So the Mexican people will head to the polls in a couple months to elect (or re-elect) their president. Guess what the primary issue is. Yep, it's immigration.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the demonstrations which drew hundreds of thousands of mainly Hispanic immigrants onto the streets of American cities on Monday showed the failures of past policies by U.S. and Mexican governments.
Only a deal legalizing the status of those workers already in the United States and economic policies that create more jobs in Mexico will stop hundreds of thousands of people from crossing the border illegally every year, Lopez Obrador said.
He promised it would be his No. 1 issue in dealing with Washington if he is elected on July 2.
"Migration flows can not be stopped. Even if they build walls, even if there are raids, even if there are more severe laws, it can't be resolved like that," Lopez Obrador said on his morning television show.
"We have to convince the U.S. government that there has to be cooperation for development and that we have to guarantee economic growth and employment in our country."
Again, I'm left scratching my head and asking what the U.S. will get out of this....
Migration flows can not be stopped. Even if they build walls, even if there are raids, even if there are more severe laws, it can't be resolved like that," Lopez Obrador said on his morning television show.
Nobody has suggested that. LEAGALIZED is the issue at hand
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"We have to convince the U.S. government that there has to be cooperation for development and that we have to guarantee economic growth and employment in our country."
Uh ............ Mexico isn't getting anything out of legalized immigration. Illigeal immigration they get more money piped back from the US -
why don't we have these problems with canada? because our canadian (and canadien) bretheren have a relatively vibrant, first-world economy and social net. mexico does not. At least Obrador had the decency to observe that mexico needs to tend to its own economic house in order to help quell the flood of illegal immigration.
to a degree, that's where the US should be as well. ANY concessions we make on immigration andANY immigration reforms need to be met and linked to economic and social reform in Mexico. clean up thewide-spread culture of governmental corruption, and redistribute the huge mass of wealth that historically has been controlled by very few people.
i do believe that our future wealth as a nation depends on a very close relationship between mexico, canada, and the united states. Given the booming population andeconomic energyof the Asian rim, some sort of hemispheric trade alliance is the only way we'll have enough bodies to be relevent and compete globally in 100 years. but before that discussion even begins, Mexico has to take serious steps to put its own house in order.
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Uh ............ Mexico isn't getting anything out of legalized immigration. Illigeal immigration they get more money piped back from the US -
They are lossing millions of citizens from their work force. I feel this is a glaring insight into Mexico. If these people are such a resource, why is Mexico willing to let them leave, much less push for America to welcome them. Ill tell you why; they either dont want them, or could it be because Mexico benefit from the no taxed dollars the Illegal send back to Mexico each year. I live in a very large population of migrants, and not a one has any intention on becoming American, nor retiring here. They work here, live in a dump, and send there money home (Mexico). After a while, they move back. Ive seen it played out since I was a kid.
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