jdwilson44
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bczoom said:
This story is interesting for the following reasons -
1) why would Vicente Fox be so concerned about his "countrymen" when they are leaving the country by the millions? If they leave Mexico and come to the US are they your "countrymen" any more? If Mexican immigrants come to the US and want to become citizens they are no longer your countrymen Vicente - they are ours.
2) If he was as concerned about them as he claimed to be then why doesn't he do more to get them to stay in Mexico?
The fact that Vicente Fox and and other South American leaders are against the fence is the very best reason to build it. The reason why these leaders do not want the fence is because the easy immigration allows these leaders to stay in power even though their countries are going down the shitter. By allowing people an easy exit the leaders get to stay in power because instead of asking for change the people just leave. The Mexicans in fact propagate the theory that by moving to the US these immigrants are taking back historical Mexican soil that was "taken" from them. The fact is that it was bought from Mexico the same as Alaska and the Louisiana Purchase. They no longer have any claim to the land. This is a cynical political ploy by the Mexicans to keep power by bleeding off the population pressure that would eventually revolt for change in Mexico while still keeping them loyal to Mexico.
The best thing we could do for the US AND for Mexico is to build the wall. By building the wall we can hopefully get control of the immigration problem and then come up with some sort of legal way for these people to come here if they still want to and we have a need for them. It will also put pressure on the Mexicans and the other South American countries to actually fix their problems so their citizens want to stay there instead of leave. I have to believe that the majority of the Mexican immigrants would much rather stay in their own country rather than come here if they were able to. It is the desperate circumstances that make it worth it for them to become illegal immigrants. After all we do not have a wall on the Canadian border do we - and we don't have a massive problem with illegal Canadian immigration even though Canadians would fit right into the culture down here - this is because Canadians like their country and can make a living and support their families and so forth. So they have no reason to come here en-masse.
If a wall goes up and the immigration is halted sooner or later something will pop in Mexico and maybe real change will happen. Maybe it will be revolution - whatever it might be it is not our issue to get involved in, Mexicans should be responsible for reforming their own country so they can also have a decent place to live. The politicians are playing games - don't listen to them unless they vote for the wall and for strict immigration enforcement. The US needs a breather to assimilate all the people that have come here before we get flooded with any more. This is not racism but common sense.
