The Monitor's View
A survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10 Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform this fall, it needs to take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.
Already, one in eight adults born in Mexico now lives in the US. And the Mexican economy is kept afloat partially by an estimated $16 billion sent back by immigrants to relatives.
Such numbers reveal a people so fed up with Mexico's dysfunctional politics and stagnant economy that their nationalism is wilting. While more than half of Mexico's 106 million people are officially poor, the Pew survey found an inclination to migrate "evident across a broad swath" of the population.
This wide push to leave is probably now as strong as the pull of higher wages, social advancement, and family connections in the US. And yet, Mexican leaders remain in denial about this propensity for mass exodus.
All this spells trouble for proposals by President Bush and some in Congress to set up a temporary worker program as a way to reduce the burden of illegal migration. The Mexican demand for such US "guest" visas could be, by some estimates, half a million a year. Yet the numbers in the proposals fall far short of that. The US could hardly absorb such a large wave of humanity without further challenges to its civic stability.
In other words, a guest-worker plan is a false promise of ending the waves of illegal border crossings.
The challenges on America's southern flank are only getting worse. Arizona and New Mexico this month declared emergencies along their borders with Mexico, citing a rise in crime related to drug and people smuggling - and an inability by Washington to stem the violence. And the US ambassador to Mexico also criticized its leaders for not curbing border violence; he made a point by closing the consulate in Nuevo Laredo.
Just five years ago, Mexico had great hope of reform after the ouster of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI, which had governed since 1929. But President Vicente Fox's reform efforts have faltered. The nation's three main parties remain internally divided and unable to compromise. Decades of oil wealth have left people too willing to take handouts rather than accept the kind of taxation that creates citizens with a stake in government. With Mr. Fox a lame duck, Mexico is heading for a presidential election next July that could see another weak leader.
As dissatisfaction with politics and justice translates into Mexicans voting with their feet, the US needs to recognize that the "border issue" is much more of a "Mexico issue."
The US should further beef up border security, but also help Mexico regain national integrity. Legally hiring Mexicans is hardly a solution.
As it is doing with Africa, the US must peg better economic relations to better governance in Mexico, such as laws allowing referendums and run-offs for presidential elections. Rather than view such pressure as gringo meddling, the Mexican people might just welcome a challenge to their government. And think of staying put.
THE REALITY OF MEXICAN FASCISM and LA RAZA SUPREMACY
at the
below link is info on what the FASCIST NARCOMEX state does to their illegals
even as they rant endlessly on what America owes to the millions of Mexicans
exported to loot America!
MEXICANS ABOVE THE LAW IN AMERICA… a nation under LA RAZA
occupation
U.S. capitulates (again) to LA RAZA SUPREMACY (mexifornia)
NARCOmex
AMBASSADOR ORDERS LA RAZA SUPREMACY FOR MEXICANS ILLEGALLY LOOTING IN AMERICAN
BORDERS and JOBS.
U.S. CAPITULATES ON THE SPOT!
U.S. CAPITULATES ON THE SPOT!
With colossal impertinence, the Mexican
government attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for sending National Guard troops to
guard our Southern border, saying that Mexico "deeply rejects and condemns
the deployment." The Mexicans accused Perry of taking this action to
advance his political ambitions.
Mexican
President, Enrique Peña Nieto a LA RAZA SUPREMACIST servant of the Mexican drug
cartels. He probably votes DEM in America's open borders to expand the LA RAZA
welfare state off the backs of gringos (Legals)
It
is widely believed in Mexico that PRI’s links to cartels have continued with
its return to power under Peña Nieto.
LOOTING MEXICAN CARTEL PARTNER, MEX
PRESIDENT ENRIQUE PENA NIETO SAYS GRINGOS ARE A BUNCH OF RACIST…. and yet his
people haul back BILLIONS AND BILLIONS looted from the stupid gringos!
BUT WHAT DOES NARCOMEX DO TO THEIR
ILLEGALS? It’s an entirely different story!!!
NARCOMEX’S CIVIL WAR ON, UNDER AND OVER OUR
UNDEFENDED BORDERS! Time to stop defending the borders of Muslim dictators and
start defending our own against the Mexicans?
Mexico
Destabilizing: Is War With USA Imminent?
By Élan Bonn
“Toss into the ugly political salad the mix of
illegal immigration, free trade, high treason, disdain for the Constitution by
US leaders, anti-rule-of-law anarchists groups and members of Congress (i.e.
pro-open borders, pro-illegal immigration groups), and increasing economic
pressures and uncertainties on both sides of the border, the climate is now
ripe for growing a civil war.”
FASCIST LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PARTY PRESIDENT ENRIQUE
PENA NIETO AND HIS CRONIES IN THE CARTELS:
Encinas’s promise of privacy and
his deferential attitude to the Defense Ministry strongly suggests that the
Mexican Congress is seeking to help cover up the Army’s role that night. This
is consistent with a government that at all levels acts as if it is under
siege.
THE GREAT HISPANDERER RUBS OUR
NOSES IN HIS PARTY’S LA RAZA SUPREMACY
AND DOCUMENTS HIS TOTAL CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW!
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