Mexicans See Illegal Immigration As Part Of Life

The Associated Press reports most Mexicans accept illegal immigration as a fact of life they can't imagine changing:

Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue — and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow.

In fact, the government is counting on continued cash from a Mexican-born U.S. population it predicts will rise from 11 million to between 17.9 million and 20.4 million by 2030.

"There have been amnesties and reforms before, and they will continue to occur periodically," said Jesus Cervantes, director of statistics for Mexico's Central Bank.

President Vicente Fox is one of many Mexican who considers the migrants "heroes," because they send money to their impoverished home villages, and in some cases risk death walking into America in pitiless desert sun.

Many families give their babies "American" names, figuring it will help them fit in when they make the inevitable trip north. In one central Mexican village, men on a dusty side road knowingly discuss which Long Island towns are best for day-labor work.

Cervantes avoids using the common metaphor of migration as an escape valve for Mexico's social tensions, but says the country of 105 million people would be in trouble if 11 million migrants returned en masse.

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Few in Mexico question the prevailing feeling that Mexicans have an inalienable right to go north, documented or not.

This article highlights my biggest concern about the so-called immigration reform proposals that include legalization of some or all of the 12 million illegal aliens already in this country. It will simply encourage more to illegals to come expecting that eventually they too will be legalized.

That lesson was learned with the adoption of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"). That "immigration reform" legalized 4 million illegal aliens. IRCA has been a monumental failure. Twenty years later there 12 million illegal aliens to legalize. If some or all of these millions of illegals are now legalized, then we should only expect that twenty years from now we will have to consider granting amnesty to 36 million more new illegal aliens to legalize.

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[dwight huth]

This message is not for white, black, Mexican's,Asian, christian nor Muslim. This message is for American's, for those who been borne here under the Red, White and Blue. We are under atttack from those who claim to have the same rights as we do. BUT THEY DO NOT! THEY CLAIM THAT WE ARE RACIST,BECAUSE WE DO NOT GIVE THEM WHAT SO MANY HAVE PAID FOR IN BLOOD, FREELY! THEY BURN THE LANDS, TAKE OUR JOBS, THEY TAKE FOOD FROM OUR CHILDREN's MOUTH!

ALL THAT YOU HAVE WORKED HARD FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS BEING UNDONE BY THESE ILLEGAL'S WHO ONLY WANT WHAT THEY CAN TAKE FOR FREE. THEY BRING THEIR DRUGS THAT KILL OUR CHIDLREN, AMERICA'S CHIDLREN ACROSS THE BORDER, AND THEY WANT RIGHTS!

THEY NEITHER HAVE THE COURAGE NOR THE RIGHT TO BE IN THIS COUNTRY! THIS IS AMERICA!

We are at war with a hidden enemy across the ocean. We are also at war with a hidden enemy here in Our Land. They come on their knees begging for rights that they have not won but obtain against the law.

Those that allow this activity to happen under their banner and condone this act against America are as Un-American as the illegals. THEY ONLY USE THE ILLEGALS TO SEEK A PLACE ON HIGH FOR THEIRSELF, THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN'S. THEY BREAK OUR LAWS JUST SO THEY CAN FEEL KINGLY, THEY ONLY SEEK THOSE THAT WOULD FEEBLY FOLLOW THEM. THE ILLEGALS AND THEIR MASTERS TAKE FROM OUR POCKETS AS THEY BREED AND OBTAIN FREE MEDICAL COVERAGE AT OUR EXPENSE! FROM OUR POCKETS AND OUR FUTURE DO THESE ILLEGALS TAKE FROM US! THEY TAKE OUR LANDS, OUR DREAMS! OUR COUNTRY! THEY TAKE AWAY OUR CHILDRENS FUTURE!

ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE HAPPEN TO OUR LANDS, TO OUR PEOPLE'S!

"and from free American to American from past and those yet to be born, the stones that heard ages past, that here by the Constituion do we live and do we die. That no American shall be warmed by the tallest lady in the world. She stands still and her light leads the way"

NOW WHO ARE WE?!

WHO ARE WE?!

WHOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOO

WE ARE AMERICA! AND WE ARE FREE! LET NO ILLEGAL OR TERRORIST TAKE THESE RIGHTS AWAY FROM US!.

LET THIS BE TOLD FROM EAR TO EAR ACROSS AMERICA TO THOSE THAT ARE AMERICAN'S THAT WE ARE FREE, WE ARE BRAVE AND WE WILL FIGHT! FOR IT'S A FIGHT THEY WANT THEN A FIGHT WILL BE HAD! THEIR BLOOD WILL DRAIN FROM THEIR HEARTS! LET ALL ILLEGALS AND THEIR MASTERS BE DEPORTED! LET ALL TERRORISTS DIE IN THEIR OWN BLOOD.

VICTORY IS AMERICA'S AND HER ALLIES!

[California Mexico Guide and Resource Center]

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