrested and executed. The police need to be rounded up, their "leaders" executed, and the rest of them get to run a gauntlet of angry Mexican citizens armed with aluminum baseball bats.
The only thing that will stop the Mexican invasion of America is for the U.S. to invade Mexico and take that whole country over. Nothing else will work.
All the more reason that the laws need to be most strongly enforced against the employers who are hiring them. If they find it impossible to get jobs when they get here, they will soon seek other options. And one of those options should NOT be to live off American freebees. They should have access to absolutely NO benefits from entering the country illegally, with the exception of critical emergency care, and in that case they are presenting themselves on a silver platter so there is absolutely no reason not to immediately see them deported as soon as they are physically able to go.
I doubt it. Mexico having vast resources is not related to their ability to be a prosperous state. Japan has next to no resources and yet is one the largest, most prosperous countries in the world...secular recession/depression aside. Mexico's problems run deep within its culture and corruption is just one of the many symptoms of this dysfunctional culture. For Mexico to change they have to change their culture...it won't happen for decades, if ever.
Yes, we live in a world where all the sympathy goes to the lawbreakers, and all the condemnation goes to those who want to stop it. As for when it will end, I'm afraid it's too late. At this point, it is political suicide for any politician to even suggest enforcing our laws, closing our borders, or deporting aliens. Yeah, there's Tancredo, but he's pretty lonely and gets a lot of flak. It takes enormous courage to be a Tancredo now. Maybe -- maybe another tragedy like 9/11 would end the madness, but at this point, I fear even that would not be enough.
Oh, sure, as it becomes less and less of a "California problem" or a "Southwest problem" or whatever, and more and more people in other states see illegals pouring in, increasing numbers of Americans will wake up. But by the time enough wake up, it will be way too late. We've waited too long! Nothing short of a miracle can help us now.
If we sealed the border and sent home 20 million illegals, all that would happen soon enough. There would be a revolution ---fast. Deep down the elites know this ---it happened plenty of times in Mexico's past. They'd have a Pancho Villa spring up and they'd be running the elites out of Mexico and most would head to Spain. The USA is Mexico's big steam valve --immigration keeps things from blowing up.
Can you imagine if Mexicans were given a vote ---state by state ---if they wished their state to stay part of Mexico or join the USA?
One thing obvious ---when Texas and New Mexico joined with the USA, you never saw any separist movement by the American-hispanics wishing to break away and rejoin Mexico. All that Atzlan stuff is coming from recent immigrants.
If they did that and cut off benefits, illegal immigration would stop. Our elected leaders know this, that's why they don't do it. Their campaign contributors wouldn't like it.
I think it is a combination.
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