Mexican Immigration

[southernsis]

I just read this article   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_emigration;_ylt=ApsupCr6civfjxSL6D0Wla23IxIF
It is saying that immigration is down 42%. That people are returning to Mexico because they can't get work and the raids.
Foundl it interesting.

[ScottA]

The rats are fleeing the sinking ship.

[apaknad]

well if that isn't an indicater of a recession/depression i don't know what is.

[Whitlock]

The rats are fleeing the sinking ship.

[cordwood]

 It's probably harder for them to get back across because Mexico don,t want a bunch of no job illegals either

[Curtis]

Interesting.

Considering at work often times i'm the only one working who doesn't speak Spanish.

I mean, I know bits and pieces, and I know when they're talking about me... But I sure as hell can't complete a structured spoken sentence for the life of me.

And most the words and phrases I do know aren't work appropriate anyway

But even so, all the ones I work with send money back home. Its a little bothersome, that they come here and work and make decent money, and send it all back to their country to their family's, all with plans of "making enough" and then returning home.

[glenn kangiser]

I don't have as much problem with the Mexicans -(even have some friends and relatives), as I do with our gov. making it beneficial for them rather than us.  We need slaves for big business.

[Squirl]

I do feel sorry for them.  Drug gangs and thugs control most of their country.  I have spent a lot of time with Mexicans that left.  Most tell me it wasn't just for a job, it was because of crime or corruption.  They have one of the worst governments on the planet.  I have been told the movie Man on Fire is spot on what the country is.  If the U.S. was even a bit like that I would leave too, legal or not.

[taveuni13]

Here's a funny song about it-

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94325378

I can't really have any hard feelings about them, or this issue.  It's not a simple one and a lot of hypocrisy, IMO, surrounds it.  My wife has been teaching 3rd graders in a local school for the last 12 years that is about 95% Mexican immigrants.  No way to know who is legal and who isn't.  We can' t turn teachers and employers into I.N.S. agents.

And we have been all over Mexico and South America and have always loved it.  It is very sad to see what has been happening in Mexico lately with all the drugs, gangs, killings, etc.  And guess who the drug lord's biggest customers are? 

[wildbil]

Kaaaarmaaaaa...oh karma...

Select percentage of the USA become the richest on the planet--->consume way too many resources and are propped up on the back of slaves, foreign and domestic--->slave population can't support the growing weight of the rich--->The rich must begin to wipe their own butts. the end.

[glenn kangiser]

I do feel sorry for them.  Drug gangs and thugs control most of their country.  I have spent a lot of time with Mexicans that left.  Most tell me it wasn't just for a job, it was because of crime or corruption.  They have one of the worst governments on the planet.  I have been told the movie Man on Fire is spot on what the country is.  If the U.S. was even a bit like that I would leave too, legal or not.

The US is just much more efficient at hiding it.  Around here we know that if we leave them alone they will leave us alone, but no absence of corruption and it goes clear to DC.

[desdawg]

Obama is considering making Democrat AZ governor Janet Napolitano his Secretary of Homeland Security a cabinet position. I hope he does. If we get her out of here we stand a chance maybe of straightening out our state budget. Her replacement would be Republican Jan Brewer currently Secretary of State. I don't know anything about Jan Brewers philosopies regarding the size of government but it seems we would stand a better chance of downsizing with a Republican at the helm. Boy are we ever top heavy. Course Arnie hasn't done much in that are in CA. I guess it is time to send some e-mails and letters to our duly elected representatives. We did that at the Federal level regarding the bail out and it produced nothing. We the people have handed over our freedom of choice. Here in AZ there was a ballot propsition to amend the state constitution to require a vote of over 50% of registered voters on citizen initiated big spending issues. It didn't pass. Shot down almost 2 to 1. I gues the sheeple are too lazy or they just don't care.  Maybe we can get some of it back if we keep trying.

[peternap]

You know.....lots of mexicans could come in handy if times get tight...

Quote from Soylant Green

It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. 

Tastes like Chili

[John_C]

Peter,

With that you have officially lost the right to tell me that my posts regarding Ted Kennedy's driving habits are inappropriate. 

[Sassy]

   yes, Peter, you are on quite a roll!   

[Flutterby]

I don't mind foreigners living here in the good ol' USA as long as they're LEGAL. The very foundation of our great nation was built by immigrants!

But, I do have a problem with them not speaking English. I go to the valley to do my shopping and half the signs/billboards there are in Spanish. One day I was in Sears and the overhead announcements were in Spanish and then the cashier greeted in me in Spanish! It makes me feel like a foreigner in my own country. 

[glenn kangiser]

¿Que es la problema, Senora Flutterby?