Trouble on the U.S.-Mexican border.... illegal immigration, etc.

EagleSmack

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So, I assume you will be heading back to wherever your forefathers came from in an attempt to return this land to the Indians....oh yeah, and don't plan on staying there long, as your forefathers probably ripped that land from the poor persecuted Saxons, who tore it from the Britons, who finally deposed the Romans, who destroyed the Celts who killed off.....oh never mind :):roll:

Don't forget the Danes (aka Vikings). The Gauls, Goths, Visi Goths, etc. etc.
 

petros

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Keep an eye on your hub caps if ever in west texas. They'll end up on a belt as a trophy for as well as supporting a county fair championship beer gut.
 

ironsides

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Mexico is a class society. There are very rich and also rich. There is an emerging working class who now have access to credit and so they can have cars and houses as long as they have good jobs.

But the peasant class are destined to stay there. They do not go to school and they work at unskilled jobs. The only way out is to make a big score. Sometimes they do that by working illegally in the US while living like peasants and saving everything they can. After 5 years, they return and start a business.

Their dependence on oil and US exports does make them vulnerable as a country. Right now they seem to be in better shape than the US but that is not saying much.:roll:

Unfortunately your right, they basically have a small rich class that controls most of the money with small middle class and a tremendous poor class. They never have shared the wealth, in this day and age one wonders why they haven't had a revolution, used to have one every couple of years. If history tells us anything it is that Mexico will never change. Life is not as bad in the U.S. as outsiders portray. Were getting along just fine.
 

YukonJack

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The United States should follow the example of the Soviet Block of it wants to reduce/eiminate illegal "immigration".

There was hardly ANY crossing of the East\West border (aka the Iron Curtain) when the border there was manned by towers every 200 yards, order given to shoot on sight, and of course, the ground was seeded, quite effectively, with land mines.
 

petros

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A lot of this is smoke and mirrors. When they talk about "protecting the Mexican border" they never say which one. In reality 10X the money is spent by US agencies on Mexico's border with Guatemala.
 

tracy

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I don't know why people worry so much. As the economy worsens, more and more illegal immigrants will return to Mexico.
 

ironsides

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unclepercy

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I don't know why people worry so much. As the economy worsens, more and more illegal immigrants will return to Mexico.


Good! And with them they can take their higher expectations for government services. I hear Mexico is overburdened with people coming back who actually expect housing, schooling and free lunches.

Uncle
 

gopher

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The United States should follow the example of the Soviet Block of it wants to reduce/eiminate illegal "immigration".

There was hardly ANY crossing of the East\West border (aka the Iron Curtain) when the border there was manned by towers every 200 yards, order given to shoot on sight, and of course, the ground was seeded, quite effectively, with land mines.


Do that for the sea and airports where European illegals come from and shoot them on sight!


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ironsides

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Returning Mexicans are not the problem. This problem has grown beyond just being a local problem. Seems that the terrorists in the mid-East are coming here to cash in on the profits. This is not strictly a U.S. problem but is causing major crime throughout the U.S. all the way into Canada. Mexico is in a all out war over it and look like they are barely holding their own. It is time we did something serious to control or stop it. Seems Hezbollah has joined in with the smuggling along the Mexican border.

Washington Times - EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S.