Comments on: Mexican Money Heads North http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/11/mexican-money-heads-north/ A place for free polls, live debate and online discussions. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:04:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: grip http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/11/mexican-money-heads-north/comment-page-1/#comment-583 grip Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:52:05 +0000 http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/11/mexican-money-heads-north/#comment-583 Good reporting. The fundamental problem is that Mexico has been corrupt since Spain entered the scene. We seem to care more about promoting democracy in faraway lands (e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq), than we do our closest neighbor on the southern border, Mexico. We have basically neglected them for years and have benefited from the supply of cheap and illegal labor to man industries (e.g meatpacking) that US Citizens don't want to do. This is the hidden cost of turning a bllnd-eye to the problem. Supposedly fixed by Saint Ronnie (Reagan) in the 1980's, the problem has only become worse. Building a fence and hunting the illegals is not the solution -- bring democracy and prosperity to Mexico, and the immigration problem will eventually disappear. Instead the right demonizes the very people they indirectly employ, refusing to acknowledge that the Mexican (and El Elvadorian etc) just wants a better life, just like their families who immigrated many years ago. The idea seems to be that america is fine just the way it is now, it's being overrun by foreigners (each generation raises this complaint, from the Irish (fleeing the potato blight) to the Chinese (to build our railroads), we've had a very conflicted attitude towards immigration, accepting the workers but then sometimes kicking them out when we are done with them (the Chinese by imposing a head tax). Charity begins at home. The payoff and rewards are huge -- increased prosperity of Mexico will mean expanding markets for the US. Good reporting. The fundamental problem is that Mexico has been corrupt since Spain entered the scene. We seem to care more about promoting democracy in faraway lands (e.g. Afghanistan and Iraq), than we do our closest neighbor on the southern border, Mexico. We have basically neglected them for years and have benefited from the supply of cheap and illegal labor to man industries (e.g meatpacking) that US Citizens don’t want to do. This is the hidden cost of turning a bllnd-eye to the problem. Supposedly fixed by Saint Ronnie (Reagan) in the 1980’s, the problem has only become worse. Building a fence and hunting the illegals is not the solution — bring democracy and prosperity to Mexico, and the immigration problem will eventually disappear. Instead the right demonizes the very people they indirectly employ, refusing to acknowledge that the Mexican (and El Elvadorian etc) just wants a better life, just like their families who immigrated many years ago. The idea seems to be that america is fine just the way it is now, it’s being overrun by foreigners (each generation raises this complaint, from the Irish (fleeing the potato blight) to the Chinese (to build our railroads), we’ve had a very conflicted attitude towards immigration, accepting the workers but then sometimes kicking them out when we are done with them (the Chinese by imposing a head tax).

Charity begins at home. The payoff and rewards are huge — increased prosperity of Mexico will mean expanding markets for the US.

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