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| Mexican opinion changing on emigration? |
| 2006-06-21 |
| Hattip Instapundit The US now has approximately 950 Border Patrol agents stationed on the 5,525-mile long US-Canadian border. The 1,950 mile-long US-Mexico border has 10,300 agents. In 2005 the Canadian border had approximately 1000 agents and the Mexican border 9,600. The increased number of agents and troops along the Mexican border makes a difference, but the net result is just to make people smugglers richer. As more areas of the border become well guarded, smugglers charge more to get people in via more remote areas. The greed, and often callousness, of the smugglers has helped change Mexican public opinion towards the illegal migrants. More and more Mexicans are looking at the exodus as a sign of Mexican failure. Why must Mexicans move north of the border to find economic success? Why not in Mexico? |
| Posted by:Chaviger Uninetle1742 |
| #2 The pro-illegalistas are enablers of the problem. They're like the spouse unwilling to take the right action when the other spouse is hooked on destructive drugs that sap the soul of anything other than another fix [which in the case of the ruling caste of Mexico is power]. So instead of leaving or turning the abuser in, they go out and get the drugs [means to avoid reform by sending their people elsewhere] to sustain the abuser's habit. Notice where the pro-illegalistas come from? The same cut of cloth that for decades thought the solution to welfare was more money to those who did not or would not work. |
| Posted by: Cravish Grolunter8216 2006-06-21 08:18 |
| #1 More and more Mexicans are looking at the exodus as a sign of Mexican failure. Why must Mexicans move north of the border to find economic success? Why not in Mexico? Indeed! This is what I and others have said all along - we need to put op the fence to force Mexico to solve its political and economic problems before it becomes a Venezuela and we are forced to invade it. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-06-21 00:21 |