[Ridiculous]Mexico Demands U.S. Allow More Immigration

And the Clutch award for irony post of the year goes to...

 

That's right, Mexico better be careful. I know they have oil in their country and the CIA just might happen to tell George W. that they are hiding WMD. Fox better be careful or there might be Marines marching in the Halls of Montezuma again.

 

This is a direct slap in the face to all Americans. It's basically saying, "Yeah, we know that you Americans want to control and regulate how many immigrants enter the country. We don't care. We're gonna break your laws and enter your country illegally despite your best interests. And how dare you treat us like criminals for breaking your laws!"

That's some bullsh!t right there.

 

I don't blame the immigrants for trying to improve their lives. I do have a serious problem though when a government openly admits to supportting the illegal activity. Maybe we should send the Mexican government the bill for any aid, education or medical care their citizens incure when in our country illegally.

 

Why don't these country try to improve their economy instead of asking US to take more immigrants? What have this Fox guy done for Mexico since he's been in power?

 

I will care about immigration when I hear the same outcry about outsourcing.

 

What irritates me most about all the back and forth between Mexico and the U.S. regarding illegal immigration is that nobody is talking about the real issues here:

1) The Mexican government is doing nothing to create economic opportunities for the poor Mexicans who make up the bulk of illegal immigrants

2) The United States government is doing nothing to police employers who use illegal immigrant labor.

Mexico seems to think that we should exist solely to provide jobs and money for their unwanted citizens. As long as there are economic opportunities in the U.S. for illegal aliens, Mexico can continue to avoid making policy and social changes that give their poor a chance to improve their lives while still living in Mexico. Meanwhile, the U.S. complains that illegal immigrants are a burden on our society, but does nothing to stop the demand for cheap labor. As long as the U.S. can make out the Mexican immigrants to be illiterate, lawless leeches, we can continue to avoid making policy and social changes that prevent employers from using cheap labor.

In the end, it's the poor immigrants who lose. I can't imagine what it would be like to be unwanted no matter where you go.

 

Sorry to interrupt your thunder Ace, but guest worker programs arent' being foisted upon us by mexico, are a favored idea of George W. Bush, who has been pushing them for a while:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040107-3.html

....and I don't see why it is such a bad idea. It is quite obvious that America does not have enough of a domestic labor force to fill low paying jobs (toilet cleaning, fruit picking, etc) that immigrants take - this problem will only accentuate itself as the US demographic picture changes over time.

By filling them under the auspices of a guest worker program, rather than via the black market, it is far easier to regulate exactly who is coming in and out of the country and, in theory, the costly and sometimes deadly ordeal of illegal border crossing can be obviated to a degree.

 

I don't understand what kind of policy/social changes you are referring to, and what effect they will have. This isn't the 60's, it's not socialism that's holding them back.

Their tale of recent economic woe after undergoing a positive period in the 90's, is due to the fact that their export industries have been crunched by the explosive growth of China, whose cheaper labor costs are stiff competition.

Another major problem is that rich countries e.g., the US, maintain massive subsidies in areas where Mexico has a comparative advantage (agriculture). So, while you and I, courtesy of many of our fine legislators, get to use our tax dollars to provide pork barrel pay-offs to large agribusiness like Archer Daniels Midland Corporaton. who otherwise couldn't compete in the real world (and also who, in many cases, employ illegal immigrants to pick fruit etc. - now there's a fringe benefit....) Mexico's more competitive agriculture industry gets punked in the process.

 

Oh yeah? Not if the, uh...hehe..."Minutemen"--wink,wink, nudge, nudge--have something to say about it! Guest Worker/Schmest Worker! They is ALL illllleguhls to me and mah 30.06!

 

steal a bunch of money.

 

Is Mexico in worse shape than China in 1978? If they had a visionary leader like Deng I am sure the country could turn around.

 

I don't see anything ridiculous about the Mexican government trying to protect the interests of thousands of its citizens living abroad.

Lol.

 

yes. It doesn't have 1.2 billion laborers and several millennia of central authority as well as a mostly homogenous culture and populace.

Apples and oranges!

 

Open the borders.

I'm not sure how accurate it is to say China has a homogenous population. While a large portion of the overall population might fall within the Han ethic grouping - even that designation ignores the huge cultural difference between those on the coastal regions and those in the interior - to say nothing of those in the far interior like Tibet and Xinjiang. Even between Beijing and Shanghai, for instance, there are cultural differences. Maybe some of our Chinese friends can give us more insight.

 

THere are many many different minority groups in China....I've eaten kebabs in Kashgar and momos in Lhasa...

...but they make up a small (< 10%) part of the populace...and even less of the GDP either then or now.

And the key phrase should have been "mostly", for which I should have written "relatively".

 

LOL!

 

Mexico have over 100 million people, it is not like it is a small nation. It have a lot of natural resources including oil fields and a lot of farmable lands. China had to totally reverse the economy from central planning modal to a market economy, that was easier to implement? The 1.2 billion people in China also create huge problems, I am sure the Chinese government wishes it only had 400 million these days.

 

this hypocrisy of mostly asian immigrants towards latino immigrants is disgusting.