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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer
Once you start including honestly legalized Mexicans in the group the argument breaks down totally since it's pretty damn hard to say we need to stop citizens from spending their money in foreign countries.
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What you may or may not know is that periodically there is a rush to the border from down south. It usually follows rumors that some amnesty law will be passed up here so that everybody can have a free green card and not have to hide anymore. Has happened twice that I can remember since I have been in Fresno (which huge numbers of these folks head for). During the last surge, the Mexican government hurried to pass a law which gave Mexicans permanent citizenship, regardless of any other country they felt obligated to become citizens of, provided they were not required to renounce all other ties by said country's laws. You see, they were desperately trying to be sure that anybody who got amnesty and stayed in El Norte would know they were still Mexicans and not our new citizens, their ties were still in Mexico. Nothing could have made it plainer that it is the deliberate policy of Mexico to encourage their citizens to tap the USA for their economic advantage. All the outrage and bombast about how WE are treating all those poor disadvantaged Mexicans who are just doing jobs that Americans refuse to do (for half minimum wage and no benefits or security). The Mexican government WANTS them all to come here. So long as they send the money back "home".
Don't misunderstand me. I love the Mexican people and their culture, they are some of the finest people in the world. But their government is a cancer on their culture, and it is killing them.