TURNING INTO MEXICO, OR SIMPLY
MEXICO’S WELFARE, FREE BIRTHING CENTERS, JOBS AND JAILS PROGRAM?
ILLEGALS ARE REGISTERING TO VOTE ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY!
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
from the May 28, 2009 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p09s01-coop.html
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LATINO AMERICA - VIVA LA RAZA? PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH! NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/latino-america-rise-of-la-raza.html
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What
will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think
long and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
Palo Alto, Calif.
President Obama has
encouraged Americans to start laying a new foundation for the country – on a
number of fronts. He has stressed that we'll need to have the courage to make
some hard choices. One of those hard choices is how to handle immigration. The US
must get serious about the tide of legal and illegal immigrants, above all from
Latin America.
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FROM
2005… DO YOU THINK IT’S BETTER OR WORSE…?
Is Mexico
still a nation?
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.
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The
principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent
Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard
economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion
annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market
at the low-wage end.
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